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“Happy are those who live in your house, continually singing your praise!
Happy the pilgrims whom you strengthen, to make the ascent to you” (Psalm 84, 5-6)
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Assumptionists in the UK
Mar 12, 20242 min read
Fourth Sunday of Lent
4th Sunday of Lent 10/3/2024 Jn 3, 14-21 Although we are encouraged throughout Lent to seek God’s mercy for your sins and failings and...
Assumptionists in the UK
Mar 6, 20242 min read
3rd Sunday of lent
3rd Sunday of Lent 03/03/2024 Jn 2, 13-25' Before we receive Holy Communion, we pray: “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under...
Assumptionists in the UK
Mar 6, 20243 min read
Second Sunday of lent
Doesn’t this day on which we celebrate the transfiguration of Jesus make you want to have a glimpse of how God sees us. For God sees our...
Assumptionists in the UK
Mar 6, 20243 min read
First Sunday of Lent
In Fratelli Tutti Pope Francis invites us into the Lenten theme which is also the theme of the Jubilee year to be celebrated in 2025. The...
Assumptionists in the UK
Oct 10, 20233 min read
27th Sunday in Ordinary time
27th Sunday in Ordinary time 08/10/2023 Mt 21, 33-43 Another vineyard story but with a very different purpose. In this story it is God...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20232 min read
Pentecost Sunday
7th Sunday Easter year A 2023 Jn 20, 19 -23 After the Ascension, the apostles and disciples spent much of their time in prayer. They had...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
6th Sunday of Easter
6th Sunday of Easter Year A 2023 Jn 17, 1-11 The community within which Jesus grew up, like all communities in Israel at that time,...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
5th Sunday of Easter
5th Sunday Easter Year A 2023 Jn 14, 15-21 The Truth Jesus refers to is not something we can possess, nor is it about knowledge, words or...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
Good Shepherd
4th Sunday Easter Year A - Good Shepherd – Vocations - 2023 Pope Francis writes about Vocations : This is the 60th celebration of the...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 25, 20233 min read
3rd Sunday Easter
3rd Sunday Easter Emmaus 2023, Lk 24,13-35 With the arrival of Spring there is an energy in the air that almost impels us to go out and...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 25, 20232 min read
Divine Mercy Sunday
2nd Sunday Easter Year A - 2023 Luke describes the early Christians forming a community of mutual support and sharing. A better word for...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 25, 20232 min read
East Sunday
East Sunday Year A 2023 Sr Macrina Wiederkehr osb has an interesting way of welcoming Easter. Rather than being observers of this...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 1, 20232 min read
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday Year A 2023 Jesus is testimony that being treated shamefully does not mean he was shamed. Rather, those who treated him...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 1, 20232 min read
5th Sunday of Lent
5th Sunday Lent Year A 2023 The raising of Lazarus is like a trailer for what is to come when Jesus will be laid in the tomb and is freed...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 1, 20232 min read
3rd Sunday of Lent
3rd Sunday of Lent Year A 12/3/2023 Jn 4, 5-42 We are today in the third Sunday of Lent. We have the story of Jesus and the Samaritan...
Assumptionists in the UK
Mar 11, 20232 min read
2rd Sunday of Lent
2rd Sunday of Lent 5/3/2023, Mt 17, 1-9 However fertile our imaginations, it is impossible for us to realise the real effect of the...
Assumptionists in the UK
Feb 28, 20232 min read
1st Sunday of Lent
1st Sunday of Lent 26/2/2023 Mt 4, 1-14 Sooner or later every human heart yearns for holiness, spirituality, for God. Mystics speak of a...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jan 31, 20232 min read
4th Sunday
4th Sunday in Ordinary time 29/1/2023, Mt 5, 1-12 David E Crawford writes the following about the Beatitudes; In writing about the poor...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jan 23, 20233 min read
3rd Sunday
3rd Sunday in Ordinary time, Year A, 23/01/2023, Mt 4, 12-23 Words of wisdom: “There’s a fine line between a long, drawn-out sermon and a...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jan 23, 20233 min read
2nd Sunday
2nd Sunday in Ordinary time, Year A, 15 January 2023, Jn 1, 29-34 Once again, we are reminded of Jesus’ baptism, and John the Baptist...
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