Saturday of the Third Week of Lent
Readings: Hosea 6: 1 - 6; Psalm 51; Luke 18: 9 - 14 The English Dominican Simon Tugwell once observed
Third Sunday of Lent: The Woman of Samaria
Readings: Exodus 17: 3-7; Psalm 94; Romans 5: 1-2.5-8; John 4: 5 - 42 Our Gospel reading today is from
Saturday of the First week of Lent
Readings: Deuteronomy: 26: 16 - 19; Psalm 119: 1-8; Matthew 5: 43-48 Today’s first reading is a section from Moses’ long
Ash Wednesday
Today, at the Ash Wednesday Mass, a cross will be marked on our foreheads and we will hear the
Gospel Joy: Being a missionary Church
Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation represents a summons of all Christians to mission and so in one way or another every
The Conversion of St. Paul
Today we celebrate the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, an event that has such significance in the life
The Dominican Seminar: Evangelii Gaudium
Fr. John Farrell OP lectures on Evangelii Gaudium
The Divine Language of Love
How do the people around us know that we love them? How do we communicate love? I suppose the most
Advent 2013: ‘O Adonai’
In these last days before Christmas the sense of expectation in the Church’s liturgy intensifies as a treasure trove of
Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent: The Vulnerable Flock
Readings: Isaiah 40: 1 -11; Psalm 96; Matthew 18: 12-14 In today’s Gospel Christ, the good shepherd, invites us
First Monday of Advent: Christ the Healer and Spiritual Sickness
Readings: Isaiah 4: 2 - 6; Psalm 122; Matthew 8: 5 - 11 Today’s passage from chapter eight of Matthew’s
God brings all our good purposes and every effort of faith to fulfilment
Thirty-First Sunday of the Year. Fr Nicholas Crowe reflects upon how God uses our initiative and transforms our human effort in