Dear Parishioners Who is my neighbour? – Today’s Readings at Mass for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C – call us to love and serve others with compassion, and to care especially for those most in need. The First Reading teaches us that God’s Word is not beyond our reach. It is already in […]
Dear Parishioners Cry out with joy to God! Notice how the readings of this Sunday’s liturgy for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C resound with joy and peace. The Opening Prayer, the First Reading and the Psalm all speak of this joy, which has been with us in the liturgy throughout Eastertide, and now overflows here into Ordinary […]
Dear Parishioners This week we celebrate the feast of the two ‘chief apostles’ – Saints Peter and Paul. Both were faithful rocks on whom Jesus built His Church, unshakeable in their belief that Jesus was the Christ, and ever faithful to the universal mission He gave them. They can greatly encourage us as we, too, […]
Dear Parishioners Today’s great Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) is an opportunity for us all to reflect on the wonderful mystery of the Eucharist: the sacrament that nourishes our faith and gives life to the world. On this special Feast Day, we offer a joyful celebration of the […]
Dear Parishioners Today we celebrate the Solemnity of The Most Holy Trinity. On this Sunday the liturgy invites us to praise God not merely for the wonders that he has worked, but for who he is; for the beauty and goodness of his being from which his action stems. We are invited, so to speak, […]
Dear Parishioners This Sunday is a time of joyful celebration in the life of the Church, as we mark the Birthday of the Church, with the celebration of the great Solemnity of Pentecost, and the coming of the Holy Spirt upon the early Apostles and the Church. It is I believe a truly splendid feast. […]
Dear Parishioners On the 7th Sunday in Easter, we keep World Communication Day, the day on which we hold in pray the work of those engaged in communications, and in particular, the Communication Directorate of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference for England and Wales. This Sunday there will be a second collection at all our weekend […]
Dear Parishioners On this Sunday – 6th Sunday of Easter – the last Sunday, before Ascension and Pentecost, we see Jesus’s earthly ministry come to a gradual conclusion. Jesus is about to return to the Father, but his final words contain a promise (Gospel): through his Spirit of power, courage and knowledge he will always remain […]
Dear Parishioners ‘Love One Another!’ As this year’s beautiful season of Easter starts to draw gently to a close, we are guided this weekend at Mass to remain focused upon Jesus’s central commandment to his followers: ‘Love’. We are all loved, forgiven and transformed sinners; called, commanded and commissioned to love others as we are loved […]
Dear Parishioners It was with great joy that we heard the announcement from Vatican City last Thursday 8th May that Cardinal Robert Prevost has become our new Holy Father. He is the first American Pope in the history of the Church and takes the name of POPE LEO XIV. We keep him in our prayers as he begins […]
