Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, II Sunday of Advent
Saint Ambrose. Feast Day. December 7th. Aurelius Ambrosius, better known as saint Ambrose in English was born in Trier in Germany in 340. He was the son of a praetorian prefect of Gaul and was well educated in rhetoric,poetry and law. Ambrose became a lawyer and due to his…
Sunday´s Gospel and Words for life, I Sunday of Advent
GOSPEL, Matthew 24:37-44: Jesus said to his disciples, ‘As it was in Noah’s day, so will it be when the Son of Man comes. For in those days before the Flood people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the…
Voice of pope Benedict XVI, Advent
ANGELUS Sunday, 27 th november 2011 Today, together with the Church, we are beginning the new liturgical year: a new journey of faith to experience together in Christian communities but, as always, also to be taken within world history so as to open it to God’s mystery, to…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, I Sunday of Advent
St Andrew the Apostle-Feast Day November 30th. St Andrew was a hardy Galilean fisherman and the elder brother of St Peter the Apostle. He was born some time in the early first century and originally was a disciple of John the Baptist. As soon as he saw Jesus however he instantly recognised…
Sunday´s Gospel and Words for life, Sunday Christ the king
GOSPEL , Luke 23, 35-43 : The people stayed there before the cross watching Jesus. As for the leaders, they jeered at him. ‘He saved others,’ they said ‘let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.’ The soldiers mocked him too, and…
Voice of pope Benedict XVI, Christ the king
ANGELUS Sunday, 22 November 2009 But in what does this «power» of Jesus Christ the King consist? It is not the power of the kings or the great people of this world; it is the divine power to give eternal life, to liberate from evil, to defeat the dominion…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, Christ the king
The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary- Feast Day November 21st. Also known as the» Dedication of the Blessed Virgin Mary», the feast originated in the East where it was referred to as the feast of «The entry of the «Most Holy Theotokos» , in to the temple». The feast…
Sunday´s Gospel and Words for life, XXXIII Sunday in ordinary time
GOSPEL, Luke 21, 5-19 : When some were talking about the Temple, remarking how it was adorned with fine stonework and votive offerings, Jesus said, ‘All these things you are staring at now – the time will come when not a single stone will be left on another: everything…
We are a great family with you
pdf form : FORMULARIO INGLES_05 On November 13 we celebrate the Diocesan Church Day. A day in which we are reminded that «We are a great family» and, as in every family, day by day is possible thanks to all its members, that is, also counting «with you». A day to…
Voice of pope Francis, understanding, with the Lutheran World Federation
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS – APOSTOLIC JOURNEY TO SWEDEN – Monday, 31 October 2016 I thank God for this joint commemoration of the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. We remember this anniversary with a renewed spirit and in the recognition that Christian unity is a priority, because…