January 30, 2021
Saturday, Week 3 in Ordinary Time

St Aiden, bishop (Ferns); Bl Margaret Ball and Francis Taylor, martyrs (Dublin and Meath);

1st Reading: Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19

Divine blessing on Abraham and his descendants

Faith is the assurance of …

January 29, 2021
Friday, Week 3 in Ordinary Time

1st Reading, Hebrews 10:32-39

Do not abandon hope, but trust in God’s promises

Remember those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes …

January 28, 2021
Thursday, Week 3 in Ordinary Time – St Thomas Aquinas

1st Reading, Hebrews 10:19-25

We enter the Holy of Holies by the new and living path Jesus has opened for us

Therefore, my friends, since we have …

January 27, 2021
Wednesday, Week 3 in Ordinary Time

1st Reading: Hebrews 10:11-18

Jesus offers one sacrifice that sets up a new covenant with God

Every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same …

January 26, 2021

Ss Timothy and Titus, bishops

1st Reading: Hebrews 10:1-10

The temple rituals were a type of the new covenant, brought by Jesus for all

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come …

January 25, 2021
Monday, Week 3

The Conversion of St Paul

1st Reading: Acts 22:3-16

Paul’s account of his conversion, to his fellow-Jews, on the steps of the Temple

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought …

Jesus sent out the twelve he had chosen to share in his work. He sent them out to do what he was doing, to preach the gospel and to heal the sick. He needed the help of others to do the work he had been sent to do. We are to be his eyes, his ears, his hands, his feet and his voice, continuing his work today. He wants to work in and through us. Each of us has a role to play.

Jesus sent out the twelve he had chosen to share in his work. He sent them out to do what he was doing, to preach the gospel and to heal the sick. He needed the help of others to do the work he had been sent to do. We are to be his eyes, his ears, his hands, his feet and his voice, continuing his work today. He wants to work in and through us. Each of us has a role to play.

We too come to the Lord with the greatest urgency when we are struggling, when we are in some kind of distress. Like the crowds in the gospel, we reach out to touch the Lord in our brokenness, recognising him as the source of healing and life. The Lord is as available to us as he was to the crowds of Galilee.

He himself persisted in the good work that God gave him to do, regardless of his hostile reception by the authorities. We try to be faithful to what is right, because it is what God wants of us and not because of any praise it might bring us. We remain faithful to our calling to share in Jesus’ work of bringing healing and life to others, no matter what it may cost.