Weekly News 07/06/26 The Most Holy Boday and Blood of Christ – Year A
THE MOST HOLY BODY & BLOOD OF CHRIST The Eucharist—the Body and Blood of Christ—is a profound mystery, far more than something we simply receive. It is a living relationship that transforms us: “Receive what you are—the Body of Christ.” In the readings, we are reminded that through the Eucharist, Christ lives within us: “…who […]
Weekly News 31/05/26 The Most Holy Trinity – Year A
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY We begin our Summer ‘Ordinary Time’ by celebrating a strange feast – not of a particular saint or event, but of the awesome paradoxes of our God, the Three-in-One, Father, Son and Spirit: so immeasurably distant, yet so amazingly close, so full of power and so full of love. It is […]
Weekly News 24/05/26 Pentecost – Year A
P E N T E C O S T S U N D A Y We arrive at the fiftieth day – the completion of the Easter Season, and the completion of the Paschal Mystery: the Lord has died, is risen, has ascended to heaven and now gives birth to his Church, by sending the […]
Weekly News 17/05/26 Seventh Sunday of Easter – Year A
Seventh Sunday of Easter On this Seventh Sunday of Easter the gospels each year are taken from Chapter 17 of Saint John’s Gospel – the “priestly prayer” of Jesus at the Last Supper: this long prayer is a farewell message, where Jesus prays for all that the Church will have to be and do in […]
Weekly News 10/05/26 Sixth Sunday of Easter – Year A
Sixth Sunday of Easter By now we are some distance away from Easter, but the season is still permeated with the Easter message: Christ is risen, we are baptised in him. But today a new dimension of the story comes out: Easter is not complete until the risen Lord has returned to the Father and […]
Weekly News 03/05/26 Fifth Sunday of Easter – Year A
Fifth Sunday of Easter We continue to explore the meaning of baptism, of membership of the Church, of living a life which has been immersed in the life and death of Jesus Christ: in other words, we continue our ‘Mystagogy’ – our training in the mystery of Baptism and the other Sacraments. We hear more […]
Weekly News 26/04/26 Fourth Sunday of Easter – Year A
Fourth Sunday of Easter Today is traditionally called ”Good Shepherd Sunday”, when over the 3 year cycle of readings we hear almost the whole of Chapter 10 of John’s Gospel. In this chapter Jesus repeatedly uses the image of the himself as the Good Shepherd. Because of this theme of “shepherding” it is dedicated each […]
Weekly News 19/04/26 Third Sunday of Easter – Year A
Third Sunday of Easter Often people forget that Easter is not just a day, but a season – the longest in the Church’s year, in fact! We are given fifty glorious days of Spring and Summer to prolong our baptismal joy, fifty glorious days of basking in the light of the risen Saviour. It seems […]
Weekly News 12/04/26 Divine Mercy Sunday – Year A
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY Often people forget that Easter is not just a day, but a season – the longest in the Church’s year, in fact! We are given fifty glorious days of Spring and Summer to prolong our baptismal joy, fifty glorious days of basking in the light of the risen Saviour. It seems a […]
Weekly News 05/04/26 Easter Sunday – Year A
EASTER SUNDAY The Paschal Mystery; the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus, is the single most important event in the history of human existence. And yet it is not merely an event in history; it transcends time and space to be a real and true event in our present time and in our locality. Our […]