Wednesday, 2 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third...
View ArticleWednesday, 2 May 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 1,21-30.
For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labour for me; and I do not know which I prefer. I am hard pressed between the two: my desire is to...
View ArticleThursday, 3 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Confession is a splendid act, an act of great love. Confession is the only place to which we take ourselves as sinners, as bearers of sin, and come away as sinners who have been forgiven, without sin....
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How could you fail to perceive that I was not speaking about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!’ Then they understood that he had not told them to beware of the yeast of bread,...
View ArticleThursday, 3 May 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 2,1-11.
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being...
View ArticleFriday, 4 May 2018 : Commentary Isaac of Stella
Bridegroom and Bride, that is Christ and the Church, are as one, be it in receiving confession or in bestowing absolution. All this makes clear why Christ had to tell each of us: “Go, show yourself to...
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Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you...
View ArticleFriday, 4 May 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 2,12-18.
Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in...
View ArticleSaturday, 5 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Ambrose
Since Christ reconciled the world to God, he himself certainly did not need reconciliation. For what sin of his own was he to make propitiation, when he knew no sin? When the Jews were asking for the...
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When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, ‘Does your teacher not pay the temple tax?’ He said, ‘Yes, he does.’ And when he came home, Jesus spoke of it...
View ArticleSaturday, 5 May 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 2,19-30.
I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you. I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. All of them are seeking their own...
View ArticleSunday, 6 May 2018 : Commentary Blessed John Henry Newman
The heart of every Christian ought to represent in miniature the Catholic Church, since one Spirit makes both the whole Church and every member of it to be his Temple (1Cor 3,16). As he makes the...
View ArticleSunday, 6 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them,...
View ArticleSunday, 6 May 2018 : Letter to the Romans 10,1-13.
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened. For, being ignorant of the...
View ArticleMonday, 7 May 2018 : Commentary Saint John Damascene
O Lord, since you are true God you knew about Lazarus's sleep and had made it known to your disciples... Since you are true man, who nevertheless are without limit, you came to Bethany. True man, you...
View ArticleMonday, 7 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was...
View ArticleMonday, 7 May 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 3,1-12.
Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a safeguard. Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of...
View ArticleTuesday, 8 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Augustine
The Church knows of two lives advocated and recommended by God. One in faith, the other in vision; one in our pilgrimage through time, the other in the abode of eternity; one in working, the other in...
View ArticleTuesday, 8 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said, ‘Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?’ When Peter...
View ArticleTuesday, 8 May 2018 : First Letter to the Corinthians 1,26-31.
Consider your own call, not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what...
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