The Twenty-First Sunday of the Year
Dear friends, One of the areas in which congregational growth is happily evident is at our weekday Masses: approximately a third of our regular congregation now also comes to one or more weekday services, which see attendance of [...]
The Twentieth Sunday of the Year
Dear friends, A church not unlike our own once hosted a summer parish barbecue, and set out the salads and sweets to share on a trestle table in the garden. At one end, beside a basket of apples, the priest had [...]
The Nineteenth Sunday of the Year
Dear friends, Last Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Transfiguration, in which a foresight of Christ's Resurrection glory was gifted to his disciples, before he underwent his Passion. This Sunday, we look ahead to next week's beautiful [...]
The Transfiguration of the Lord
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 gaze on this mystery of light. On the transfigured face [...]
The Seventeenth Sunday of the Year
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 viewers watched a final message from the television presenter - [...]
The Sixteenth Sunday of the Year
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 start of the school summer holidays, it is worth remembering [...]