Presider’s Page Sunday 26 Oct 2025 – Thirtieth Sunday (C) The Gospel story of the Pharisee and the tax collector is read today. It reminds us of the value of being humble before God. In today’s gathering, we praise God who is always merciful to us. Penitential Rite: To begin, we recall our sins in…
21 Oct 2025 – 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 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….
20 Oct 2025 – Monday of Week 29 1st Reading: Romans 4:20-25 Like Abraham’s faith, our faith will be credited to us by God No distrust made Abraham 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 able to…
19 Oct 2025 – 29th Sunday (C) Mission Sunday (1) Book of Exodus 17:8-13 When Moses prays with arms outstretched, God gives victory to his people Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men for us and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand…
18 Oct 2025 – Saint Luke, Evangelist 1st Reading: 2 Timothy 4:10-17 Only Luke is with Paul, at this final stage in his imprisonment Do your best to come to me soon, for Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia….
17 Oct 2025 – Friday of Week 28 Memorial: St Ignatius of Antioch, bishop of Antioch, died a martyr in Rome about 107. Urged Christians to unity through the Eucharist and their local bishop. 1st Reading: Romans 4:1-8 For the believer, faith is credited as justice. This is how Abraham was justified What then are…
16 Oct 2025 – Thursday of Week 28 Optional Memorials: St Hedwig, religious, 1174-1243, mother of seven, devoted to charitable works. St Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin, visionary and ascetic, revised devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. St Gall, monk of Bangor, set out for the continent with Columbanus. Exiled from France, settled in Switzerland, lived…
15 Oct 2025 – Wednesday of Week 28 Memorial: St Teresa of Avila, 1515-82, contemplative who established Carmelite convents and wrote extensively on prayer and the spiritual life. Patron of Spain. 1st Reading: Romans 2:1-11 Jew and gentile will be judged by the same criteria Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you…
Presider’s Page 19 Oct 2025 – Twenty-Ninth Sunday (C) If you want results, pray without ceasing, says Jesus. God will listen and help. Penitential Rite As we prepare ourselves for this celebration, let us call to mind God’s generous mercy (pause): Lord Jesus, you healed the sick: Lord, have mercy. Lord Jesus, you forgave sinners:…
14 Oct 2025 – Tuesday of Week 28 Optional Memorial: St Callistus 1, pope and martyr, a freed slave in charge of catacombs who became pope in 217. Martyred in 222. 1st Reading: Romans 1:16-25 Refusal to worship the true God leads to immorality I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power…
13 Oct 2025 – Monday of Week 28 1st Reading: Romans 1:1-7 Jesus, descendant of David is recognised as Son of God by the resurrection Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, the…
12 Oct 2025 – 28th Sunday (C) Prisoners Sunday (1) 2 Kings 5:14-17 When Naaman heeds Elisha and washes in the Jordan he is cured Naaman the leper went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of…
11 Oct 2025 – Saturday of Week 27 Optional Memorial: St John XX111, pope, 1881-1963, called Second Vatican Council in 1962. St Canice, c 527-603, born in Derry, studied at Clonard under Finnian, at Glasnevin under Mobhi, worked with Columba in Scotland, set up a foundation in Aghaboe, Ossary, later replaced by teh church in Kilkenny….
10 Oct 2025 – Friday of Week 27 1st Reading: Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2 A call to fasting and prayer, for the day of the Lord is near Priests, put on sackcloth and lament; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! Grain offering and drink offering…
09 Oct 2025 – Thursday of Week 27 Optional Memorials: St John Henry Newman, priest and doctor of the Church, received into the Church on 9 Oct 1845, rector of Catholic Uni of Ireland in 1854; St Denis and Companions, Rusticus and Eleutherius, beheaded and thrown into the Seine in 258, buried in Montmartre. Denis was…
08 Oct 2025 – Wednesday of Week 27 1st Reading: Jonah 4:1-11 Jonah is angry that God shows mercy to the Ninevites Jonah was displeased and became very angry. He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why…
07 Oct 2025 – Our Lady of the Rosary This feast commemorates the Christian naval victory over the Turks (at Lepanto 1571). Our Lady is daily honoured in the Rosary, which invites us to meditate the mysteries of the life, death and resurrection of Christ her son. 1st Reading: Acts 1:12-14 Our Lady with the apostles…
06 Oct 2025 – Monday of Week 27 Optional Memorial: St Bruno, born in Cologne 1033, prof og theology in Rheims Uni, founded teh Carthusians at La Grande Chartreuse, where he died in 1101. 1st Reading: Jonah 1:1–2:1 Jonah is swallowed by the whale and brought back to Israel The word of the Lord came…
05 Oct 2025 – 27th Sunday (C) (1) Habbakuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 When the prophet mourns injustice, God promises a day of justice O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Why do you make me see wrong-doing and look…
04 Oct 2025 – Saturday of Week 26 Memorial: St Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226, founded the Friars Minor and, with St Clare, the Poor Clares. Patron of ecologists. 1st Reading: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29 Grieving for the Jews in exile, he begs them to turn again and seek God Take courage, my people, who perpetuate Israel’s…
