Daily Prayers

Prayer is Love, I want to Love

Author: Timothy

  • Not Peace But A Sword (2)

    Extract: Jesus said to his disciples, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword”. (Matthew 10:34) Thought Jesus was a peace-maker between God and sinners through His death on the Cross. The symbolic “sword”, Jesus was referring to was His…

  • Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Day 4)

    Background: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Carmelite Order. Their origin goes back to the 12th Century when a group of Christian hermits chose Mount Carmel in the Holy Land to settle. Many miracles have been attributed to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Perhaps the best known occurred in…

  • Francis Solanus

    St Francis Solanus (1549 – 1610) was born in Montilla, Spain. He attended a Jesuit school and, drawn to a life of poverty and penance, joined a Franciscan Friary at the age of 20. In addition to their usual daily routines of prayer, silence and fasting, St Francis also abstained from meat, went barefoot and…

  • Parable Of The Good Samaritan

    Gospel Extract: When a man asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbour?” He told him this story: There was once a man who was robbed, beaten and left for dead at the roadside. By chance, a Priest and later a Levite passed by, however, they both ignored him! Then a Samaritan arrived who tended to his wounds, took…

  • Angeline of Marsciano

    Blessed Angeline (1357 – 1435) was born into Royalty at Umbria, Italy; her father being Count Angioballi of Corborra. Tragedy struck her early life when her mother died and two years later her husband, the Count of Civitella del Tronto. Blessed Angeline was left a childless widow and although she inherited great wealth, it didn’t…

  • Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Day 3)

    Background: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Carmelite Order. Their origin goes back to the 12th Century when a group of Christian hermits chose Mount Carmel in the Holy Land to settle. Many miracles have been attributed to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Perhaps the best known occurred in…

  • Fear God, Not Man (1)

    Extract: Jesus said, “Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven”. (Matthew 10:32-33) Thought It’s not easy in today’s commercial world but I consider it my duty and a privilege to celebrate and tell…

  • John Jones

    St John Jones (Died 1698) was born in Gwynedd, Wales and executed for his Catholic faith on 12th July 1598. St John came from a family that remained faithful to the Catholic faith despite the Protestant Reformation. He joined the Franciscan Friars in Greenwich (England), was ordained a Priest in France and then travelled to Rome.…

  • Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Day 2)

    Background: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Carmelite Order. Their origin goes back to the 12th Century when a group of Christian hermits chose Mount Carmel in the Holy Land to settle. Many miracles have been attributed to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Perhaps the best known occurred in…

  • Benedict of Nursia

    St Benedict (480 ca – 543) was the son of a Roman noble in Norcia, Italy. His twin sister was Saint Scholastica. Much of what is known about St Benedict comes from the writings of Pope Gregory I whose sources included witnesses to his life and his miracles. In his early 20’s, St Benedict abandoned…

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