World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly 2024

On Sunday July 28 we celebrate the fourth World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly. The date is chosen to coincide with the Feast of Saints Joachim and Anne (grandparents of Jesus) during the week. Pope Francis has chosen the theme “Do not cast me off in my old age” (cf. Psalm 71:9) Download Pope’s Message…

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WOJ Ordinary Time 20, Year B

WOJ Ord 20 YB

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world. – John 6:51

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WOJ Ordinary Time 19, Year B

 I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’ (Jesus, John 6:51)

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WOJ Ordinary Time 18, Year B

In all truth I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, it is my Father who gives you the bread from heaven, the true bread; for the bread of God is the bread which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. (Jesus, John 6:33)

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WOJ Ordinary Time 17, Year B

Jesus said to them, ‘Make the people sit down.’ There was plenty of grass there, and as many as five thousand men sat down. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were sitting there; he then did the same with the fish, distributing as much as they wanted. (Jesus, John 6:10-11)

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WOJ Ordinary Time 16, Year B

As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things (Jesus, Mark 6:34)

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WOJ Ordinary Time 15, Year B

 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places” (Reading 2, Ephesians 1:3)

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WOJ Ordinary Time 11, Year B

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which, at the time of its sowing, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.  Yet once it is sown it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.’ (Jesus, Mark…

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