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THE HOLY ARCHANGELS September 29, 2024You will have noticed how in the translation of the Sanctus in the Mass, reference is made to the Lord God of Hosts. This of course is a reference to the vision of the Prophet Ezekiel, where he sees Almighty...Posted: Sep-29-2024 -
WELCOME, LORD! September 22, 2024Last week we heard in the Gospel how Our Lord began to prepare His Apostles for the terrible death of the Cross He was to endure. We heard then how Peter spoke up indignantly that this must not happen, and...Posted: Sep-18-2024
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WHAT KIND OF MESSIAH IS HE? September 15, 2024Our Lord had not only to overcome the misunderstanding of His followers, as we heard a few weeks ago when many of His disciples refused to accept His teaching about receiving His flesh and blood in Holy Communion. In today...Posted: Sep-11-2024
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THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL & CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCYIn the Epistle of St James, we read that faith without work is a dead thing. As Catholics, we believe that good works performed in a state of grace win more merit for us in the sight of God. This...Posted: Sep-05-2024
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SAINT PAUL June 30, 2024Sunday after Sunday we listen to St Paul’s epistles. It is over two thousand years since the birth of St. Paul in Tarsus, in modern-day eastern Turkey. Paul, originally called Saul, was a...Posted: Jun-26-2024 -
WHO IS THIS? June 23, 2024In the Gospel we hear that once when Our Lord and the Apostles were crossing the Lake of Gennesaret, a great storm blew up while Our Lord was asleep in the boat. The boat was buffeted by wind and waves...Posted: Jun-19-2024
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HEAVEN ON EARTH June 16, 2024In the inspired gospels, Our Lord’s teaching consists of many different strands. He taught His hearers about God, that is to say, about Himself and the other two Persons of the Blessed...Posted: Jun-12-2024
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THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS June 9, 2024The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart which sums up all the phases of the life of Jesus recalled in the liturgy from Advent to the Feast of Corpus Christi. ...Posted: Jun-05-2024
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CORPUS CHRISTI June 2, 2024Today is Corpus Christi Sunday. You may wonder why Corpus Christi begins with Thursday in the first place. It is on account of the fact that it was on a Thursday that the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, the Sacrificial...Posted: May-31-2024 -
TRINITY SUNDAY May 26, 2024The Feast of Pentecost, which we celebrated last week, brought to a conclusion the yearly cycle of the Paschal Mystery, in which we commemorate: the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord; His Glorification in Heaven; and His Gift of...Posted: May-22-2024 -
THE FEAST OF PENTECOST OR WHIT SUNDAY May 19, 2024The Feast of Pentecost, whose name means the ‘fiftieth day’, is the last day and concluding feast of Eastertide. The entire season of Easter, or Paschaltide, is a single celebration of fifty days, being the high point of...Posted: May-15-2024 -
CHRIST’S GLORY—OUR HOPE May 12, 2024It seems at first that as our Lord is taken from the Apostles’ sight, the Ascension is the end of His closeness to them. Might it perhaps have seemed to them rather like hearing that a loved one, whose...Posted: May-08-2024 -
EASTERTIDE AND OUR LADY May 5, 2024There is a beautiful link between the season of Eastertide and Our Lady, said Cardinal Newman. The month of May virtually always falls entirely within Eastertide, and ushers in the summer with its early promise of...Posted: May-01-2024
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EVANGELIUM VITAE April 28, 2024To the Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women Religious, Lay Faithful, and all People of Good Will on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life. - NEW...Posted: Apr-24-2024
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EVANGELIUM VITAE April 21, 2024To the Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women Religious, Lay Faithful, and all People of Good Will on the Value...Posted: Apr-17-2024
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EVANGELIUM VITAETo the Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women Religious, Lay Faithful, and all People of Good Will on the Value...Posted: Apr-10-2024 -
URBI ET ORBI - "PEACE BE WITH YOU!"This is the greeting of the risen Christ, which has been echoed several times in our biblical readings during this Octave of Easter and in particular, in the Gospel of today’s liturgy. On Jesus’ lips this greeting...Posted: Apr-03-2024
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OUR LORD’S GREAT WORK March 31, 202“This is the Day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!” (Psalm. 117:24). Easter is the high point of the Church’s year, towards...Posted: Mar-29-2024
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Holy Week 2024Today we are launched into the drama of Holy Week. As we make our way in solemn procession, we bring into the present Our Lord’s entry into Jerusalem. The Gospels bring us a detailed...Posted: Mar-20-2024 -
FATHER! SAVE ME FROM MY SUFFERINGSAs we enter the final part of Lent, known as, “Passiontide”, in today’s passage from St. John’s Gospel we hear Our Lord’s prayer to His Father to be...Posted: Mar-13-2024
