Weekly News 02/02/25 Presentation of the Lord Year C
Presentation of the Lord – Year C This Sunday, February 2nd, we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also known as Candlemas. It is one of the few feasts which, if it falls on a Sunday, replaces the Sunday Mass prayers and readings. It commemorates two key events: the ritual purification of […]
Weekly News 26/01/25 Third Sunday of the Year C
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C After our brief excursion last week into Saint John’s Gospel, we are back on track this week with Saint Luke – whom we will follow for the rest of the year. Today is about beginnings: the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. It begins with the Word of […]
Weekly News 19/01/25 Second Sunday of the Year C
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C The Gospel of this second Sunday of Ordinary Time continues the theme of the end of Christmas – revelation. Jesus is revealed to the world by his birth, by his baptism, and by his miracles – the “signs” as John calls them. The wedding in today’s Gospel […]
Weekly News 12/01/25 Baptism of the Lord Year C
Baptism of the Lord – Year C It may seem strange, but this is a Christmas Feast. Not if we think of Christmas only in terms of the Baby in Bethlehem, but if we have followed the ideas of the Feasts of Holy Family and especially Epiphany, and have seen the Season in terms of […]
Weekly News 05/01/25 Epiphany of the Lord Year C
Epiphany of the Lord – Year C In the East, this Season of Christmas is called the Time of Manifestation, or Showing. Today is the ‘Feast of the Manifestation’, or the Showing of the Saviour to all nations. In the wise men who travel from the East, we see all nations being welcomed at the […]
News and Views January 2025
News & Views January 2025 – Cherishing all human life On 1st January, the Pope continued, on this World Day of Peace, “all of us are invited to take up the summons that flow from the maternal heart of Mary: to cherish life, to care for life, to restore dignity to the lives of everyone ‘born […]
Weekly News 29/12/24 Feast of the Holy Family Year C
Feast of the Holy Family – Year C As an example for us to follow, the Holy Family can seem a little too perfect: when we consider the more “dramatic” events of the Christmas and Easter story, it can seem so far removed from us. And yet, as today’s Gospel reminds us there were also […]
Weekly News 22/12/24 Fourth Sunday of Advent Year C
Fourth Sunday of Advent – Year C It’s only in this last week before Christmas that we begin to hear about the “Christmas story” itself. For the past weeks we have been preparing ourselves to greet the Lord, when he comes. Now we prepare to remember how he first came, by listening to the prophecies […]
Weekly News 15/12/24 Third Sunday of Advent Year C
Third Sunday of Advent – Year C This Sunday is called “Gaudete” Sunday — “Rejoice Sunday”. This comes from the readings we hear today, and it underlines an important point. In the Gospel, we hear John the Baptist telling different groups what to do – they must repent, and change their lives. We might think […]
Weekly News 0812/24 Second Sunday of Advent Year C
Second Sunday of Advent – Year C Again we hear about the coming “Day of Christ”, and meet the character of John the Baptist. Just as once before he “prepared the way” for the coming of Christ, so today he does the same for us. Our hearts should be open to his voice, as he […]