Lectio Divina 13 September 2024

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark 8:27-35 Jesus and his disciples left for the villages round Caesarea Philippi.  On the way he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say I am?’ And they told him. ‘John the Baptist,’...

Lectio Divina 6 September 2024

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark 7:31 – 37 Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by the way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region.  And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech;...

Lectio Divina 30 August 2024

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them....

Lectio Divina 23 August 2024

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John 6:60-69 After hearing his doctrine many of the followers of Jesus said, “This is intolerable language.  How could anyone accept it?’ Jesus was aware that his followers were complaining about it and said,...

Lectio Divina 16 August 2024

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John 6:51-58 Jesus said to the crowd: ‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.  Anyone who eats this bread will live forever ; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the...

Lectio Divina August 9 2024

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John 6:41-51 The Jews were complaining to each other about Jesus, because he had said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ ‘Surely this is Jesus son of  Joseph’ they said. ‘We know his...