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Saturday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day St Norbert of Xanten – 6 June 2026 Gospel Reading: Mark 12:38-44 And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go about in long robes, and to have salutations in the market places and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honour at […]

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Saint Norbert of Xanten

Saint of the Day – 6 June Saint Norbert of Xanten (c. 1075–1134) was one of the most dynamic and influential figures of the 12th-century church reform movement. A contemporary and close friend of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Norbert transformed from a wealthy, pleasure-seeking courtier into a wandering barefoot preacher, ultimately founding the Premonstratensian Order

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Memorial of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr

Gospel Reading : John 10:11-16  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees

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Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr

Saint of the Day – 5 June  Saint Boniface (c. 675 – June 5, 754) – Known as the “Apostle of Germany,” was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk who transformed the religious, cultural, and political landscape of central Europe. Early Life Boniface was born around 675 AD in the ancient Kingdom of Wessex (modern-day Devon, England).

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Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

4 June 2026 Gospel Reading : Mark 12:28-34 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?”  Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one;  and

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Saint Charles Lwanga and his companions

Saint of the Day – 3 June Charles Lwanga and companions – Albert Wider (1962) The story of Saint Charles Lwanga and the Martyrs of Uganda is a powerful, dramatic, and intensely moving account of faith, moral courage, and leadership in modern Church history. It echoes the raw intensity of the early Roman trials while

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Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Saints of the Day – St Marcellinus and St Peter – 2 June 2026 Gospel Reading: Mark 12:13-17 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Hero′di-ans, to entrap him in his talk. And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for

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Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs

Saints of the Day : 2 June Wall painting (4th century) from the catacomb of Marcellinus and Peter on the Via Labicana, “Christ with the book of the Gospels is seated between Peter and Paul. Below, the Lamb is standing in the centre on a hill, from which flow out the four symbolic rivers of

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Memorial of Saint Justin, Martyr

Gospel Reading : Matthew 5:13-19 You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.  “You are the light of the world. A city set on a

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