April 11th - Servant of God Ferdinand de Huidobro, SJBorn: March 10, 1903 Died: April 11, 1937 Cause Initiated: November 19, 1947 Ferdinand de Huidobro Polanco was born at Santander, Spain. His father was a mining engineer and he was the sixth of nine children. When Ferdinand was five, his family moved to Melilla, North…
Blessed Ralph Ashley, SJ Born :Date Unknown Died : April 7, 1606 Beatified : December 15, 1929 Very little is known of Bro Ashley’s date and place of birth as well as his early life. He was the cook at the English College at Rheims, France and later in April 1590, he became the cook…
Blessed Edward Oldcorne, SJ Born : 1561 Died : April 7, 1606 Beatified : December 15, 1929 after Unknown artist, line engraving, 1608 Edward Oldcorne was born in York, England of a non-Catholic father and a Catholic mother. He gave up medical studies and enrolled at the English College in Rheims, France in 1581 before…
Saint Henry Walpole, SJBorn :Oct 1558 Died : April 7, 1595 Beatified : December 15, 1929 Canonized : October 25, 1970 Twenty-three-year-old Henry Walpole was among bystanders attending the execution of Fr Edmund Campion, a Jesuit martyr when a drop of the latter’s blood fell on his clothes from the quartered body. This so moved…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Insecurities and Fears: In today’s Gospel, the chief priests and the Pharisees held a meeting to discuss how “best” to deal with Jesus who is gaining many followers. Ponder on, “Do we have insecurities about others being ‘better’ than us? Do we fear them as threats that we need to eliminate? …
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 27:11, 15, 20, 24, 26b, 28-29, 31, 46, 50 Jesus was brought before the governor, and the governor put to him this question, ‘Are you the king of the Jews?’ Jesus replied, ‘It is you who say it.’ At festival time it was the governor's practice to release a prisoner for…
Lord, help us to continue your mission and make this world a better place for allPALM SUNDAY (A) : 5th April 2020Is. 50:4-7; Ps. 22(21):8-9,17-18,19-20,23-24; Phil. 2:6-11; Mt. 26:14 --27:66 (Ps Wk II) How do we know when someone is truly speaking for God? We look to their way of life. Are they willing to…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 11:46-53 Some of them went to the Pharisees to tell them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting. `Here is this man working all these signs,' they said, `and what action are we taking? If we let him go on in this way everybody will…
Lord, fill us with your Peace5th Week of Lent : Saturday 4th April 2020Ez. 37:21-28; (R. Ps) Jer. 31:10-11-12,13; Jn. 11:45-56 (Ps Wk I) As a young boy growing up in Nazareth, Jesus learned to read as the other boys of the town did - from the Bible, the only “textbook” they had. Given his…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Insecurities and Fears: In today’s Gospel, the chief priests and the Pharisees held a meeting to discuss how “best” to deal with Jesus who is gaining many followers. Ponder on, “Do we have insecurities about others being ‘better’ than us? Do we fear them as threats that we need to eliminate? …