First reading: Wisdom 1:13-15,2:23-24 God takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living Death was not God’s doing, he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living. To be – for this he created all; the world’s created things have health in them, in them no fatal poison can be found, and Hades holds […]

First Reading Job 38:1,8-11 · From the heart of the tempest the Lord gave Job his answer. He said: Who pent up the sea behind closed doors when it leapt tumultuous out of the womb, when I wrapped it in a robe of mist and made black clouds its swaddling bands; when I marked the bounds it was not to cross and made […]

True Obedience What do you think, if we already have ticked the things of being a Christian, we are already saved? We can have a list of the things to be considered a believer and we can just tick each one. Prayer-tick, bible-reading-tick, confession-tick, mass and communion-tick, charity works-tick. Then after we have done that, […]

Jeremiah 20:7-9 Psalms 63:2-6, 8-9 Romans 12:1-2 Matthew 16:21-27 For whosoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whosoever loses his life for my sake will find it… We all want to live and we all want to save our lives, who doesn’t and would not want that?  We do not want to […]