Fifteenth Sunday Mass Readings: Pages 102 – 105 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 Parables were a common device employed in storytelling in the ancient world but the parables of Jesus are unique. They reveal a mind of greater depth and clarity than ever before or ever since known in human history. Men and…
Fourteenth Sunday Mass Readings: Pages 99 – 101 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 St. Matthew begins today’s collection of Jesus’ sayings with our Lord’s observation that humble folk were God’s kind of people; Jesus the carpenter was one of them. The message, of a piece with Older Covenant tradition, does not condemn intellectual…
Thirteenth Sunday Mass Readings: Pages 96 – 99 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 The modern traveller has become accustomed to the easy availability of roadside cafes, motorway services, motels, country inns, city hotels. In the days of Elisha the prophet there were no guest houses or fast-food stops. Those who travelled beyond the…
Twelfth Sunday Mass Readings: Pages 93 – 96 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 When push comes to shove, people react differently. In today’s first reading Jeremiah refuses to be intimidated by terror from every side. That doesn’t mean that the terror doesn’t get to him – he is a prophet, not a robot…
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Mass Readings: Pages 83 – 86 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 Corpus Christi comes as one of a series of major celebrations following the resurrection. First we have the Ascension which leads on to Pentecost and Trinity Sunday. Then comes Corpus Christi and Saints Peter and Paul….
Most Holy Trinity Mass Readings: Pages 81 – 83 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 Today is Trinity Sunday. We are able to think about God who created heaven and earth, and about God coming to live as a man among us, and about the God we experience in our lives. In other words,…
Pentecost Sunday Mass Readings: Pages: 288 – 291 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 Today’s second reading is from a letter of Paul to his friend in Corinth. He explains that it is not even possible to acknowledge that Jesus is Lord without the assistance of the Spirit. To put the point positively, it…
Ascension of the Lord Mass Readings: Pages 272 – 274 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 Today, in this part of the Christian world, the Church celebrates the ascension of Jesus into heaven. In some other parts of the world, the feast of ascension was celebrated last Thursday in line with the Lukan account….
