Sunday September 13th Twenty-Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time Year A Gospel of Matthew

Today is the second Sunday of the Season of Creation, that period of time where we are reminded of our place in Creation and our responsibility to play our part in caring for the planet and all living things.

Monday 14 th : The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The discovery of the True Cross is dated to 14th September 320. On 13th September 335, the churches on Calvary were dedicated and the cross that St Helena discovered was venerated there the next day. The annual commemoration of that event has been celebrated since, in
praise of the redemption won for us by Christ.

Tuesday 15 th : Our Lady of Sorrows. Mary, standing by the Cross, ‘suffered intensely with her only begotten Son and united herself as his Mother to his sacrifice, consenting with love to the offering of the victim who was born of her’, whom she also offered to the eternal Father.

Wednesday 16 th : St Cornelius became pope in 251 and died in exile at Civitavecchia in 253. Patron for cattle and domestic animals.

Thursday 17 th : St Robert Bellarmine, 1542 – 1621, Jesuit, Cardinal Bishop of Capua, was involved in  theological controversaries of the time. Patron of catechists.

St Hildegard, 1098-1179, founder of the monastery of Bingen around 1150, she knew the natural sciences, was a musician and composer, a writer and mystic. She worked for the reform of religious life and the Church, and was canonised and declared a doctor of the Church in 2012.