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Dear Parishioners ‘Ask, and it will be given to you’ The readings for this Sunday – 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C remind us again of the boundless love God offers to those who believe. Our faith in God will be rewarded more than we can imagine, if we but ask in prayer. […]

Dear Parishioners During the next few weeks, many within our parish will be taking a well-deserved rest, a time away for holidays and to visit friends and family at home and abroad, many of our regular volunteers at the weekend Masses will be doing the same, this means at times our Sunday Liturgies will be […]

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 […]