18 July 2024 – Thursday of Week 15 1st Reading: Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 A prayer of quiet confidence, awaiting the dawn of God’s justice The way of the righteous is level; O Just One, you make smooth the path of the righteous. In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you;…
17 July 2024 – Wednesday of Week 15 1st Reading: Isaiah 10:5-7, 13-16 Assyria was used to punish Israel but later was discarded for interfering with God’s plans for his people Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger, the club in their hands is my fury! Against a godless nation I send him, and against…
16 July 2024 – Tuesday of Week 15 Optional Memorial: Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Lect 11: 1103 for readings. 1st Reading: Isaiah 7:1-9 During a national crisis people must first turn to a deeper faith in God In the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of…
15 July 2024 – Monday of Week 15 Memorial: St Bonaventure, 1221-74, born in Tuscany, Minister General of the Franciscans, Cardinal Archbishop of Albano, theologian of the Council of Lyons. 1st Reading: Isaiah 1:10-17 Formal worship from people who oppress of the poor is spurned by God Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers…
14 July 2024 – 15th Sunday (Year B) (1) Amos 7:12-15 Amos the herdsman is called by God to be a prophet Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there, and prophesy there; but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it…
13 July 2024 – Saturday of Week 14 Optional Memorial: St Henry, 973-1024, Duke of Bavaria and later Emperor. A just ruler, humble man of prayer and reformer of the Church. 1st Reading: Isaiah 6:1-8 While praying in the temple, Isaiah is called to his great prophetic ministry In the year that King Uzziah died,…
12 July 2024 – Friday of Week 14 1st Reading: Hosea 14:2-9 A call to repentance and renewal Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take words with you and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all guilt; accept that which is good,…
11 July 2024 – Saint Benedict of Nursia, 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 and inclining your heart to…
10 July 2024 – Wednesday of Week 14 1st Reading: Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 Israel’s infidelity has produced a seemingly hopeless situation Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred pillars. Their…
Presider’s Page for 14 July (Ordinary Time 15) God has blessed us in very many ways: God has showered grace upon us. During today’s gathering, we give thanks to the Lord for all we have received. (In Ireland: Today is the National Day of Commemoration of those who died in past wars or on service of…
09 July 2024 – Tuesday of Week 14 Optional Memorial: Ss Augustine Zhao Rong, priest, and his Companions, martyrs. Born 1746, ordained and martyred in 1815. Memorial also commemorates 119 companions, martyred in China over several centuries, especially during the Boxer Uprising. 1st Reading: Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13 As penalty for their sins, they shall return…
08 July 2024 – Monday of Week 14 Optional Memorial: St Kilian, bishop and martyr, born in Mullagh (Kilmore). Left Ireland with 11 companions and became known as the Apostle of Thuringia and eastern Franconia. Martyred in 689 with Kolonot and Totnan. Buried in Würzburg. 1st Reading: Hosea 2:16-18, 21-22 Israel will again show loving…
07 July 2024 – 14th Sunday (Year B) (1) Ezekiel 2:2-5 God sends Ezekiel to call the people to repentance The spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and I heard him speaking to me. He said: “Mortal, I am sending you to the people of Israel, to a nation of rebels…
06 July 2024 – Saturday of Week 13 Optional Memorials: St Maria Goretti, 1890-1902, stabbed to death in defence of her virtue. St Moninne of Killeavy founded a community at Sliabh Gullion, Armagh, died c 517/8. 1st Reading: Amos 9:11-15 The Davidic dynasty will be restored, and the land will be blessed with fertility On that…
05 July 2024 – Friday of Week 13 Optional Memorial: St Anthony Zaccaria, 1502-39, a medical doctor before he was ordained; founded the Barnabites. 1st Reading: Amos 8:4-6, 9-12 If glaring injustices remain unchecked, a famine for meaning will blight our lives Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the…
04 July 2024 – Thursday of Week 13 Optional Memorial: St Elizabeth of Portugal, 1271-1336 of the House of Aragon, unhappily married to the King of Portugal, widowed, then live din poverty as a Franciscan tertiary. 1st Reading: Amos 7:10-17 Expelled from the Bethel sanctuary, Amos announces God’s Word Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel,…
03 July 2024 Wednesday – 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 and…
02 July 2024 – Tuesday of Week 13 1st Reading: Amos 3:1-8. 4:11-12 Amos warns of the need for conversion Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: You only have I known of all…
01 July 2024 – Monday of Week 13 Memorial: St Oliver Plunkett of Irish nobility, ordained in Rome 1654; AB Armagh 1669; arrested in 1679 in Dundalk, found guilty in London of ‘promoting the Catholic faith’; hanged, drawn and quartered in Tyburn, London on 1 July 1681. Beatified in 1920; canonised by Pope Paul VI…
30 June 2024 – 13th Sunday (Year B) (1) Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24 All that God does is wholesome, and he intends us to enjoy a blessed immortality God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. For he created all things so that they might exist; the generative…
