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20th June 2021, 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) When you walk through the storm… When my dad left to do his National Service in Malaya in the 1950’s he left his mother with a ’78 record of Frank Sinatra singing ‘You’ll never walk alone.’  The song meant so much to her... Read More →

13th June 2021, 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) This is what the kingdom of God is like. The parable of the growing seed and the parable of the mustard seed both call to mind God’s grace in our lives and in the building of the kingdom of God; God’s grace that moves... Read More →

6th June 2021, The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ TAKE AND EAT… TAKE AND DRINK… Over the past 15 months we have, at times, been unable to receive the Body and Blood of Christ in order to prevent the spread of the virus. Even now, for obvious reasons, although we are able to... Read More →

30th May 2021, The Most Holy Trinity INVITED INTO THE TRINITY OF DIVINE LOVE Many of us have been brought up to see God as one who chooses us or who calls us, a demanding God who selects us for some purpose.  Although this is true to a certain extent, there is the danger... Read More →

23rd May 2021, Pentecost Sunday You will be my witnesses The fire that was ignited in the hearts of those who experienced the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on that first Pentecost continues to illuminate the world today.  The effects of that Holy Spirit’s presence in the... Read More →

16th May 2021, Seventh Sunday of Easter BELONG AND BELIEVE In today’s Gospel we listen-in on the intimate prayer of Jesus to his Father on the night before he died for us, ‘Keep those you have given me true to your name so that they may be one like us’. That is the prayer of... Read More →

9th May 2021, Sixth Sunday of Easter LOVE ONE ANOTHER It’s astonishing to realize that Jesus selected us to be his friends.  “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you.”  We have been chosen to share our lives with Jesus as he shares his with us.  It’s a... Read More →

2nd May 2021, Fifth Sunday of Easter I am the vine, you are the branches The familiar and poignant Gospel reading from John, one of the “I am” statements, highlights the importance of our connection and lifeline to Christ.  If we’re disconnected, we wither and die like a... Read More →

25th April 2021, Fourth Sunday of Easter World Day of Prayer for Vocations Today, Good Shepherd Sunday, is a special day of prayer for vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and religious life.  ‘Vocation’ comes from the Latin word for ‘call’.  God calls us and we have... Read More →

18th April 2021, Third Sunday of Easter LOOK AT MY HANDS AND MY FEET For the second week running the resurrected Jesus appears to his disciples and invites them, and us, to look at his hands and feet, at his wounds. “You see how it is written that the Christ would suffer, and on... Read More →