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Pastor’s Desk: 4th Sunday of Lent
Welcome everyone and a particularly warm welcome to the mothers and grandmothers in our congregation this Sunday as today is Mother’s Day! I hope you all have a great day and enjoy what I am sure is a rare opportunity to put your feet up and be pampered!! Happy Mother’s Day!
The Prodigal Son
Being Mother’s Day [...]
March 13, 2010
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Pastor’s Desk: 3rd Sunday of Lent
Welcome everyone to our Eucharist on this the 3rd Sunday of Lent. It can be around now that our enthusiasm and vigour for our Lenten observance can begin to wane! How are you doing? If you have caved in, then do not despair because you can start afresh this week and continue to the great [...]
March 6, 2010
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Pastor’s Desk: 2nd Sunday of Lent
Welcome everyone. Our Readings today tell of the faithfulness of God and his desire to be close to his people of faith. In the first reading we see Abram (who later has his name changed to Abraham, our father in faith) being offered a special relationship with God. This relationship or Covenant will be sealed [...]
February 27, 2010
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Pastor’s Desk: 1st Sunday of Lent
Welcome everyone. We gather for the first time since we began the season of Lent on Wednesday with the marking of blessed ashes on our foreheads. Those ashes are a powerful symbol as they say to each of us who wore them, and everyone who saw us that day, we are on a journey of [...]
February 20, 2010
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Pastor’s Desk: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Welcome everyone to our Masses on this, the last Sunday before Lent begins. Our Gospel today is one that is very familiar to us; it is Luke’s version of the Beatitudes. We are probably more familiar with Matthew’s version which lists eight Beatitudes whereas Luke only gives us four and four antitheses. While the two [...]
February 13, 2010
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