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Compiled by: Twitter X @Michael65413248 & Buddies, Catholics in Singapore.
Ordinary Time 2025: Daily Mass Readings, Commentaries from Saints & Saints’ Feast Days
14 September 2025(Sun) Feast of the Exaltation of The Holy Cross #MassReadings & Commentaries of Saints https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1966719014971076947 Feast of Saint Notburga of Rattenberg & other Saints https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1966723368226545922 Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
13 September 2025(Sat) #MassReadings & Commentaries of Saints https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1966753094903230910 https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1966759635110580629 Feast of Saint John Chrysostom & other Saints https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1966756778034737480 Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
8 September 2025 (Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
07 September 2025 (23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Rev. George Leo Haydock (Wisdom 9:13-18b (Douay-Rheims). And who shall know Thy thought, except Thou give wisdom, and send Thy Holy Spirit from above…) Saint Augustine (Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17 (Douay-Rheims). Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.) Saint John Chrysostom (Philemon 9-10, 12-17 (Douay-Rheims). If therefore thou count me a partner, receive him as myself.) Saints (Luke 14:25-33 (Douay-Rheims). And whosoever doth not carry His cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple.) Some Saints’ Commentaries: Saint GREGORY the Great. Or because the cross is so called from torturing. In two ways we bear our Lord’s cross, either when by abstinence we afflict our bodies, or when through compassion of our neighbour we think all his necessities our own. But because some exercise abstinence of the flesh not for God’s sake but for vain-glory, and shew compassion, not spiritually but carnally, it is rightly added, And, cometh after me. For to bear His cross and come after the Lord, is to use abstinence of the flesh, or compassion to our neighbour, from the desire of an eternal gain. Because He had been giving high and lofty precepts, immediately follows the comparison of building a tower, when it is said, For which of you intending to build a tower does not first count &c. For every thing that we do should be preceded by anxious consideration. If then we desire to build a tower of humility, we ought first to brace ourselves against the ills of this world. For when occupied in good works, unless we watch carefully against the evil spirits, we find those our mockers who are persuading us to evil. But another comparison is added proceeding from the less to the greater, in order that from the least things the greatest may be estimated. For it follows, Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consultelh whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Saint CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA. For we fight against spiritual wickedness in high places; (Ephesians. 6:12.) but there presses upon us a multitude also of other enemies, fleshly lust, the law of sin raging in our members, and various passions, that is, a dreadful multitude of enemies. Saint BASIL the Great. But our Lord’s intention in the above-mentioned example is not indeed to afford occasion or give liberty to any one to become His disciple or not, as indeed it is lawful not to begin a foundation, or not to treat of peace, but to shew the impossibility of pleasing God, amidst those things which distract the soul, and in which it is in danger of becoming an easy prey to the snares and wiles of the devil. Past Homilies & Angelus of Pope Saint John Paul II & Pope Benedict XVI Sending Joy, Love & Peace to You now! Welcome to Singapore!
September 7: Canonisation of Saint Carlo Acutis & Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati at Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope Leo XIV. Feast of Saint Clodoald, Saint Marko Krizin, Martyr, Saint Melchior Grodziecki, Martyr & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
06 September 2025 (Saturday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Saint John Chrysostom (Colossians 1:21-23 (Douay-Rheims). And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works: Yet now God hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and blameless before him…) Saint Augustine (Psalm 54:3-4, 6 and 8 (Douay-Rheims). For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.) Saints (Luke 6:1-5 (Douay-Rheims). And Jesus said to them: The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.) Some Saints’ Commentaries: Saint John CHRYSOSTOM. But Mark declares that He uttered this of our common nature, for He said, The Sabbath was made for man, not, man for the Sabbath. It is therefore more fitting that the Sabbath should be subject to man, than that man should bow his neck to the Sabbath. Saint AMBROSE. Now the Jews thought this unlawful on the Sabbath, but Christ by the gift of new grace represented hereby the rest of the law, the work of grace. Wonderfully has He called it the second-first Sabbath, not the first-second, because that was loosed from the law which was first, and this is made first which was ordained second. It is therefore called the second Sabbath according to number, the first according to the grace of the work. For that Sabbath is better where there is no penalty, than that where there is a penalty prescribed. Or this perhaps was first in the foreknowledge of wisdom, and second in the sanction of the ordinance. Now in David escaping with his companions, there was a foreshadowing of Christ in the law, who with His Apostles escaped the prince of the world. But how was it that the Observer and Defender of the law Himself both eat the bread, and gave it to those that were with Him, which no one was allowed to eat but the priests, except that He might shew by that figure that the priests’ bread was to come over to the use of the people, or that we ought to imitate the priests’ life, or that all the children of the Church are priests, for we are anointed into a holy priesthood, offering ourselves a spiritual sacrifice to God. (1 Peter 2:5.) But if the Sabbath was made for men, and the benefit of men required that a man when hungry (having been long without the fruits of the earth) should forsake the abstinence of the old fast, the law is surely not broken but fulfilled. Sending Joy, Love & Peace to You now! Welcome to Singapore!
