08 April 2025 – Tuesday of Week 5 of Lent (1) Numbers 21:4-9 The brazen serpent; anyone bitten can look at it and live From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke…
07 April 2025 – Monday of Week 5 of Lent Optional Memorial: St John Baptists de la Salle, 1651-1719, cared and educated children and trained teachers, formed teh Brothers of the Christian Schools. Patron of teachers. (1) Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 31-62 Susanna is falsely accused; Daniel’s questions uncover the truth There was a man living…
06 April 2025 – 5th Sunday of Lent, Year C (1) Isaiah 43:16-21 The prophet promises the exiles a new Exodus Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are…
05 April 2025 – Saturday of Week 4 Memorial: St Vincent Ferrer, 1350-1419, Dominican priest, preached missions across Spain, France and Italy. Helped bring Church unity during the Great Schism between teh Avignon and Roman claimants to the papacy. (1) Jeremiah 11:18-20 The Just One is led like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter…
04 April 2025 – Friday of Week 4 of Lent Optional Memorial: St Isidore, Bishop of Seville in 600, died there in 636, a greta writer who also completed the Mozarabic liturgy, still celebrated today. (1) Wisdom 2:1, 12-22 Malice against the good foreshadows the Passion of Jesus Foolish people reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves,…
03 April 2025 – Thursday of Week 4 of Lent (1) Exodus 32:7-14 Though his people rebel, Moses begs another chance for them The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from…
Presider’s Page for 6 April (Fifth Sunday of Lent) We gather to worship our compassionate God, who heals our sinfulness and challenges us to leave our sinfulness behind. Penitential Rite To prepare ourselves for this celebration, let us call to mind our sins: (pause) You were sent to heal the contrite of heart: Lord, have…
02 April 2025 – Wednesday of Week 4 of Lent Optional Memorial: St Francis of Paola, 1416-1507, born in Calabria, became a hermit, attracted others, later called the Order of Minims, died at Tours in France. (1) Isaiah 49:8-15 God promises the exiles, “You’ll be a sign of salvation!” Thus says the Lord: ‘In a…
01 April 2025 – Tuesday of Week 4 of Lent Optional Memorial: St Ceallach (Celsus), born 1080, abbot of Armagh in 1105, ordained and presided over the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111. Died in 1129 while visiting Munster, buried in Lismore, at his own request. (1) Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 Life-giving water flows out from the…
31 March 2025 – Monday of Week 4 of Lent (1) Isaiah 65:17-21 “Rejoice in what I am creating!” Good things in store for those who love God For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and…
30 March 2025 – 4th Sunday of Lent, Year C (1) Joshua 5:9-12 The Israelites, free at last from slavery and humiliation in Egypt, enter the land of promise The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal to this day….
29 March 2025 – Saturday of Week 3 of Lent (1) Hosea 6:1-6 God wants our love more than ritual sacrifice “Come, let us return to the Lord; for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will…
28 March 2025 – Friday of Week 3 of Lent (1) Hosea 14:2-10 How God supports those who trust in Him Take words with you and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all guilt; accept that which is good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips. Assyria shall not save…
27 March 2025 – Thursday of Week 3 of Lent (1) Jeremiah 7:23-28 Life’s highest goal is obedient response to God But this command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk only in the way that I command you, so that it…
26 March 2025 – Wednesday of Week 3 of Lent (1) Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 God’s people have clear duties and a high destiny So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the…
Presider’s Page for 30 March (Lent 4 – Laetare) We have reached the midway point of the season of Lent. The joy of Easter is within our reach and the parent of the prodigal son encourages us to rely on divine mercy. (Sunday morning Masses: On this Mother’s Day, we honour the mothers of the…
March 25 – The Annunciation of the Lord 1st Reading: Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10 King Ahaz refuses to ask a sign of the Lord; Isaiah promises a child to be called Immanuel Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, “Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”…
24 March 2025 – Monday of Week 3 of Lent Optional Memorial: St Macartan, first Bishop of Clogher, known as Patrick’s ‘Strong Man’ for his dedication and faithfulness. (1) 2 Kings 5:1-15 Naaman the Syrian takes the prophet’s advice and is cured of leprosy Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was…
23 March 2025 – 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year C (1) Exodus 3:1-8, 13-15 God pities his people in Egypt and will free them, through Moses Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There…
22 March 2025 – Saturday of Week 2 of Lent (1) Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 Israel’s God is a God of mercy Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, which lives alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in…
