5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) : Sunday 9th February 2020Is. 58:7-10; Ps. 112(111):4-5,6-7,8,9; 1 Cor. 2:1-5; Mt. 5:13-16 (Ps Wk I) We tell ourselves, and often advised by others, to let go of our concerns and grudges, and move on with life. Today’s first reading and the Responsorial Psalm…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 5:13-16 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘You are salt for the earth. But if salt loses its taste, what can make it salty again? It is good for nothing, and can only be thrown out to be trampled under people's feet. ‘You are light for the world. A city built on…
St Josephine Bakhita, virgin4th Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday 8th February 20201 Kgs. 3:4-13; Ps. 119(118):9,10,11,12,13,14; Mk. 6:30-34 (Ps Wk IV) Jesus felt pity for the crowd, for they were like sheep without a shepherd. His response to their helplessness may surprise us. He did not immediately provide them with shepherd or work miracles…
Daily Word Of GodMark 6:30-34 The apostles rejoined Jesus and told him all they had done and taught. And he said to them, ‘Come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while’; for there were so many coming and going that there was no time for them even to eat.…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Solitude and Rest: In today’s Gospel, in Jesus’ wisdom He advised His apostles who were exhausted from their mission work, to withdraw from the crowd and go to a lonely place to have some rest. Do we get carried away with work and forget to take…
Lord, grant us the grace to live out our prophetic role today4th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 7th February 2020Sir. 47;2-13; Ps. 18(17):31,47,50,51; Mk. 6:14-29 (Ps Wk IV) Today’s Gospel reading reminds us of our prophetic role as followers of Christ. Here we see how John the Baptist lived out his prophetic mission. He…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Anger: Anger will have an increasing control over us, if we allow it to fester. In today’s Gospel, Herodias was furious with John the Baptist for pointing out the truth that she was living in sin with Herod, as his brother’s wife. She then had John…
Daily Word Of GodMark 6:17-20a, 21-23, 25b-27 Herod had sent to have John arrested, and had had him chained up in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife whom he had married. For John had told Herod, ‘It is against the law for you to have your brother's wife.’ As for Herodias, she was…
Saint Claude La Colombiere, SJBorn : Febrauary 2, 1641 Died : February 15, 1682 Beatified : June 16, 1929 Canonized : May 31, 1992 Claude La Colombiere was born in southern France and studied grammar at a Jesuit school in Lyons before he was ten years old and before doing literature and philosophy. At seventeen,…
Servant of God Saturninus Ibarguren, SJBorn: February 11, 1856 Died: February 9, 1927 Fr Saturninus Ibarguren, a Basque, was born at Villareal de Urretxu, in the province of Guipuzcoa, Spain. After he had completed his studies in his hometown at the age of eighteen, he was enlisted into the army and was involved in the…