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FR DAVID WRITES
October began on Thursday with the Feast of St Therese of Lisieux. As you know, October is the month of the Holy Rosary, and Wednesday this week is Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Please join us on weekday mornings (Monday - Friday) at 9.30am in church to pray the Rosary together. Why not also explore the Rosary on your own during this month? I hope you saw the wonderful pictures of Pope Leo in Lourdes last Sunday, where he joined thousands of the faithful, including the sick, in the torchlight Rosary Procession.
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FR TOM WRITES
This week there has been some media coverage of the ‘September Reset’, a phrase describing how some people see the beginning of the new academic year as an opportunity to make resolutions and re-establish good routines. For Christians, Lent is traditionally a time for this kind of renewal, but we do not have to wait until spring to begin again if we have let some good practices slip over the summer. Perhaps this week you could ask yourself: What have I stopped doing that once helped me follow the Lord more closely? And what might the Holy Spirit be calling me to do to deepen my relationship with God? A new season can be an invitation to begin again.
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FR DAVID WRITES
Today in the Gospel, Jesus shatters our human calculations of justice by telling us to forgive ‘seventy-seven times.’ Our first reading reminds us that nursing anger only imprisons our own hearts. Forgiveness is rarely easy but is a personal step towards healing. Let us pray for the grace to let go of grudges and old sins, remember the immense mercy God shows us all daily, and offer that same healing grace to others.
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FR TOM WRITES
Thank you to everyone praying for me and the 100 pilgrims I accompanied to Spain. It was a precious opportunity to step away from daily life and allow the Lord to speak to our hearts. With the summer holidays finished, we now return to normality. This Tuesday, the Church celebrates the birthday of Mary, the Mother of Christ and our Mother. What gift can we offer the Queen of Heaven and Earth? Perhaps, like any mother, she desires above all that we simply be with her. I encourage you to honour this feast in her presence, allowing Mary to draw you closer to her Son.
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FR DAVID WRITES
Welcome to all parishioners and visitors. We hope that everyone has had a wonderful summer, and we look forward to the beginning of a new term together. In today’s Gospel, Jesus looks to the future and the events of his own Passion and Death. Perhaps like Peter, we are inclined to look away, but the Lord invites us to recognise the reality and to become sharers in the Paschal journey that leads to salvation and new life. With Jesus, there are always new beginnings and new chances – let’s grasp the new opportunities he brings and place our faith in him. God bless.
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WELCOME to all parishioners and visitors, especially if you are here as part of your summer break. Travel safely!
ASSUMPTION
This weekend is the Feast of the Assumption. Today, we celebrate that Our Lady, when her earthly life had run its course, was assumed body and soul into the glory of heaven. In this way, she already participates in the fullness and ‘first-fruits’ of her Son’s resurrection from the dead. May Our Lady pray for us and guide us.
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WELCOME to all parishioners and visitors, especially if you are here as part of your summer break. Travel safely!
WEEKDAY MASSES (Monday to Friday) throughout August will be at 10 am.
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WELCOME to all visitors and parishioners, especially if you are here as part of your summer break. Travel safely!
WEEKDAY MASSES (Monday to Friday) throughout August will be at 10 am only, beginning this week.
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FR DAVID WRITES
I had a lovely break spending some time at home with my family and also on the island of Rhodes. It was a pleasure to visit the Franciscans and the small Catholic community. I prayed for you all during my visits to the church and Mass there. Thank you to Fr Tom and Fr Johnson for their work here while I was away. Fr Tom is away right now, but will return shortly. For many more of us now, I know that the summer holidays begin in earnest. For all of you travelling or going on holiday, I wish you and your family every blessing for a safe journey and a happy time!
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FR TOM WRITES
On Wednesday, we celebrate the feast of St Bridget of Sweden, one of the six patrons of Europe, alongside St Benedict, St Thérèse of Lisieux, St Catherine, St Cyril and St Methodius. As we are encouraged to pray not only for ourselves and our loved ones but for the whole world, let us pray for Europe, that God's love may once more touch the hearts of all who dwell here.
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FR TOM WRITES
The Gospel this Sunday speaks of the Word of God as the seed of eternal life, and Christ warns against the ways in which this seed can be stifled. Though many areas of life are winding down as we approach summer, may our relationship with the Word never dwindle, and may we keep our ears open to the voice of the Lord.