GOSPEL REFLECTION ... In today’s Gospel Our Lord says: “The Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed … the enemy came, sowed darnel among the wheat. And the servants of the owner said: “Let them grow to the harvest; and at harvest time I shall say to the reapers: First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burnt then gather the wheat to my barn.” Our Lord says that people of this kingdom on earth are “subjects of the evil one.” Our Lord did say that the prince...

GOSPEL REFLECTION ..... “The one who received the seed in rich soil is the man who hears the word and understands it; he is the one who yields a harvest and produces now a hundred-fold, now sixty, now thirty.” I will tell you a story written by an English doctor, Dr Helen Rose Venres. She was a missionary in the Congo in Africa from 1953 to 1973. “One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labour ward; but in spite of all that we could do, she died leaving us with a tiny, premature...

GOSPEL REFLECTION In today’s Gospel Jesus says: “Anyone who does not take up his Cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me.” In 1917 Our Lady appeared in Fatima, Portugal to three children Lucia aged 11, Francisco aged 9 and Jacinta aged 7. On July 13th Our Mother showed the children a vision of hell, then she said: “Make sacrifices for sinners and say often ‘Oh, my Jesus I make this sacrifice for love of You, for the conversion of sinners and for reparation for sins committed...