Readings of the day: RB 13:12-14Mass: Ezk 17:22-24; Resp Ps 92; 1 Co 5:6-10; Mk 4:26-34



We are courageous.
We ‘aspire to please the Lord’, as St Paul tells us. The Lord continually calls us wherever we find ourselves, ‘whether we are at home or away,’ to nurture the seed of faith rece

Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day: RB 7:24-30Mass: 1 P 1:18-25; Resp Ps 147; Mk 10:32-45
Gertrud von Helfta, Merazhofen Pfarrkirche ChorgestühlLOVE ONE ANOTHER INTENSELY FROM A PURE HEART.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealo

Readings of the Day: RB 7:5-9Mass: Dt 4:32-34, 39-40; Resp Ps 33; Rm 8:14-17; Mt 28:16-20
Andrei Rublev, Holy Trinity
The mystery of the Blessed Trinity invites us to live in communion with one another, in love and in sharing: certain that wherever there is love, there is God.(Pope Francis,

Friday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary TimeSaint Bede the Venerable (673-735)
Readings of the day: RB 6 Restraint of SpeechMass: Jm 5:9-12; Resp Ps 103; Mk 10:1-12


N.B. This reflection closed a week-long retreat for a community of Benedictine monks.
Because of the hard

Pope Saint John I (d. 526)
Readings of the day: RB 3:7-13Mass: Ac 25:13b-21; Resp Ps 103; Jn 21:15-19
Pope's Processional Cross 1987, Aspell / Bacigalupi / Kuklish, Maker
Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?
This is what Scripture scholar N.T. Wright has to say about today’s Gospel accou