MASS READINGS : Gospel Matthew 12:14-21 The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. When Jesus realized this, he withdrew from that place. Many people followed him, and he cured them all, but he warned them not to make him known. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Isaiah the prophet: Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom I delight; I shall place my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. He will not...

MASS READINGS: Gospel Matthew 12:1-8 Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath." He said to them, "Have you not read what David didwhen he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the...

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, HAIFA, ISRAEL, 2022 PAPA PILGRIMAGE MASS READINGS: REFLECTION The Stella Maris (Star of the Seas), a Carmelite monastery, stands on the southwestern slope of Mount Carmel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Haifa, Israel. The beautiful church is built over a cave traditionally associated with the prophet Elijah, symbolizing the continuity between the Old Testament prophet and the Carmelite vocation of prayer and contemplation. Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title...