Weekly News 18/01/26 The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A
The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time- Year A 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 – […]
Weekly News 11/01/26 The Baptism of the Lord – Year A
The Baptism of the Lord – Year A 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 […]
Weekly News 04/01/26 The Second Sunday of Christmas – Year A
The Second Sunday of Christmas – Year A The Second Sunday of Christmas in Year focuses on God’s promise of restoration, wisdom, and the divine identity of Jesus as the Word made flesh, with key readings from Jeremiah (gathering the scattered people), Wisdom (the nature of Wisdom), Ephesians (God’s plan in Christ), and John (the […]
Weekly News 28/12/25 The Holy Family – Year A
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph – Year A Feast of the Holy Family: As an example for us to follow, the Holy Family can seem a little too perfect: it can seem so far removed from us. And yet, as today’s Gospel reminds us, there were also the so-called “hidden years” – […]
Weekly News 21/12/25 Fourth Sunday of Advent – Year A
Fourth 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 […]
Weekly News 14/12/25 Third Sunday of Advent – Year A
Third Sunday of Advent – Year A This Sunday is called “Gaudete” Sunday — “Rejoice Sunday”. This comes from the readings we hear today, and it underlines an important point. In the Gospel, we hear John the Baptist telling different groups what to do – they must repent, and change their lives. We might think […]
Weekly News 07/12/25 Second Sunday of Advent – Year A
Second 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 […]
Weekly News 30/11/25 First Sunday of Advent – Year A
First 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; not […]
Weekly News 23/11/25 Christ the King- Year C
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 […]
Weekly News 16/11/25 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C As we approach the end of that part of Saint Luke’s Gospel before the Passion narratives, and approach the end of the Church’s year, our thoughts are turned towards the end of time and the Second Coming of the Lord – this will led us into Advent […]