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Assumptionists in the UK
Mar 14, 20222 min read
First Sunday of Lent
First Sunday of Lent 2022 Year C, Lk 4, 1-13 Jesus had just been baptised and heard God, his Father, call him his beloved Son and...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Feb 27, 20222 min read
8th Sunday
8th Sunday in Ordinary time, Year C, 27/2/2022 Lk 6, 39-45 The answer to what happens if one blind man leads another blind man seems...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Feb 27, 20222 min read
7th Sunday
7th Sunday in Ordinary time, Year C, Lk 6, 27-38 Thích Nhất Hạnh (d. 22/02/22), a renowned Vietnamese Buddhist known as the "father of...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Feb 17, 20223 min read
6th Sunday 13/2/2022
Sunday 6th in Ordinary time, year C, Lk 6,17; 20-26 Dear brothers and sisters, the first reading and today’s Gospel are quite clear for...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Jan 25, 20223 min read
Third Sunday
Third Sunday in Ordinary time, Year C, 23/01/2022 Lk 1,1-4; 4,14-21 “Your words are spirit, Lord and they are life”. We are on the third...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Dec 22, 20212 min read
4th Sunday of Advent
Advent Year C 19/12/2021 Lk 1,39-45 Facing the Omicron variant, we are threatened with being isolated from our loved ones again. This...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Dec 12, 20212 min read
Rejoice.
Third Sunday of Advent, Year C, 12/12/2021 Lk 3, 10-18 Stop! Let’s pause for a while and look back. We began Advent lighting the first...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Dec 12, 20213 min read
Prepare the way.
Second Sunday of Advent Year C 05/12/2021 Lk 3, 1-6 We are on the second Sunday of Advent. The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is closer...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Nov 29, 20213 min read
To a better world
First Sunday of Advent 28/11/2021, Year C, Lk 21, 25-28, 34-36 We are today on the first Sunday of Advent, the first Sunday of the...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Nov 24, 20212 min read
Vietnamese Martyrs
Ordinary time, 24/11/2021 Lk 21, 12-19 The evangelisation of Vietnam began in the 16th century. Two Apostolic Vicariates were set up in...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Oct 18, 20212 min read
Saint Luke the Evangelist
Ordinary time Monday 18/10/2021 Lk, 10, 1-9 Saint Luke the Evangelist was a Greek doctor who converted to Christianity. He was a...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Oct 4, 20212 min read
Saint Francis
Ordinary time, year B, Lk 10 25-37 St Francis (1181 - 1226) was the son of a prosperous cloth merchant in Assisi. His father objected to...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Sep 27, 20212 min read
Saint Vincent de Paul
Ordinary time Year B, Lk 9, 46-54 St Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660), born in Aquitaine, became a priest and devoted his life to the...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Aug 17, 20212 min read
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Ordinary time, Year B, 15/8/2021 Luke 1, 39-56 Our understanding of Mary, the mother of Jesus and Mother of God, will be affected by the...
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Assumptionists in the UK
Jun 24, 20212 min read
Nativity of St John The Baptist
Ordinary time week 12, Lk 1:57-66,80 Saint John the Baptist has two feasts: in August to celebrate his death and in June to celebrate his...
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Assumptionists in the UK
May 31, 20212 min read
The Visitation
Monday 31/05/2021 Luke 1,39-56 In Advent, we remember the waiting of the generations before us who searched and longed for the Messiah....
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Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 30, 20213 min read
THE MYSTERY OF THE EMPTY TOMB
Easter Sunday year B 04/04/2021, Lk 24,13-35 Today’s the church proclaim throughout the world “Jesus Christ is risen”. However, we have...
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