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Dear Parishioners ‘True discipleship’ – The readings this week at Mass are all about allowing God’s love to guide every aspect of our lives. By turning to God for guidance, he will always keep us on the right path and will continue through all the twists and turns of our life to support us with […]

Dear Parishioners ‘Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart.’The themes of today’s readings at Mass are humility, generosity, and respect and care for all. In the First Reading Sirach advises us to be thoughtful and attentive to others. We are to be modest, not seeking praise or […]

Dear Parishioners This weekend, the readings at Mass invite us to look beyond our own surroundings and often narrow horizons and to reflect on the diversity and universality of Christ’s Church. In the First Reading, Isaiah, seeking to encourage the people of Israel after their return from exile, assures them that ‘the time is coming to […]

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 and in the parish office too will be doing the same, this means at […]

Dear Parishioners There is more to life than wealth and riches – Today’s readings for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C – are about material things and our attitude towards them. The texts also suggest that what we are is much more important than what we have. Qoheleth, ‘the Preacher’, who wrote the Book of […]

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, […]