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Dear friends, This Sunday coming is the Feast of the Transfiguration, of which the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wrote, 'Today the liturgy invites us to focus our [...]

Dear friends, On Monday this week the veteran BBC newsreader George Alagiah died, following a nine-year battle with bowel cancer. Just hours after his death was announced, BBC [...]

Dear friends, Huge thanks to those who supported last Saturday's parish barbecue - and especially to all whose hard work and generosity made the afternoon such a success! At the [...]

Dear friends, Christ's final words on the Cross ('It is finished') are reflected in the first words of his public ministry, 'The time is fulfilled'. Each explain to [...]

Dear friends, In this Sunday's Gospel reading Jesus says, 'Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest.' The life of [...]

Dear friends, With a busy week, we begin a busy summer: it's all go at St Mary's! The 6pm Vigil Mass this coming Saturday evening, 1 July will [...]

Dear friends, '[The] Lord is at my side, a mighty hero': so sings the prophet Jeremiah in our first reading this Sunday, voicing a note of resolute hope [...]

Dear friends, Our beautiful church is an oasis 🌊🌴 in the current soaring temperatures, and a spot of stillness amidst the busyness of life. Join us this Sunday, not [...]

Dear friends, Greetings from the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, where you are all very much in my prayers! 'Blessed are those who are invited to the [...]

Dear friends, This Sunday we celebrate the mystery of the Trinity - of one God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. As this rather irreverent video demonstrates, [...]