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:…
SS SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES, pray for us30th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 28th October 2025Eph 2:19-22; Ps 18 (19):2-5; Lk 6:12-19 (Ps Wk II) The two Apostles—Simon and Jude—are quiet figures in the Gospel, yet pillars in the foundation of the Church. Chosen by Christ after a night of prayer, they were sent…
For it is only when we empty our hearts can God fill us with His power and grace (2 Cor 12:9)30th Week in Ordinary Time : Monday 27th October 2025Rom 8:12-17; Ps 67 (68):2, 4, 6-7, 20-21; Lk 13:10-17 (Ps Wk II) Jesus confronts a mindset that values rules over healing. The idea that one…
For it is only when we empty our hearts can God fill us with His power and grace (2 Cor 12:9)30th Week in Ordinary Time : Sunday 26th October 2025Ecclus 35:15-17, 20-22; Ps 33 (34):2-3, 17-19, 23; 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18; Lk 18:9-14 (Ps Wk II) Virtue signalling is an attempt to show others that…