St Stephens Guild Mass 26/12/19
St Stephens Day Mass – We welcomed Tibor, Phoebe, and Emily into the Guild of St Stephen at our Annual celebration of our patron. Congratulations to them and thank you to all the Servers for their valued contribution to the Parish in the last 12 months.
Weekly News 29/12/2019
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 (especially in the shorter version), there were also the so-called hidden […]
Weekly News 22/12/2019
Here we enter a new stage of Advent: having spent so much time on the Second Coming, now we look back, to remember the details of the Lords First Coming. Today we focus on the characters of Mary and Joseph and hear of the circumstances surrounding the conception of the child Jesus, and the reaction […]
Weekly News 15/12/2019
In many ways the readings this Sunday are simply a continuation of last week Isaiah gives us more details about the work of the Messiah, and Paul invites us to continue to be patient until the Lords Coming. What is slightly different is the voice of John the Baptist this week: last week in Matthew […]
Christmas Mass
Our Christmas Service this Year are as follows: Christmas Eve – Carols at 5:45 pm – Vigil Mass 6 pm Christmas Day – Mass 10 am Boxing Day – Mass 9:30 am There are alternative Masses St Mary’s Brownedge: Christmas Eve – Mass at 7 pm – […]
Weekly News 08/12/2019
Throughout the first three weeks of Advent, our focus is very clearly on the End of Time, and the Second Coming of the Lord – not on the run-up to Christmas (that only comes in the last week). If we view Advent as a Season preparing for Christmas these readings will make little sense – […]
News & Views December 2019
The Church Year begins in darkness – a deep purple darkness where we long for light and the bright shimmer of a star is a sign of hope and life. In the Liturgical Year, purple or violet is a colour of longing, renewal, and expectation: in Advent and Lent, at funerals or in the Sacrament […]
Weekly News 01/12/2019
Advent opens with a great promise: In the days to come the hope of people who need God. …The master is coming is also a promise, not a threat to breed fear, but to answer our cry. So Advent begins, not with thoughts of the past, with the coming of the Lord we celebrate at […]
Weekly News 24/11/2019
The year of Saint Luke ends with a characteristic take on the feast of Christ the King: in Luke’s gospel we are so familiar with seeing and hearing the voiceless, the rejected, those whom society puts in second place: how suitable, then, that on the feast of the King of all Creation we see him […]
Weekly News 17/11/2019
We must be very careful that the real point of today’s first reading is not washed away in genuine concerns over what one can and cannot say about the responsibilities of spouses. This is not, in fact, a recipe for the perfect wife, but an illustration, from one age, of the virtue of fully employing […]