Praying the Holy Rosary every day...

Living Rosary Group

Part of the Beacon Project is Our Lady of Fatima Living Rosary Group. This group of 20 people, from parishes within the Diocese, pray the entire Holy Rosary each day and would welcome the opportunity to pray for your intentions.

Please use the contact form below with your intentions and our group will pray for these as part of our daily prayer offerings. If you would like to join this group then also contact us for more details.

Resources: Here’s a link to listen to Bishop Egan’s MP3 series about The Holy Rosary >
Group Contact: Paul Vacher

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DAILY MEDITATION:Good News ReflectionMonday of the 24th Week of Ordinary TimeSeptember 17, 2018Today’s Prayer:My Lord, help me by strengthening my trust in You. Heal me and deliver me from everything that stops me from working the wonders You long to work through me. Amen.Today's Readings:1 Corinthians 11:17-26,33Ps 40:7-10,17Luke 7:1-10Learning from divisionsAre there divisions in your family or workplace or parish? St. Paul makes a startling observation in today's first reading. He says, "There have to be factions among you ..." as if this were a good thing.Why? Where is the blessing in division? Paul explains: " ... for the approved -- the tried and true -- to become known and stand out clearly." Tried in what? True to what?Love. Sometimes we're motivated by love, and sometimes we're motivated by selfishness. The word "sin" means, at its historical root, "to miss the mark." What is the mark we always aim for? Love. Jesus put it this way: "To love God wholeheartedly and to love others as you love yourself."If we truly want to unite ourselves to God, so that we experience his unconditional, caring love each moment of each day, we have to live in his love, which means that our love for others has to be unconditional, like his.To perfect our love -- to become aware of the limits of our love so that we can stretch and grow beyond these limits -- our love has to be tested and tried. Every difficulty is an opportunity to love more fully than we did in the last test we endured. However, this growth will divide us from those who choose to remain selfish.Paul says that the selfish person gets drunk on his wealth while disregarding the needs of others. To put this in terms of parish divisions, for example, selfish clergy and lay leaders get intoxicated by their status, their authority, their clout, their college degrees, their years of experience, and even their God-given talents while disregarding the feelings and insights and input and value of others.In the midst of this, the "tried and true" stand out clearly. They try to mend divisions by extending gestures of kindness when they're mistreated. Who is the person who proclaims "the death of the Lord until he comes again" (which Paul describes as the true meaning of the Mass, i.e., the Lord's Supper)? The one who offers humble, loving service despite conflicts. We proclaim the Lord's sacrificial death on the cross by making sacrifices, nailing the unloving reactions we feel. Thus, we become Eucharist for others.In today's Gospel reading, why did Jesus praise the faith of the pagan centurion? It wasn't only because the official understood the power of an authoritative command. The man had humility; he even built a synagogue for the Jews out of concern for them. We can surmise from this that he genuinely loved his ailing servant. Likewise, in our humility we're able to see the value of others, not just for what they can do for us, but as precious human beings.Our faith is tried every time we encounter people who oppose us. Our faith is proven true when we respond to them with love.#dailymeditations www.stswithuns.org.uk/event/dr-17092018 ... See MoreSee Less

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This reading today was so appropriate as we had a beautiful lunch provided by our wonderful brothers and their families from Kerala.

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Newsletter:16th September 2018 - 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B 2018 St Swithun's RC Church Southsea

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DAILY MEDITATION:24th Sunday in Ordinary TimeSeptember 16, 2018Today’s Prayer:My Lord, give me the grace of discovering the endless treasure that You are. I want to learn to see my life through You. I accept You and receive Your reign in me. Amen.Today's Readings:Isaiah 50:5-9aPs 116:1-6, 8-9James 2:14-18Mark 8:27-35Faith that worksThis Sunday's second reading defines the doctrine of faith and works.Works without faith, no matter how good the works are, don't get us into heaven. Some of us try to earn our way into God's heart by serving in church activities, saying all the "right" prayers, and so on. This idea comes from our childhood when we learned: "If I'm good enough, Mom and Dad will reward me" and "If I do well in school, the teacher will give me a gold star" or smiley face or whatever it is they paste on homework today.The problem is, we can never be good enough for heaven. This is why Jesus came to earth and took our sins to the cross.Faith without works isn't going to get us into heaven, either. Here's why:Faith in Jesus starts with believing that, in his love for us, he died for us and rose again so that we'll have eternal life. This is what opens the door to heaven. However, to walk through that door, we have to follow Jesus. This requires doing more than believing in his death and resurrection; we also believe in his life -- how he lived his life. Following Jesus affects our lifestyles and our day-to-day behavior. How Christ-like is it?The proof that we truly do have faith is evidenced in the good works that we do. Faith in Jesus means we love him so much that we love all those whom he loves, which is EVERYone regardless of whether they deserve it or not.And faith in Jesus means we trust him so much that we do whatever he tells us -- imitating him in all of our activities, adopting his attitudes, and responding to his calling to serve as priests, religious, and lay ministers, even when it seems risky or illogical.Thus, when Jesus says to us in the Gospel reading, "Who do you say that I am?" we answer that he is our Savior who takes us to heaven, and he is our Lord who teaches us how to live, and he is our Lover who empowers us to love others even when it becomes a cross to bear.Questions for Personal Reflection:Is Jesus Christ truly your Lord and Savior? Do you believe that he suffered and died on your behalf so that you could reach heaven? Are you doing good works because you adore him so much that you want to go where he goes and do what he does and serve as his hands and feet and voice wherever he leads you?#dailymeditations www.stswithuns.org.uk/event/dr-16092018 ... See MoreSee Less