Voice of pope Francis, The revolutionary power of the Beatitudes
MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCIS FOR THE TWENTY-NINTH WORLD YOUTH DAY 2014 The revolutionary power of the Beatitudes It is always a joyful experience for us to read and reflect on the Beatitudes! Jesus proclaimed them in his first great sermon, preached on the shore of the sea of Galilee.…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, IV Sunday In Ordinary Time
Saint Brigid of Ireland. Feast Day. February 1st. Brigid is a Patron saint of Ireland, she was an early Christian nun, abbess and founder of several monasteries . Brigid was the daughter of Dubtach a Scottish nobleman from Leinster and Brocca, a pictish slave baptised by St Patrick . Her father attempted…
Sunday´s Gospel and Words for life, III Sunday in Ordinary Time
GOSPEL, Matthew 4:12-23 Hearing that John had been arrested, Jesus went back to Galilee, and leaving Nazareth he went and settled in Capernaum, a lakeside town on the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali. In this way the prophecy of Isaiah was to be fulfilled: ‘Land of Zebulun! Land…
Voice of pope Benedict XVI, union of the Christians
ANGELUS Sunday, 23rd January 2011 Today too, if we Christians are to be in the world a sign and instrument of close union with God and of unity among men we must found our life on these four “hinges”: a life founded on the faith of the Apostles…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, III Sunday In Ordinary Time
Saint Francis de Sales. Feast Day. January 24th. Francis was born in to a noble French family in the Chateau de Sales in Thorens in France in 1567.His Father sent him to Paris to study law in the hope he would become a magistrate .Later he was enrolled in the University…
Sunday´s Gospel, II Sunday in Ordinary Time
GOSPEL, John 1, 29-34: Seeing Jesus coming towards him, John said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. This is the one I spoke of when I said: A man is coming after me who ranks before me because he…
Voice of pope Francis, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world
HOMILY Sunday, 19th January 2014 This passage from the Gospel is beautiful. John was baptizing; and Jesus, who had been baptized prior to this — some days before — was coming towards him and came before John. And John felt the power of the Holy Spirit within him…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, II Sunday In Ordinary Time
St Anthony the Great of Egypt. Feast Day January 17th. Anthony was born in Coman in Egypt in 251 AD and was the son of wealthy Christian parents. When he was 18 years old his parents died leaving him a large inheritance which he immediately distributed among the poor and…
Sunday´s Gospel, Baptism of The Lord
GOSPEL, Matthew 3:13-17: Jesus appeared: he came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. John tried to dissuade him. ‘It is I who need baptism from you’ he said ‘and yet you come to me!’ But Jesus replied, ‘Leave it like this for the…
Voice of pope Francis, in Baptism we are consecrated by the Holy Spirit
HOMILY Sunday, 11th January 2015 One last feature emerges powerfully from today’s Bible Readings: in Baptism we are consecrated by the Holy Spirit. This is what the word “Christian” means, it means consecrated like Jesus, in the same Spirit in which Jesus was immersed throughout his earthly existence. He is the “Christ”,…