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October 18, 2025
Be on guard...
Watch, and be on guard against avarice of any kind, for a man’s life is not made secure by what he owns, even when he has more than he needs.
Luke 12 : 15
• The bronze sculpture made by Edith Downing (1857-1931) is titled Avarice and displayed at the National Museum, Cardiff
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October 17, 2025
St Luke, evangelist
Saint Luke wrote one of the major portions of the New Testament, a two-volume work comprising the third Gospel and Acts of the Apostles. In the two books he shows the parallel between the life of Christ and that of the Church. He is the only Gentile Christian among the Gospel writers. Tradition holds him to be a native of Antioch, and Paul calls him “our beloved physician.” His Gospel was probably written between 70 and 85 A.D.
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Source: Franciscan Media
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October 16, 2025
“My love for you is greater than your sins...”
Our scientific-materialistic age cannot “prove” private revelations. Theologians, if pressed, admit that we do not have to believe in them. But it is impossible to deny the message Margaret Mary heralded: that God loves us with a passionate love. Her insistence on reparation and prayer and the reminder of final judgment should be sufficient to ward off superstition and superficiality in devotion to the Sacred Heart while preserving its deep Christian meaning.
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Source: Franciscan Media
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October 15, 2025
In our weakness...
The Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to the mind of God.
Romans 8 : 26-27
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• The image is a statue of St Francis at Ards Friary, Creeslough, Co Donegal
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