September 6: Feast of Saint Bega (video, cartoon) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
05 September 2025 (Friday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Saint John Chrysostom (Colossians 1:15-20 (Douay-Rheims). And through Jesus to reconcile all things unto Himself, making peace through the blood of His cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.) Saint Augustine (Psalm 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5 (Douay-Rheims). For the Lord is sweet, His mercy endureth for ever, and His truth to generation and generation. Saints (Luke 5:33-39 (Douay-Rheims). But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. Some Saints’ Commentaries: Saint CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA. …But holy men indeed fast, that by the mortification of their body they may quell its passions. Christ needed not fasting for the perfecting of virtue, since as God He was free from every yoke of passion. Nor again did His companions need fasting, but being made partakers of His grace without fasting they were strengthened in all holy and godly living. For when Christ fasted for forty days, it was not to mortify His passions, but to manifest to carnal men the rule of abstinence. Saint AMBROSE. Lastly, it is spoken of the fast of the soul, as the context shews, for it follows, But he said, No man put a piece of a new garment upon an old. He calleth fasting an old garment, which the Apostle thought should be taken off, saying, Put off the old man with his deeds. (Colossians 3:9.) In the same manner we have a series of precepts not to mix up the actions of the old and new man. Saint BEDE. Inasmuch as wine refreshes us within, but garments cover us without, the garments are the good works which we do abroad, by which we shine before men; wine, the fervour of faith, hope, and charity. Or, the old skins are the Scribes and Pharisees, the new piece and the new wine the precepts of the Gospel. Saint GREGORY OF NYSSA. For wine newly drawn forth, evaporates on account of the natural heat in the liquor, throwing off from itself the scum by natural action. Such wine is the new covenant, which the old skins because of their unbelief contain not, and are therefore burst by the excellence of the doctrine, and cause the grace of the Spirit to flow in vain; because into an evil soul wisdom will Not enter. (Wisdom1:4. ) Saint BEDE. But to every soul which is not yet renewed, but goes on still in the old way of wickedness, the sacraments of new mysteries ought not to be given. They also who wish to mix the precepts of the Law with the Gospel, as the Galatians did, put new wine into old bottles. It follows, No man also having drank old wine straightway desires new, for he saith, the old is better. For the Jews, imbued with the taste of their old life, despised the precepts of the new grace, and being defiled with the traditions of their ancestors, were not able to perceive the sweetness of spiritual words. Sending Joy, Love & Peace to You now! Welcome to Singapore!
September 5: Feast of Saint Mother Teresa (Wikiquote, Documentary, Dark Night, cartoon), Saint Bertin the Great (video, for kids) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
04 September 2025 (Thursday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Saint John Chrysostom (Colossians 1:9-14 (Douay-Rheims). Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will, in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding: That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God…) Saint Augustine (Psalm 98:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6 (Douay-Rheims). The Lord hath made known His salvation: He hath revealed His justice in the sight of the Gentiles. He hath remembered his mercy his truth toward the house of Israel.) Saints (Luke 5:1-11 (Douay-Rheims). And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the night, and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes, and their net broke.) Some Saints’ Commentaries: Saint THEOPHYLACT. Peter did not refuse to comply, as it follows, And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all night and have taken nothing. He did not go on to say, “I will not hearken to thee, nor expose myself to additional labour,” but rather adds, Nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net. But our Lord, since he had taught the people out of the ship, left not the master of the ship without reward, but conferred on him a double kindness, giving him first a multitude of fishes, and next making him His disciple: as it follows, And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. They took so many fishes that they could not pull them out, but sought the assistance of their companions; as it follows, But their net brake, and they beckoned to their partners who were in the other ship to come, &c. Peter summons them by a sign, being unable to speak from astonishment at the draught of fishes. We next hear of their assistance, And they came and filled both the ships. Saint Ambrose https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1888546786790326631 Saint AUGUSTINE. Now the circumstance of the nets breaking, and the ships being filled with the multitude of fishes so that they began to sink, signifies that there will be in the Church so great a multitude of carnal men, that unity will be broken up, and it will be split into heresies and schisms. Saint BEDE. The net is broken, but the fish escape not, for the Lord preserves His own amid the violence of persecutors. But the filling of these ships goes on until the end of the world. But the fact that the ships, when filled, begin to sink, i.e. become weighed low down in the water; (for they are not sunk, but are in great danger,) the Apostle explains when he says, In the last days perilous times shall come; men shall be lovers of their own selves, &c. (2 Timothy 3:1,2.) For the sinking of the ships is when men, by vicious habits, fall back into that world from which they have been elected by faith. Saint Gregory of Nyssa https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1888546872572223500 Saint AUGUSTINE. But the Lord did not depart from them, shewing thereby that good and spiritual men, when they are troubled by the wickedness of the many, ought not to wish to abandon their ecclesiastical duties, that they might live as it were a more secure and tranquil life. But the bringing their ships to land, and forsaking all to follow Jesus, may represent the end of time, when those who have clung to Christ shall altogether depart from the storms of this world. Sending Joy, Love & Peace to You now! Welcome to Singapore!
