Dear friends in Christ

I would like to begin Advent by sharing with you some helpful lines from a sermon on Advent by Monsignor Ronald Knox, preached in 1947:

Everybody knows, even those of us who have lived most unadventurously, what it is to plod on for miles, it seems, eagerly straining your eyes towards the lights that, somehow, mean home.

Dear friends in Christ

The Kingship of Christ is a strange kingship, by the values of this world.

Dear friends in Christ

The penultimate Sunday of the liturgical year presents us with a picture of the Second Coming of Christ and the Final Judgment.

Dear friends in Christ

The Readings of the Mass this weekend teach us an important lesson in charity, Christian almsgiving and generosity.

Dear friends in Christ

The first of all the Commandments is the love of God.

Dear friends in Christ

The Readings at MAss this weekend tell us of the reality of what occurs when God passes-by.

Dear friends in Christ

The Gospel of this Sundays Mass tells of the memorable occasion when James and John ask for places of honour in the Kingdom of Jesus.

Dear friends in Christ

In the Gospel of the Mass this weekend, Jesus address each of us with the words…come, follow me.

Dear friends in Christ

Jesus was teaching in Judaea on the banks of the Jordan to a great multitude.

Dear friends in Christ

This weekend we welcome to our Parish Sr Ann Ugoh of the Daughters of Divine Love who will speak at the Masses about the Missionary work of the Church especially in Africa.

Dear friends in Christ

The thread that runs through the Readings of the liturgy this Sunday is the desire for virtue; that is, the desire for the habits of a godly life.

Dear friends in Christ

There are a number of questions in this life which we can safely ignore without consequences.

Dear friends in Christ

Saint Mark wrote his gospel primarily for converts from paganism, and in various passages explains to his readers the meaning of certain Jewish customs.

Dear friends in Christ

At Mass this Sunday we hear from the final instalment of chapter six of Saint John.

Dear friends in Christ

We come to that section in the reading of chapter six of St John’s Gospel where the Jews will not accept that Jesus can give us Himself as food for eternal life

Dear friends in Christ

We continue with our reading, and refections, on the sixth chapter of St John’s Gospel at Mass. Jesus recalls the moment when the Chosen People lost patiences with Moses during their forty-year sojourn through the wilderness.

Dear friends in Christ

Over the next four weeks at Sunday Mass, we shall be hearing from chapter six of St John’s Gospel, often referred to as The Eucharistic Discourse.

Dear friends in Christ

The Gospel of the Mass this Sunday shows the solicitude of Jesus for his disciples, tired as they are after their apostolic works in the neighbouring towns and village.

Dear friends in Christ

This week and last week, the Newsletter has reproduced images from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Dear friends in Christ

The Second Reading of the Mass this weekend contains the famous passage of St Paul in which he boasts about his weakness.