Monthly Archives: October 2025

Tuesday of Week 27 in Ordinary Time

 

 

 

Who proved to be a neighbour.
To the man who fell among the robbers.
Are we a Samaritan, what do we fear.
Are we one of the doubters.

The mass was in Italian.
I could not understand the sermon.
But Latin  resonates like Italian.
I did not need to understand the sermon

Again as the host was raised.
I felt such communion and joy.
Why do we always  feel amazed.
That here we find true joy.

We just have to listen .
And love and joy’s hasten.

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Not understanding
Is just not the real problem
It is just ourselves

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See Luke 10 : 25-37

27!th Sunday in Ordinary Time

If you had faith like the grain of a mustard seed.
You could say to this mulberry tree be uprooted.
What from this can we read.
Where really are we rooted.

We were passing through the holy door.
And by Pope Francis’ tomb.
Faith was to the fore.
Quiet dignity of an ordinary tomb.

The consecration bell rang.
The priest raised the host.
My own faith sang.
I am not lost.

My heart inexplicably moved.
Fear and doubt removed.

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As the host is raised
Heart inexplicably moved
So now all is clear

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See Luke 17 : 5-10

St Francis of Assisi. Saturday of Week 26 in Ordinary Time

 

 

 

 

I thank you Lord that you have hidden.
These things from the wise and understanding.
But we are still bidden.
Hoping and praying.

What was St Francis’ secret.
It was embracing poverty.
Freed from life’s thicket.
Realising all this is empty.

To give everything away.
To live for God only.
Seeking his shadowy ray
Hopefully and fairly.

We ourselves may not be able to follow his way.
But we can certainly understand his way.

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To give all away
And just live for God only
For that we can pray

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See Luke 10 : 17-24

Friday of Week 26 in Ordinary Time

The one who hears you.
Hears me.
And the one who rejects you.
Rejects me.
And the one who rejects me.
Without thinking.
Rejects the one who sent me
So start praying.
In the empty church a heaviness descended.
I felt God’s presence.
The world upended.
Acceptance the essence.
The heavy wind outside  blew.
The presence flew.
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Heaviness descends
Is it then that God is here
We will never know
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See Luke 19: 13-16

Thursday of Week 26 inOrdinary Time

 

 

 

 

Unless you turn and become like children.
You will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
How we wonder can we gladden.
Can we be striven.

Children do not question.
They just accept.
Accepting every suggestion.
Faith in their hearts has leapt.

But are  they naive.
Too easily influenced.
Not needing to strive.
Their fate not yet announced.

Should we follow them.
We just must follow them.

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To be like children
It’s not difficult
But do we do it

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See Matthew 18 : 1-5, 10

Wednesday of Week 26 in Ordinary Time

 

 

 

No one who puts his hand to the plough and looks back.
Is fit for the Kingdom of God.
We are dispirited , we pause , we slack.
But we are looked on kindly by God.

When Therese had completed her six exercise books.
The prioress put them in a drawer unread.
So much that lies unread in so many books.
The vast majority of writers unread.

But these exercise books.
Took the world by storm.
Hundreds of thousands published of these books.
For here was a heart loving and warm.

Glory is found in love.
Humility is the profoundest love.

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Glory found in love
Humility comes in love
Saint Therese’s gift

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See Luke 9: 57-62