- 1. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St Francis
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- Memorial of St Francis Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/100421.cfm Today the Church remembers and celebrates St Francis of Assisi. To (further) vary the format of our ...
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- 2. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
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- The Feast of Sts Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, archangels Today’s Responsorial Psalm In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, ...
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- 3. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
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- The Memorial of St Vincent de Paul From today’s First Reading Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to jealous wrath for her. Thus says the LORD: I will return ...
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- 4. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time
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- Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092221.cfm From today’s Responsorial Psalm: So now consider what he has done for you, and praise him with full voice. Bless the ...
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- 5. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time
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- Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092021.cfm For the next two weeks I will be teaching a course to Chaplains new to Australian Defence Force Chaplaincy, and given that ...
- Created on 19 September 2021
- 6. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
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- Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/0915-memorial-our-lady-sorrows.cfm Today the Church brings to mind the image of Mary – Our Lady of ...
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- 7. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
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- Memorial of St John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091321.cfm In today’s First Reading from the 1st Letter of Timothy ...
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- 8. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time Feast – The Birth (Nativity) of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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- Today the Church celebrates the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It celebrates, liturgically, only two other birthdays during the liturgical year: St John the Baptist, and (of course) Jesus. What ...
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- 9. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
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- Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090621.cfm Today’s Responsorial Psalm is a short section from Psalm 62. The psalm has 13 verses, and today in our readings we read vv. ...
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- 10. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Friday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time (Memorial of St Gregory the Great)
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- Here, as forecast earlier on the week, we have these wonderful words from St Paul to the people of Colossae concerning the cosmic and timeless Christ: Brothers and sisters: Christ Jesus is the image ...
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- 11. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
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- Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090121.cfm Today in our First Reading we start reading from Paul’s Letter to the Colossians, and we will continue to do so up to and including ...
- Created on 31 August 2021
- 12. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
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- Link to today’s Mass Readings: Monday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time | USCCB As I mentioned in one of the reflections from last week, here we find an excellent example of Paul (and the Christian ...
- Created on 29 August 2021
- 13. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Friday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St Monica
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- Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/0827-memorial-monica.cfm St Monica lived between 332-387c.e., and was the mother St Augustine. While this might sound as if the family ...
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- 14. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
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- Link to today’s Mass Readings: Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time | USCCB Psalm 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab R. You have searched me and you know me, Lord. Where can I go from ...
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- 15. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
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- Link to today’s Mass Readings: Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time | USCCB Today in our First Reading we start making our way through St Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians. 1st Thessalonians ...
- Created on 23 August 2021
- 16. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
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- ... teaching colleagues who were horrified at my comment that: “No, I don’t think it’s appropriate to use something from Anthony De Mello’s book The Prayer of the Frog as an alternative to scripture for the ...
- Created on 09 August 2021
- 17. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of 19th Week in Ordinary Time
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- 11th August – The Memorial of St Clare Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/0811-memorial-saintclare.cfm Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St Clare (16 July 1194 ...
- Created on 09 August 2021
- 18. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
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- A link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080921.cfm Today’s First Reading comes for the Book of Deuteronomy, one of the Old Testament books (Hebrew Scriptures) attributed to ...
- Created on 09 August 2021
- 19. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Feast of the Transfiguration
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- Today in the Gospel Reading (Mk 9:2-10) we hear of the Transfiguration of Jesus. Matthew (Mt 17:1 -8) and Luke (Lk 9:28-36) also have accounts of the Transfiguration event, and all three follow the same ...
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- 20. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
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- Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080421.cfm Today’s Gospel Reading (Mt 15:21-28) which can at first glance seem a little harsh at times, and one of these readings we would ...
- Created on 31 July 2021