Sunday, 21 January 2018 : Psalms 25(24),4bc-5ab.6-7bc.8-9.
Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long. Be mindful of your mercy, O LORD, and of...
View ArticleMonday, 22 January 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark...
And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, ‘He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.’ And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan cast...
View ArticleMonday, 22 January 2018 : Psalms 89(88),20.21-22.25-26.
I have found my servant David; with my holy oil I have anointed him; my hand shall always remain with him; my arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble...
View ArticleTuesday, 23 January 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters are...
View ArticleTuesday, 23 January 2018 : Psalms 24(23),7.8.9.10.
Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. Who is the King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle. Lift up your...
View ArticleWednesday, 24 January 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling before him, she asked a favour of him. And he said to her, ‘What do you want?’ She said to him, ‘Declare that these two...
View ArticleWednesday, 24 January 2018 : Second Letter to Timothy 2,14-26.
Remind them of this, and warn them before God that they are to avoid wrangling over words, which does no good but only ruins those who are listening. Do your best to present yourself to God as one...
View ArticleWednesday, 24 January 2018 : Commentary Saint Augustine
He who stands at the people's head must first understand that he is servant of all. Let him not disdain this service... since the Lord of lords (1Tim 6,15) did not disdain to put himself at our...
View ArticleThursday, 25 January 2018 : Commentary Saint John Chrysostom
“You also go to my vineyard.” My brethren, you may perhaps ask why all these laborers were not sent into the Lord's vineyard at the same time? I reply that God's intention was to call them all at once....
View ArticleThursday, 25 January 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
‘The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the labourers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his...
View ArticleThursday, 25 January 2018 : Letter to the Galatians 1,11-17.
For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin; for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but I received it...
View ArticleFriday, 26 January 2018 : Commentary Saint Gregory Nazianzen
The Son of God himself, who is before all ages, the invisible, the incomprehensible, the bodiless, the beginning from the beginning, light from the light, source of life and immortality, image of the...
View ArticleFriday, 26 January 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
A dispute also arose among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest. But he said to them, ‘The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those in authority over them are...
View ArticleFriday, 26 January 2018 : Second Letter to Timothy 4,1-8.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you: proclaim the message; be persistent whether the...
View ArticleSaturday, 27 January 2018 : Commentary Benedict XVI
The sacrament of charity, the Holy Eucharist is the gift that Jesus Christ makes of himself, thus revealing to us God's infinite love for every man and woman. This wondrous sacrament makes manifest...
View ArticleSaturday, 27 January 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
You call me Teacher and Lord and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example,...
View ArticleSaturday, 27 January 2018 : Letter to Titus 1,1-9.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth that is in accordance with godliness, in the hope of eternal life that...
View ArticleSunday, 28 January 2018 : Commentary Saint Cyprian
We should not weep for those brothers of ours whom the Lord’s call has drawn away from this world since we know they are not lost but that they have set out before us: they have left us, like...
View ArticleSunday, 28 January 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from...
View ArticleSunday, 28 January 2018 : Letter to the Hebrews 12,18-24.
You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another...
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