Stay Gold

We are now firmly in ordinary time having had months of the priest wearing green vestments after the vibrant colours of Lent and Easter disappeared (despite the very colourful Christmas image to the right of this piece), with just the occasional red and blue since then to break the monotony, as each Sunday’s Gospel recounts Christ’s proclamation of the Kingdom of God rather than reminding us of a great season of the Church’s year being just around the corner.

All too often we think of this time as a bit dull and so we do a mental countdown towards Advent and Christmas. Yet Christ is always sowing the seeds of the Kingdom. And if you think about it further, the predominant colour in a healthy garden is indeed green. Colourful flowers and shrubs blossom and fade but the good grass – and the green weeds – just keep on growing.

The poet Robert Frost wrote about this:
Nature’s first green is gold,
her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
but only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
so dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

While the wind-down for the summer is probably a distant memory, we may not feel all golden and new, but there is still the possibility, even the requirement, of new, golden, life and at least sustaining and deepening the green shoots of a healthy faith as we take up anew our work and studies and, in our case, another parish.

God bless you all and your loved ones.

Fr Kevin

Music at Our Lady

The choir was founded by Claude Crozet in 1971 and some of the original members still sing with us. Claude’s project was considered quite pioneering during a period of cultural “reform” within the Church and his work has been continued by other conductors within the choir and beyond.

If you would like to join us, please introduce yourself at the end of mass or send a message.