St. Matthew 13.54-58: "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son? And is not his mother called Mary?"
"By enduring the hardship of work in union with Jesus the carpenter of Nazareth and the one crucified on Calvary, man cooperates in a certain fashion with the Son of God in his redemptive work. he shows himself to be a disciple of Christ by carrying the cross, daily, in the work he is called to accomplish" (Bl. John Paul II, Laborem Exercens).
Monday, 30 April 2012
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Good Shepherd Sunday, Day of Prayer for Vocations.
St. John 10.11-18: "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep".
"The source of every perfect gift is God, who is love" (Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est).
"The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus" (Curé of Ars).
"The source of every perfect gift is God, who is love" (Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est).
"The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus" (Curé of Ars).
Friday, 27 April 2012
Saturday, Third Week of Easter
St. John 6.60-69: "Lord to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life".
Explaining the mystery of the conversion of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus during the words of consecration by the priest at the Mass a great Church Father said: "The power of the blessing prevails over nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed...Could not Christ's word, which can make from nothing what did not exist, change existing things into what they were not before? It is no less a feat to give things their original nature than to change their nature" (St. Ambrose of Milan).
Explaining the mystery of the conversion of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus during the words of consecration by the priest at the Mass a great Church Father said: "The power of the blessing prevails over nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed...Could not Christ's word, which can make from nothing what did not exist, change existing things into what they were not before? It is no less a feat to give things their original nature than to change their nature" (St. Ambrose of Milan).
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Friday, Third Week of Easter
St. John 6:52-59: "Jesus said to them, 'Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day'".
"Because Jesus Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a whole change in the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation" (Council of Trent).
"Because Jesus Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a whole change in the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation" (Council of Trent).
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Thursday, Third Week of Easter
St. John 6.44-51: "I am the living bread come down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh".
"Christ, our Lord and God, was once for all to offer himself to God the Father through his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper, 'on the night when he was betrayed', he wanted to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world and it salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of sins we daily commit" (Council of Trent).
"Christ, our Lord and God, was once for all to offer himself to God the Father through his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper, 'on the night when he was betrayed', he wanted to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world and it salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of sins we daily commit" (Council of Trent).
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Feast of St. Mark
St. Mark 16.15-20: "After rising from the dead, Jesus, appeared to the Eleven and said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned".
"O God, who raised up Saint Mark, your Evangelist, and endowed him with the grace to preach the Gospel, grant we pray, that we may so profit from his teaching as to follow faithfully in the footsteps of Christ" (Collect from the Feast of St. Mark).
"O God, who raised up Saint Mark, your Evangelist, and endowed him with the grace to preach the Gospel, grant we pray, that we may so profit from his teaching as to follow faithfully in the footsteps of Christ" (Collect from the Feast of St. Mark).
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