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Dear friends, This Sunday's Gospel reading includes St Matthew's account of the Transfiguration, when - atop a high mountain - before three of his disciples, Jesus' appearance altered [...]

Dear friends, It was very encouraging to welcome so many of you to Mass yesterday for the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday - and I commend the [...]

Dear friends,Spring may not yet quite have sprung, but there is a sense of renewal in the air - not least because, hot on the heels of the [...]

Dear friends,St Valentine’s Day is approaching: disappointingly, this third-century Roman saint does not appear in the modern Church calendar – 14 February is instead the Feast of St [...]

Dear friends,Who do you think you are? For most of us, the answer to this question involves looking back – both into our family history, and into the past experiences [...]

Dear friends,A curious question with which to begin, perhaps, but were we to give a colour to the Sundays of January, what do you suppose it might be? In the face [...]

Dear friends,In September 2019, Pope Francis called the universal Church to celebrate the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time each year as a special “Sunday of the Word of God”, [...]

Dear friends, At every Mass, before we receive Communion, we address the Lord Jesus as the “Lamb of God”. This Sunday's Gospel reading, as once again we enter [...]

Perhaps one of the greatest elements of countercultural witness which we as Christians can present at Christmas is the way in which, as the world packs away its tinsel [...]

Dear friends, Welcome to the weekly newsletter from St Mary's (the last of 2022). As you'll discover when you click on the links below, we're trialling a new [...]