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The Prayer after the Our Father
After the Our Father the priest says the following prayer: Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Saviour, […]
Mission: A Life-Giving Prayer
October is Mission Month. Reason shows that among the factors that led to this is the fact that October is one month in a year that celebrates a list of saints and angels in the Liturgical Calendar who excel in missionary dedication. The month opens with the feast of St Therese of the Child Jesus, […]
September Saints
Saint Rosalia (d 1160) Saint Rosalia was born at Palermo in Sicily. In her youth, her heart turned from earthly vanities to God. She left her home to live in a cave, on the walls of which she wrote these words: “I, Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Roses and Quisquina, have taken the resolution […]
Tuesday 27 August
St Monica – memorial 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8, Ps.139, Matthew 23:23-26 To share God’s love is the greatest gift of all St Monica never stopped praying for Augustine. Through tears she prayed unceasingly to God for his conversion. Her prayers were answered only a short time before she died. Through her faithful love the world gained […]
Thursday 8 August
St Mary of the Cross McKillop – feast Judith 8:11-17, 28-31, Ps.32, Matthew 6:25-34 Let God calm your anxiety Worrying is like being on an exercycle using energy going nowhere. Matthew and the saints call for loving trust in God. Mary McKillop said, “Do all you can with the means at your disposal and calmly […]
Veteran Missionaries rest in peace in Fiji
Fr Lui Raco SM Tributes My heart is with you today as you farewell one of our great Fijian Marists. Fr. Lui was, and will always be an inspiration for many of us. Someone who ran the race to the end, with great happiness in his vocation. He stood out as a person in all […]
Saints for August
Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941) Maximilian was born in 1894 in Poland and became a Franciscan. He contracted tuberculosis and remained frail all his life. Before his ordination as a priest, Maximilian founded the Immaculata Movement devoted to Our Lady and helped form a community of men. He went to Japan where he built a monastery […]
Sunday 21 July
Sixteenth Week Ordinary Time Genesis 18: 1-10, Ps.15, Colossians 1: 24-28, Luke 10: 38-42 Leave room for God It is a salutary reminder in Christian discipleship that being busy does not always please God. As a busy person I may feel virtuous but leave no room for God to get to know me in a […]
Sunday 14 July
Sea Sunday — day of prayer for seafarers and fishers Fifteenth Week Ordinary Time Deuteronomy 30: 10-14, Ps. 69 or 19A, Colossians 1: 15-20, Luke 10: 25-37 Loving prudence Sometimes our social milieu can hold us back from doing the right thing. A disciple needs to cross barriers of race, creed or simply familiarity when […]
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