Weekly News 15/09/19
The message of God’s forgiveness is one that we are familiar with, but which the Lord still wishes to emphasise. Our human approach to forgiveness is so often flawed we hold grudges, erect barriers, make demands and establish conditions. Jesus wants to remind his listeners and us that God’s forgiveness is overflowing […]
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Weekly News 08/09/19
The Gospel itself starts with a saying which many find hard to understand: must we really hate our family to be the Lords disciples? The point is that it is relative: what are we prepared to give up for the Gospel? Are we going to try and make our own cross, or accept whatever we […]
Weekly News 01/09/19
Humble behaviour is the mark of the Christian, as it always was the mark of someone in favour with the Lord. In the Gospel, we see Jesus watching the Pharisees: its almost amusing to picture them shuffling for the best places, the polite After you! to put themselves in a better position. How would they […]
News & Views September 2019
We are extremely lucky to have so many enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers. Last year as part of the Hope in the Future we had an afternoon buffet in the Parochial Centre as a thank you. We are going to do the same this year on 8th September. This will be your chance to meet […]
Weekly News 25/08/19
It’s probably a nightmare we all share to some degree or other – being locked out of the house, the sales, the big match, or missing the train, the boat or plane. Contemplating watching the crowds that have got inside, while we can do nothing, can be unnerving. Complacency can leave us in this situation: […]
Weekly News 18/08/19
When we consider the Christian life, we often think in positive terms: peace, light, joy, goodness, life. And yet, as the Scriptures remind us today, that Christian life must be lived in the midst of a world which is filled with more negative terms: division, distress, cruelty and death. The words of the Gospel may […]
Weekly News 10/08/19
Vigilance: we wait for glory or ruin, salvation or disaster. This is the choice that faces the Christian each and every day, as we wait for the Lord to return, as he promised he would. We often live our lives leaving such things to a distant, shadowy future – like the person who is going […]
Weekly News 04/08/19
This weekend we contemplate a great truth about our life: you can’t take it with you. The old phrase ”There are no pockets in a shroud” is what we confront today, in the preaching of both Ecclesiastes and the Lord Jesus. What Jesus makes us think about, however, is not just this truth, but the […]
News & Views August 2019
The Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our Lady, its origin is lost in those days when Jerusalem was restored as a sacred city, at the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine (c. 285-337). By then it had been a pagan city for two centuries, ever since Emperor Hadrian (76-138) had levelled it around […]