Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Thirty-Four in Ordinary Time at this link.
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Thirty-Four in Ordinary Time at this link.
Join Kath Petrie, Chris Duthie-Jung and Triona Doocey in conversation with John O’Connor, reflecting on the scriptures of the First Sunday of Advent.
During our conversation we refer to For Unto Us a Child is Born from Handel’s Messiah. And we referred again to The Deer’s Cry, first mentioned last week.
Read the scriptures for Advent Sunday I at this link.
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.
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