16 Dec _____________________ Isaiah 56:1-3,6-8 Thus says the Lord: Have a care for justice, act with integrity, for soon my salvation will come and my integrity be manifest. Blessed is the man who does this and the son of man who clings to it: observing the sabbath, not profaning it, and keeping his hand from [...]
14 Dec _____________________ Isaiah 45:6-8,18,21-25 Apart from me, all is nothing. I am the Lord, unrivalled, I form the light and create the dark. I make good fortune and create calamity, it is I, the Lord, who do all this. Send victory like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain it down. Let [...]
30 Nov _____________________ Isaiah 25:6-10 On this mountain, the Lord of hosts will prepare for all peoples a banquet of rich food, a banquet of fine wines, of food rich and juicy, of fine strained wines. On this mountain he will remove the mourning veil covering all peoples, and the shroud enwrapping all nations, he [...]
06 Nov – Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time The Bridegroom Is Here! The whole of the Christian life, our response to the love of Christ, our waiting with jouful hope for his coming, is summed up in today’s celebration in a single word: Wisdom. _____________________ Wisdom 6:12-16 Wisdom is bright, and does not grow dim. [...]
27 Aug – Memorial for St Monica Monica was distressed to learn that her son had accepted a heresy and was living an immoral life. For a while, she refused to let him eat or sleep in her house. Then one night she had a vision that assured her Augustine would return to the faith. [...]
17 Jul – Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time The Lord, Our Merciful Judge We stand in continual need of the mercy and forgiveness of God; and we are assured of his forgiveness when we repent, because he has sent us the Spirit of his Son to help us and to plead for us in our [...]
18 May – Memorial for St John I, Pope & Martyr John (d. 526) was a priest in Rome, and became the 53rd pope in 523. Italy’s ruler then, Theodoric the Goth, was an Arian. For a while he left the Catholics alone, but in later life he became suspicious of everyone, imagining conspiracies and [...]
25 Mar – Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord We celebrate the great day of decision: Mary’s acceptance of the role that God has chosen for her in his plan of redemption. _____________________ Isaiah 7:10-14;8:10 The Lord spoke to Ahaz and said, ‘Ask the Lord your God for a sign for yourself coming either [...]
24 Jul – Memorial for St Charbel of Makhluf, Priest St. Charbel was a Lebanese monk, born in a small mountain village and ordained in 1858. Devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he spent the last twenty three years of his life as a hermit. Despite temptations to wealth and comfort, St. Charbel taught the [...]
02 Apr – Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion _____________________ Isaiah 52:13-53:12 See, my servant will prosper, he shall be lifted up, exalted, rise to great heights. As the crowds were appalled on seeing him – so disfigured did he look that he seemed no longer human – so will the crowds be astonished at [...]
