Please press here to listen to the homily or download Monday – Second Week – Advent Readings: Isa 35:1-10; Lk 5:17-26. Reading 1 (Isa 35:1-10): The desert and the parched land will exult; the steppe will rejoice and bloom. They will bloom with abundant flowers, and rejoice with joyful song. The glory of Lebanon will be given … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Second Sunday – Year B – Advent Readings: Isa 40:1-5, 9-11; II Pet 3:8-14; Mk 1:1-8. 1/ First Reading: RSV Isaiah 40:1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download First Sunday – Year B – Advent Readings: Isa 63:16b-17, 19b, 64:2-7; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Mk 13:33-37. Reading 1 (Isa 63:16b-17, 19b, 64:2-7): You, LORD, are our father, our redeemer you are named forever. Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your ways, and harden our … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT1 Readings: Dan 7:15-27; Lk 21:34-36. Reading 1 (Dan 7:15-27): I, Daniel, found my spirit anguished within its covering of flesh, and I was terrified by the visions of my mind. I approached one of those present and asked him … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT1 Readings: Dan 7:2-14; Lk 21:29-33. Reading 1 (Dan 7:2-14): In a vision I, Daniel, saw during the night, the four winds of heaven stirred up the great sea, from which emerged four immense beasts, each different from the others. … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT1 Readings: Dan 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28; Lk 21:12-19. Reading 1 (Dan 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28): King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his lords, with whom he drank. Under the influence of the wine, he ordered … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Thirty-fourth week – OT1 Readings: Dan 2:31-45; Lk 21:5-11. 1/ First Reading: RSV Daniel 2:31 “You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. 32 The head … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Monday – Thirty-fourth week – OT1 Readings: Dan 1:1-6, 8-20; Lk 21:1-4. 1/ First Reading: RSV Daniel 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thirty-fourth Sunday – Christ the King – Year A – Ordinary Time Readings: Eze 34:11-12, 15-17; 1 Cor 15:20-26,28; Mt 25:31-46. Reading 1 (Eze 34:11-12, 15-17): Thus says the Lord GOD:I myself will look after and tend my sheep. As a shepherd tends his flockwhen he … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Thirty-third week – OT1 Readings: I Mac 6:1-13; Lk 20:27-40. 1/ First Reading: RSV 1 Maccabees 6:1 King Antiochus was going through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais in Persia was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold. … Read more