Weekly News 23/07/2023
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A – There is no room in a good field for weeds and rubbish: so in the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no room for all things that provoke offences, and all who do evil. They must be got rid of, for the sake of the good wheat, […]
Weekly News 16/07/2023
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A – The Gospel today is the beginning of a new section in Matthew, called The Parabolic Discourse – a section of parables Jesus tells the crowd, which we will read over the next three weeks. A parable is a story with a hidden meaning: we can easily […]
Weekly News 09/07/2023
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A – Today’s Gospel in an answer to a very simple question: who is this Jesus we follow? What is he like? He tells us himself: he is gentle, and humble of heart. There is a simplicity about this Gospel which speaks very clearly to tired hearts. Indeed, […]
News and Views July 2023
News & Views July 2023 July in the Catholic Church – The month of July is dedicated to the Precious Blood. The feast of the Precious Blood of our Lord was instituted in 1849 by Pius IX, but the devotion is as old as Christianity. The early Fathers say that the Church was born from […]
Weekly News 02/07/2023
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A – The Gospel and First Reading this Sunday can be summed up in one word: hospitality. But not hospitality in general – this is a very specific hospitality: welcoming the word of God. We must welcome the message of salvation into our homes and hearts, and show […]
Weekly News 25/06/2023
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A – Today’s Gospel turns our thoughts to the strange phenomenon of persecution: throughout the history of mankind, the truth has been a commodity that often leads to persecution: the prophets of the Old Testament were attacked because of their message, as was the Lord Jesus himself. For […]
Weekly News 18/06/2023
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A – The people of Israel were chosen by God, to be his own people. This Moses proclaims in the first reading. And having chosen a people, God does not abandon them: they may be like sheep without a shepherd, but God sends them the Good Shepherd, who feels sorry […]
Weekly News 11/06/2023
The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ – Year A – The Eucharist the Body and Blood of Christ is a mystery with so many layers and a depth that takes more than a lifetime to penetrate. It is not just a thing that we receive however reverently it is a person, a relationship, […]
Weekly News 04/06/2023
Trinity Sunday – Year A – We begin our Summer ‘Ordinary Time’ by celebrating a strange feast – not of a particular saint or event, but of the awesome paradoxes of our God, the Three-in-One, Father, Son and Spirit: so immeasurably distant, yet so amazingly close, so full of power and so full of love. […]
News and Views June 2023
News & Views June 2023 The Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the Friday following the second Sunday after Pentecost (16th June 2023). In addition to the liturgical celebration, many devotional exercises are connected with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Of all devotions, devotion to the Sacred Heart was, and […]