Holy Family Catholic Church, Taipei - English Mass

12/09/2026

30/08/2026

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR A
Priest Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Leodovicus Barnard, SJ

🎶My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. -Ps. 63

09/08/2026

NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR A
Priest Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Andrew Carbon, SBD

Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.
-Psalm 85

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Catechism Today:

Why does God want there to be a Church?
God wills the Church because he wants to redeem us, not individually, but together. He wants to make all mankind his people.

No one gets to heaven by the asocial route. Someone who thinks only about himself and the salvation of his own soul is living a-socially. That is impossible both in heaven and on earth. God himself is not a-social; he is not a solitary, self-sufficient being. The Triune God in himself is "social", a communion, an eternal exchange of love. Patterned after God, man also is designed for relationship, exchange, sharing, and love. We are responsible for one another.

"As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." -Jn 20:21b

Youcat 122

14/06/2026

🟢 ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - Year A

Priest Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Chrysostom Exaltacion, SJ

“We are his people: the sheep of his flock.” — Psalm 100

**Catechism Today**

What will it be like when Christ judges us and the whole world?

Even Christ cannot help someone who does not want to know anything about love; such a person judges himself. Because Jesus Christ is "the way, and the truth, and the life" (Jn 14:6), he will show what is of lasting value in God's sight and what is not. Held up to the standard of his life, the full truth about all people, things, thoughts, and events will come to light.

What does it mean to say: I believe in the Holy Spirit?

To believe in the Holy Spirit means to worship him as God just like the Father and the Son. It means to believe that the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts so that we as children of God might know our Father in heaven. Moved by God's Spirit, we can change the face of the earth.

— Youcat 112, 113

07/06/2026

SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST

Priest Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Alberto Nuňez, SJ

“Brothers and sisters:
The cup of blessing that we bless,
is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?
The bread that we break,
is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Because the loaf of bread is one,
we, though many, are one body,
for we all partake of the one loaf.”
—1 Corinthians 10:16–17

31/05/2026

BLESSED SUNDAY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY

Priest Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Elton Fernandes, SJ

“Glory and praise forever!” - Daniel 3

🙏🏼 Catechism Today:

Why is Jesus Christ the Lord of the whole world? Jesus Christ is Lord of the world and Lord of history because everything was made for his sake. All men were redeemed by him and will be judged by him. He is over us, and the only One to whom we bend the knee in worship; he is with us as Head of his Church, in which the kingdom of God begins even now; he is ahead of us as Lord of history, in whom the powers of darkness are definitively overcome and the destinies of the world are brought to perfection according to God's plan; he comes to meet us in glory, on a day we do not know, to renew and perfect the world. - Youcat 110

24/05/2026

PENTECOST SUNDAY

Priest Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Vincent Lin, SJ

“Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.” - Psalm 104

17/05/2026

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord

Priest Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Wojciech Rybka, SVD

“God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.” -Psalm 47

🙏🏼 Catechism Today:

What changed in the world as a result of the
Resurrection? What does it mean to say that Jesus ascended into heaven?

Because death is now no longer the end of everything, joy and hope came into the world. Now that death "no longer has dominion" (Rom 6:9) over Jesus, it has no more power over us, either, who belong to Jesus. In the New Testament, the Ascension of Christ marks the end of forty days during which the risen Lord was especially close to his disciples. At the end of this time, Christ, together with his whole humanity, enters into the glory of God. Jesus Christ is now with the Father, and from there he will come one day "to judge the living and the dead". - Youcat 108, 109