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12th Sunday of the Year – B Job 38:1, 8-11; Salm 106; 2Cor. 5: 14-17; Mark. 4: 35-41 Read: “And a strong wind started blowing, and the waves started breaking into the boat, swamping it and it was getting full of water. He was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him ‘Master, do you not care that we are going down?’ […]

11th Sunday of the Year – B Ezek. 17: 22-24; Salm 91; 2 Cor. 5: 6-10; Mark 4: 26-34 Read: “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the land. Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know. Of its own accord the land produces first the shoot, then the ear,

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Ex. 24:3-8; Psalm 115; Heb. 9:11-15; Mk. 14:12-16, 22-26 Read: Then he sent two of his disciples and told then: “Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him, and say to the owner of the house which he enters, ‘The Master says: Where is my dining room in which I can eat the

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Deut. 4: 32-34, 39-40; Psalm 32; Rom. 8:14-17; Mat. 28: 16-20 Read: Jesus approached them to speak to them and said to them: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, make disciples of all the nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them

Pentecost Sunday Acts 2: 1-11; Psalm 103; Gal. 5:16-25; John 15: 26-27; 16: 12-15 Read: Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who issues from the Father, he will be my witness. And you too will be my witnesses, because you have been with me from the outset”. Reflect: Jesus imparted in us the Spirit

7th Sunday of Easter Acts 1: 1-11; Psalm 46; Eph. 4:1-13; Mark 16: 15-20 Read: Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said: “Go throughout the world proclaiming the Gospels to all mankind”. Reflect: What did Jesus infer when he said that the Gospels should be proclaimed to “all mankind”? Surely, he meant “to all people”, but not just that. He wished to widen the horizon and to contemplate salvation being

6th Sunday of Easter Acts 10: 25-26; 34-35; 44-48; Psalm 97; 1 St. John 4: 7-10; John 15: 9-17 Read: Beloved, let us love one another because love is coming from God and everyone who loves is born from God and recognises God. Anyone who does not love does not recognise God, because God is love. Reflect: Unlike other people who tied the names of their gods to the places

5th Sunday of Easter Acts 9: 26-31; Psalm 21 (22); 1 St. John 3: 18-24; John 15: 4-5b Read: I am the true vine and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit He cuts away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes to make it bear even more…….If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask what

4th Sunday of Easter Acts 4: 8-12; Psalm 117; 1 St. John 3: 1-2; John 10: 11-18 Read: I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep, and my sheep know me, just as the Father knows me and I know Him, and I give my life for my sheep. Reflect: What the good shepherd is for his sheep, Jesus is the same for us. When he said that he

3rd Sunday of Easter Acts 3: 13-15,17-19; Psalm 4; 1 St. John 2: 1-5a; Luke 24: 35-48 Read: As they were still talking, Jesus himself stood in their midst and told them: “Peace be with you!”. They were terrified because they thought they were seeing a ghost. However, he said: “Why are you so confused? Why do you have such thoughts in your hearts? See my hands and feet. I