The Salesian Sisters at Village Way ask you to join them in prayer as they celebrate the feast of their founder, St John Bosco. He entrusted all to Our Lady. She guided his life’s work especially that of helping the young know Jesus and live full and happy lives.
Continue readingToday is the feast of St Thomas Aquinas, patron saint of students. He once wrote that through the suffering and death of Jesus Christ ‘humanity knows from this how much God loves us; so that we are stirred by this to love him in return. This is the perfection of
Continue readingThis Sunday we keep the second annual Sunday of the Word of God, a special observance for this Sunday set up by Pope Francis in September 2019. I have written about the importance of this in our parish newsletter for this weekend. One opportunity the pandemic has given us is
Continue readingToday the Church honours St Vincent of Saragossa, the first martyr of Spain. Like St Agnes whom we recalled yesterday, he was martyred at the beginning of the fourth century in the persecution of Diocletian. In the early Church deacons had a particularly close relationship with the bishop, and in
Continue readingToday is the feast of St Agnes, Virgin and Martyr, one of the best known of the saints of Rome. On this day in one of the churches dedicated to her in Rome, run by the Canons Regular of the Lateran, lambs are normally blessed at Mass, and then again
Continue readingI expect many of you watched the inauguration this afternoon. The prayer led early in the ceremony by the Jesuit priest who in the past was President of Georgetown University (a Jesuit university) was very moving; he quoted Pope Francis’ recent encyclical ‘Fratelli Tutti’, which we will be looking at
Continue readingToday (Tuesday) is the feast of St Wulstan of Worcester, the last Anglo Saxon saint. He was the only Anglo Saxon member of the hierarchy who was allowed to continue in office for any significant time after the Normal Conquest in 1066, until his death in 1095, renowned for his
Continue readingWe know that these times have been difficult for a lot of families. We want to provide local support to as many as we can of those children and families who need it the most during this time of national lockdown and school closure by offering them a fresh, hot
Continue readingThis Sunday is Peace Sunday, when the Church in England and Wales observes the World Day of Prayer for Peace kept elsewhere on New Year’s Day. Prayers and Reflections for today, including a Zoom reflection, can be found on the website of Pax Christi UK, www.paxchristi.org.uk. Normally in our parish
Continue readingIt has been just over two weeks since I announced the closure of our church. It was not an easy decision to make but I’m certain in the circumstances, the right one. It would seem that many of you were in agreement, even though like me you felt sadness. Thank
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