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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Elijah was one of the most important prophets for the Jews and it was he that appeared with Moses at the Transfiguration of Our Lord.

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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We do  not know what the manna that sustained the Israelites in the desert really was. It could have been produced by some sort of insect or might have been a type of lichen.

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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St John, the dramatist, presents the teaching on the Eucharist in three main scenes. The first is the feeding of the five thousand.

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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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The disciples were excited after their experience of preaching,healing and casting out demons. They naturally wanted to tell Jesus all about their experience.

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Saint of the Month: Saint Henry

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Born in the 10th century, Saint Henry was King of Germany. He is remembered on 13 July.

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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Amos was the first Jewish prophet to have a book of the bible called after him. He lived in the eighth century BC and his writing is admired for its purity of language.

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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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People generally see what they want to see. God chose to become human in every way except for sin. He also decided to be reared in a village that was considered a bit of a backwater. “Nazareth!

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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Sometimes people faced with pain or tragedy think that their suffering is somehow God’s will. Both the first reading and the gospel contradict this attitude.

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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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We are reminded in today’s liturgy of the power of God, in the reading from the Book of Job, which is the story of a good man who has endured numerous tragedies and who wonders where God is when he

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Saint of the Month: St Elisabeth of Schonau

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St Elizabeth of Schonau, abbess, mystic and visionary, is remembered on 18 June.

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