The Third Sunday of Advent Today the Holy Door is opened at the Cathedral, for the Jubilee Year of Mercy. First Reading: beset by personal or family problems, economic hardships, and anxieties about refugees, terrorism and war, we can easily become fearful and ‘let our hands fall limp’. But rather we should shout for…
Second Sunday of Advent APPEAL for: STATIONS OF THE CROSS The jewel in the crown of the attractive interior of St Anthony’s Church is its set of Stations of the Cross by the Catholic Flemish Sculptor Aloys De Beule, 1861 -1935….
First Sunday of Advent Mass Readings: Page – 82 Order of Mass: Pages 6– 59 First Reading: “it is the Lord who speaks” means that it is God speaking through the prophet. Here, through Jeremiah, God promises that at the end of time a descendant of David will once again rule Israel, a rule marked…
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Mass Readings: Page 160 – 162 Order of Mass: Pages 7– 47 First Reading: Daniel’s somewhat mysterious description of the coming of the Son of Man was taken up by the New Testament writers as a title for Jesus Christ, whose ‘sovereignty is an eternal sovereignty which shall…
Thirty-third Sunday Mass Readings: Page 157 – 160 Order of Mass: Pages 7– 47 First Reading: this vision of the end of time and what we would call the Day of Judgement contains the first reference in the Old Testament to belief in the resurrection of the dead. Psalm: union with God will prove stronger…
Thirty-second Sunday Mass Readings: Page 154 – 157 Order of Mass: Pages 7– 47 First Reading: the poor widow in Zarephath demonstrates her piety by giving Elijah food out of the little she had. Elijah demonstrates that he is a prophet from God as his prophecy about her reward comes to pass. Psalm: Almighty God…
All Saints All Saints’ Day, also known as All Hallows (or Hallowmas in Shakespeare) is the day when we commemorate all those – known and unknown – who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven. First Reading: in John the Divine’s vision of Heaven, he sees all the saints, innumerable and from every nation, worshipping…
Thirtieth Sunday Mass Readings: Page 149 – 151 Order of Mass: Pages 7– 47 First Reading: Eucharistic Prayer III asks God to ‘gather to yourself all your children scattered throughout the earth’, and Eucharistic Prayer IV prays for those ‘gathered into one body by the Holy Spirit’. This theme of gathering the scattered is taken…
