""Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain"; whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that.""  (James 4: 13-14) REFLECTION Saint James enjoyed considerable authority in Jerusalem and outside of Palestine. Here he gives us gol

Happy New Year 2026 to all Priests! Good Thursday morning and Happy New Year 2026, PAPA Missionaries and families! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are the PAPA Morning prayers on our Website! May Jesus bless you this New Year 2026!

SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD MASS READINGS: Gospel Luke 2:16-21 The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph,  and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this,  they made known the message  that had been told them about this child. All who heard it were amazed  by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things,  reflecting on them in her heart . Then the shepherds returned,  glorifying and praising God  for a

Pope Leo XIV's Prayer Intentions for January 2026 Let us pray that praying with the Word of God be nourishment for our lives and a source of hope in our communities, helping us to build a more fraternal and missionary Church. PAPA Prayer Intentions for all Priests Let us pray for all Priests to have the virtue of HOLINESS PRAY FOR PAPA BISHOPS Bishop Michael Brehl, C.Ss .R. Diocese of Pembrook  Canada Bishop Brendan Cahill Bishop of Victoria Texas Bishop Jude Arogundade Catho

"Pray much for priests because we need holy priests. The holier the priests are the more holy we religious will be. Then too, the more holy will be the families who are longing for God. If we have holy families we will have many holy vocations." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta #Saints #Quotes

Good Wednesday morning and Happy New Year's Eve to all Priests! Good Wednesday morning and Happy New Year's Eve to all our PAPA Missionaries and their families! Let us pray for Fr Francis Loi , CSsR and Father Joseph Truong, CSsR celebrating their Ordination Anniversaries, today! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Morning Prayers on our Website! Have a blessed New Year's Eve! God bless you all!

PAPA wishes you a Blessed New Year's Eve MASS READINGS: Gospel John 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race;    the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony,

"Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ's heart." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

READINGS Gospel Luke 2:36-40 There was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer. And coming forward at that very time, she gave thanks to God and spoke about th

Good Tuesday morning to all Priests! Good Tuesday morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Bishop Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Morning Prayers on our Website! May you all have a Terrific Tuesday and Merry Christmas!

"You are priests and religious; you are not social or political leaders or officials of a temporal power. For this reason I repeat to you "Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel if we 'dilute' our charism through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems." " ~ Pope Saint John Paul II

Good Monday Morning to all Priests! Good Morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA morning prayers on our Website! May you all have a beautiful Monday and Merry Christmas!

Gospel Luke 2:22-35 When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord. Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This ma

"If a priest is determined not to lose his soul, so soon as any disorder arises in the parish he must trample under foot all human considerations as well as the fear of the contempt and hatred of his people. He must not allow anything to bar his way in the discharge of duty, even where he is certain of being murdered on coming down from the pulpit. A pastor who wants to do his duty must keep his sword in hand at all times." ~ St. John Marie Vianney

Good morning to all Priests! Good morning to all our PAPA Family! Let us pray for Fr Humphrey Ude celebrating his birthday today! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Today is the Feast of the Holy Family. Let us pray to Dedication of a Family to Mary by St. Alphonsus de Liguori. Here we can continue to pray our PAPA Morning Prayers from our Website. May you all have a blessed day with your families!

Nativity scene by baroque great painter Peter Paul Rubens in Saint Paul's church, Antwerp Belgium MASS READINGS Reading I Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 God sets a father in honor over his children;     a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons. Whoever honors his father atones for sins,     and preserves himself from them. When he prays, he is heard;     he stores up riches who reveres his mother. Whoever honors his father is gladdened by children,     and, when he prays, is h

"Priests have received from God a power that he has given neither to angels nor to archangels... God above confirms what priests do here below." ~ St. John Chrysostom

Good Saturday morning in Christmas time to all Priests! Good Saturday morning to all our PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Fr. Sylvester Chasweka and Fr. Hans Candrell celebrating their birthdays, today! Let us pray for Bishop Joseph Strickland! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA morning prayers on our Website! Have a Merry Saturday in Christmastime!

ST JOHN THE APOSTLE MASS READINGS: Gospel John 20:1a and 2-8 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved , and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they put him." So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but

“When you see the Lord immolated and lying upon the altar, and the priest bent over that sacrifice praying, and all the people empurpled by that precious blood, can you think that you are still among men and on earth? Or are you not lifted up to Heaven?” ~ St. John Chrysostom