Thirty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) November 5, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“The existence of a purgatory I have never denied. I still hold that it exists, as I have written and admitted many times though I have found no way of proving it incontrovertibly from Scripture or reason.”
(Martin Luther, “The Thirty Seventh Article”, Luther’s Works, 32:95.)
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 29, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“He joyously shouts, ‘It is finished!’ [John 19:30]. Yes, those seem to be sorrowful words, but
they were words of joy to that soul aflame and consumed in the fire of divine charity, the soul of
the incarnate Word, God’s Son. It is as if the gentle Jesus wanted to say, ‘I have completely
fulfilled what was written of me. Fulfilled too is my painful desire to redeem the human race. I
am happy, exultant, that I have finished this suffering.’”
(taken from The Letters of St. Catherine of Siena, vol. 1)
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time October 22, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness . . .
(Genesis 1:26)
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time
by Deacon Groves
Twenty-Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) October 15, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us.” (Hail, Holy Queen Prayer)
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time October 8, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’” (Matthew 21:37)
Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) October 1, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“The Lord’s way is not fair!” (Ezekiel 18:25)
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time September 24, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’ (Matthew 13: 13)
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time by Deacon Bullock
Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) September 17, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.”
(Hail, Holy Queen Prayer)
Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time September 10, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“To what can I compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I show you for your
comfort, virgin daughter Sion? For great as the sea is your distress; who can heal you”
(Lamentations 2:13)
Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) September 3, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and shall search him.” (Proverbs 18:17 Douay-Rheims Bible)