September 4: Feast of Moses, the Great Prophet (quote, Wikiquote, Movie), Saint Rose of Viterbo, Patron Saint of People in exile; people rejected by religious orders; tertiaries; Viterbo, Italy (quotes, quotes) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
03 September 2025 (Wednesday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Saint John Chrysostom (Colossians 1:1-8 (Douay-Rheims). Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.) Saint Augustine (Psalm 52:10, 11 (Douay-Rheims). But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.) Saints (Luke 4:38-44 (Douay-Rheims). And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them to Jesus. But he laying his hands on every one of them, healed them.) Someone suddenly becomes very sick (collapse?), quickly call the Ambulance! A Christian who is fully possessed by the Holy Spirit is powerful! There is NO accident, God has put you there for a purpose: To call upon Him, plead the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ on the Patient so that he will live! Copy what Fr. Jim Blount did in this video (starting from 16:20/31:05) Pray this over the Patient: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRDAq95Ce00 As Children of God, we are commanded by Jesus to heal the sick & raise the dead (Matthew 10:8) and God wants us to trample on the enemies (Luke 10:19). See this: https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1849991155385237930 Some Saints’ Commentaries: Saint CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA. Let us therefore receive Jesus. For when He has visited us, we carry Him in our heart and mind; He will then extinguish the flames of our unlicensed pleasures, and will make us whole, so that we minister unto Him, that is, do things well-pleasing to Him. But although as God He was able to drive away diseases by His word, He nevertheless touches them, shewing that His flesh was powerful to apply remedies, since it was the flesh of God; for as fire, when applied to a brazen vessel, imprints on it the effect of its own heat, so the omnipotent Word of God, when He united to Himself in real assumption a living virgin temple, endued with understanding, implanted in it a participation of His own power. May He also touch us, nay rather may we touch Him, that He may deliver us from the infirmities of our souls as well as the assaults of the evil spirit and pride! For it follows, And devils also came out. Saint John CHRYSOSTOM. Observe also, that Jesus might, by abiding in the same place, have drawn all men over to Himself. He did not however do so, giving us an example to go about and seek those who are perishing, as the shepherd his lost sheep, and as the physician the sick. For by recovering one soul, we may be able to blot out a thousand sins. Hence also it follows, and he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. He frequently indeed went to the synagogues, to shew them that He was no deceiver. For if He were constantly to dwell in the desolate places, they would spread abroad that He was concealing Himself. Sending Joy, Love & Peace to You now! Welcome to Singapore! September 3: Feast of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (cartoon, movie). His works: His sermons compiled in Catena Aurea by Saint Thomas Aquinas, Morals on The Book Of Job Volumes 1 To 3. Feast of other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
02 September 2025 (Tuesday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Saint John Chrysostom (1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11 (Douay-Rheims). For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night… But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.) Saint Augustine (Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 (Douay-Rheims). One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.) Saints (Luke 4:31-37 (Douay-Rheims). And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold thy peace, and go out of him. And when the devil had thrown him into the midst, he went out of him, and hurt him not at all.) Can’t find a Bishop or Priest who dares to cast out evil spirit? Many of them are afraid, is the Holy Spirit inside them? You who obey & walk with God just DIY & copy what Fr. Jim Blount did here; it’s VERY Safe! https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1844558570572087555 Some Saints’ Commentaries: Saint BEDE. But by the permission of God, the man who was to be delivered from the devil is thrown into the midst that the power of the Saviour being manifested might bring over many to the way of salvation. As it follows: And when the devil had thrown him in the midst. But this seems to be opposed to Mark, who says, And the unclean spirit tearing him, and crying with a loud voice, went out of him, unless we understand that Mark meant by tearing him the same as Luke by these words, And when he had thrown him in the midst, so that what follows, and hurt him not, might be understood to mean, that that twisting of limbs, and