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Quote/s of the Day - 18 April - Speaking of:   The Great Commission

Quote/s of the Day – 18 April – Speaking of:   The Great Commission

Quote/s of the Day – 18 April – Easter Saturday

Speaking of:   The Great Commission

“I preached myself, the scholars came and praised me. I preached Christ, the sinners came and thanked me.”

St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) Doctor of the Church

“There is a difference between renouncing all things and leaving all things. For it is the way of few perfect men, to leave all things, that is, to cast…

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Sunday Reflection - 3 May - '.. The world is in crisis...' St Pope Paul VI

Sunday Reflection – 3 May – ‘.. The world is in crisis…’ St Pope Paul VI

Sunday Reflection – 3 May – The Fourth Sunday of Easter, Good Shepherd/Vocations Sunday

How long have we been without Sunday Mass? How much longer will this continue? How are we holding on? How are we surviving?

“Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of it’s spiritual life and it’s faith, of it’s charity and…

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Quote/s of the Day - 16 March - He is the key to our destiny

Quote/s of the Day – 16 March – He is the key to our destiny

Quote/s of the Day – 16 March – Monday of the Third week of Lent

“Jesus Christ You have heard Him spoken of, indeed the greater part of you are already His – you are Christians. So, to you Christians I repeat His name, to everyone I proclaim Him – Jesus Christ is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. He is the king of the new world. He is the secret of history. He is the key to our destiny.”

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Quote/s of the Day - 24 November - The Solemnity of Christ the King - 'He is the secret of history. He is the key to our destiny.'

Quote/s of the Day – 24 November – The Solemnity of Christ the King – ‘He is the secret of history. He is the key to our destiny.’

Quote/s of the Day – 24 November – The Solemnity of Christ the King

“Christ, has dominion over all creatures, a dominion not seized by violence nor usurped but His, by essence and by nature.”

St Cyril of Alexandria (376-444) Father & Doctor of the Church

“Christ’s kingdom is not just a figure of speech. Christ is alive, He lives as a man, with the same body He took when He became man, when He rose…

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Thought for the Day - 30 June - We proclaim Christ to the whole world

Thought for the Day – 30 June – We proclaim Christ to the whole world

Thought for the Day – 30 June – Thirteenth Sunday of the Year in Ordinary Time, Year C, Gospel: Luke 9:51–62

We proclaim Christ to the whole world Saint Paul VI (1897-1978) Bishop of Rome

An excerpt from one of his homilies

Not to preach the Gospel would be my undoing, for Christ Himself sent me as His apostle and witness.   The more remote, the more difficult the assignment, the more my love of…

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One Minute Reflection – 5 October – Christian joy

One Minute Reflection – 5 October – Christian joy

One Minute Reflection – 5 October – Saturday of the Twenty Sixth week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Gospel: Luke 10:17–24 and the Memorial of St Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938)

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth…” … Luke 10:17

REFLECTION– “Christian joy is, essentially, a spiritual participation in the boundless joy, at the same…

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Marian Thoughts - "To Honour Mary" St Paul VI - 2 May 2019

Marian Thoughts – “To Honour Mary” St Paul VI – 2 May 2019

Marian Thoughts – May, the Month of Mary – 2 May 2019

Apostolic Exhortation of St Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)  Marialis Cultus – 2 February 1974 To Honour Mary

Finally, insofar as it may be necessary, we would like to repeat that the ultimate purpose of devotion to the Blessed Virgin is to glorify God and to lead Christians, to commit themselves, to a life which is in absolute conformity with His…

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Quote/s of the Day - 29 June - Their sound has gone out into all the earth!

Quote/s of the Day – 29 June – Their sound has gone out into all the earth!

Quote/s of the Day – 29 June – The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

“Their sound has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world”

Psalm 19:5

“There must be general rejoicing, dearly beloved, over this holy company whom God has appointed for our example in patience and for our confirmation in faith. But we must glory even more in the excellence of their fathers, Peter and…

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