Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church, Ipoh, Malaysia

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Address: 19-21 Jalan La Salle, 31400 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia; Tel: (60) 5458220

ORDINARY TIME: After the feast of Pentecost which fell on May 20, the Church’s liturgical calendar changed from the Season of Easter to Ordinary Time. Many people might have missed this fact because the liturgical colour for Ordinary Time – green – is not used on the first two Sundays of this phase of the season. The Easter colour of white is continued because two solemnities – Holy Trinity and The Body and Blood of Christ – are celebrated on the Sundays following Pentecost.
The name “Ordinary Time” for that part of the church year outside the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter is perhaps rather an unfortunate term. The word “ordinary” commonly means something that is unexceptional or uninteresting. However, the word “ordinary” as used in “Ordinary Time” means that the Sundays after the seasons of Christmas and Easter are counted in order, using ordinal numbers.
It is best to think of Ordinary Time as one of the liturgical seasons – the longest season of the church year. Its liturgical colour of green points to our Christian hope and life, entering into the mystery of Christ in all its fullness.

Ordinary Time enables us to devote ourselves to exploring the mystery of Christ in all its aspects and to celebrate the presence of God in the ordinary patterns of human life.


(Ref. "Liturgy Brisbane")

Wednesday (18 July):Wednesday, 15th Week, Ordinary Time; Lit Colour:Green;  Reflections (1);

  • 1st Reading: Is 10:5-7, 13-16; Responsorial Psalm: Ps 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15; Gospel: Mt 11:25-27;
  • Response: The Lord will not abandon his people​. (Ps 94:14a)

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[Ref. Daily Readings: Universalis.com; Bible Quotes: oremus Bible Browser;  Reflections (1): CatholicCulture.org; (2) OMPH Spiritual Health]

Thursday (19 July):Thursday, 15th Week, Ordinary Time; Lit Colour:Green;  Reflections (1);

  • 1st Reading: Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19; Responsorial Psalm: Ps 102:13-14ab and 15, 16-18, 19-21; Gospel: Mt 11:28-30;
  • Response: From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth​. (Ps 102:20b)

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Address: 19-21 Jalan La Salle, 31400 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia; Tel: (60) 5458220; Fax: (60) 5468 495.

"For the Son of man is master of the Sabbath."

- Matthew 12:8 (Gospel,  Friday, 15th Week, Ordinary Time)

Friday (20 July):Friday, 15th Week, Ordinary Time; Lit Colour:Green; OR Red; St. Apollinaris of Hierapolis, Bishop & Martyr; memorial; Reflections (1);

  • 1st Reading: Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8; Responsorial Psalm: Is 38:10, 11 12abcd, 16; Gospel: Mt 12:1-8;
  • Response: You saved my life, O Lord; I shall not die​. (Is 38:17b)

Mass Readings

Tuesday (17 July):Tuesday, 15th Week, Ordinary Time; Lit Colour:Green;  Reflections (1);

  • 1st Reading: Is 7:1-9; Responsorial Psalm: Ps 48:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6, 7-8; Gospel: Mt 11:20-24;
  • Response: God upholds his city for ever​. (Ps 48:9d)

"We therefore grossly deceive ourselves in not allotting more time to the study of divine truths. It is not enough barely to believe them, and let our thoughts now and then glance upon them: that knowledge which shows us heaven, will not bring us to the possession of it, and will deserve punishments, not rewards, if it remain slight, weak, and superficial. By serious and frequent meditation it must be concocted, digested, and turned into the nourishment of our affections, before it can be powerful and operative enough to change them, and produce the necessary fruit in our lives. For this all the saints affected solitude and retreats from the noise and hurry of the world, as much as their circumstances allowed them."

- Saint Apollinaris of Hierapolis (from "Faith of the Fathers")