We have arrived at the last Sunday of our church’s year for 2017. It is the feast of Christ the King. This special feast was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925. It symbolises that, although kings and queens are being replaced by republics around the... read more
MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN In the 1960’s our church published a document called “The constitution of the Church in the Modern World”. It was one of the most important statements emanating from the Second Vatican Council of the Church. In Chapter 34 of... read more
We often forget that when we were Confirmed, albeit when we were about ten or eleven years of age, we received the gift of WISDOM. It is a gift, and we have all received it. It is the gift of the Holy Spirit and we all have that gift within the tissues an... read more
Last week the religious leaders endeavoured to use the issue of paying taxes to Caesar as means of demonstrating that Jesus was an unfaithful Jew. Their attempt failed. In today’s story, knowing there are ten commandments in the law of Moses, the Jewish... read more
MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time / A – 22nd October, 2017 In St Matthews’s Gospel, especially in the passage we have been reading on the past few Sundays, Jesus is reported to have been very critical of the High Priests ... read more
MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time / A – 24th September, 2017 Sometimes we find it hard to accept that we are all made in the image likeness of God. It is also sometimes difficult for us to accept that God wishes for all peo... read more
MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time / A – 17th September, 2017 Today’s passage from St Matthew’s Gospel speaks about “forgiveness”. Matthew recounts a parable of Jesus about a servant who, having been forgiven by his ... read more