12 July 2025 – Saturday of Week 14 1st Reading: Genesis 49:29-32; 50:15-26 Then Jacob gave his sons this charge, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors – in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave in the field at Machpelah, near Mamre,…
11 July 2025 – Saint Benedict of Nursia Benedict: c. 480-547, Abbot and Patron of Europe 1st Reading: Proverbs (2:1-10 The value of wisdom, devotion and fear of the Lord, so exemplified in Saint Benedict My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you, making your ear attentive to wisdom…
10 July 2025 – Thursday of Week 14 1st Reading: Genesis 44:18-21, 23-29; 45:1-5 After Judah’s report, Joseph reveals himself to his brothers Judah went up to [his brother Joseph] and said, “O my lord, let your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for…
09 July 2025 – Wednesday of Week 14 Optional Memorial: St Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions: Born in 1746 Augustine was martyred in 1815; also celebrates memorial to 119 companions martyred in China over several centuries, but especially during teh Boxer Rising. 1st Reading: Genesis 41-42 When Joseph’s brothers come to buy grain, he sends…
Presider’s Page for 13 July (Ordinary Time 15) The beautiful story of the Good Samaritan is told again at today’s Mass, with its challenge to us to look after others, as the Good Samaritan did. We gather to worship God who showed us what love means. Penitential Rite We take a moment to call mind…
08 July 2025 – Tuesday of Week 14 Optional Memorial: St Killian, from Mullagh, Kilmore Diocese. Left with 11 others and became the Apostle of Thuringia and eastern Franconia. Put to death with Kolonat and Totnan in 689. Big devotion to him in Würzburg, where his remains are, and throughout Bavaria. 1st Reading: Genesis 32:23-33…
07 July 2025 – Monday of Week 14 Optional Memorial: St Maelruain, bishop and abbot who founded a monastery at Tallaght, Co Dublin in 774. A reformer, known as the Célí Dé reform. He died in 792. 1st Reading: Genesis 28:10-22 Jacob dreams of a ladder stretching between heaven and earth, with angels ascending and…
6 July 2025 – 14th Sunday (C) (1) Isaiah 66:10-14 After the Exile, Jerusalem is like a mother nursing her child at the breast Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her, that you may nurse and be satisfied…
5 July 2025 – Saturday of Week 13 Optional Memorial: St Anthony Zaccaria, 1502-39, priest in Milan, founded the Barnabites. 1st Reading: Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29 Rebecca disguises Jacob so that blind Isaac gives him the first-born’s blessing When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his…
4 July 2025 – Friday of Week 13 Optional memorial: St Elizabeth of Portugal, 1271-1336, of the House of Aragon, married, unhappily, to the King of Portugal, became a Franciscan tertiary. 1st Reading: Genesis 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67 The burial of Sarah. Abraham finds a wife for Isaac Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years; this…
3 July 2025 – Thursday – St Thomas, Apostle (Feast) First reading Ephesians 2:19-22 In Christ you are no longer aliens, but citizens like us You are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles…
Presider’s Page for 6 July (Ordinary Time 14) We gather to praise God’s faithfulness, and to ask for grace in the work we’re called to do. Penitential Rite To prepare ourselves to celebrate the Mass, let us call to mind our sins: (pause) You were sent to heal the contrite: Lord, have mercy. You came…
2 July 2025 – Wednesday of Week 13 1st Reading: Genesis 21:5, 8-20 Abraham drives out the slave-wife Hagar and her son Sarah noticed the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing with her son Isaac; so she demanded of Abraham: “Drive out that slave and her son! No son of that…
01 July 2025 – Tuesday of Week 13 Memorial: St Oliver Plunkett, bishop and martyr, ordained in Rome 1654, Archbishop of Armagh 1669, hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London 1681, buried at Downside Abbey, England, his head is venerated in St Peter’s, Drogheda. 1st Reading: Genesis 19:15-29 Before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, God saved…
30 June 2025 – Monday of Week 13 Optional Memorial: The First martyrs of the Holy Roman Church, in addition to St Peter, died under Nero in 64. 1st Reading: Genesis 18:16-33 Abraham argues with God to spare the wicked cities of the plain The men set out from there, and they looked toward Sodom;…
29 June 2025 – Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles 1st Reading: Acts 2:1-11 Peter is imprisoned, but an angel sets him free to continue leading the church About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. He had James, the brother of John, killed with the sword. After he saw…
28 June 2025 – The Immaculate Heart of Mary 1st Reading: Isaiah 61:9-11 I will greatly rejoice, my whole being shall exult in my God Their descendants shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed….
Fri 27 June 2025 – Sacred Heart, Year C 1st Reading: Ezekiel 34:11-16 The Lord God will search for His sheep and pasture them For thus says the Lord God: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep,…
26 June 2025 – Thursday of Week 12 1st Reading: Genesis 16:1-12, 15-16 Hagar is driven out, but an angel is sent to rescue her Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar, and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the Lord has prevented me from…
25 June 2025 – Wednesday of Week 12 1st Reading: Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 God’s promise of descendants to Abraham is renewed The word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will…
