The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica31st Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday 9th November 2019Ex. 47:1-2,8-9,12 OR 1 Cor. 8;9-11,16-17; Ps. 4645:2-3,5-6,8-9; Jn. 2:13-22 (Ps Wk III) Living in a world surrounded with rapid changes, global warming, unimaginable violence, aggression rooted in racism and religious bigotry, economic and financial woes and uncertainty — don’t we…
Lord, help me to enter Your eternal home31st Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 8th November 2019Rom. 15:14-21; Ps. 98(97):1,2-4; Lk. 16:1-18 (Ps Wk III) Is Jesus exhorting us to be dishonest as the steward is dishonest in today's Gospel? Not so, Jesus is encouraging us to be like the steward in his attitude of…
Lord, help us live exemplary and witnessing lives in the world today31st Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 7th November 2019Rom. 14:7-12; Ps. 27(26):1,4,13-14; Lk. 15:1-10 (Ps Wk III) The parables of the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin portray to us the image of a merciful and compassionate God who always seeks out the lost…
Lord, help us to love like You 31st Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday 6th November 2019Rom. 13:8-10; Ps. 112(111):1-2,4-5,9; Lk. 14:25-33 (Ps Wk III) Today’s Gospel reading spells out clearly the three conditions for discipleship. The first (v26) is to make discipleship the key concern in life. Relationship with family, relatives and even concern…
Lord, help me to respond to Your call31st Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 5th November 2019Rom. 12:5-16; Ps. 131(130):1,2,3; Lk. 14:15-24 (Ps Wk III) What does it mean to be holy and to be part of Christ's body? When we realize that we are all connected to one another and to Jesus, there is…
St Charles Borromeo, bishop31st Week in Ordinary Time : Monday 4th November 2019Rom. 11:29-36; Ps. 69(68):30-31,33-34,36-37; Lk.14:12-14 (Ps Wk III) Jesus advises his disciples on the choice of invitees to the banquet. It is not those who can reciprocate but the less fortunate (poor, outcast, marginalized, deprived) who are not able to return any reward.…
God sees beyond what or who a person is, to what a person can become. 31st Week in Ordinary Time : Sunday 3rd November 2019Wis 11:22 - 12:2; Ps. 145(144):1-2,8-9, 10-11,13-14; 2 The. 1:11-2:2; Lk. 19:1-10 (Ps Wk III) Today, we reflect on God’s abundant love for humanity. The idea that God never gives up…
Eternal rest and everlasting life and joy grant unto all, O Lord,ALL SOULS : Saturday 2nd November 2019Is. 25:6-9; Ps. 27(26):1,4,7-9,13-14; Rom 5:5-11; Lk. 7:11-17 (Ps Wk II) All cultures have faced the inevitable mystery of death with various rites of remembrance and reverence for the dead. Thus, the Second Book of Maccabees, which we…
Our calling is to be like Jesus as much as we can each dayALL SAINTS : Friday 1st November 2019Rev. 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps.24(23): 1-2, 3-4ab,5-6; 1 Jn.3:1-3; Mt.5:1-12a (Psalter proper) How many are going to heaven? Revelation hints not many - 144,000 - but this should not be taken literally. It is a symbolic number…
Nothing can separate us from the love of God30th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 31st October 2019Rom. 8:31b-39; Ps. 109(108):21-22,26-27,30-31; Lk. 13:31-35 (Ps Wk II) We live in uncertainty; economic, political and social conflicts leave us scrambling for some guarantee, or at least some lessened risk of disaster and failure. But our faith gives…