Christmastime Year C, 29/12/2021, Mt 16,24-27 Thomas Becket was born in London and became a close friend of King Henry II. He was a...

Advent season year C, 30/11/2021, Mt 4,18-22 St Andrew was born in Bethsaida, in Galilee, and worked as a fisherman. He was possibly a...

Ordinary time, 24/11/2021 Lk 21, 12-19 The evangelisation of Vietnam began in the 16th century. Two Apostolic Vicariates were set up in...

Ordinary time Monday 18/10/2021 Lk, 10, 1-9 Saint Luke the Evangelist was a Greek doctor who converted to Christianity. He was a...

Ordinary time, year B, Lk 10 25-37 St Francis (1181 - 1226) was the son of a prosperous cloth merchant in Assisi. His father objected to...

Ordinary time Year B, Lk 9, 46-54 St Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660), born in Aquitaine, became a priest and devoted his life to the...

Ordinary time year B 28/8/2021 Mt 25, 14-30 St Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430) was born in Thagaste, Africa, of a Berber family. Although...

Ordinary time 27/8/2021 Mt 25,1-13 Saint Monica (331 - 387) was born in Thagaste in Africa of a Christian family. She was married young,...

Ordinary time B, Week 17 Mt 13, 16-17 St Anne and St Joachim: a 2nd century tradition gives these names to the parents of the Virgin...

Ordinary time B, week 16, 22/7/2021, Jn 20,1-2, 11-18 Having grown up in an Assumptionist parish dedicated to Mary Magdalen, she has...

Ordinary time B, week 15, Mt 11, 28-30 St Bonaventure was born in Bagnoregio, Etruria, around 1218. Becoming a Franciscan in 1243, he...

Ordinary time week 13, Jn 20,24-29 As well as having a great name, Thomas the Apostle is one of the apostles with character. He was...

Ordinary time week 13, Mt 16, 13-19 Peter (Malcolm Guite) Impulsive master of misunderstanding you comfort me with all your big mistakes;...

Ordinary time week 12, Lk 1:57-66,80 Saint John the Baptist has two feasts: in August to celebrate his death and in June to celebrate his...

Ordinary time week 10, Mt 5,17-19 St Columba (521? - 597) (Gaelic Colm Cille) was born in Gartan, County Donegal, of royal lineage. He...

Ordinary time week 9 Mt 5,13-19 Saint Justin, Martyr (- 165) was born at the beginning of the 2nd century in Nablus, Samaria, of a pagan...

Ordinary time week 8 - Mk 10, 32-45 Saint Philip Neri (1515 - 1595) was born in Florence. At eighteen he went to Rome and earned his...

Ordinary time week 8, Mt 7, 21-29 St Bede the Venerable (673 - 735) was born in northern England, near the monastery of Wearmouth. He...

Eastertide week 7, Jn 17, 11-19 St Dunstan (909 - 988) was a Benedictine monk, reformer and Archbishop of Canterbury, born near...

Friday 14/05/2021 Saint Matthias, Apostle Jn 15,9 -17 St Matthias was not one of the Twelve; but, after the death of Judas Iscariot,...