Weekly News 11/12/2022
3rd Sunday of Advent Year A 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 Lord’s Coming. What is slightly different is the voice of John the Baptist […]
Weekly News 04/12/2022
2nd Sunday of Advent Year A 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 […]
News and Views December 2022
News & Views December 2022 The month of December is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. The first 24 days of December fall during 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 […]
Weekly News 27/11/2022
1st Sunday of Advent Year A Advent opens with a great promise: In the days to come the hope of a 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 […]
Weekly News 20/11/2022
CHRIST THE KING – Year C 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 […]
Change to Weekend Mass Time
Change to Weekend Mass Times From the 1st Sunday of Advent which is Sunday 27th November our Weekend Mass Times will be changing. This is to allow for one priest to be able to say Mass at both Churches. The Saturday Evening Vigil Mass will in future be at 5:30 pm and the Sunday Morning […]
Weekly News 13/11/2022
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C We must be very careful that the real point of todays 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 […]
Weekly News 06/11/2022
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C It is fortuitous that this passage of the Gospel is normally read near to the beginning of November, when we have celebrated the feasts of All Saints and All Souls, since it is a strong proclamation of the reality of life after death and the resurrection of […]
News and Views November 2022
News & Views November 2022 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 […]
Weekly News 30/10/2022
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C There is a subversive humour in today’s Gospel which turns upside down the conventions of everyday life: we see a senior tax official climbing up a tree for a glimpse of Jesus, and the faintly ridiculous scene where Jesus stops, looks into the branches of the sycamore […]