Harpa Dei

Healing blindness

Download PDF Mk 8:22-26 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought to him a blind man whom they begged him to touch. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Then, putting spittle on his eyes and laying his hands on him, he asked, ‘Can you see anything?’ […]

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Zeal for souls

Download PDF Lk 10:1-9 Gospel for the Feast of St. Cyril and Methodius After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting. And he said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so

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The first fratricide

Download MP3 Gen 4:1-15,25 The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. ‘I have acquired a man with the help of Lord,’ she said. She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother of Cain. Now Abel became a shepherd and kept flocks, while Cain tilled

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The fullness of the law

Download PDF Mt 5:17-37 ‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. In truth I tell you, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, is to disappear from the Law until all its purpose

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The miracles of God

Download PDF Mk 8:1-10 And now once again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat. So he called his disciples to him and said to them, ‘I feel sorry for all these people; they have been with me for three days now and have nothing to eat. If I send them

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A way to a pure heart (Part 3)

Download PDF We continue with the theme from 8 February. It is primarily about this Gospel passage of this date: ‘It is what comes out of someone that makes that person unclean. For it is from within, from the heart, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride,

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A way to a pure heart (Part 2)

Download PDF  We continue with the theme from yesterday. It is primarily about this Gospel passage of 8 February: ‘It is what comes out of someone that makes that person unclean. For it is from within, from the heart, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly.

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A way to a pure heart (Part 1)

Download PDF Mk 7:14-23 He called the people to him again and said, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into someone from outside can make that person unclean; it is the things that come out of someone that make that person unclean. Anyone who has ears for listening should listen!’

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The victory of faith and love 

Download PDF Mt 28:16-20 Gospel corresponding to the memory of St. Paul Miki and companions Meanwhile the eleven disciples set out for Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had arranged to meet them. When they saw him they fell down before him, though some hesitated. Jesus came up and spoke to them. He said, ‘All

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