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…
03 Oct 2025 – Friday of Week 26 Optional Memorial: Bl. Columba Marmion, borin in 1858 in Dublin, ordained in Rome in 1881, curate in Dundrum then professor in Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, entered monastery in Belgium in 1886, abbot in 1909, died in 1923. Wrote a trilogy, Christ, the Life of the Soul; Christ…
02 Oct 2025 – The Holy Guardian Angels 1st Reading: Exodus 23:20-23 I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard you on the way The Lord spoke to Moses and the people during their journey across the desert desert: ‘I am going to send an angel in front of you,…
01 Oct 2026 – Wednesday of Week 26 Memorial: St Thérèse of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church. Died at the Carmel in Lisieux in 1897. The Little Flower. Patron of missions, florists, aviators and France. 1st Reading: Nehemiah 2:1-8 King Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem, to restore its walls and graves…
Presider’s Page – Sunday 5 Oct 2025 (27th Sunday in Ordinary Time) • The Church celebrates ‘World Day of Migrants & Refugees‘ today (usually celebrated on the last Sunday of September but postponed to today in the Jubilee year to coincide with the Jubilee of Migrants). Penitential Rite To prepare ourselves for this celebration, let…
30 Sept 2025 – Tuesday of Week 26 memorial: St Jerome, 340-420, translated the Bible into Latin, known as the Vulgate. Wrote Scripture commentaries. Patron of librarians. 1st Reading: Zechariah 8:20-23 Peoples of every nationality will embrace the faith of the Jews Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Peoples shall yet come, the inhabitants of…
29 Sept 2025 – The holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael 1st Reading: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 The vision of the Ancient One and the Son of Man, in glorious splendour As I watched, thrones were set in place, and an Ancient One took his throne, his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of…
28 Sept 2025 – 26th Sunday (C) (1) Amos 6:1, 4-7 Amos laments the wealthy who care nothing for the poor Alas for those who are at ease in Zion, and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria. Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory, and lounge on their couches, and eat…
27 Sept 2025 – Saturday of Week 25 Memorial: St Vincent de Paul, 1580-1660, founder of the Vincentians and Daughters of Charity. 1st Reading: Zechariah 2:1-4, 10-11 Jerusalem will be a centre of peace where many will come to dwell I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then…
26 Sept 2025 – Friday of Week 25 Optional Memorial: Ss Cosmos and Damian, martyrs in Syria, patrons of physicians, known as the Anargyri (the holy moneyless ones) as they never took money for their medical services. 1st Reading: Haggai (2:1-9 The Lord will make the new temple more glorious than Solomon’s In the second…
23 Sept 2025 – Tuesday of Week 25 Memorial: St Pius of Pietrelcina – Padre Pio, priest, died 23 Sept 1968, Capuchin friar, stigmatist, confessor, friend of all who suffer. St Eunan (Adomnán) (Feast in Raphoe), born in Donegal c 624 and died in 704, a monk in Iona and abbot there from 679. Wrote…
25 Sept 2025 – Thursday of Week 25 Optional Memorial: St Finbarr (Feast in Cork), bishop, lived at Loch Irce (Gougane Barra) as a hermit, then founded a monastery at the mouth of the Lee River, became a centre of learning. 1st Reading: Haggai 1:1-8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build…
Presider’s Page for 28 September (Ordinary Time 26) Today’s readings remind us that God is on the side of the poor, defending their rights. Penitential Rite We gather to praise God’s justice and beg God’s mercy, as we call to mind our sins: (pause) You raise the dead to life in the Spirit: Lord, have…
24 Sept 2025 – Wednesday of Week 25 1st Reading: Ezra 9:5-9 At the time of the evening sacrifice, Ezra declares God’s mercy At the evening sacrifice I, Ezra, got up from my fasting, with my garments and my mantle torn, and fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the Lord my God,…
23 Sept 2025 – Tuesday of Week 25 Memorial: St Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), died 23 Sept 1968. Capuchin friar, stigmatist, confessor, friend of all who suffer. St Eunan (Adoomnán), born in Donegal c 624 and died in 704. Became a monk in Iona and abbot in 679. Wrote The Life of Colum Cille….
22 Sept 2025 – Monday of Week 25 1st Reading: Ezra 1:1-6 Cyrus lets the Jews return home and makes their neighbours help them rebuild the temple In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, so that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up…
21 Sept 2025 – 25th Sunday (C) (1) Amos 8:4-7 God is concerned for justice and fair play Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and the sabbath, so that we…
20 Sept 2025 – Saturday of Week 24 Memorial: SsAndrew Kim Tae-gõn, priest, and Paul Chõng Ha-seng and Companions, martyred during the persecurions in Korea, 1839-67 1st Reading: 1 Timothy 6:13-16 Live without reproach until Jesus Christ returns in glory In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus,…
19 Sept 2025 – Friday of Week 24 Optional Memorial: St Januarius, Bishop of Beneventa, martyred at Naples in 305, with six companions. 1st Reading: 1 Timothy 6:2-12 The value of good order, detachment from wealth and living one’s faith These are the duties you must teach and urge the community to follow. Whoever teaches…
