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31st October. Saturday of Week 30

1st Reading: Romans 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-29 The paradoxical status of God’s people, when they reject Him I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not…

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30th October. Friday of Week 30

1st Reading: Romans 9:1-5 Paul would endure anything to win his fellow-Jews to Christ I am speaking the truth in Christ; I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit. I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off…

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29th October. Thursday of Week 30

On Saint Colman, see below 1st Reading: Romans 8:31-39 Nothing can separate us from the love of God, in Christ Jesus What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us,…

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28th October. The Apostles Simon and Jude

1st Reading: Ephesians 2:19-22 God has appointed apostles so that his people’s needs will be served So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the…

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27th October. Tuesday of Week 30

On Saint Otteran, see below 1st Reading: Romans 8:18-25 The future we hope for is already within us, like a seed waiting to flower I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the…

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26th October. Monday of Week 30

1st Reading: Romans 8:12-17 In the Spirit, we are God’s children; he is our “Abba — Father” So then, my brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put…

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Presider’s Page for 25 October (Ordinary Time 30)

We come to God, who gives the blind new sight. We praise our creator for the gracious care we receive and ask for the strength to continue on our pilgrim journey to the Father’s house.

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25th October. 30th Sunday, Ordinary Time.

1st Reading: Jeremiah 31:7-9 God promises to lead back the remnant of Israel For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, “Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel.” See, I am going to bring them from…

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24th October. Saturday of Week 29

On Saint Anthony Mary Claret, see below. 1st Reading: Romans 8:1-11 God sent his Son to share his Spirit and bring our mortal selves to godlike life My beloved, There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set…

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23rd October. Friday of Week 29

On Saint John of Capistrano, see below. 1st Reading: Romans 7:18-25 Who can free me from my moral crisis? Only God, through Jesus Christ For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the…

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22nd October. Thursday of Week 29

1st Reading: Romans 6:19-23 Freed from sin and now serving God, and destined for eternal life My dearly beloved, I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves…

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21st October. Wednesday of Week 29

1st Reading: Romans 6:12-18 Be obedient to God and you will come from death to life Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought…

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20th October. Tuesday of Week 29

1st Reading: Romans 5:12, 17-21 Through Adam, sin and death came to us all; through Jesus Christ, grace far surpasses all sin Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned. But the free gift is not like…

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19th October. Monday of Week 29

Saints John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and companions (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 4:20-25 Like Abraham’s faith, our faith will be credited to us by God No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, being fully convinced that God was…

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Presider’s Page for 18 October (Mission Sunday)

This year’s Mission Sunday theme is summed up in two words: ‘Abundant Life’. This theme brings to mind the scope of the mission of Christians, which is to give something to eat, somewhere to sleep and something to believe in to those without.

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18th October. 29th Sunday, Mission Sunday

(The feast of Saint Luke, Evangelist, is not celebrated this year) 1st Reading: Isaiah 53:10-11 God’s faithful Servant bears the world’s sins and sorrow; but he will prosper in the end. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall…

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17th October. Saturday of Week 28

Saint Ignatius of Antioch (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 4:13, 16-18 Hoping against hope, Abraham became the father of many nations, believing in the life-giving power of God For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith….

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16th October. Friday of Week 28

St Gall,  St Hedwig and St Margaret Mary Alacoque (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 4:1-8 For the believer, faith is credited as justice. This is how Abraham was justified What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something…

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15th October. Thursday of Week 28

Saint Teresa of Avila (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 3:21-30 All have sinned, but are freely justified by faith in Jesus Christ But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who…

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14th October. Wednesday of Week 28

Saint Callistus, pope and martyr (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 2:1-11 “By judging others you convict yourself.” Jew and gentile will be judged by the same criteria Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the…

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    Pope Francis responds to dubia submitted by five cardinals

    October 3 2023
    Soline Humbert
    https://www.newwaysministry.org/2023/10/03/new-ways-ministry-blessings-guidance-significantly-advances-popes-lgbtq-affirmation/
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    Pope Francis responds to dubia submitted by five cardinals

    October 3 2023
    Pat Savage
    It's amazing the headliner grabbers are out this morning alongside very educated clergy and former politicians sharing their views.But for all their wise education and headline grabbing the fundamental point that Francis has said is marriage is between "a man and a woman".
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    01 Oct 2023 – 26th Sunday, (A)

