Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
No Newsletter next weekend or in August There will be no parish newsletter next weekend or in August. If you are travelling during the...
Growing Pains
The process of giving birth may be natural – but it often requires our best efforts, our full co-operation. We need to remember this when...
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Reader and Minister Rotas for the summer Our usual rotas are suspended for the height of the summer due to the number of people away. We...
Trust
When we have a wedding in church the whole neighbourhood seems interested. As the couple come out, people in the 263 bus are always...
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Baptisms Ask God’s blessing on Emily Charlotte Selvachandran who was baptised here yesterday (Saturday 8th July). Christelle Naim – RIP...
A New Way of Life
The gospel today (Mt. 10.37-42) has not lost its shock value, no matter how many times we hear it. The parallel passage in Luke 14.26 is...
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
St Peter’s Pence – Second Collection after all Masses A collection for Peter’s Pence, which assists the Pope in his charitable relief...
Held in the Hands of God
We belong to a global church. There are Catholics living in situations very different from our own. We have to remember this when we...
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Holy Day of Obligation The Feast of SS Peter and Paul, Thursday 29th June, is a holyday of obligation, when the Church invites and...
Christ's Gift of the Eucharist
When I attended a workshop about the new translation of the Missal, the priest running it said: ‘We are never more ourselves than when we...
