This if for the Weekly readings and Homilies
To The Faithful For The Month Of May 2020 Dear Brothers and Sisters, The month of May is approaching, a time when the People of God express with particular intensity their love and devotion for the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is traditional in this month to pray the Rosary at home within the family. The … [Read more…]
Christ the Good Shepherd First Reading – Acts of the Apostles 2: 14, 36-41 A reading from the Acts of the ApostlesGod has made Jesus both Lord and Christ.On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed the crowd with a loud voice:‘The whole House of Israel can be certain that … [Read more…]
READ AT HOME Printable Version Third Sunday of Easter – 26 April 2020 CollectMay your people exult for ever, O God,in renewed youthfulness of spirit,so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption,we may look forward in confident hopeto the rejoicing of the day of resurrection.Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives … [Read more…]
Third Sunday of Easter – Year A 26 April 2020 “They recognised Jesus in the breaking of the bread.” Something to Think About The disciples in today’s story don’t recognise Jesus at first – evenwhen he is walking beside them. We need to recognise Jesus in allpeople in our daily activities, in our family, friends, … [Read more…]
Printable version Before we breathed our first, O God,you etched our names upon your hands,like stretchmarks on our mother’s skin.And those same hands that bear our liveswill carry us home as we breathe our last. So even in our grief, O God,let every breath we carry withinannounce your goodness with praise unending.For you have made … [Read more…]
Sunday 19 Apr 2020 PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Bishop: God calls us to respond in faith to the risen Lord. Let us bring our needs and those of the world before the God of all. Reader: For Christians, that like Thomas they may acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and God, and show by their lives … [Read more…]
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Sunday 12 Apr 2020 PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Bishop: Sisters and brothers, rejoicing in Christ’s triumph over death, we bring our prayers before the God of glory. Reader: That our Holy Father Pope Francis may continue to proclaim the new life that Jesus Christ offers to all … [Read more…]
Entrance AntiphonI have risen, and I am with you still, alleluia.You have laid your hand upon me, alleluia.Too wonderful for me, this knowledge, alleluia, alleluia.The Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) is said. First ReadingA reading from the Acts of the Apostles 10:34. 37-43Peter addressed Cornelius and his household: ‘You must have … [Read more…]
First Reading A reading from the book of Genesis 1:1 – 2:2 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the water. God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light. God saw that … [Read more…]
First ReadingA reading from the prophet Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12 He surrendered himself to death, while bearing the faults of many.See, my servant will prosper,he shall be lifted up, exalted, rise to great heights.As the crowds were appalled on seeing him– so disfigured did he lookthat he seemed no longer human –so will the crowds … [Read more…]