Home

FR TOM WRITES
As we step into this new year, may our hearts be full of gratitude for the beautiful Christmas we celebrated in our parish. Everything that took place during this time helped to make the mystery of God’s love present among us. This love is not distant; in Jesus Christ our Lord it has become fully visible, so that we, in turn, may participate in the divine life. In this new year, let us pray that the peace of Christ, welcomed into our hearts this Christmas, may continue to guide our families, strengthen our faith, and renew our commitment to love and serve one another.

FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY
We celebrate the feast of the Epiphany, a Holy Day of Obligation, on Tuesday 6th January.  Mass times are 8am, 10am (with the school) and 7pm.

FR DAVID WRITES
As we celebrate Christmas 2025, the Jubilee Year reaches its culmination. Fittingly, the Holy Year both begins and ends with the feast of the Incarnation, reminding us that renewal, reconciliation and hope find their source in Christ. At Christmas, we return to the heart of our hope, ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.’ God’s answer to human longing is not an idea or a programme, but a person - Emmanuel, God with us. Although this Christmas marks the 2025th anniversary of Christ’s birth, we do not mark a calculation, but a mystery: the Incarnation as the turning point of history. I pray that this Christmas may seal the graces of the Holy Year in our hearts and renew us with joy and hope in Christ, the centre of time and history. May God bless us all in this wonderful week ahead!

 

FR TOM WRITES
This Sunday the Church bids us, in the entrance antiphon, ‘Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice!’ In this penitential season of advent, in which we are full of expectation for the coming of Our Lord, we are invited to lift our hearts with joy. The love of God, seen in Jesus’ nativity, desires to enter our hearts and permeate every aspect of our lives. Let us welcome him with renewed faith in joyful anticipation. Our Christmas Cards are available today in the church porch with the times of Masses and celebrations here at Christmas and New Year. Please take one.

FR DAVID WRITES
Today is the Second Sunday of Advent, but my diary makes me feel like its Christmas already! Although there are many lovely Christmas events, let’s make an effort to keep our prayers and focus at church on the meaning of the Advent journey: waiting, watching and preparing our hearts with the gift of hope. Today we meet John the Baptist: the apostle of hope who came to herald and announce the Advent of Christ. I had a wonderful day on Wednesday with two-thousand school children from across the diocese who joined the Catholic Children’s Society for our carol services. Thank you to everyone in the Bernadette Club for a lovely day on Thursday. May God bless us all in this coming week of Advent. 

FR TOM WRITES
Today we begin the season of Advent—a time filled with hope and expectation. Until December 17th, our focus turns to the Second Coming of Christ, and the Church calls out to each of us: Wake up! We do not know the day or the hour when Christ will return, but He has promised that it will come when we least expect it. May this season shape our hearts and prepare us for the coming of the Lord. Let us turn away from sin and allow ourselves to be transformed into true reflections of His love.

FR DAVID WRITES
We are already well through November, and next weekend we will celebrate the last Sunday in Ordinary Time: the solemnity of Christ the King. For now, let us keep praying for the souls of the faithful departed. Today, the 33rd Sunday, is also a day of prayer for the poor, and we will take a collection for the sick and retired priests of the diocese. Thank you to everyone who has already brought Christmas gifts for the Catholic Children’s Society, and to everyone who prayed for me and my young charges from St Dominic’s Sixth Form College on our wonderful pilgrimage in Rome last week. Finally, next Saturday is the seventeenth anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood - please join me in giving prayerful thanks. May God bless you all.

Live

Prayer Intentions

Those who are unwell, including:  
Patricia Dellevoet, Helen McGrath, Tom Gilligan, Mary Fahey, John Cooke, Giuliano Cardosi, Nora Mitchell, Mary Gilbride, Ronnie Lynch, Callum Stone, Veronica Keville,  Angela Mangan, Marie Coutinho, Andrea Jordan, Ifte Alam, Nadim Alam, Sheila Casey, Emma Lake, Guido Fichera, James Brady, Theresa Dillon, Lawrence Robinson, Luisa Busandri, Martin Donoghue, Lucy Jones, Megan O’Brien, Alison Hughes, Silveria Vieira Papel, Joe Heaney, Rubina Dean, Runa Da Costa, David Woodhead, Kay Heery, Modesto Tondelli, Gerry Linane.
 
All those who have died recently, including:  
Pat Hunt, Thomas O’Donnell, Netty Rodriguez, Maria Abdo, Patricia Cattermole, Maria Tortorello and Anne McDonagh.