Repent and believe the Good News. God’s call is mysterious, it comes in the darkness of faith. It is so fine and subtle that it is only with the deepest silence within us that we can hear it. Yet nothing is surer or stronger and nothing is so decisive and overpowering as that call. This […]
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Newsletter – 21st January 2024
2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR B, 14TH JANUARY 2024
From FR MICHAEL All through our lives we are meeting with people. Some we have known for ages and others we meet for only a short while and we do not see them again. Sometimes we meet with people and a friendship grows. Then other times there is no connection at all. Sometimes a person […]
Continue ReadingTHE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY, YEAR B, 7TH JANUARY 2024
From FR MICHAEL Once the people of a very; poor parish set their hearts on acquiring an expensive set of figures for their Christmas crib. They worked hard to scrape together the money to buy the figures which were made of rare porcelain. Eventually they had their crib. And were they proud of it! The […]
Continue ReadingTHE FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY, YEAR B, 31ST DECEMBER
A reading from an Address by Pope Paul VI – The pattern of Nazareth The home of Nazareth is the school where we begin to understand the life of Jesus—the school of the Gospel. The first lesson we learn here is to look, to listen, to meditate and penetrate the meaning—at once so deep and so […]
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