Sixteenth Sunday (C) Mass Readings: 111 – 114 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 First Reading: Abraham and Sarah are visited by three mysterious strangers, clearly God himself (in the Persons of the Trinity?). This may be a very ancient story, but it still speaks to us powerfully today as it is proclaimed as…
Fifteenth Sunday (C) Mass Readings: 108 – 111 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 The rhetorical form of Book of Deuteronomy is that of a farewell address uttered by Moses at the end of his life, prior to the Israelites entering in to the Promised Land. The authors words are meant to reassure the…
Fourteenth Sunday (C) Mass Readings: 105 – 108 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 Jesus sent his disciples forth on a mission with this command “Go into the world and proclaim the good news to the whole of creation”. The one who believes and is baptised will be saved. To evangelise means to…
Saints Peter and Paul (C) Mass Readings: 180– 183 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 The feast of St. Peter and St. Paul is always seen as great feast of the Church which in so many ways owes its growth and development to their writings and leadership. In earlier days, before the liturgy changes…
Corpus Christi (C) Mass Readings: 83- 87 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST The greatest mystery of our faith is the reality of the Eucharist; the body and blood of Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine by the process of transubstantiation. This is the…
Trinity Sunday (C) Mass Readings: 81 – 83 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 First Reading: Wisdom is portrayed as existing before creation and as having assisted at creation. Wisdom here has always been understood by the Church as referring to Christ, the second person of the Trinity. Psalm: the psalmist praises the first…
Pentecost Sunday (C) Mass Readings: 294 – 298 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 The awesome story of the Christian Pentecost, fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection, is today’s Acts of the Apostles. St. Luke, its author, initiates this new creation in the same way in which he tends to highlight important events of Jesus’…
Seventh Sunday of Easter (C) Mass Readings: 281 – 283 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 First Reading: This describes the death of Stephen. The most striking feature of that death is its similarity to Luke’s version of the death of Jesus. Jesus was tried before the Sanhedrin and made a decisive statement…