    October 1 2023
    Thara Benedicta
    Key Message: Let us change our minds and live purposefully!! Homily: Our Lord Jesus Christ explains that "change of mind" is needed for repentance. Repentance is also our resolution "I am going to change my mind. I am going to turn away from my old bad ways and lead a new righteous life according to the will of God".   Many times God will reveal to us that what we are doing is not correct and we do need to change it. It may be like always shouting at others for trivial things, easily getting angry, knowing others need help but still staying away from helping, gossiping, manipulative talks and so on. They would have become a regular habit for us and we were more comfortable living like that. So we generally tend to put off changing ourselves. But let us go ahead and initiate this change in our lives. Otherwise more and more time will be wasted in guilt and condemnation. Let us initiate the change in us immediately. If we continue in our old ways, we will not be seen as good in our own eyes.   After initiating the change in mind, we will encounter situations where we are not able to follow our good resolutions. But God is a good potter. He will patiently mould us no matter how many times we do not take the shape. He just wants to be still in the potter's wheel. Not give up on Him or on us. If you feel very dejected by the number of times we fail in our good resolutions, keep the count of successes and the count of failures in a day. Target having more successes than failures in a day. That is reformation. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself fell thrice on the ground on the way to Calvary. The important thing is He completed His journey.  Changing the way we think is critical for changing the way of our life. Once I was filled with good intentions, but my life was not fruitful. I used to feel dejected at being myself, why was I not doing anything useful like that? It was a very big question for me. When I was praying one day, God told me it was because of my thought life. But I couldn't understand it. I was still feeling "I want to be good, so all my intentions are good, then what is the problem with my thought life?" I was only thinking that it is a lack of time on my hands to do the good stuff that I have planned to do. God made me realise that most of my thoughts are useless. I can and I should "choose to think what I should think about". Criticising others in our hearts, remembering their bad deeds, all this is a pure wastage of our time, effort and energy. Why should we involve all our time, effort and energy just to find others' faults? Today at noon as I was having my lunch, my thoughts were wandering and I was having judgemental thoughts about someone. To avoid it I needed to listen to good Christian messages so that there was no need for me to fight this battle of thoughts. This was making both the meal and the meal time more enjoyable. (Try only when you are eating alone...) Lack of time was also resolved by making valid use of our thinking time. It is never that we do not have time. God always gives us enough time to complete all our tasks. It is that we spend our time thinking and doing useless stuff, unnecessary for our time of living and death. We are trying to earn some brownie points from others, calculating that they will come in times of emergency. We cannot do it at the cost of not doing what our God is expecting us to do. Once we do what God has put in our hearts to do, we will realise that God will move people to take care of us at the right time. Our self pain will not come and rescue us.   We unnecessarily compete with others. This happens more vigorously with parents, forcing their children to run the parent's race. Everyone is keeping someone else in front and imitating him/her, obviously trying to run his/her race. They forget their own track. But God is choosy. He will help us only to run our race, not to compete with others. Do all fingers in our hand have the same function? Every finger has its own job to do. If the thumb wants to do the little fingers job, then can it succeed? If we are the thumb, let us live as a thumb. If we can think like what our Lord Jesus thinks, then we can absolutely achieve what God has put in our hearts to achieve within our time limits. Our Lord Jesus also completed all His tasks within three years of His life. He did not keep brooding over the Pharisees. He told them directly that they needed to undergo a change in their minds in today's Gospel reading. He did not lose His sleep over their misbehaviours or always wanting to kill Him. He did not miss enjoying His ferry rides with His friends nor eating with the sinners. He was the happy guy wherever He went. He was the consolation to all. The Bible says the cities and towns were filled with good news and joy because of Him. He spread His goodness to everyone. People who accepted Him, underwent a change of mind and were happy (example, Zachaeus). People who rejected our Lord were never happy.   God is our loving Father. He will surely lead us to see the changes required of us. Let us implement those changes and be the person whom God wants us to be!!
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    Lessons for the Church from recent State scandals?

    April 1 2014
    Sean O’Conaill
    Jesus was crucified because he was a whistleblower against religious hypocrisy and injustice - but we will wait forever for an encyclical to tell us this - or to admit that Jesus tells us that himself when he says he has ‘overcome the world’ (John 16:33). To overcome the world is obviously to overcome our greatest fear - the fear of ‘what people will think’ if we do speak truth to power. St Ignatius of Antioch had obviously overcome that very same fear when he was making his way to the Colosseum c. 107 CE - two centuries before the inauguration of Christendom by Constantine. The recent BBC series ‘Colosseum’ clearly admits that it was Christian martyrs such as Ignatius who undermined the might-is-right ethos of that central Roman arena, making it eventually a neglected ruin - because they believed that the power of the truth of Jesus’ resurrection was greater than the power of Rome to kill them. And Ignatius’ letters (written on that journey) show also that his faith was creedal. Christendom did not invent the Creed but instead it undermined it by making the clerical church itself a broker of power. After Augustine of Hippo justified coercion of Christian dissenters, the Donatists, in 408 CE it was to take until 1965 for Vatican II to contradict that by insisting that the truth cannot be conveyed by coercion. That was far too late to stem the rise of relativism, and we are still suffering the consequences of what Pope Francis has recently called the ‘immorality’ of the Inquisition.
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