Eighth Sunday of the Year Is 49: 14-15; 1 Cor 4: 1-5; Mt 6: 24-34
Spiritual Life
St Polycarp, a martyr at the age of 86
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Saint of the week
St Polycarp (February 23), instructed by the Apostles, served as Bishop of Smyrna for 50 years and died during persecution
Daily readings: February 20 – 26
Thursday, 17 February 2011
The word this week
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
Can we truly love our enemies?
Thursday, 17 February 2011
The word this week
Seventh Sunday of the Year: Lev 19:1-2 & 17-18; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48
Why Jesus came to ‘complete the law’, not abolish it
Friday, 11 February 2011
The word this week
Sixth Sunday of the Year: Sirach 15:15-20; 1 Cor 2:6-10; Mt 5:17-37
The Jesuit who fostered devotion to the Sacred Heart
Friday, 11 February 2011
Saint of the week
St Claude de La Colombière (February 15) had the misfortune of being in London at the time of the alleged Popish Plot
Daily readings: February 13 – 19
Friday, 11 February 2011
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The Englishman whose order numbered 2,000 religious when he died at 106
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Saint of the week
Gilbert of Sempringham (c 1083-1189) founded the only distinctively English medieval religious order
Daily readings: February 6 – 12
Thursday, 3 February 2011
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
Christ’s light is revealed through the simplest acts
Thursday, 3 February 2011
The word this week
Fifth Sunday of the Year: Isaiah 58:7-10; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16
Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By William Oddie