Saturday, 30 July 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
‘I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come...
View ArticleSaturday, 30 July 2016 : Acts of the Apostles 26,1-2a.6-10.12-19.
Agrippa said to Paul, ‘You have permission to speak for yourself.’ Then Paul stretched out his hand and began to defend himself: ‘I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am...
View ArticleSunday, 31 July 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew...
Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is...
View ArticleSunday, 31 July 2016 : Letter to the Ephesians 3,1-13.
This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles for surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was given to me for you, and how the...
View ArticleSunday, 31 July 2016 : Commentary Saint Bede the Venerable
The Gospel shows us the Canaanite woman’s great faith, her patience, her perseverance and humility… This woman was gifted with a truly uncommon patience. After her first request, the Lord didn’t answer...
View ArticleMonday, 1 August 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
Jesus also said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, "It is going to rain"; and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, "There will be...
View ArticleMonday, 1 August 2016 : Acts of the Apostles 27,1-4.8a.14-15.18-21a.22-26.
When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, they transferred Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort, named Julius. Embarking on a ship of Adramyttium that was about...
View ArticleTuesday, 2 August 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in...
View ArticleTuesday, 2 August 2016 : Acts of the Apostles 27,27.33-37.39-44.
When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. Just before daybreak, Paul urged all of them to take...
View ArticleWednesday, 3 August 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Then Jesus told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, "See here! For three years I have come...
View ArticleWednesday, 3 August 2016 : Acts of the Apostles 28,1-10.
After we had reached safety, we then learned that the island was called Malta. The natives showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of...
View ArticleThursday, 4 August 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand...
View ArticleThursday, 4 August 2016 : Acts of the Apostles 28,11-15.
Three months later we set sail on a ship that had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead. We put in at Syracuse and stayed there for three days; then we...
View ArticleFriday, 5 August 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
He said therefore, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of...
View ArticleFriday, 5 August 2016 : Acts of the Apostles 28,16-22.
When we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him. Three days later he called together the local leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, he said...
View ArticleSaturday, 6 August 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark...
And he said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.’ Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and...
View ArticleSaturday, 6 August 2016 : Second Letter to the Corinthians 3,7-17.
If the ministry of death, chiselled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’ face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, how...
View ArticleSunday, 7 August 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
Jesus went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and...
View ArticleSunday, 7 August 2016 : First Letter to the Corinthians 3,1-11.
I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still...
View ArticleMonday, 8 August 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, ‘Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.’ He said to them, ‘Go and tell that fox for me, "Listen, I am casting out demons and performing...
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