Intercom, June 2026 Thought for the Day
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
7 June 2026
The Eucharist gives us the experience of rediscovering the ‘Community’, and of ‘Encountering the community’. It is the laboratory of fraternity. This is why a Christian can never be content with personal prayer because there are times when the Community, Jesus’s friends, gather together to pray. This is the Eucharist. In this gathering, we listen to the Word and nourish ourselves on the Eucharist.
Lord Jesus, in gathering your disciples around the table, you teach me that there is no Eucharist without the community, and there is no community without service. Help me to make my life a Eucharistic life.
Fr Andrea Vena
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
14 June 2026
Jesus still calls, as he called the twelve, to continue the loving ministry of Jesus in the world. At baptism, we receive the water of God’s love and the oil of service, completed in confirmation, marriage and ordination. The needs of God’s people are as great today as then. In a world of addiction, suicide, confusion, poverty, injustice and many other big needs, Jesus still looks and sees people ‘like sheep without a shepherd’. He calls each of us, male and female, young and old into his service.
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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
21 June 2026 • Day for Life
O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life. Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born, of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy.
Grant that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with honesty and love to the people of our time.
to the praise and glory of God, the Creator and lover of life.
Pope John Paul II
Evangelium Vitae, The Gospel of Life, 105
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
28 June 2026
We are rarely asked for a cup of water. But the rewards promised by Jesus extend beyond individual almsgiving to those who work for others in a thousand hidden ways, for instance maintaining a city water system, or caring for public hygiene, as civil servants, plumbers, engineers, scientists, street-cleaners or parents of families. We live in a more complex society, but the same care and generosity are found in all walks of life, wherever people devote themselves to the service of others.
Thank you, Lord, for the opportunities I have to serve others.
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