Fifth Sunday of Easter Mass Readings: Pages 271 – 273 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 First Reading: St Paul makes it clear that Christian life must be as part of a community. As St Cyprian said, ‘no one can have God for his father unless he has the Church for his mother’….
Fourth Sunday of Easter Mass Readings: Pages 268 – 271 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 First Reading: Paul and Barnabas suffer persecution at Antioch for preaching the Gospel. Psalm: if Christ is the Good Shepherd, that makes us “the sheep of his flock”. Second Reading: in his vision St John sees the heavenly…
Third Sunday of Easter Mass Readings: Pages 265 – 268 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 First Reading: Peter and the apostles have a clear idea of their function: they are to be witnesses for Christ. And that is our function as the Baptized People of God: to be witnesses for Christ. Psalm: we…
Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy) Mass Readings: Pages 262 – 265 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 Today, the Octave of Easter, is also Divine Mercy Sunday. A Plenary Indulgence is available to those who recite the Divine Mercy prayers today. First Reading: the Eastertide readings from Acts continue. The early Church was…
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Mass Readings: Easter Vigil – Page 223 Easter Mass – Pages 258 – 262 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 +++++++++++ The Mass of Easter Night After the seven Old Testament Readings (which may be reduced in number), the First Reading is from St Paul’s letter to…
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Gospel: Jesus enters Jerusalem as the Messiah (this is the significance of the details such as the donkey and the colt). But He is not universally welcome; the Pharisees complain, and Jerusalem is the city which kills the prophets (see Luke 13:34). First Reading: this prophecy of…
Fifth Sunday of Lent Mass Readings: Page 176 – 179 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 First Reading: Isaiah recalls the wilderness wandering in Exodus and Numbers, but above all looks forward to the saving power of God to be experienced in the future. Psalm: a psalm of joy to come and hope in…
Fourth Sunday of Lent Mass Readings: Page 168 – 172 Order of Mass: Pages 6 – 60 First Reading: having returned to the Promised Land after the Exodus, the Israelites celebrate their first Passover in the land, and the manna from heaven – which they needed for sustenance on their pilgrimage through the wilderness…
