Today’s Readings – Tuesday of Week 13 of Ordinary Time - First Reading

Commentary on Amos 3:1-8, 4:11-12

In today’s passage, Amos has a severe warning to his people. He speaks to “the whole family” that God brought up from the land of Egypt, apparently addressing all 12 tribes, although the Northern Kingdom only included 10. The others formed the Southern Kingdom, Judah, of which Amos himself was a member.

Over all these years God had shown his people a love which he had not given to any other people:

You only have I known
of all the families of the earth...


However, they had taken this privileged position as a right and did not respond in love and service, and as such they are told:

...therefore I will punish you
for all your iniquities.


Because of the abundance of love and favours showered on them, their wrong … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles

Commentary on Acts 12:1-11; 2 Timothy 4:6-8,17-18; Matthew 16:13-19

On this day we celebrate a special feast of the Church, symbolised by the two great Apostles, Peter and Paul. They were the two men around whom the mission of Jesus to establish the Kingdom was centred, and from whom it … Continue