News & Views January 2019
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the parish for their very warm welcome into their community of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Gerard’s. It was a strange time to move midway through Advent, especially so close to Christmas. To parachute in without any personal involvement in prior planning actually […]
Weekly News 14/4/2019
On Palm Sunday the long reading of the Passion dominates the celebration, and in a sense its meaning is obvious. Do not allow this, however, to detract from the other readings, which give the vital context necessary for understanding the Passion as more than just a long story. It is our story of the tale […]
Weekly News 7/4/2019
There is a logical development in the readings this Sunday: in the Old Testament, God asks us to look forward to the “new deed he will do”, when he will put “water in the wilderness”; we then see the new deed, which Paul talks about, to be the “supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus”, and […]