Monday, June 5, 2023
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Thursday, May 18, 2023
ACTS OF PAUL
So Paul stood before the whole
Council of the Areopagus and made this speech:
'Men of Athens, I have seen for myself how extremely scrupulous you are in all religious matters, because I noticed, as I strolled round admiring your sacred monuments, that you had an altar inscribed: To An Unknown God.
Well, the God whom I proclaim is in fact the one whom you already worship without knowing it.
'Since the God who made the world and everything in it is himself Lord of heaven and earth, he does not make his home in shrines made by human hands. Nor is he dependent on anything that human hands can do for him, since he can never be in need of anything; on the contrary, it is he who gives everything - including life and breath - to everyone. From one single stock he not only created the whole human race so that they could occupy the entire earth, but he decreed how long each nation should flourish
and what the boundaries of its territory should be. And he did this so that all nations might seek the deity and, by feeling their way towards him, succeed in finding him. Yet in fact he is not far from any of us, since it is in him that we live, and move, and exist, as indeed some of your own writers have said:
"We are all his children."
'Since we are the children of God. we have no excuse for thinking that the deity looks like anything in gold, silver or stone that has been carved and designed by a man.
'God overlooked that sort of thing when men were ignorant, but now he is telling everyone everywhere that they must repent, because he has fixed a day when the whole world will be judged, and judged in righteousness, and he has appointed a man to be the judge.
And God has publicly proved this by raising this man from the dead.' At this mention of rising from the dead, some of them burst out laughing; others said, 'We would like to hear you talk about this again. After that Paul left them, but there were some who attached themselves to him and became believers, among them Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman called Damaris, and others besides.
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
Monday, May 1, 2023
Sunday, April 30, 2023
1 Peter 2:20-25
Second reading
1 Peter 2:20-25 ·
You have come back to the shepherd of your souls
The merit, in the sight of God, is in bearing punishment patiently when you are punished after doing your duty.
This, in fact, is what you were called to do, because Christ suffered for you and left an example for you to follow the way he took. He had not done anything wrong, and there had been no perjury in his mouth. He was insulted and did not retaliate with insults; when he was tortured he made no threats but he put his trust in the righteous judge. He was bearing our faults in his own body on the cross, so that we might die to our faults and live for holiness; through his wounds you have been healed. You had gone astray like sheep but now you have come back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Père Raphael (17th century)
my Queen and sovereign Lady, I give you myself,
trusting in your fidelity and your protection.
I surrender myself entirely to your motherly tenderness, my body, my soul,
all that I am, all that I possess, for the whole of this day, for every moment of my life, and especially at the hour of my death.
I entrust to you once more all my hopes, all my consolations, all my anxieties, all my troubles, my life, my dying breath,
so that by your prayers and merits, 1 may have, in all I do, one only goal, your good pleasure and the holy will of your Son.
Père Raphael (17th century)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Consternation as German bishops endorse blessings of homosexual unions
https://catholicherald.co.uk/rise-peter-consternation-as-german-bishops-endorse-blessings-of-homosexual-unions/
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