News and Views July 2025
News & Views July 2025 The month of July is dedicated to the Precious Blood. It 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 the pierced side of Christ, and that the sacraments were brought forth through His […]
News and Views June 2025
News & Views June 2025 The Month of June is Dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated each June on the first Friday after the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (June 27). As we ponder the Sacred Heart of Jesus during the month of June let us […]
News and Views May 2025
News & Views May 2025 MAY The month of May is dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary. This year the whole month falls within the liturgical season of Easter, which is represented by the liturgical colour white — the colour of light, a symbol of joy, purity and innocence (absolute or restored). May is often associated […]
News and Views April 2025
News & Views April 2025 The month of April is dedicated to The Holy Spirit. The first few weeks this year are in Lent and the liturgical colour is purple but from Easter Sunday we enter the Easter season. The liturgical colour is white — the colour of light, a symbol of joy, purity and […]
News and Views March 2025
News & Views March 2025 Lent starts with ASH WEDNESDAY on 5th March and at the end of March we will have reached the Fourth Sunday. We prepare not only for Easter itself but the Clocks going forward on the same day to mark the end of the long Winter months. The times of the […]
News and Views February 2025
News & Views February 2025 Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day 11th February – In 1858 the Immaculate Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous near Lourdes in France, in the grotto of Massabielle. Through the poor child, Mary called sinners to penance, and thereby there arose in the Church a marvellous spirit of prayer […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
News and Views October 2024
News & Views October 2024 In 2020 on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (7th October) Pope Francis said. “Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. I invite everyone to rediscover, especially during this month of October, the beauty of the prayer of the rosary, which has nourished the faith […]