Pope Leo invites everyone around the world to pray for mental health ministry, calling for greater understanding, compassion and support for people living with mental illness. Through his monthly prayer intention, the Pope encourages the Church to welcome those who suffer in silence, support their families and carers, and make mental health care an important […]
The vineyard as an image of God’s kingdom occurs a number of times in the Old Testament. When he told this parable our Lord must have had today’s first reading in mind. The owner did his best to make the vineyard fertile. He gave the tenants time to produce the fruit. He sent his servants […]
One World Festival: One Parish, One Mission United in Christ On September 20, 2026, the Parish of St. John the Evangelist and Our Lady of Mount Carmel in White Plains, New York, celebrated its annual One World Festival under the theme: “One Parish, One Mission United in Christ.” The celebration began with Holy Mass presided […]
The parables of Jesus make people question the way in which they always think about things and about other people and they also make people accept or reject Jesus’s own way of thinking. The situation in which Jesus tells a parable helps us to understand the meaning of the parable. In chapter 19 Jesus has […]
Peter asked Jesus how often he ought to forgive his brother, but he answered his own question by suggesting that he should forgive seven times. According to Rabbinio tradition a man must forgive his brother three times. So Peter thought he was going very far by suggesting seven times with eager self-satisfaction that it would […]
Because of a slight difference in the text, some people see this passage as dealing with the duty of one member of the community to correct another who has done something wrong, others see it as dealing with the problem of making peace between two people, when one has done wrong to the other. It […]
The apostles had already expressed their faith in Jesus as the Messiah when he asked them who they believed him to be. Because people were waiting for a Messiah who would overthrow the Romans, Jesus warned them not to tell people that he was the Messiah, because they would want to make him the centre […]
Jesus and his disciples are about 20 miles north of the Sea of Galilee and on the eastern side of the Jordan. Caesarea Philippi was then a new town. It was built by Philip, the Tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis, at the time our Lord was still a boy. It was named both after Philip […]
In the spirit of strengthening Lay Apostolic Movements in the Catholic Diocese of Lugazi, Uganda, our parish, which providentially is the first parish in the diocese under the patronage of St. Jude Thaddeus, was designated by the Local Ordinary as the Diocesan Centre for St. Jude Devotion. This was announced by the Vicar General, Monsignor […]
Tyre and Sidon were two cities on the coast in the south of the country called Phoenicia. The word Canaanite stresses the paganism of the woman, because the Canaanite were the ancient pagan inhabitants of Palestine, from whom the Israelites conquered the land, and who were the main enemies of the Jews and their religion. […]
When you hear about the term, ‘Safeguarding’, what comes into your mind and what feelings have you? The feelings of fear, care trust, responsibility. All these remind us that it is our collective responsibility to ensure that we prevent and minimize the potential for abuse from occurring. We are called to create a culture of […]
Moses provided miraculous food for the Israelites in the desert, God provided food for Elijah to strengthen him for his journey to Mount Horeb; Elisha miraculously fed a hundred men. Now in today’s Gospel Jesus miraculously feeds a large number of people. All these were signs of the Eucharistic food that Jesus would give to […]
