Presider’s Page for 25 October (Ordinary Time 30)
There’s a reminder of the two great commandments in today’s celebration: we are called to love God and our neighbour: friend, visitor and stranger alike.
25 October, 2020. 30th Sunday, Year A
25 October, 2020. 30th Sunday, Year A Our Gospel celebrates the great commandment of love. To love our neighbour as God does, prejudices based on race, religion or colour have to go. The revelation at Mount Sinai prompted a sense of fairness towards others, deeper than specific commandments. Jesus demonstrates a life of utterly unselfish…
24 October, 2020. Saturday of Week 29
24 October, 2020. Saturday of Week 29 St Anthony Claret, bishop (Opt. Mem.) 1st Reading: Ephesians 4:7-16 The church led by apostles and evangelists, to teach and unify its members Each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high he made captivity…
23 October, 2020. Friday of Week 29
23 October, 2020. Friday of Week 29 St John of Capistrano, priest (Opt. Mem.) 1st Reading: Ephesians 4:1-6 One body and one spirit, a warm ideal of church unity I, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and…
22 October, 2020. Thursday of Week 29
22 October, 2020. Thursday of Week 29 St John Paul II, pope (Opt. Mem.) 1st Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 May you grasp the depth of Christ’s love, beyond all knowledge I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name, praying that, according to the riches of…
21 October, 2020. Wednesday of Week 29
21 October, 2020. Wednesday of Week 29 1st Reading: Ephesians 3:2-12 Paul preaches to the gentiles the rich mystery of Christ Surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was given me for you, and how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I wrote above in a…
20 October, 2020. Tuesday of Week 29
20 October, 2020. Tuesday of Week 29 1st Reading: Ephesians 2:12-22 God has broken down all barriers, to form one new people Remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and being without God in the world….
19 October, 2020. Monday of Week 29
19 October, 2020. Monday of Week 29 Ss John Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, priests, and Companions, martyrs (Opt. Mem.); St Paul of the Cross, priest (Opt. Mem.) 1st Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10 We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of…
Presider’s Page for Mission Sunday, 18 October (Ordinary Time 29)
As God’s family in this place, we gather to worship. We offer our love, our support and our prayers to all the Christian communities throughout the world.
18 October, 2020. 29th Sunday, Year A
18 October, 2020. 29th Sunday, Year A 1st Reading: Isaiah 45:1, 4-6 Providence appointed king Cyrus to liberate Israel from the exile in Babylon Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their robes, to open doors before him,…
17 October, 2020. Saturday of Week 28
17 October, 2020. Saturday of Week 28 St Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr (Memorial) 1st Reading: Ephesians 1:15-23 May God enlighten your vision to see the hope you are called to I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, and for this reason I do…
16 October, 2020. Friday of Week 28
16 October, 2020. Friday of Week 28 St Hedwig, religious  (Opt. Mem.); St Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin  (Opt. Mem.); St Gall, abbot and missionary (Opt. Mem.) 1st Reading Ephesians 1:11-14 We are sealed with the Holy Spirit, the down-payment God has made to his people In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been…
15 October, 2020. Thursday of Week 28
15 October, 2020. Thursday of Week 28 St Teresa of Avila, virgin and doctor of the Church (Memorial) 1st Reading: Ephesians 1:1-10 God chose us in Christ before the world began, to be holy in his sight Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus…
14 October, 2020. Wednesday of Week 28
14 October, 2020. Wednesday of Week 28 1st Reading: Galatians 5:18-25 The symptoms or fruits of the flesh contrasted with those of the spirit If you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger,…
13 October, 2020. Tuesday of Week 28
13 October, 2020. Tuesday of Week 28 1st Reading: Galatians 5:1-6 In Christ Jesus, circumcision no longer counts; only faith acting through love For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be…
12 October, 2020. Monday of Week 28
12 October, 2020. Monday of Week 28 1st Reading: Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1 Through faith we are born free. It was for liberty that Christ freed us It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman. One, the child of the slave, was born…
Presider’s Page for 11 October (Ordinary Time 28)
We gather as fellow-pilgrims at this Sunday’s Eucharist, all journeying to the great banquet of heaven. In our Communion today, we get a taste of what is to come, which will sustain us when we walk in the valley of darkness.
11 October, 2020. 28th Sunday, Year A
11 October, 2020. 28th Sunday, Year A By baptism we are called to the weding feast in the kingdom of God. But somehow, we need get a wedding garment, to take our place at the feast. While the Gospel invites us to reflect on how we are doing, it is not all our own work,…
10 October, 2020. Saturday of Week 27
10 October, 2020. Saturday of Week 27 1st Reading: Galatians 3:22-29 In Christ, all the baptized are equally children of God The scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. Now before faith came, we were…
09 October, 2020. Friday of Week 27
09 October, 2020. Friday of Week 27 Ss Denis, bishop and Companions, martyrs  (Opt. Mem.); St John Leonardi, priest (Opt. Mem.); Bl John Henry Newman, priest (Opt. Mem.) 1st Reading: Galatians 3:7-14 Justification is by faith, made available through the death of Christ All those who believe are the descendants of Abraham. And the scripture,…