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Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 19 - Feast of Saint Laurence: “Anyone who loves his life loses it; anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it for the eternal life.” (Jn 12,25) Speaker: Michael (Lectio Divina Team) & Music/Audio Production by Jordan (LOVVD Music Producer) Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lov_verbumdei/ Any prayer intentions? Send them to us by email and ou...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 19 - Feast of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): “Jesus told this parable to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of heaven will be like this: Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones did take their lamps, but they brought no oil, whereas the sensible ones took flasks of...

« Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever » Homily on the Gospel according to John 6:41-51 by Father Francis Lynch Please remember that through the blessing of Fr Francis our Loving Father is bestowing His infinite grace upon us all. May we keep on praying for one another and remembering that God loves us and is with us at all times, in our difficulties and toils, He is even more present sin...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 18 - Feast of The Transfiguration of the Lord: “Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain where they could be alone by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became dazzlingly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.” (...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 18: "From that time Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him. ‘Heaven preserve you, Lord;’ he said ‘this must not happen to yo...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 18 - Feast of Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars: “[Jesus] replied, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the house-dogs.’ She retorted, ‘Ah yes, sir; but even house-dogs can eat the scraps that fall from their master’s table.’ Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman, you have great faith. Let your wish be granted.’ And from that moment her d...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 18: “But at once Jesus called out to them, saying, ‘Courage! It is I! Do not be afraid.’ lt was Peter who answered. ‘Lord,’ he said ‘if it is you, tell me to come to you across the water.’ ‘Come’ said Jesus. Then Peter got out of the boat and started walking towards Jesus across the water, but as soon as he felt the force of the wind, he took fright and began to sink....

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 18: “But at once Jesus called out to them, saying, ‘Courage! It is I! Do not be afraid.’ lt was Peter who answered. ‘Lord,’ he said ‘if it is you, tell me to come to you across the water.’ ‘Come’ said Jesus. Then Peter got out of the boat and started walking towards Jesus across the water, but as soon as he felt the force of the wind, he took fright and began to sink....

« It is my Father who gives you the bread from heaven; I am the bread of life » Homily on the Gospel according to John 6:24-35 by Father John McGowan OCD Please remember that through the blessing of Fr John our Loving Father is bestowing His infinite grace upon us all. May we keep on praying for one another and remembering that God loves us and is with us at all times, in our difficulties and toil...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 17: “Coming to his home town, Jesus taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished and said, ‘Where did the man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? This is the carpenter’s son, surely? Is not his mother the woman called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Jude? His sisters, too, are they not all here with us? So...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 17 - Feast of Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus: “Jesus said: ‘I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?’ ‘Yes, Lord,’ she said ‘I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.’” (Jn 11,44-46) Speaker...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 17: “Jesus said to the crowds: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again, goes off happy, sells everything he owns and buys the field. ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls; when he finds one of great value he goes and sells everything he owns and buys it.’” (Mt 13,44-46) Spe...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 17: “Leaving the crowds, Jesus went to the house; and his disciples came to him and said, ‘Explain the parable about the darnel in the field to us.’ He said in reply, ‘The sower of the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world; the good seed is the subjects of the kingdom; the darnel, the subjects of the evil one; the enemy who sowed them, the devil; the har...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 17 - Feast of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary: “Jesus put a parable before the crowds: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its b...

« The feeding of the five thousand » Homily on the Gospel according to John 6:1-15 by Father John McGowan OCD Please remember that through the blessing of Fr John our Loving Father is bestowing His infinite grace upon us all. May we keep on praying for one another and remembering that God loves us and is with us at all times, in our difficulties and toils, He is even more present since He took all...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 16 - Feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden, Patroness of Europe: “I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty; for cut off from me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is like a branch that has been thrown away - he withers; these branches are collected and thrown on the fire, and they are burnt. If you...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 16: “Jesus said, ‘Mary!’ She knew him then and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbuni!’ - which means Master. Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and find the brothers and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ So Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples that she had seen t...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 16: “[Jesus] told them many things in parables. He said, ‘Imagine a sower going out to sow. As he sowed, some seeds fell on the edge of the path, and the birds came and ate them up. […] Others fell on rich soil and produced their crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Listen, anyone who has ears!’” (Mt 13,3-4 & 8-9) Speaker: Chidiebere Samuel (Lectio Divin...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 16 - Feast of of Saint Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr: “And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.” (Mt 12,49-50) Speaker: Maureen (Lectio Divina Team) & Music/Audio Production by Jordan (LOVVD Music Producer) Follow us on Insta...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 16 : “Some of the scribes and Pharisees spoke up. ‘Master,’ they said ‘we should like to see a sign from you.’ He replied, ‘It is an evil and unfaithful generation that asks for a sign!” (Mt 12,38-39) Speaker: François (Lectio Divina Team) & Music/Audio Production by Michael (LOVVD Music Director) Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lov_verbumdei/ Any p...

« They were like sheep without a shepherd » Homily on the Gospel according to Mark 6:30-34 by Father John McGowan OCD Please remember that through the blessing of Fr John our Loving Father is bestowing His infinite grace upon us all. May we keep on praying for one another and remembering that God loves us and is with us at all times, in our difficulties and toils, He is even more present since He...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 15 : “Jesus took a walk one sabbath day through the cornfelds. His disciples were hungry and began to pick ears of corn and eat them. The Pharisees noticed it and said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath’.” (Mt 12,1-2) Speaker: Maria (Lectio Divina Team) & Music/Audio Production by Michael (LOVVD Music Director) Follow us...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 15: “Jesus said: ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.” (Mt 11,28-30) Speaker: David (Lectio Divina Team) & Music/Audio Production by Jordan (LOVVD Music Producer) Follow us...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 15: “Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children.” (Mt 11,25) Speaker: Therese (Lectio Divina Team) & Music/Audio Production by Michael (LOVVD Music Director) Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lov_verbumdei/ Any prayer intentions? Send t...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 15: “Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been worked, because they refused to repent.” (Mt 11,20) Speaker: Venkat (Lectio Divina Team) & Music/Audio Production by Jordan (LOVVD Music Producer) Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lov_verbumdei/ Any prayer intentions? Send them to us by email and our prayer group will pray...