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27,28,29 and 30 Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 6, 13, 20 and 27 October 2024
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Mark 10:2-16) Jesus teaches of commitment and fidelity in marriage and loving guidance of young people and children. These remain the basic foundations of a healthy and happy society. They are God-given principles. How faithful am I to commitments undertaken? Do I cherish those who are close to me? We […]
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Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 22 and 29 September 2024
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Mark 9:30-37) The second half of the Gospel of Mark is dominated by the journey towards Jerusalem, the place of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Since this Gospel is comparatively short, the tension of this journey is more evident than in the other gospels, as Jesus draws his reluctant […]
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21,22,23 and 24 Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 25 August, 1,8 and 15 September 2024
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (John 6:60-69) Jesus’ teaching of the Eucharist is difficult for some of his followers to accept. Greater insight and fidelity is expected from the Twelve and Peter declares “You have the words of eternal life”. Do I appreciate that the words of Jesus are truly words of life? What has […]
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Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 28 July, 4, 11, and 18 August 2024
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (John 6:1-15) For the next few weeks our regular reading of the Gospel of Mark is interrupted as we read the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. The chapter begins with the multiplication of the loaves, which is followed by extended words of Jesus in dialogue with the Jews. […]
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 21 July 2024
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Mark 6:30-34) The disciples have been sent out ‘two by two’ by Jesus in order to preach repentance and to heal the sick. After some time they return. While the evangelist normally refers to the followers of Jesus as ‘disciples’, those who are in the process of learning, as […]
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SS Peter and Paul, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Sundays in Ordinary Time 30 June, 7 and 14 July
Ss Peter & Paul (Matthew 16:13-19) Today, we celebrate the feast of the two great apostles, Peter and Paul. One was with Jesus at the beginning of his ministry and accompanied him until the end. His faith was sorely tested by seeing his Messiah suffer. The life of the other was dramatically changed by an […]