💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 11th October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Twenty Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) (Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II)) First Reading Isaiah 25:6-10 The Lord will p…

Summary : St John XXIII, pope, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1881-1963), born in Sotto il Monte in Lombardy, was ordained priest in 1904 and served (among other places) as nuncio in France, before becomin...

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 11th October - ‘Everything is ready. Come to the wedding’, Reflection on the readings for Twenty Eighth Week in Ordinary Time (Matthew 22:1-14) Twenty Eighth Week in Ordinary Time…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 10th October - ‘Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it’, Reflection on the readings for Saturday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 11:27-28) Saturday,…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 10th October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Saturday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time  or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Saturday, Twenty Seventh Week…

Comboni made efforts (and had some small success) in combatting the slave trade in the region but, this was deeply embedded.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 9th October - ‘The kingdom of God has overtaken you’, Reflection on the readings for Friday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 11:15-26) Friday, Twenty Seventh Week in Or…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 9th October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Friday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time  or Saints Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs  or Saint John Leonardi, Priest…

Summary: John Henry Newman: Born: 1801 Died: 1890) ordained an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, rector of CUI 1854-58, an important and controversial figure in the religious h...

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 8th October - ‘Ask, and it will be given to you’, Reflection on the readings for Thursday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 11:5-13) Thursday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ord…

Pelagia came into the church where Bishop Nonnus was preaching and hearing what he said, wept tears of repentance.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · 8th October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Thursday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II)) First Reading Galatians 3:1-5 You receiv…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 7th October - ‘Let what you have said be done to me’, Reflection on the readings for Our Lady of the Rosary (Luke 1:26-38) 7th October, Our Lady of the Rosary This Memorial comme…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 7th October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Our Lady of the Rosary  on Wednesday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Our Lady of the Rosary (Liturgical Colour: White. Y…

Legend attributes the origin of the Rosary as a method of prayer to St Dominic. It was promoted as a kind of lay person's Divine Office, the 150 Hail Marys replacing the 150 psalms.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 6th October - ‘It is Mary who has chosen the better part’, Reflection on the readings for Tuesday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 10:38-42) Tuesday, Twenty Seventh Wee…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · 6th October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Tuesday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time  or Saint Bruno, Priest. Tuesday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Liturgica…

Although never formally canonised, Bruno's cult was approved for the Carthusians in 1514 and extended to the universal Church in 1623.

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 5th October - ‘Go, and do the same yourself’, Reflection on the readings for Monday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 10:25-37) Monday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary T…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 5th October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Monday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time  or Saint Faustina Kowalska, Religious. Monday, Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Tim…

Faustina had a very intimate relationship with Jesus and was entrusted by him with the mission of Divine Mercy

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 4th October - ‘Finally he sent his son to them’, Reflection on the readings for Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Matthew 21:33-43) Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time W…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · 4th October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) (Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II)) First Reading Isaiah 5:1-7 Against the Lor…

Francis saw the icon of Christ say to him three times: "Francis, Francis, go and repair my house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins."

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 3rd October - ‘Happy the eyes that see what you see’, Reflection on the readings for Saturday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (Luke 10:17-24) Saturday, Twenty Sixth Week in Or…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 3rd October >> Mass Readings (Except GB & USA) · Saturday, Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time  or Blessed Columba Marmion, Abbot (Ireland) or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgi…

Columba wrote three significant works of very positive spiritual theology: Christ, the life of the soul (1918), Christ in his mysteries (1919) and in 1922 Christ the ideal of the monk.

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...