God has commanded his angels, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you upon their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone....(Mt 18:10)

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 2nd October - ‘Their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven’, Reflection on the readings for the Feast of the Guardian Angels (Matthew 18:1-5, 10)…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 2nd October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · The Holy Guardian Angels  on Friday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. The Holy Guardian Angels (Liturgical Colour: White. Ye…

Summary: St Thérése of the Child Jesus,  Doctor of the Church. Born at Alençon (France) in 1873; died of tuberculosis on 30 Sept. 1897. Coming from a devout family, she entered a Carmelite monastery a...

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 1st October - ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few’, Reflection on the readings for Thursday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 10:1-12) Thursday, Twenty Sixth We…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 1st October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor  on Thursday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Thursday, Twenty Sixth Week i…

Summary: St Thérése of the Child Jesus,  Doctor of the Church. Born at Alençon (France) in 1873; died of tuberculosis on 30 Sept. 1897. Coming from a devout family, she entered a Carmelite monastery a...

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 30th September - ‘The Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head’, Reflection on the readings for Wednesday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 9:57-62) Wednesday, Twenty Sixth…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 30th September >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor  on Wednesday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Wednesday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time…

Jerome's most important work was his translation of the Bible into Latin, which came to be known as the Vulgate and has remained the accepted Latin version up to our own time.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 29th September - ‘You will see heaven laid open’, Reflection on the readings for the Feast of SS. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael (John 1:47-51) 29th September, Feast of SS. Michael,…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 29th September >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels (Liturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II)) Either: First Reading Dani…

St Augustine, said: "Angel is the name of their office, not of their nature."

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 28th September - ‘The least among you all, this is the one who is great’, Reflection on the readings for Monday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 9:46-50) Monday, Twenty S…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · 28th September >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Monday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time  or Saint Wenceslaus, Martyr  or Saints Laurence Ruiz and his Companions, Martyrs.…

Boleslaus struck Wenceslaus on the head with a sword. They struggled, and then friends of Boleslaus finished off the assassination.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 27th September >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) (Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II)) First Reading Ezekiel 18:25-28 When the sin…

Vincent 's gift was that he was able t to use his influence among the rich and fashionable to organise the resources needed for works of charity among the poor and oppressed.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 27th September - ‘Afterwards he thought better of it’, Reflection on the readings for Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Matthew 21:28-32) Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 26th September - ‘They did not understand him’, Reflection on the readings for Saturday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 9:43-45) Saturday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary…

Because they refused payment for their medical services, they were known as "the silverless ones". During the persecution of Diocletian (303), they were imprisoned, tortured and beheaded.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 26th September >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Saturday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time  or Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs  or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin M…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 25th September - ‘Who do you say I am?’ Reflection on the readings for Friday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 9:18-22) Friday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Some q…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 25th September >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Friday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time  or Saint Finbarr, Bishop (Ireland). Friday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time…

St Sergius by his prayer prayer and self-discipline built up Russian spirituality and helped restore Russian society

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 24th September - ‘He was anxious to see Jesus’, Reflection on the readings for Thursday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 9:7-9) Thursday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Ti…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 24th September >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Thursday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II)) First Reading Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Nothi…

Theodore, a Greek monk living in Rome who was sent by Pope Vitalian (657-672) to be the archbishop of Canterbury.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 23rd September - ‘Take nothing for the journey’, Reflection on the readings for Wednesday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 9:1-6) Wednesday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 23rd September >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Priest  on Wednesday, Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Wednesday, Twenty Fifth Week…

The stigmata on Padre Pio's hands and feet became visible and a wound in his side bled for the rest of his life.