Sunday, 30 June 2013
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
In England and Wales: solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul, Apostles - Proper
readings
1st Martyrs of Rome (+ 1st century)
Commentary of the day Blessed John XXIII :
"I will follow you wherever you go"
Lk 9:51-62.
When the days for Jesus to be taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely
determined to journey to Jerusalem, and he sent messengers ahead of him.
On the way they entered a...
St.Augusitine writing Confessions
While remembering all his youthful follies, he remembers how God's unfarthomable grace has been a shield for him, how grace leads to discover his faith into Three in One God.
Divine Illumination
St: Augustine receive divine illumination from Jesus the Son of God and Mary, the mother of Jesus, enlightening him while he is writing his discourse.
St.MONICA and St.AUGUSTINE at Ecstacy at Ostia
Two saints, mother and son receive a vision of heaven at Ostia, near Rome. It was the last moment of the two being together, looking heaven ward, and later St.Monica died and was buried there.
Seminarians on the wall.
With co-seminarians, where trying to escape the scourging sunlight, sitting on the fence and keeping ourselves calm with jokes.
Rosary Garden at Tabor Hill, Talamban
A place of prayer and peace, a place of love and charity where being together with the mother of our Divine Lord, and recitation of Holy Rosary knocks the doors of Heaven.
30 June, 2013
23 June, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
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Sunday, 23 June 2013
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
St. Etheldreda, abbess (7th century)
Commentary of the day Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein]
:
"He must take up his cross daily and follow me"
Lk 9:18-24.
Once when
Jesus was praying in solitude, and the disciples were with him, he asked them,
"Who do the crowds say that I am?" They said in reply, "John the
Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, 'One of the ancient...
17 June, 2013
An Ex-abortionist's Conversion, who was a key to America's legalization of abortion
Monday, June 17, 2013
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Bernard Nathanson's Conversion
by Julia Duin
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One cold January morning in 1989, Bernard Nathanson, famous Jewish
abortionist-turned-atheistic-pro-lifer, began to entertain
seriously the notion of God. Seven years later, thanks to a
persistent Opus Dei priest, the sixty-nine-year-old doctor, author
of Aborting America and The Abortion Papers, is becoming a Roman
Catholic.
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Even...
16 June, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
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Sunday, 16 June 2013
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
St. John Francis Regis, Priest (1597-1640)
Commentary of the day Saint Ambrose :
"Your faith has saved you; go in peace"
Lk 7:36-50.8:1-3.
A Pharisee
invited Jesus to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisee's house and
reclined at table. Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned
that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an alabaster flask
of ointment,...
09 June, 2013
Daily Gospel
Sunday, June 09, 2013
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Sunday, 09 June 2013
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
St. Ephrem the Syrian, Deacon and Doctor of the Church (c.306-373)
Commentary of the day Vatican Council II:
"The Lord was moved with pity for her and said to her, 'Do not weep' "
Lk 7:11-17.
Soon
afterward he journeyed to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a large
crowd accompanied him.As he drew near to the gate of the city, a man who
had died was being carried out, the...
02 June, 2013
Sunday, June 02, 2013
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Sunday, 02 June 2013The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus
Christi) - Solemnity - Year CSts. Peter & Marcellinus, Martyrs (+
c. 304)Commentary of the day Saint Augustine :
«Be what you see, and receive what you are»ReadingsLk 9:11b-17.
The crowds,
meanwhile, learned of this and followed him. He received them and spoke to
them about the kingdom of God, and he healed those who...
