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Dear Parishioners Last week on Ash Wednesday we began our Lenten journey together. During these 40 days we are remembering the 40 days that Jesus spent in the desert, the temptations he experienced there and his time of prayer and fasting. Lent is a time for each of us to become more deeply aware of […]

Dear Parishioners Lent begins this Wednesday – 5th March – Ash Wednesday. Information about the planned extra liturgies and other Lent related resources and such like follow in this week’s Parish Bulletin. The readings for this Sunday 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time (the final Sunday before Lent) remind us that our words and actions illustrate […]

Dear Parishioners Lent will soon be upon us, as we begin our Lenten journey together again this year on Ash Wednesday 5th March. Next weekend in the Parish Bulletin I will give you all the information regarding extra liturgies and such like to help us to journey as individuals and as a parish community more […]

Dear Friends It is good to be back amongst you again! I am very grateful to those who helped in so many ways to support the worshipping life of the parish during my recent time away recovering from surgery. I am also very grateful for the many lovely cards, prayers and generous and unexpected gifts […]

Dear Friends As we enter the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our readings invite us to reflect on the call of God in our lives. Isaiah, humbled in the presence of the Lord’s glory, responds with a resounding, ‘Here I am! Send me.’ In the Gospel, Simon Peter, overwhelmed by the miraculous catch of fish, […]

Dear Friends, As we gather to celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, we are reminded of that moment when the child Jesus was brought to the Temple—fulfilling the Law but also fulfilling the hopes and prayers of awaiting people. Simeon, after years of longing, held the infant Christ in his arms and declared, “My eyes […]

Dear Parishioners ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.’ This Sunday 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time we keep: ‘Sunday of the Word of God’ – a day, instituted by Pope Francis on the Feast of Saint Jerome in 2019, devoted to the celebration and […]

Dear Parishioners On Monday last week, we began the First Week of Ordinary Time and this weekend we celebrate the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time– Year C. After his Baptism, Jesus now starts his public ministry by giving us a first ‘sign’ of his transformative love. In the Gospel from St John, we hear about the […]

Dear Parishioners This weekend at all our Sunday Masses we celebrate the Feast of The Baptism of the Lord which marks the end of the liturgical season of Christmas. On Monday this coming week we enter the First Week of Ordinary Time. The first epiphany was to the Magi when Jesus was revealed as Saviour […]

Dear Parishioners A very warm welcome back to our parish community to all who have been away during the Christmas holidays. Thank you for the many lovely Christmas cards, gifts, and generous Christmas Offerings which you have given to me this year. May I also take this opportunity of wishing every member of our parish […]