Presider’s Page 19 Oct 2025 – Twenty-Ninth Sunday (C) If you want results, pray without ceasing, says Jesus. God will listen and help. Penitential Rite As we prepare ourselves for this celebration, let us call to mind God’s generous mercy (pause): Lord Jesus, you healed the sick: Lord, have mercy. Lord Jesus, you forgave sinners:…
14 Oct 2025 – Tuesday of Week 28 Optional Memorial: St Callistus 1, pope and martyr, a freed slave in charge of catacombs who became pope in 217. Martyred in 222. 1st Reading: Romans 1:16-25 Refusal to worship the true God leads to immorality I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power…
13 Oct 2025 – Monday of Week 28 1st Reading: Romans 1:1-7 Jesus, descendant of David is recognised as Son of God by the resurrection Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, the…
12 Oct 2025 – 28th Sunday (C) Prisoners Sunday (1) 2 Kings 5:14-17 When Naaman heeds Elisha and washes in the Jordan he is cured Naaman the leper went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of…
11 Oct 2025 – Saturday of Week 27 Optional Memorial: St John XX111, pope, 1881-1963, called Second Vatican Council in 1962. St Canice, c 527-603, born in Derry, studied at Clonard under Finnian, at Glasnevin under Mobhi, worked with Columba in Scotland, set up a foundation in Aghaboe, Ossary, later replaced by teh church in Kilkenny….
10 Oct 2025 – Friday of Week 27 1st Reading: Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2 A call to fasting and prayer, for the day of the Lord is near Priests, put on sackcloth and lament; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! Grain offering and drink offering…
09 Oct 2025 – Thursday of Week 27 Optional Memorials: St John Henry Newman, priest and doctor of the Church, received into the Church on 9 Oct 1845, rector of Catholic Uni of Ireland in 1854; St Denis and Companions, Rusticus and Eleutherius, beheaded and thrown into the Seine in 258, buried in Montmartre. Denis was…
08 Oct 2025 – Wednesday of Week 27 1st Reading: Jonah 4:1-11 Jonah is angry that God shows mercy to the Ninevites Jonah was displeased and became very angry. He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why…
07 Oct 2025 – Our Lady of the Rosary This feast commemorates the Christian naval victory over the Turks (at Lepanto 1571). Our Lady is daily honoured in the Rosary, which invites us to meditate the mysteries of the life, death and resurrection of Christ her son. 1st Reading: Acts 1:12-14 Our Lady with the apostles…
06 Oct 2025 – Monday of Week 27 Optional Memorial: St Bruno, born in Cologne 1033, prof og theology in Rheims Uni, founded teh Carthusians at La Grande Chartreuse, where he died in 1101. 1st Reading: Jonah 1:1–2:1 Jonah is swallowed by the whale and brought back to Israel The word of the Lord came…
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…
