Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us5th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Tuesday 11th February 2025Gen 1:20 – 2:4; Ps 8:4-9; Mk 7:1-13 (Ps Wk I) The World Day of the Sick is celebrated by offering one’s suffering in prayer. We are to see the face of Christ in our sick brothers and sisters, with love…
St Scholastica, Virgin, pray for me5th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Monday 10th February 2025Gen 1:1-19; Ps 103:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 24, 35; Mk 6:53-56 (Ps Wk I) The beautiful and almost poetic account of the Creation story and Jesus’ healing the sick are two events signifying God’s graciousness to imprint His mark on them. It…
Lord asks, “Whom shall I send?” Will your answer be, “Here I am, send me!”5th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Sunday 9th February 2025Is 6:1-8; Ps 137:1-8; 1 Cor 15:1-11 (or 15:3-8, 11) Lk 5:1-11 (Ps Wk I) “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” To these questions the prophet Isaiah answers---"Here…
St Jerome Emiliani, Priest St Josephine Bakhita, Virgin, pray for us4th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Saturday 8th February 2025Heb 13:15-17, 20-21; Ps 22:1-6; Mk 6:30-34 (Ps Wk IV) “Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.” (Hb 13:16) This resonates with the motive of…
To follow Jesus, our eternal high priest, is our calling and destiny4th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Friday 7th February 2025Heb 13:1-8; Ps 26:1, 3, 5, 8-9; Mk 6:14-29 (Ps Wk IV) Today’s Letter to the Hebrews reading exhorts us to “continue to love each other, remember to welcome strangers and to keep in mind those…
Sts. Paul Miki & Companions, Martyrs, pray for us4th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Thursday 6th February 2025Heb 12:18-19, 21-24; Ps 47:2-4, 9-11; Mk 6:7-13 (Ps Wk IV) Religion has always been tinged with fear. People want to approach the divine and holy, and yet there is often uneasiness or even terror. Many want to draw…
St Agatha, Virgin & Martyr, pray for us4th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Wednesday 5th February 2025Heb 12:4-7, 11-15; Ps 102:1-2, 13-14, 17-18; Mk 6:1-6 (Ps Wk IV) Discipline is a frightening word for some these days. Inevitably, our response to God’s call or any noble duty is paved with discipline. It is likened to…
Lord, let us not become untouchables for those in need4th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Tuesday 4th February 2025Heb 12:1-4; Ps 21:26-28, 30-32; Mk 5:21-43 (Ps Wk IV) Biblical scholars would refer to the structuring of the Gospel text today as a typical “Markan sandwich,” wherein a story is narrated but inserted in the middle, is…
St. Blaise, Bishop & Martyr; St. Ansgar, Bishop, pray for us4th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Monday 3rd February 2025Heb 11:32-40; Ps 30:20-24; Mk 5:1-20 (Ps Wk IV) The call to prophecy has never been uncomplicated. Many prophets and holy men and women in Israel’s history endured persecution, torture, and martyrdom. They suffered willingly…
God has placed Himself at our hands, pure, gentle and vulnerableTHE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (C) : Sunday 2nd February 2025Mal 3:1-4; Ps 23:7-10; Heb 2:14-18: Lk 2:22-40 (or 22-32) (Psalter Proper) Prophet Malachi envisioned the coming of the Lord in the Temple as a profound act of purification. Acting as refiner’s fire, He will purify…