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One Minute Reflection – 7 April – Stay with us!

One Minute Reflection – 7 April – Easter Wednesday, Readings: First: Acts 3: 1-10, Psalm: Psalms 105: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9, Gospel: Luke 24: 13-35 “And they said one to the other: ‘Was not our hearts burning within us, whilst he spoke in this way and opened to us the scriptures?’” – Luke 24:32 REFLECTION – “What is the innermost reason of this fruitfulness of God’s Word? It is that Christ is ever…

Quote/s of the Day – 16 May – ‘All mine are yours and all yours are mine’ John 17:1-11

Quote/s of the Day – 16 May – “Mary’s Month” – Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension or The Seventh Sunday of Easter, Readings: Acts 1:11, Psalm 47: 2-3, 6-7, 8-9 (6), Second Ephesians 4: 1-1, John 17:1-11 “I pray for them.I do not pray for the worldbut for the ones you have given me,because they are yours.All mine are yours and all yours are mineand I am glorified in them.… Holy Father,…

One Minute Reflection – 5 May – “Remain in me as I remain in you ” … John 15:5

One Minute Reflection – 5 May – Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter, Readings: First: Acts 15: 1-6; Psalm: Psalms 122: 1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5; Gospel: John 15: 1-8 and the Memorial of the Conversdion of St Augustine “Remain in me as I remain in you ” … John 15:4 REFLECTION – “Whatever be the stage in which the soul is, its work, however, is never anything but a work of co-operation. The soul is…

One Minute Reflection – 13 March – It is in the heart that perfection lies; for love is the supreme law.” Luke 18:9-14

One Minute Reflection – 13 March – Saturday of the Third Week of Lent, Readings Hosea 6: 1-6, Psalms 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21, Luke 18: 9-14 “…For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled but he who humbles himself, will be exalted” – Luke 18:14 REFLECTION – “You know what our divine Saviour, who is very truth and goodness, said to His disciples: “Unless your justice abound more than that (…) of…

One Minute Reflection – 25 June – Ex fide

One Minute Reflection – 25 June – “Month of the Sacred Heart” – Thursday of the Twelfth week in Ordinary Time, Year A, Readings: 2 Kings 24:8-17, Psalm 79:1-5, 8-9, Matthew 7:21-29

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.   And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house but it did not fall,…

One Minute Reflection – 1 April – ‘By faith we adhere to Christ …’

One Minute Reflection – 1 April – Wednesday of the Fifth week of Lent, Readings:  Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95, Responsorial psalm Daniel 3:52-56, John 8:31-42 and the Memorial of St Lodovico Pavoni FMI (1784-1849)

“If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.”...John 8:31-32

REFLECTION– “By faith we adhere to Christ and the…

Our Morning Offering – 1 September – O Heavenly Father by Blessed Marmion

Our Morning Offering – 1 September – Twenty second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

O Heavenly Father Prayer after Holy Communion By Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion OSB (1858-1923)

O heavenly Father, I abide in Your Son Jesus and He abides in me. Your Son, proceeding from You, receives the communication of Your divine life in its fullness. I have received Your Son with faith, faith tells me at this…