Sunday´s Gospel, III Sunday of Lent
GOSPEL , John 4, 5-15. 19b-26. 39a. 40-42 Jesus came to the Samaritan town called Sychar, near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well is there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat straight down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When…
Voice of pope Benedict XVI, the Samaritan woman
ANGELUS, Sunday 27th March 2011 This third Sunday of Lent is characterized by the Jesus’ famous conversation with the Samaritan woman, recounted by the Evangelist John. The woman went every day to draw water from an ancient well that dated back to the Patriarch Jacob and on that…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, III Sunday of Lent
Saint Nicolas de Flue Feast Day March 21st. Saint Nicolas was born in the district of Unterwalden in 1417 to a family of well to do peasants. At the age of 21 he joined the army, where due to his efficiency he rose to the rank of captain. When he…
Sunday´s Gospel, II Sunday of Lent
GOSPEL , Matthew 17: 1-9 Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain where they could be alone. There in their presence he was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white…
Voice of pope Francis, the Transfiguration
ANGELUS, Sunday 16th March 2014 From the event of the Transfiguration I would like to take two significant elements that can be summed up in two words: ascent and descent. We all need to go apart, to ascend the mountain in a space of silence, to find ourselves and better perceive the…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, II Sunday of Lent
Saint Louise de Marillac. Feast Day. 15th March. Louise was born in to a noble wealthy family in 1951 in Meux in the Picardy region of France. She received an excellent education at the» Royal Monastery of Poissy,» where her aunt was a Dominican nun. From the age of…
Sunday´s Gospel, I Sunday of Lent
GOSPEL, Matthew 4: 1-11 Jesus was led by the Spirit out into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, after which he was very hungry, and the tempter came and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God,…
Voice of pope Benedict XVI, the ultimate goal of fasting is to help each one of us
MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI FOR LENT 2009 – (11TH DECEMBER 2008) Dear brothers and sisters, it is good to see how the ultimate goal of fasting is to help each one of us, as the Servant of God Pope John Paul II wrote, to make the complete gift…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, I Sunday of Lent
Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicity. Feast Day March 7th. Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs of the third century. Vibia Perpetua was a well educated married noble woman said to have been 22 years of age when she was martyred for her beliefs . At the time of her…
Sunday´s Gospel, VIII Sunday in Ordinary Time
GOSPEL, Matthew 6:24-34 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave both of God and of…