May 11th - Saint Francis Jerome de Geronimo , SJDied : May 11, 1716 Beatified : May 2, 1806 Canonized : May 26, 1839 Francis Jerome, the first of eleven children in the De Geronimo family was born in 1642, in Grottaglie, near Taranto, in southern Italy. Around the age of ten he went to…
May 10th - Servant of God: Stephen Le Fevre, SJBorn:February 14, 1597 Died : May 10, 1657 Catholic church in Shanxi Stephen Le Favre, the first French Jesuit assigned to the Chinese mission was born in Mourieres, near Avignon in France. His desire to be a priest started when he was very young, but his…
May 8th - Servant of God: John Philip Roothaan, SJ Born: November 23, 1785 Died: May 8, 1853 Fr John Philip Roothaan, the twenty-first general of the Society of Jesus, was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1785 when the Society was in its twelfth year of suppression due to political pressure from several European rulers.…
May 4th - Saint Joseph Mario Rubio, SJDied : May 2, 1929 Beatified : October 6, 1985 Canonized : May 4, 2003 Joseph Mario Rubio was born at Dalias, in the province of Almeria, Southern Spain in 1864. At the tender age of eleven, he went to the city of Almeria to begin his studies;…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Eucharist: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims with unequivocal clarity that the gift of the Eucharist is His real Flesh and real Blood, that will give Eternal Life to believers who consume them. Ponder on this Truth of Jesus, and allow its divine mystery to renew our faith in the Eucharist, with…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 6:52-59 The Jews started arguing among themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ Jesus replied to them: In all truth I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Anyone who…
Lord, sustain and feed my heart and soul. 3rd Week of Easter – St Joseph the Worker : Friday 1st May 2020Acts 9:1-20; Ps. 117(116):1,2; Jn. 6:52-59 (Ps Wk III) Paul’s conversion is the most famous in history. We are still affected by it today. But he got off to a bad start – he…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 6:44-51 Jesus said to the crowd: ‘No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise that person up on the last day. It is written in the prophets: They will all be taught by God; everyone who has listened to the Father,…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage “Bread of Life”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims that He is the “Bread of Life” that has come down from heaven. Those who eat this “Bread” will live forever. Do we value the Eucharist as God’s most precious gift to us, to strengthen our soul? Do we take the gift of…
Lord, help me to believe what I cannot understand3rd Week of Easter : Thursday 30th April 2020Acts. 8:26-40; Ps. 66(65):8-9,16-17,20; Jn. 6:44-51 (Ps Wk III) Philip listened to the Holy Spirit and went to speak with the eunuch from Ethiopia. The eunuch was reading Isaiah, but he didn't understand what he was reading, so Philip…