Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
4 October 2026
‘An evangeliser must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.’
Pope Francis (EG 10)
‘Go forth and set the world on fire.’
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
‘Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.’
Pope Benedict XVI (DCE 1)
‘It is no use walking somewhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.’
Saint Francis of Assisi
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Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
11 October 2026 • Prisoners’ Sunday
‘Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.’
Saint Pope John XXIII
‘Intense love does not measure, it just gives.’
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
‘Modern people listen more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if they listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.’
Saint Pope Paul VI (EN 41)
‘Speak to them of the great mercy of God.’
Saint Francis Xavier
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Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
18 October 2026 • World Mission Sunday
Our Mission
Send me, Lord, out into the world
that begins at my front door.
May my every word flow from your heart
and my actions be of love and peace
that everything I do or say
reflects your great mercy to all.
Help me witness to your truth
no less in my silence than in my words
and show me, Lord, the way I should go.
Help me to see that my solemn duty
to spread your gospel to everyone
in the world is second only to their right
to hear and respond to it.
Open my eyes to your presence in others
and my ears to recognise your voice
especially in the poor and oppressed.
Amen.
Prayer by Fr Joe Veneroso MM
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Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
25 October 2026
‘Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.’
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
‘We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.’ Saint Francis of Assisi
‘I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them; I ask all of you to do this unfailingly each day.’
Pope Francis (EG 3)
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