St Daniel Comboni (October 10) inspired new European attitudes to Africans
Spiritual Life
The missionary who laboured to save the most abandoned souls in the world

Saint of the week
Daily readings: October 9 -15
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
We must accept the Lord’s invitation in the details of our daily lives
The word this week
Twenty-eighth Sunday of the Year: Isaiah 25:6-10; Philippians 4: 12-14 & 19-20; Matthew 22: 1-14
A formidable English bishop who rooted out corruption

Saint of the week
St Thomas of Hereford (October 2) was canonised only 20 years after his death after some 500 miracles had been attributed to his intercession
Daily readings: October 2 – 8
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The saint who threw Satan out of heaven

Saint of the week
St Michael the Archangel (September 29) provides aid in the spiritual struggle fought in every human soul
Daily readings: September 25 – October 1
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
‘In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus’
The word this week
Twenty-sixth Sunday of the Year: Ez 18:25-28; Ps 25; Phil 2:1-11; Mt 21:28-32
Daily readings: September 18 – 24
The week ahead
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The archbishop who helped restore faith to England after a plague

Saint of the week
St Theodore of Tarsus (September 19) probably never gave England a thought before the age of 66. But English civilisation owes him a great debt











Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/05/12
By Luke Coppen