Twenty-seventh Sunday of the Year: Habakkuk 1: 2-3 & 2:2-4; 2 Timothy 1: 6-8 & 13-14; Luke 17: 5-19
Spiritual Life
‘How long, Lord, am I to cry for help while you will not listen?’
Thursday, 7 October 2010
The word this week
‘We have heard that the English wish to be converted’
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Saint of the week
St Homorius (September 30), the fifth Archbishop of Canterbury, was a key figure in the establishment of Christianity in England
Daily readings: September 26 – October 2
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
Wealth can put us beyond the reach of God
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The word this week
Twenty-seventh Sunday of the Year: Amos 6: 1 & 4-7; 1 Timothy 6: 11-16; Luke 16: 19-31
The saint who only slept three hours a night
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Saint of the week
The Virgin Mary appeared in a dream and said just one word to Alphonsus de Orozco (1500-1591): “Write”
Daily readings: September 19 – September 25
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
Newman reached out to the most needy
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The word this week
The 25th Sunday of the Year: Am 8:4-7; Ps 115; 1 Tm 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13
The pope who allowed backsliders back into the fold
Monday, 13 September 2010
Saint of the week
St Cornelius, pope from 251 to 253, was martyred by Emperor Gallus
Daily readings: September 12 – 18
Monday, 13 September 2010
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
‘A new heart create for me, O God’
Monday, 13 September 2010
The word this week
Twenty Fourth Sunday of the Year: Exodus 32:7-11 & 13-14; 1 Tim 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-32
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