St Stephen of Hungary (August 16) was humble, and worked for the poor – yet did not always turn the other cheek
Spiritual Life
Daily readings: August 15 – August 21
Thursday, 12 August 2010
The week ahead
Scripture readings for the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
Mary’s Assumption invites us to glimpse heaven
Thursday, 12 August 2010
The word this week
The Solemnity of the Assumption: Rev 11:19, 12: 1-6 & 10; 1 Cor 15:20-26; Lk 1:39-56
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (August 9)
Friday, 6 August 2010
Saint of the week
Edith Stein, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was killed in Auschwitz
Daily readings: August 8 – August 14
Friday, 6 August 2010
The week ahead
Scripture readings for the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
Jesus recognised humanity’s fundamental insecurity
Friday, 6 August 2010
The word this week
Nineteenth Sunday of the Year
Wisdom 18:6-9; Hebrews 11:1-2 & 8-19; Luke 12:32-48
Daily readings: August 1 – August 7
Thursday, 29 July 2010
The week ahead
Scripture readings for the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The Benedictine monk who unified Britain’s monasteries
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Saint of the week
Aethelwold (c 904-984) was a great scholar and a ruthless propagator of monasticism in Britain
Jesus was relentless in his condemnation of wealth
Thursday, 29 July 2010
The word this week
Eighteenth Sunday of the Year
Eccl 1:2 & 2:21-23; Col 3:1-5 & 9-11; Luke 12:31-21
The apostle whom Jesus called ‘a son of thunder’
Friday, 23 July 2010
Saint of the week
St James the Great (July 25) was beheaded on the orders of Herod Agrippa at about 44 AD
Our political masters need to get this: theological problems can only have theological solutions
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith