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  The Transfiguration Blessed Fra Angelico [ Web Gallery of Art ] Fra Angelico  (c.1395 - 18 February 1455) was an Italian Dominican friar. He was beatified by Pope St John Paul 11 on 3 October 1992 and his feast day is observed on 18 February. Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel   Mark 9:2-10  ( English Standard Version Anglicised, India) After six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,   and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.   And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.   And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”   For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified.   And a cloud over

The Coronation of the Virgin Velázquez [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel  John 3:16-18 ( English Standard Version Anglicised, India) Jesus said to Nicodemus: ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.   For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.   Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ’ Léachtaí i nGaeilge Last weekend I was in a parish in Dublin for a mission appeal on behalf of the Columbans with Angie Escarsa, a Columban lay missionary from Zambales, Philippines, who has been here in Ireland since the 1990s. I concelebrated and preached at the Saturday evening

Kitchen Scene with the Supper in Emmaus Diego  Velázquez  [ Web Gallery of Art] Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread (Luke 24:35). Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel   Luke 24:35-48     (English Standard Version, Anglicised) Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them,  “Peace to you!”   But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit.   And he said to them,  “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?   See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”   And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.   And wh