News and Views February 2023
News & Views February 2023 Our Lady of Lourdes: – 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 and charity, especially […]
Spiritual Retreat Programme 2024 / 2025
Our retreat programme continues on Saturday 7th December 2024: TIME TO REFLECT – Explore the beautiful space of Advent. The retreats start at 11:30 am through to 3 pm (with 30 minutes Lunch break (please bring a packed lunch)). The cost is £20 per person. The retreats are held in our refurbished “Shields Centre” and […]
Weekly News 29/01/2023
4th Sunday of Ordinary Time Last week we heard Saint Matthew describing the beginnings of Jesus’ public ministry. This week Saint Matthew begins the most important summary of the proclamation of the kingdom of God, what we refer to as the Sermon on the Mount. This great collection of Jesus’ teachings begins with the Beatitudes […]
Weekly News 22/01/2023
3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time We will spend most of the Sundays of the coming year in the company of Saint Matthew. His Gospel (like the others has its own characteristics. He is writing for a Jewish audience, and so is always at pains to stress one thing: that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised […]
Weekly News 15/01/2023
2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time There is no break between Christmas and Ordinary Time one flows almost seamlessly into the other through the Baptism of Jesus. We ended our Christmas Season thinking about the revelation of the Son of God people realising who this Jesus of Nazareth actually was and this continues today, as we […]
Weekly News 08/01/2023
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD It may seem strange, but this is a Christmas Feast. Not if we think of Christmas only in terms of the Baby in Bethlehem, but if we have followed the ideas of the Feasts of Holy Family and especially Epiphany, and have seen the Season in terms of the growing […]
News and Views January 2023
News & Views January 2023 The month of January is dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus, which is celebrated on January 3. The first eight days of January fall during the liturgical season known as Christmas which is represented by the liturgical colour white — the colour of light, a symbol of joy, purity and […]
Weekly News 01/01/2023
MARY, HOLY MOTHER OF GOD There are many titles and feasts given to Mary, but today, as we complete the Octave of Christmas we celebrate her as “Theotokos”, “the bearer of God”. As we look forward in hope to a new year, may we be constantly reminded that one of our own kind participated with […]
Weekly News 25/12/2022
The Nativity of the Lord There’s a wonderful way in which the Christmas message emerges from out of the midnight darkness as we gather for this Mass: the first words of Scripture we hear tonight are like the beaming of a star through the blackness of night: ‘The people that walked in darkness have seen […]
Weekly News 18/12/2022
4th Sunday of Advent Year A 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 Lord’s First Coming. Today we focus on the characters of Mary and Joseph, and hear of the circumstances surrounding the conception of the […]