Weekly News 09/11/25 Dedication of the Lateran Basicica – Year C
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica – Year C Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome, the oldest and highest ranking of the four major basilicas in Rome. The Basilica of St. John Lateran is the cathedral of the diocese of Rome, the official ecclesiastical seat of the Holy Father, […]
Weekly News 02/11/25 ALL SAINTS Year C
ALL SAINTS – Year C All Saints Day is for all those who have gone before us and now share in the fulness of life in heaven. It is a day when we should aspire to join them in the company of the saints. The pattern for us to become saints is laid out by […]
Weekly News 26/10/25 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Perhaps the hardest Olympic event is the marathon: not only does it demand strength and fitness, but it calls for immense perseverance and endurance. Life in general and the Christian life in particular, is a marathon. We will face hills and mountains as well as valleys and […]
Weekly News 19/10/25 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Perhaps the hardest Olympic event is the marathon: not only does it demand strength and fitness, but it calls for immense perseverance and endurance. Life in general and the Christian life in particular, is a marathon. We will face hills and mountains as well as valleys and […]
Weekly News 12/10/25 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C There are many messages in today’s Gospel: the power of God to heal, the compassion of Jesus for those in need, the fact that a despised foreigner (the Samaritan) is the only one who recognises what has been done, the role of faith and the importance of […]
Weekly News 05/10/25 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Faithfulness, faith and trust. These most invisible and difficult things are what God asks of us – just as we, in our own way, ask them of those who love us. “Trust me”, we say, “all will be well.” And if someone does trust us, the reward […]
Weekly News 28/09/25 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Following on from last week (“You cannot be the slave of both God and money”) we see a practical illustration of what this means. The division between rich and poor was very striking at the time of Jesus: popular understanding, however, said that to be rich was […]
Weekly News 21/09/25 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C How easy to take the words of Jesus out of context: “Use money to win you friends,” is one of those lines that sounds strange to us outside the context of the parable and the teaching in today’s Gospel. Even the parable itself can seem a little […]
Weekly News 14/09/25 Exhaltation of the Holy Cross – Year C
Exhaltation of the Holy Cross – Year C The image of the cross is one of the great symbols of the Christian faith. On the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus, which conquers all sin and death. The cross is the symbol of salvation; a […]
Weekly News 07/09/25 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Humble behaviour is the mark of the Christian, as it always was the mark of someone “in favour with the Lord”. In the Gospel, we see Jesus watching the Pharisees: it’s almost amusing to picture them shuffling for the best places, being as polite as they can […]