20th March 2021, Saturday Fourth week of Lent Jer.11:18-20; Ps.7; Jn.7:40-53 The First Reading, from Jeremiah, speaks to us of the trials of the prophet. Jeremiah is the target of vicious consp...
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19th March, 2021, Friday Solemnity of St. Joseph 2Sm.7:4-5a,12-14a,16; Ps.89, Rom.4:13,16-18,22; Mt.1:16,18-21,24a Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of St. Joseph. In the first reading from ...
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6th March, 2021, Saturday Second Week in Lent Mic 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps.103; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 The theme of today’s readings is God’s great desire that the sinner repent and experience His lo...
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3rd March 2021, Wednesday Second Week in Lent Jer.18:18-20; Ps.31; Mt.20:17-28 The readings today focus on service. The First Reading is from Jeremiah. Jeremiah lived through a historical...
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2nd March 2021, Tuesday Of the Second Week in Lent Is.1:10,16-20; Ps.50; Mt.23:1-12 The theme of today’s readings is the denouncement of hypocrisy and a call to humility in the presence of God,...
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14th Feb. 2021 6th Sunday in Ordinary time Lev.13:1-2,45-46; 1Cor.10:31-11:1; Mk.1:40-45 We continue with the theme of restoration. In the past week we saw how sin alienated man from God and fr...
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13th Feb. 2021, Saturday 5th Week in Ordinary time Gen 3:9-24; Ps 90; Mk 8:1-10 The First Reading continues with the effects of the first sin. Man and woman now experience the results of their ...
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12th Feb. 2021, Friday 5th Week in Ordinary time Gen 3:1-8; Ps 32; Mk 7:31-37 Having set the stage, the author of Genesis is now seen taking full strides in his Narrative. Ch. 3 of Genesis gives us a...
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Feb 10th, 2021 – Wednesday of the 5th week in ord. time Gen 2:4-9,15-17; Ps 103:1-2,27-30 Mk 7:14-23 The first reading provides us a second account of Creation. Whilst the first focused on God&...
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Feb 9th, 2021 – Tuesday of the 5th week in ord. time Gen 1:20-2:4; Ps 8:4-9 Mk 7:1-13 The first reading continues from where we left off yesterday. God addresses the chaos in nature, described ...
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Feb 8th, 2021 – Monday of 5th week in Ord. Time Gen 1:1-19; Ps 104:1-2,5-6,10,12,24,35 Mk 6:53-56 The liturgical readings shift from Hebrews to the book of Genesis. We start with the first acco...
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Sunday 7th Feb 2021 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Job 7:1-4, 6-7; Ps 147:1-6 1Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 Mk 1:29-39 The book of Job is one that wrestles with the concept of suffering in general and innocent su...
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Easter A Message Of Hope In This PANDEMIC Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Christ has Risen for us. Finally, the closed tomb opened up after three days and even death could not hold Him. To many, the resurrection of Jesus has been a mystery but to the eleven Apostles and to those whom Jesus appeared after His resurrection, it was a message of hope. It’s been a year now and the world’s still reeling under the pandemic, the sudden deaths and poverty caused by the cruel virus doesn’t seem to end. In such a state of fear and distress, how can one celebrate the joy of Easter? I have been battling with this thought for the past few weeks. One cannot deny that there is real suffering. But then I also don’t want to dwell on the negative beca... 
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