Twenty-Sixth Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 138 – 140 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 Continued from last week… Dora Nash, another Key speaker, spoke about preparing children for the sacraments of Initiation and Holy Communion, saying it is important that we remember we are passing on our Faith, we are forming for life not…
Twenty-Fifth Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 135 – 137 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 ***************************************** The National Eucharistic Congress/Pilgrimage Report The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage (Adoremus) 2018, was held in Liverpool Echo Arena, from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th September. Liverpool was chosen as a venue because of its good transport links and the capacity…
Twenty-Fourth Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 132 – 135 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 Peter is right when he calls Jesus the Christ. Jesus shows that when we accept this we are called to act. To take up our cross, stand up to the world for the Lord is our vindicator. A faith…
Twenty-third Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 129 – 132 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 Once more this weekend, we are pointed by the Scripture reading to the caring centre of the teaching in both Old and New Testaments. Specifically, Isaiah is encouraging those of faint heart. It certainly refers to each one of us….
Twenty-Second Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 124- 126 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 Moses and the law are once more put before us and linked with Jesus Christ’s teaching. The first reading shows Moses laying out the law as a way and guideline to be observed carefully so that people of Israel may…
Seventeenth Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 112 – 114 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 First Reading: this incident in the Old Testament foreshadows the miracle of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, and even more significantly it is one of the many passages in the Old Testament which foreshadows the Eucharist. Psalm: in…
Sixteenth Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 109 – 111 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 First Reading: Jeremiah’s prophecy of good shepherds and a wise king came true, Christians would say, in the coming of Jesus Christ. Psalm: perhaps the most well-known of the psalms is a song of confidence in the Good Shepherd, who…
Fifteenth Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 106 – 108 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 First Reading: despite not being a member of the order of prophets and being merely a shepherd and sycamore tree cultivator, Amos is nonetheless called by God to prophesy. Psalm: in his mercy God has forgiven us before; now we…
