News and Views December 2024
News and Views December 2024 The month of December is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. The 1st to the 24th December fall into the liturgical season known as of Advent and are represented by the liturgical colour purple — a symbol of penance, mortification and the sorrow of a contrite heart. The remaining days of December […]
Weekly News 01/12/24 First Sunday of Advent Year C
First Sunday of Advent – Year C Every time we complete the cycle of the liturgical year, there is a seamless blending into the new year: so, just as this week we hear of the King who is to come, next week, we begin a New Year and the Season of Advent by more meditation […]
Weekly News 25/11/24 Christ the King Year B
Christ the King – Year B Every time we complete the cycle of the liturgical year, there is a seamless blending into the new year: so, just as this week we hear of the King who is to come, next week, we begin a New Year and the Season of Advent by more meditation on […]
Weekly News 17/11/24 33rd Sunday Year B
The 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B As always at this time of year, we begin to contemplate the end of the world a theme that carries us over next Sunday’s feast (Christ the King) and so into Advent. Such a contemplation is not gloomy or morbid: throughout the ages (and especially in […]
Weekly News 10/11/24 32nd Sunday Year B
The 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B “God does not have favourites”, Saint Paul tells us, but God always makes a special place for the poor, and those whom society would push into second place. In the traditions of Israel God invited the people to have special care for the “widows and orphans” […]
Weekly News 03/11/24 31stSunday Year B
The 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Every priest, and indeed every Catholic, can sometimes find themselves in the position of being asked, “This religion of yours – what’s it all about, really, when you come down to it?” Our temptation might be to go on at length, which is when we should […]
News and Views November 2024
News & Views November 2024 The month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. The Church commemorates all her faithful children who have departed from this life, but have not yet attained the joys of heaven. St. Paul warns us that we must not be ignorant concerning the dead, nor sorrowful, “even […]
Weekly News 27/10/24 30th Sunday Year B
The 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B It’s often the case that the “values of the Gospel” contradict the “values of the World” – sometimes to the extent that the one is the exact opposite of the other. Today is a typical example: greatness and prominence, success and victory, these are goals that […]
Weekly News 20/10/24 29th Sunday Year B
The 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B It’s often the case that the “values of the Gospel” contradict the “values of the World” – sometimes to the extent that the one is the exact opposite of the other. Today is a typical example: greatness and prominence, success and victory, these are goals that […]
Weekly News 13/10/24 28th Sunday Year B
The 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B In today’s story of the rich young man, who comes to Jesus full of good intentions, there are some simple words that speak so clearly to our own age: when Jesus tells him to sell everything and give it to the poor, “his face fell at […]