CALENDAR 2026
Let us go to Jesus: He can heal us, He can revive us. Jesus is our hope!
Pope Leo XIV – General Audience, 25 June 2025
God’s truth, beautifully told. since 1868
Baptism ushers us into communion with Christ and gives us life... It commits us to renounce a culture of death.
Pope Leo XIV, Speech July 2025
Pope Leo’s prayer intention
For the right to an education.
Let us pray for migrants, refugees and those affected by war, that their right to an education, which is necessary to build a better world, might always be respected.
Mary is that wondrous union of grace and freedom, which urges each of us to have trust, courage and participation in the life of God’s people.
Pope Leo XIV, Homily, August 2025
Pope Leo’s prayer intention
For working conditions.
Let us pray that through work, each person might find fulfilment, families might be sustained in dignity, and that society might be humanised.
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
Jn 3:16-18
Psalter week I
VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
5th Sunday of Easter Jn 14:1-12
Psalter week I
SS PHILIP AND JAMES, APOSTLES
6th Sunday of Easter Jn 14:15-21
Psalter week II
St Damien of Molokai, priest
St John of Avila, priest and doctor of the Church
St Comgall, abbot (Ireland)
THE ENGLISH MARTYRS (England) St Conleth, bishop (Ireland) Bank Holiday
St Asaph, bishop (Wales)
Blessed Edmund Rice, religious (Ireland) Survivors of Sexual Abuse
SS Nereus and Achilleus, martyrs St Pancras, martyr
Our Lady of Fatima
ASCENSION OF THE LORD (Ireland), Mt 28:16-20
7th Sunday of Easter (England, Wales and Scotland), Jn 17:1-11a Psalter week III
St Paschal Baylon, priest World Communications Day
St John I, pope and martyr
Dunstan, bishop (England)
St Bernardine of Siena, priest
ASCENSION OF THE LORD (England, Wales and Scotland) Mt 28:16-20
ST MATTHIAS, APOSTLE
St Joseph the Worker First Friday
St Athanasius, bishop and doctor of the Church First Saturday
PENTECOST
Jn 20:19-23
Prayers for the Church
Mary, Mother of the Church St Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor of the Church
St Gregory VII, pope
St Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi, virgin Bank Holiday (UK) Psalter week IV
ST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, BISHOP (Feast only in England
St Christopher Magallanes, priest, and companions, martyrs
St Carthage, bishop (Ireland)
St Brendan, abbot (Ireland)
St Rita of Cascia, religious
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST (Feast only in England & Wales)
St Paul VI, pope
When the light of forgiveness succeeds in filtering through the deepest crevices of the heart, we understand that it is never futile.
Pope Leo XIV, General Audience, August 2025
Pope Leo’s prayer intention
For formation in discernment.
Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel.
month of the Precious Blood
St Oliver Plunkett, bishop and martyr (Ireland and England)
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mt 11:25-30 Psalter week II
St Anthony Zaccaria, priest
St Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr St Moninne, virgin (Ireland)
St Maelruain, bishop and abbot (Ireland)
St Kilian, bishop and martyr (Ireland)
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mt 13:1-23 Psalter week III
St John Jones, priest and martyr (Wales) Sea Sunday
St Henry Bank Holiday (Northern Ireland)
St Camillus de Lellis, priest
OUR LADY OF ABERDEEN (Scotland)
St Augustine Zhao Rong, priest, and companions, martyrs
ST THOMAS, APOSTLE First Friday
St Pier Giorgio Frassati
St Elizabeth of Portugal First Saturday
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mt 13:24-43 Psalter week IV
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mt 13:44-52
Psalter week I
SS Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Apollinaris, bishop and martyr
St Lawrence of Brindisi, priest and doctor of the Church
St Bonaventure, bishop and doctor of the Church
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
ST BENEDICT, ABBOT, PATRON OF EUROPE
ST MARY MAGDALENE
ST BRIDGET, RELIGIOUS, PATRON OF EUROPE
SS Philip Evans and John Lloyd, priests and martyrs (Wales)
St Sharbel Makhlu¯ f, priest St Declan, bishop (Ireland)
ST JAMES, APOSTLE
SS Martha, Mary and Lazarus
St Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor of the Church
St Ignatius of Loyola, priest
Mary Most Holy, our Mother, welcomed our Lord, bore him in her womb, and together with Joseph gave him a home. We see the beauty of our own vocation, the vocation of the Church, to be a home open to all and in this way to welcome her Lord, who knocks at our door and asks our permission to enter.
Pope Leo’s prayer intention
For Christians in areas of conflict. Let us pray that Christians living in areas of war or conflict, especially in the Middle East, might be seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope.
2nd Sunday of Advent Mk 1:1-8 Psalter week II
St Nicholas, bishop
GAUDETE SUNDAY
3rd Sunday of Advent
Jn 1:6-8, 19-28 Psalter week III
St Lucy, virgin and martyr
Ambrose, bishop and doctor of the
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
St Francis Xavier, priest Migrants’ Day
4th Sunday of Advent Lk 1:26-38 Psalter week IV
St Fachanan, bishop (Ireland) O Clavis David Expectant Mothers
John of the Cross, priest and doctor of the Church
Lady of Loreto St John Roberts, priest and martyr (Wales)
St John Damascene, priest and doctor of the Church First Friday
OCTAVE
HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH Lk 2:22-40
JOHN, APOSTLE AND
Peter Canisius, priest and doctor of the Church
Cabrini,
John of Kanty, priest O Emmanuel
EVE Lk 2:1-14 (Midnight Mass)
St Damasus I, pope
Our Lady of Guadalupe St Finnian, bishop (Ireland)
St Flannan, bishop (Ireland) O Adonai
O Radix Jesse
CHRISTMAS DAY, NATIVITY OF THE LORD Jn 1:1-18 Bank Holiday
CHRISTMAS OCTAVE ST STEPHEN, THE FIRST MARTYR Boxing Day
OCTAVE