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Dear friends, The New Year is off  to a flying start at St Mary's, with well-attended Masses on New Year's Day and for the Epiphany. We now return to what is called "Ordinary Time" - but still we [...]

Dear friends, Happy New Year! And what a heartening start we made to 2024 earlier this week, with just shy of 50 people at Mass (and at a delicious lunch afterwards!) on 1 January, the Solemnity of Mary, [...]

Dear friends, I hope and trust you have all enjoyed - and, in  this Octave week of Christmas, continue to enjoy - a peaceful and happy celebration of the Saviour's Birth: thank you so much, first, to all those [...]

Dear friends, One of the most beautiful passages of Scripture detailing the mystery of Christmas comes not from the New Testament, but from the book of the Wisdom of Solomon: there we read that 'while gentle silence enveloped [...]

Dear friends, The season of Advent is steaming ahead, and this Sunday we will be "in the pink" 🩷 On the Third Sunday of Advent, the violet vestments of Advent lighten to rose: why not wear something rosy also? [...]

Dear friends, With Christmas Day falling this year on a Monday, the preceding season of Advent is as short as it can be - four Sundays in little more than three weeks! Thus, although it may feel as though [...]