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Dear friends, In this Sunday's second reading, St Paul counsels the Christians in Ephesus that, although '[this] may be a wicked age, [yet] your lives should redeem it'. [...]

Dear friends, Please excuse a shorter weekly message than usual, as I balance my laptop on a hay bale, and search in vain for a signal! - located [...]

Dear friends, As we bask this week in the heat of the summer sun, so let us respond in faith to the Lord's invitation to let the light of [...]

Dear friends, We look forward very much to welcoming you to Mass this coming weekend: Saturday's Vigil Mass is at 6pm, and Sunday's Parish Mass at 10.30am. Please [...]

Dear friends, I started to draft this week's mailing on the train back from Belmont Abbey in Herefordshire, where I have spent the past three nights on retreat. [...]

Dear friends, The great prophet Amos, who - as this Sunday's first reading relates - spoke in the name of the Lord to God's people, was nevertheless taken [...]

Dear friends, Although today the church is in use as a polling station for the General Election, yet the round of daily worship continues unchanged - with Morning [...]

Dear friends, The psalmist calls us to '[l]ook towards [the Lord] and be radiant': like the rays of the summer sun, which warm and burnish all that they [...]

Dear friends, (Fr Richard will return from annual leave on Tuesday, 25 June.) This Sunday's Gospel reading tells of Christ's calming of the storm over the Sea of [...]

Dear friends, This coming Sunday is the secular celebration of Fathers' Day - but it is also therefore an opportune moment to pray for our priests (our spiritual [...]