Lord, help me to grow in my spiritul astuteness for Your kingdom31st Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 7th November 2025Rom 15:14-21; Ps 97 (98):1-4; Lk 16:1-8 (Ps Wk III) Perhaps, for me, the keyword that sums up the three passages for today is the word ‘astute.’ It is an adjective that describes an ability…
Each person is important and there is great rejoicing when a person comes into relationship with God31st Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 6th November 2025Rom 14:7-12; Ps 26 (27):1, 4, 13-14; Lk 15:1-10 (Ps Wk III) Paul was writing to the Church in Rome about unity. The followers of The Way were no longer…
Lord, we pray for a spirit of self-denial and detachment from our earthly posessions31st Week in Ordinary Time : Wednessday 5th November 2025Rom 13:8-10; Ps 111 (112):1-2, 4-5, 9; Lk 14:25-33 (Ps Wk III) St Paul advises that we Christians should avoid going into debt, except that of mutual love. Love is the one thing…
ST CHARLES BORROMEO, Bishop, pray for us31st Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 4th November 2025Rom 12:5-16; Ps 130 (131):1-3; Lk 14:15-24 (Ps Wk III) When you receive a formal invitation to an event, usually there’s the classic RSVP. That’s French for “respond, if you please.” This common-sense etiquette is not something new; indeed, it…
ST MARTIN DE PORRES, Religious, pray for us31st Week in Ordinary Time : Monday 3rd November 2025Rom 11:29-36; Ps 68 (69):30-31, 33-34, 36-37; Lk 14:12-14 (Ps Wk III) God is very different from humans. Once God promises something, He does not go back on His word. God can always be trusted, even when we are…
All ye Saints in Heaven, pray for usALL SOULS : Sunday 2nd November 2025Is 25:6-9; Ps 26:1,4, 7-9, 13-14; Rom 5:5-11; Lk 7:11-17 (Ps Prop) During the time of Jesus, women did not have much freedom; they were hugely dependent on their respective fathers, husbands or sons. In the story of the widow of Nain,…
All ye Saints in Heaven, pray for usALL SAINTS : Saturday 1st November 2025Rev 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 23 (24):1-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12 (Ps Prop) On All Saints’ Day, we are called, not so much to remember the numerous saints officially canonised by the Church, but all unnamed saints in heaven, that is, the…
Jesus invites us to live not by rigid rule, but by radiant love30th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 31st October 2025Rom 9:1-5; Ps 147 (148):12-15, 19-20; Lk 14:1-6 (Ps Wk II) Jesus heals a man with dropsy on the Sabbath. The setting is tense—He’s being watched, tested. Yet He does not hesitate. Taking the…
Take every opportunity to be drawn into the shelter of His wings, into the unshakable embrace of His divine mercy30th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 30th October 2025Rom 8:31-39; Ps 108 (109):21-22, 26-27, 30-31; Lk 13:31-35 (Ps Wk II) “How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her…
When Jesus was on earth, He had many followers but few friends. Many were happy to party with Jesus. But unwilling to bear the cross of the mission. When trials and tribulations come, they fall away! What about you? 30th Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday 29th October 2025Rom 8:26-30; Ps 12 (13):4-6; Lk 13:…