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…
29 June 2024 – Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles 1st Reading: Acts 2:1-11 Peter is imprisoned, but an angel sets him free to continue leading the church About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. He had James, the brother of John, killed with the sword. After he…
28 June 2024 – Friday of Week 12 Memorial: St Iraneus, lived just after the Apostles. Bishop of Lyons in Gaul. More details: https://biblical.ie/page.php?fl=Patristic/Irenaeus_1 1st Reading: 2 Kings 25:1-12 After Jerusalem revolts again, the Babylonians destroy the city and deports the survivors And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth…
27 June 2024 – Thursday of Week 12 Optional Memorial: St Cyril of Alexandria, 370-444, patriarch of Alexandria, fought against Nestorianism (the independence of the divine and human natures of Christ) at the Council of Ephesus 431, which proclaimed Mary the Mother of God. 1st Reading: 2 Kings 24:8-17 The first deportation of the Jews…
26 June 2024 – Wednesday of Week 12 1st Reading: 2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3 When Deuteronomy is rediscovered in the temple, it leads to reform The high priest Hilkiah said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.” When Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan,…
