Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Thirty-Four in Ordinary Time, the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at this link.
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Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Thirty-Four in Ordinary Time, the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of Christ the King at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Join Kate Kearins, David Moxon & Kath Petrie in conversation with Merv Duffy SM considering the readings of the Feast of Christ the King.
Read the scriptures for the feast at this link.
During our conversation we referred to the practice of making a throne with the hands to receive the Eucharist – first mentioned by Cyril of Jerusalem (more at this link), and the morning hymn “The Deer’s Cry” at this link.
And here is the encyclical letter of Pius XI inaugurating this feast in 1925.
Read the scriptures for Monday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
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