Presiders’ Page 25 August (Ordinary Time 21) We gather as people who have chosen to serve the Lord, chosen to walk the Christian way. We worship God who leads us on — and ask for strength to continue as we have begun. Alternative Opening Prayer (from 1998 ICEL Missal) In every age, O God, you give your…
20 Aug 2024 – Tuesday of Week 20 Memorial: St Bernard, 1090-1153, Cistercian at Citeaux in 1113, Abbot of Clairvaux in 1115, patron of Gibraltar and beekeepers. 1st Reading: Ezekiel 28:1-10 God warns the wealthy seaport metropolis of Tyre to beware of pride The word of the Lord came to me: Mortal, say to the…
19 Aug 2024 – Monday of Week 20 Optional Memorial: St John Eudes, 1601-80, from Normandy, France, founded a congregation and also the Sisters of our Lady of Charity and Refuge, great preacher and promoter of the Sacred Heart. 1st Reading: Ezekiel 24:15-23 He does not publicly mourn his wife’s death, as a sign that…
18 Aug 2024 – 20th Sunday (Year B) (1) Proverbs (9:1-6 Wisdom has built her house with seven pillars Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn herself seven pillars. She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table. She has sent out her servant girls, she calls…
17 Aug 2024 – Saturday of Week 19 Memorial: Our Lady of Knock – readings Lect 11: 1421-49 National Novena 2024: ‘Whispering with God’….How Do You Pray? The National Novena to Our Lady of Knock takes place from 14 to 22 August. Daily ceremonies take place at 3pm and 8pm. Workshops take place at 12.45pm each day….
16 Aug 2024 – Friday of Week 19 Optional Memorial: ST Stephen of Hungary, 975-1038, first King of Hungary and its Patron Saint, worked for the conversion of his people to Christianity. 1st Reading: Ezekiel 16:1-15 Israel is like a baby girl, neglected but later espoused and loved by God The word of the Lord…
Presider’s Page for 18 August (Ordinary Time 20) Whoever eats the flesh of the Lord and drinks his blood will live for ever. We celebrate Jesus’ promise, believing we will share the eternal destiny of all who have this divine life in them. Penitential Rite To prepare ourselves to celebrate these sacred mysteries, let us…
15 August 2024 – The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1st Reading: Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6, 10 The woman and the dragon depicted the persecuted church; but came to include the Assumption of our Lady Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there…
14 Aug 2024 – Wednesday of Week 19 Memorial: St Maximilian Kolbe, 1894-1941, a Conventual Franciscan who worked in the apostolate of the press in Poland and Japan. He die din Auschwitz. 1st Reading: Ezekiel 9:1-7; 10:18-22 Only those who were signed by God’s angel escape, when the glory of the Lord deserts the desecrated…
Presider’s Page for 15 August (Assumption of the BVM) Note: This feast originated in Jerusalem before the fifth century as the “Falling-Asleep of the Mother of God.” It was adopted in Rome in the mid-seventh century and was renamed the “Assumption” in the next century. It celebrates Mary’s passing over, body and soul, from this…
13 Aug 2024 – Tuesday of Week 19 Optional Memorials: Ss Pontian, pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs. St Fachtna (Ross, Feast), scripture scholar, founded the monastery at Ross Carbery (Ross Ailithir), West Cork, died circa 600. 1st Reading: Ezekiel 2:8-3:4 The prophet eats the scroll, then goes to speak the word of God The Lord…
12 Aug 2024 – Monday of Week 19 Optional Memorials: St Jane Frances de Chantral, 1572-1641, founded the Congregation of the Visitation with St Frances de Sales. St Muredach, (Killala, Feast) founder of church in Killala; St Attracta, virgin (Achonry, Feast) sixth century healer whose convents were noted for hospitality and charity to the poor. 1st Reading: Ezekiel…
11 Aug 2024 – 19th Sunday (Year B) (1) 1 Kings 19:4-8 Revived by miraculous food and drink, Elijah reaches the mountain of God Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take…
Presider’s Page for 11 August (Ordinary Time 19) We gather together as friends, called by the Lord to forgive each other as quickly as God forgives us. Penitential Rite Let us call to mind our sins (pause) I confess….. Alternative Opening Prayer (from 1998 ICEL Missal) God, our Father and provider, whose Son has given his flesh…
10 Aug 2024 – St Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr Readings: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 111:1-2, 5-9, R/ v5. John 12: 24-26 First Reading: 2 Corinthians 9:6-10 The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up…
09 Aug 2024 – Saint Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein) 1st Reading: Hosea 2:16-17; 21-22 God’s love for his people, Israel, is like a husband’s love for a wife On that day, says the Lord, you will call me, “My husband,” and no longer will you call me, “My Baal.” For I will remove the names…
08 Aug 2024 – Thursday of Week 18 Memorial: St Dominic, 1170-1221, a Spaniard who founded the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) to counteract the Albigensian heresy. 1st Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 The new covenant will not be inscribed on rock but on the flesh of the heart; all will know the Lord and be forgiven their…
07 Aug 2024 – Wednesday of Week 18 Optional Memorials: Ss Sixtus 11, pope, and four deacon Companions, all martyred in 258. St Cajetan, 1480-1547, founded the Theatines to renew sacramental life within the Church. 1st Reading: Jeremiah 31:1-7 Jeremiah foretells the joyful reunion of Israel’s northern tribes with Jerusalem At that time, says the Lord,…
06 August 2024 – The Transfiguration of the Lord Theme: Three apostles were priveleged to witness the inner life of Christ, revealed to them in splendour oh4>the holy mountain. We pray for a deeper experience of God in our own lives, and to share in his divine life 1st Reading: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Daniel sees…
05 Aug 2024 – Monday of Week 18 Optional Memorial: Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major, built by Pope Sixtus 111 after the Council of Ephesus (431). It is the first church in the West named in honour of the Mother of God. 1st Reading: Jeremiah 28:1-17 By word and gesture Jeremiah…
