Twenty-second Sunday Mass Readings: Pages 122 – 125 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 Matthew’s Gospel continues with further parables for our pondering is the right word for the exercise as the complies of the Lectionary remind us by giving us the first reading from the first book of the Kings. It is Solomon’s…
Seventeenth Sunday Mass Readings: Pages 108 – 111 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 Matthew’s Gospel continues with further parables for our pondering is the right word for the exercise as the complies of the Lectionary remind us by giving us the first reading from the first book of the Kings. It is Solomon’s…
Sixteenth Sunday Mass Readings: Pages 105 – 108 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 The brief reading from St. Paul to the Romans is one to be cherished and given great attention. The need to pray and the difficulty in praying are recurrent aspects of the spiritual life. Those who seek to follow the…
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….
