Oct 14: Day by Day with Father Bill
WEDNESDAY OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME ‘Tis the gift by Padraig O Tuama ‘Tis the gift to be gentle With your self at the end of a day when you’ve given of a day when you’re spent. To re-create, to breathe and to rest and to treat your own self as your own […]
Oct 13: Day by Day with Father Bill
TUESDAY OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into […]
Oct 12: Day by Day with Father Bill
MONDAY OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte, the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Duchess Catherine, pose some hard questions to Sir David Attenborough. Sir David is a natural historian, renowned for his innovative TV educational programs, notably his Life series. […]
Oct 11: Day by Day with Father Bill
SUNDAY OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME It seems that the poor evangelize us by giving us various types of good example. They instruct us in patience by their patience under adversity. They edify us by their uncomplaining struggles without becoming bitter. They encourage us to face our own problems more bravely by grappling with the pain […]
Oct 11 Homily Connect: Everyone Is Promised A Place At The Table
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 11, 2020 IS 25:6-10A, PHIL 4:12-14, MT 22:1-14 Scripture A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”’ An Important Day in Our Church’s History October […]
Oct 10: Day by Day with Father Bill
SATURDAY IN THE TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Called to Become by Sister Edwina Gateley You are called to become A perfect creation. No one is called to become Who you are called to be. It does not matter how tall or short Or thick-set or slow You may be. It does not matter Whether […]
Oct 9: Day by Day with Father Bill
FRIDAY IN THE TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Autumn Months O God of Creation, you have blessed us with the changing of seasons. As we welcome the autumn months, may the earlier setting of the sun remind us to make time to rest. May the brilliant colors of the leaves remind us of the wonder […]
Oct 8: Day by Day with Father Bill
THURSDAY IN THE TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME -From Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility (60) The Church is principled but not ideological. As St Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, “The Church’s social doctrine is not … an ideology, but rather the accurate formulation of […]
Oct 7: Day by Day with Father Bill
MEMORIAL OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY As you pray the mysteries of the Rosary, the good people at Contemplative Rebellion suggest to consider these petitions: First Decade Pray for the lives of women and their children, born and unborn, and the unjust societal structures that steal hope, healthcare and economic security from these, our […]
Oct 6: Day by Day with Father Bill
TUESDAY IN THE TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME -From Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility Four Principles of Catholic Social Teaching IV Solidarity (52) We are one human family, whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences. We are our brothers’ and sister’s keepers, wherever they may be. Loving our […]