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WHAT MAKES A SHEPHERD “GOOD”? May 11, 2025In the Gospel of the Fourth Sunday of Eastertide each year we hear a passage from the tenth chapter of St. John’s Gospel in which Our Lord speaks to us about Himself as the...Thursday, May 08, 2025 -
THE RISEN SAVIOUR'S GIFT OF PEACE! May 4, 2025I am sure you have noticed the frequency with which, after His Resurrection, Our Lord greets His disciples with those simple words: “Peace be with you”. They are words which also come to us in one form or...Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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ALLELUIA! April 27, 2025The Entrance Antiphon and Collect of Today's Mass speak of the new life of the baptised. Today's Gospel tells of the appearances of Our Lord to the Apostles both on the day of His resurrection, and exactly one...Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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WE ARE AN EASTER PEOPLE April 20, 2025The world sometimes accepts the death of Jesus but denies the resurrection as being outside history. For this very reason we Catholics, on this Easter Sunday, profess our faith. Because God raised Jesus from the dead...Saturday, April 19, 2025 -
HOSANNA! - (OH LORD, SAVE US!) April 13, 2025Palm Sunday recalls Our Lord’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem at the very beginning of the same week in which He would be arrested, tortured, condemned to death and executed on the cross. All four...Wednesday, April 09, 2025 -
PASSIONTIDE April 6, 2025The Fifth Sunday of Lent is often known as the "First Sunday in Passiontide", because now the "time of Our Lord's saving Passion is drawing closer". This week ahead takes on many of the characteristics...Wednesday, April 02, 2025 -
DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU March 30, 2025We live in an era in which verbal attack is commonplace. Politically, much of western society has become divided to the point of extreme polarization, in which one side views the other as positively evil. One politician running for the...Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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THE PRESENCE OF GOD March 23, 2025In today's first reading we heard the fascinating story of Moses and the burning bush. That episode was a real incursion of the supernatural into everyday life. An angel appeared to Moses in the shape of a flame of...Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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LISTEN TO HIM! March 16, 2025Christ is the Lord of glory as we hear in today's Gospel of the Transfiguration. At first sight it seems strange to hear this account in Lent, the season of austerity, and preparation for Holy Week. Yet we must...Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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THE FORTY DAYS’ FAST March 9, 2025St. Luke tells us in today’s Gospel reading that the Holy Spirit who had come down upon Our Lord at His Baptism, then led Him out into the wilderness for forty days, and during that time He held...Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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SEVENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR February 23, 2025In the gospel reading this Sunday, Saint Luke is giving his readers a course in practical Christianity through Our Lord’s saying on this theme. Luke is unique among the evangelists in writing for...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 -
SIXTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR February 16, 2025Today’s gospel reading consisted of Saint Luke’s presentation of the Beatitudes. The Catechism describes these words of Jesus as the heart of the Gospel. If we are to find the message of Our Lord distilled...Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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FISHERS OF MEN February 9, 2025Today the Gospel tells of a miracle and a vocation. When Our Lord called Simon Peter to be His follower, He won His admiration by working a miracle. Simon was a fisherman. On the occasion we hear of today, he...Wednesday, February 05, 2025
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THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE February 2, 2025This Sunday is the final feast of the Christmas cycle, in which we celebrate the event which St. Luke tells us took place forty days after our Lord was born, when “in accordance with the Law of the Lord...Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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THE THIRD SUNDAY OF THE YEAR January 26, 2025Today's Gospel Reading runs together the introduction St. Luke wrote at the beginning of his Gospel, with the opening of the account of Our Lord's public ministry. St. Luke describes Our Lord's return from His baptism by...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 -
SAUL, THE PHARISEE RECEIVES GOD’S GRACE January 19, 2025January 25th is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. The New Testament saint has such an enormous influence on the Christian Church. The basic facts are quite well known. Saul, a young and fanatical pharisee, was a rising...Friday, January 17, 2025
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The Baptism of the Lord January 11, 2025Last week we were reminded of an ancient tradition whereby, on the Feast of the Epiphany, three different manifestations or “showings forth” of Our Lord to the world were commemorated. That is, His adoration by the Magi, His...Wednesday, January 08, 2025 -
EPIPHANY January 5, 2025A VERY BIG THANK YOU! To all those who volunteered their time and efforts to decorate the church for Christmas with flowers, the nativity scenes, trees and wreaths! The church was adorned beautifully to greet the...Thursday, January 02, 2025 -
MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD December 29, 2024Although we are used to thinking of Our Blessed Lady as the Mother of God, and honouring her as such, we must remember that there was a time in the history of the Church when certain theologians denied that Mary...Thursday, December 26, 2024 -
THE WORD BECAME FLESH - HOPE IS BORN December 22, 2024On Christmas Day we celebrate the appearance on earth of God in our human nature. This is the “miracle of the Incarnation”. For by becoming man, Jesus did not in any way cease to...Tuesday, December 17, 2024
