Read the scriptures for Friday Week 19 in Ordinary Time at this link.
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Read the scriptures for Friday Week 19 in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday, Feast of St. Clare, at this link.
Join Rory Paterson, Colin MacLeod and Maya Bernardo in conversation with John Kinder reflecting on the readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary which is celebrated in New Zealand, replacing the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Read these scriptures at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of St. Lawrence at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of Mary MacKillop of the Cross at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of the Transfiguration at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday Week Eighteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday Week Eighteen in Ordinary TIme at this link.
Read the scriptures for today at this link.
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And then I was reminded at my uncle’s 90th birthday party last month of the priest who married my grandparents telling them at their 1927 wedding: “Do your best, and leave the rest to God.”
While we say that fear is an emotion we don’t like and seek to avoid, many people seem irrationally attracted to what instills and aggravates fear.
I know that I, sinful and unforgiving as I can be, if given charge of the gates of heaven for an hour, would throw them wide open, even to those who hate me and create problems for me.
I like Jonah because he’s a bit like me. I like the way that he recognises the call of God for him, then gets a bit scared and runs in the opposite direction
The word OUR is a powerful reminder that when I pray I am not alone. Not only am I in active relationship with God, but I am united with all who share OUR faith in Jesus Christ.