Presider’s Page for 4 February (Ordinary Time 5)
As we Christians come together for worship, each of us brings worries, anxieties and fears. We gather them all together and entrust them to the one who heals his suffering people.
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04 February. Fifth Sunday (Ord. Time)
1st Reading: Job 7:1-4, 6-7 Job wrestles with the problem of innocent suffering Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages, so I am allotted months…
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03 February. Saturday of Week 4
St Blaise, bishop and martyr; St Ansgar, bishop 1st Reading: 1 Kings 3:4-13 Solomon prays for wisdom to judge God’s people and to discern right from wrong The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon…
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02 February. The Presentation of the Lord
1st Reading: Malachi 3:1-4 When his Temple-messenger comes, God will again receive our worship See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight–indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts….
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01 Feb. Saint Brigid, Abbess. Feast
In response to several requests, from now on we will include the Responsorial Psalm 1st Reading: Job 31:16-20; 24-25; 31-32 Job’s generosity towards the needy is reflected in St Brigid’s works of charity I have never withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten…
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31 January. Wednesday of Week 4
31 January. Wednesday of Week 4
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30 January. Tuesday of Week 4
30 January. Tuesday of Week 4
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29 January. Monday of Week 4
29 January. Monday of Week 4
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Presider’s Page for 28 January (Ordinary Time 4)
We come together to listen to God’s word and share the bread of life together. As God’s family here, we praise the one who has rescued us from sin and darkness, and brought us the hope of heaven.
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28 January. 4th Sunday
(Saint Thomas Aquinas, doctor of the Church. Not celebrated this year.) 1st Reading: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Moses predicts the coming of a future prophet greater than himself The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet lie me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. This is what you requested…
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27 January. Saturday of Week 3
Saint Angela Merici, virgin. (Opt.Mem.) 1st Reading: 2 Samuel 12:1-7, 10-17 David’s sin with Bathsheba will be punished within his own family The Lord sent Nathan to David. He went to him, and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had…
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26 January. Friday of Week 3
26 January. Friday of Week 3
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25 January. The conversion of Saint Paul
25 January. The conversion of Saint Paul
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24 January. Wednesday of Week 3
24 January. Wednesday of Week 3
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23 January. Tuesday of Week 3
23 January. Tuesday of Week 3
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22 January. Monday of Week 3
22 January. Monday of Week 3
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Presider’s Page for 21 January (Ordinary Time 3)
The calling of Andrew and his brother Peter is described in today’s Gospel. Like those early disciples, we too are called. As believers, we gather here to listen to God’s word, resolving to put it into practice in the coming week.
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21 January. 3rd Sunday
1st Reading: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Jonah’s preaching helps to convert the pagans of Nineveh The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the…
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20 January. Saturday of Week 2
Saints Fabian and Sebastian, martyrs (optional memorial) 1st Reading: 2 Samuel 1:1-4 etc David’s grief at the death of Saul and Jonathan After the death of Saul, when David had returned from defeating the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. On the third day, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn…
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19 January. Friday of Week 2
19 January. Friday of Week 2