The weeks leading up to Christmas and school holidays are often a particularly busy time. Sometimes, the urgency to ‘get things done’ means that what we do isn’t always our best. It may be driven less by quality and more by ticking boxes. Our encounters with others can sometimes be like that as well - … Continue reading Fullness of Life
Liturgy Corner
Today we begin the Season of Advent, a time that the Church describes as ... a period for devout and joyful expectation. Sacred Congregation of Rites, General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, n 39 Advent’s character is twofold. Firstly, it is a time when we direct our hearts and minds to the … Continue reading Expressing our Devout and Joyful Expectation
Over recent months, the parish Liturgy Committee, including Fr Janu and Fr Alby, have undertaken a full evaluation and review of the expected practices within our Sunday Masses. We have done this with the aim of deepening our community in its relationship with God and living Jesus’ mission, by forming a diverse, inclusive community of … Continue reading A Change to How We Structure the Ministry of the Word
Jesus never performed miracles, or “signs” as they are described in the Gospel of John, for the sake of it. They always resulted from, and strengthened peoples’ faith. Take, for example, Mary’s faith in her son at Cana, the centurion’s faith that Jesus could heal his daughter without entering under his roof, the woman who … Continue reading Glory
The opening sentences of today’s Gospel reveal a particular cultural and religious understanding of the time - that circumstances such as disability (in this case, blindness) were seen as punishments from God for sin. At the end, the excuse of sin is used by the Pharisees to reject his courageous witness and expel him from … Continue reading Dignity
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