Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, 2nd Easter Sunday
Saint George, Patron Saint of England. Feast Day 23rd April. George was born in to a wealthy Christian family of the nobility in Lydda in Syria in 280 AD ,his father Gerontius was from Cappadocia and an officer in the Roman army . After the death of his parents…
Sunday´s Gospel, Easter Sunday
GOSPEL, Luke 24, 13-55 Two of the disciples of Jesus were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking together about all that had happened. Now as they talked this over, Jesus himself came up and walked by their side; but something…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, Easter Sunday
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes. Feast Day. April 16th. Marie Bernade Soubirous was born in the vicinity in Lourdes in France in 1844. The first child of a poverty stricken family she suffered from terrible bouts of ill health especially chronic asthma. At the age of 14 in 1858 she…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, Palm Sunday
Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanow Feast Day . April 11th. Stanislaus was born in to a wealthy noble family at Szczepanow near Krakow Poland in 1030 AD. He was educated at Gniezno in the Cathedral school and was ordained there. He was given a Canonry by Bishop Lampert Zula of Krakow who…
Sunday´s Gospel, V Sunday of Lent
GOSPEL, John 11, 1-45 There was a man named Lazarus who lived in the village of Bethany with the two sisters, Mary and Martha, and he was ill. It was the same Mary, the sister of the sick man Lazarus, who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped…
Voice of pope Francis, Lazarus, come out
ANGELUS, Sunday 6th april 2014 Before the sealed tomb of his friend Lazarus, Jesus “cried with a loud voice: ‘Lazarus, come out!’. And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth” (vv. 43-44). This cry is an…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, V Sunday of Lent
Saint. Francis of Paola. Feast Day. April 2nd. Francis was born in 1416 in the Italian province of Calabria to devout Catholic parents. His parents remained childless until they prayed to St Francis of Assisi for his intercession,not long after Francis was born. From his early years he demonstrated signs…
Sunday´s Gospel, IV Sunday of Lent
GOSPEL, John 9:1,6-9,13-17,34-38 As Jesus went along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. He spat on the ground, made a paste with the spittle, put this over the eyes of the blind man, and said to him, ‘Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam’…
Voice of pope Francis, the blind man who opened himself to the light
ANGELUS, Sunday 30th March 2014 Our lives are sometimes similar to that of the blind man who opened himself to the light, who opened himself to God, who opened himself to his grace. Sometimes unfortunately they are similar to that of the doctors of the law: from the height…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, IV Sunday of Lent
Saint Ludger of the Netherlands . Feast Day March 26th. Ludger was born in to a wealthy Dutch noble family in Zuilen in Holland around 742. He was trained by St Gregory of Utrecht and later moved to England where he studied under Blessed Alcuin of York. In 777 he was ordained in…