All Saints Mass Readings: Pages: 184 – 187 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 +++++++++++ ALL SAINTS As we enter the final month of the Church’s year, we turn our attention to all the saints who live triumphantly in heaven, including those not in the canon (list) of saints. First Reading: St John, in…
Thirtieth Sunday (A) Mass Readings: Pages: 146 – 149 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 +++++++++++ First Reading: this is part of the Sinai covenant God established with Moses, one of the covenants referred to in the phrase “time and again you offered them covenants” in Eucharistic Prayer IV. Old Testament religion was…
Twenty-ninth Sunday (A) Mass Readings: Pages: 143 – 146 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 +++++++++++ World Mission Sunday Mission is Urgent: The joy of the Gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept his offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness and loneliness….
Today’s Mass: TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY By Fr David Gibbons, Centre for Catholic Formation First Reading: having defeated death, the Messiah will host a fine banquet. The Church understands this to refer not to an event in this life but to eternal life after Christ’s second coming. Psalm: psalm 22 is so familiar that we don’t have…
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 famous prayer and wisdom. The young king acknowledges his inexperience and lack of understanding of…
Sixteenth Sunday Mass Readings: Pages: 105 – 108 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 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…
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 women of learning the world over, whether believers or not, recognise in the parables of…
Fourteenth Sunday Mass Readings: Pages: 99 – 101 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 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…
