Sunday, 11 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew...
The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in...
View ArticleSunday, 11 June 2017 : Letter to the Romans 11,25-36.
So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come...
View ArticleSunday, 11 June 2017 : Commentary Saint Ephrem
Refrain: Blessed be the One who sends you! Take as your symbols: the sun for the Father, light for the Son, heat for the Holy Spirit. Though he is only one in being we see him in trinity. Who, indeed,...
View ArticleMonday, 12 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been...
View ArticleMonday, 12 June 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 4,5-12.
The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. When they had made the...
View ArticleTuesday, 13 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and...
View ArticleTuesday, 13 June 2017 : First Letter to the Corinthians 4,9-16.
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals. We are fools for the sake of...
View ArticleWednesday, 14 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my...
View ArticleWednesday, 14 June 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 4,23-31.
After they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard it, they raised their voices together to God and said,...
View ArticleThursday, 15 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you...
View ArticleThursday, 15 June 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 5,1-11.
But a man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property; with his wife’s knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and laid it at the...
View ArticleFriday, 16 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else...
View ArticleFriday, 16 June 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 5,12-21a.
Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high...
View ArticleSaturday, 17 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
‘I have said these things to you to keep you from stumbling. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering...
View ArticleSaturday, 17 June 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 5,21b-33.
When they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and went on with their teaching. When the high priest and those with him arrived, they called together the council and the whole body of the...
View ArticleSunday, 18 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.’ Judas (not Iscariot) said to him,...
View ArticleSunday, 18 June 2017 : First Letter to the Corinthians 2,1-10.
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified....
View ArticleSunday, 18 June 2017 : Commentary Saint Bernard
“My Father and I will come to him,” that is to say, to the holy of heart, says the Son of God, “and we will make our home with him.” It seems to me that when the psalmist said to God: “You make your...
View ArticleMonday, 19 June 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,...
View ArticleMonday, 19 June 2017 : Letter to the Ephesians 2,11-21.
Remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by those who are called ‘the circumcision’ a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands remember that you were...
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