sore troubling, did not weaken him, as is often the case when devils depart from a man, leaving him with limbs cut and torn off. Well then do they wonder at such complete restoration of health. For it follows: And fear came upon all. Holy men were able by the word of God to cast out devils, but the Word Himself does mighty works by His own power. Saint AMBROSE. In a mystery, the man in the synagogue with the unclean spirit is the Jewish people, which being fast bound in the wiles of the devil, defiled its vaunted cleanliness of body by the pollution of the heart. And truly it had an unclean spirit, because it had lost the Holy Spirit. For the devil entered whence Christ had gone out. Sending Joy, Love & Peace to You now! Welcome to Singapore! September 2: Feast of Saint Justus of Lyon, Bishop, Abbot, Hermit (video, video) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
01 September 2025 (Monday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Saint John Chrysostom (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (Douay-Rheims). For the Lord Himself shall come down from heaven with commandment, and with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord. Saint Augustine (Psalm 96:1 and 3, 4-5, 11-12, 13 (Douay-Rheims). Before the face of the Lord, because He cometh: because He cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with His truth. Saints (Luke 4:16-30 (Douay-Rheims). And Jesus began to say to them: This day is fulfilled this scripture in your ears. Some Saints’ Commentaries https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1883485609966407907 https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1904137391331545340 https://x.com/Michael65413248/status/1904136765965058164 Sending Joy, Love & Peace to You now! September 1: Feast of Saint Giles, Abbot, Hermit, Patron Saint of beggars; blacksmiths; against breast cancer; breast feeding; cancer patients; disabled people; Edinburgh (Scotland); against epilepsy; forests; hermits; horses; lepers; against mental illness; outcasts; poor people; rams; spur makers; against sterility (Video), Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, OCD (quotes) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
31 August 2025 (22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Rev. George Leo Haydock (Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 (Douay-Rheims). The greater thou art, the more humble thyself in all things, and thou shalt find grace before God…) Saint Augustine (Psalm 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 (Douay-Rheims). Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place.) Saint John Chrysostom (Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a (Douay-Rheims). But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels…) Saints (Luke 14:1, 7-14 (Douay-Rheims). But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind; And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.) Saint John CHRYSOSTOM. Let us not then bestow kindness on others under the hope of return. For this is a cold motive, and hence it is that such a friendship soon vanishes. But if you invite the poor, God, who never forgets, will be your debtor, as it follows, But when ye make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. But thou sayest, the poor are unclean and filthy. Wash him, and make him to sit with thee at table. If he has dirty garments, give him clean ones. Christ comes to thee through him, and dost thou stand trifling? It would become thee then to receive them above in the best chamber, but if thou shrinkest, at least admit Christ below, where are the menials and servants. Let the poor man be at least thy door keeper. For where there is alms, the devil durst not enter. And if thou sittest not down with them, at any rate send them the dishes from thy table. Saint GREGORY OF NYSSA. Do not then let them lie as though they were nothing worth. Reflect who they are, and thou wilt discover their preciousness. They have put on the image of the Saviour. Heirs of future blessings, bearing the keys of the kingdom, able accusers and excusers, not speaking themselves, but examined by the judge. Saint ORIGEN. But mystically, he who shuns vain-glory calls to a spiritual banquet the poor, that is, the ignorant, that he may enrich them; the weak, that is, those with offended consciences, that he may heal them; the lame, that is, those who have wandered from reason, that he may make their paths straight; the blind, that is, those who discern not the truth, that they may behold the true light. But it is said, They cannot recompense thee, i.e. they know not how to return an answer. Past Homilies & Angelus of Pope Saint John Paul II & Pope Benedict XVI Sending Joy, Love & Peace to You now! August 31: Feast of Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Bishop, Patron Saint of Northumbria & firefighters (quotes, quotes) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
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