The Sheepfold
Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent!
Responsorial Psalm Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17 R. (see 3a) Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned. Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse...
Feast of the Presentation of Jesus and Day of Consicrated Life
Today it is 40 days after Christmas! Today we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, Candlemass; World day of Consecrated Life. February 2, 2019 (Celebrated in Parishes February 2-3) In 1997, Pope Saint John Paul II instituted a day of prayer...
A very Merry Christmas! Happy Birthday Jesus!
Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus! I have always loved this Solemnity and I have great memories of it throughout the years! While we put up the tree and my dad loved to play Santa Clause whenever needed at a church function; Midnight Mass was the main...
1st Sunday of Advent
The beginning of Advent is the beginning of the Church Year! So Happy New Year as well! We started our Jesse Tree a few days early this year, being that the 4th week of Advent is so short. I 've learned that the children in the home don't do so well with doing 7...
All Hallows Eve, All Saints and All Souls
All Hallows Eve or better known as Halloween, starts these 3 days, ending the month of October and beginning November. I love how these 3 Gospels speak of the Saints and the Souls recently deceased. Gospel (Oct. 31) Lk 13:22-30 Jesus passed through towns and...
Feast of the Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael
I hope everyone has had a good week and is having a good weekend! I love this feast day along with Guardian Angels on Oct. 2! I thought this was good for those who wonder who are the Archangels and how do we have names for them! Angels are celestial or heavenly...
Triumph of the Cross/Our Lady of Sorrows
Today we celebrated the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross! Reading 2 Phil 2:6-11 Brothers and sisters: Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,...
22nd Sunday in Ordianary Time
Hello Everyone and welcome to September! Gospel Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. —For the...