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Fourth Sunday of Easter
“The stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone” (Acts 4:11). These words we hear in today’s first reading from the Acts

Third Sunday of Easter
Gospel – Luke 24; 35 – 48 Three weeks ago, was Easter Sunday but time does not separate us from the joy of the Resurrection.

Second Sunday of Easter
Over the past several months we have followed along the course of Jesus’ public ministry, from its beginning, marked by the feast of the Baptism
The Resurrection of the Lord – Easter Day
Gospel – John 20; 1-9 The celebration of Easter begins in darkness on Holy Saturday Night with the Vigil Mass. The darkness soon gives way

Palm Sunday
The special nature of Palm Sunday is marked in several ways, for instance, by the congregation’s festive entrance into church, by the blessing of palms,
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Gospel – John 12 : 20 – 33 “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Scripture scholars speculate that the Greeks who made this request

Fourth Sunday of Lent
On three Sundays during the Lenten season the Church offers the possibility of reading key passages from the Gospel of John at mass even in

Third Sunday of Lent
Gospel – John 2 : 13 – 25 Our first reading from Exodus tells of God giving the Ten Commandments to Moses. With the first

Second Sunday of Lent
A profoundly difficult scripture text confronts the Church this Sunday, one whose very imagery has caused some to find the Judeo-Christian tradition troubling and not

First Sunday of Lent
Gospel –Mark 1: 12 – 15 The tone for Lent was set on Ash Wednesday when we heard the call to pray, fast and give

Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Only twice in the three-year cycle of Sunday readings do we hear from the Book of Leviticus. This middle book of the Torah is concerned

Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
The Gospel of Mark begins with the preaching of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus, followed by the temptations in the desert. Jesus

Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time
This Sunday’s second reading is drawn from Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, a document filled with both uplifting teachings and advice which can
Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
The readings today remind us of God’s desire for us. God gives us free will and therefore does not impose his will on us. God

Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
Having celebrated the Baptism of the Lord last Sunday and the feast of the Epiphany the Sunday before, the Church now sets off into the

The Baptism of the Lord
Gospel – Mark 1:7-11 The Baptism of the Lord marks the end of the Christmas Season. In a few short weeks we have gone from

Epiphany of the Lord
The Church marks the first Sunday of this new year by celebrating the great feast of Epiphany. While it may be overshadowed in our contemporary

Solemnity of Mary, Holy Mother of God
We begin the New Calendar Year with the celebration of the Solemnity of Mary, Holy Mother of God. All Marian Doctrines focus on Mary’s relationship
Feast of the Holy Family
The celebration of the Holy Family is the Sunday after Christmas and is one that puts the birth of Jesus into an important context for

The Nativity of the Lord
This Christmas eve the source of hope we have all been living on has arrived with our commemoration of the birth of our Lord Jesus