News Category: News
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Fifteenth and Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 10 and 17 July
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Luke 10:25-37) One of the extraordinary features of the Gospel according to Luke is the presence of parables of Jesus only found in this gospel. The parable of the Good Samaritan is one of these. The parable is provoked by the question of the ‘lawyer’, an expert on the Jewish […]
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Body and Blood of Christ (19 June) Thirteenth Sunday (28 June) Fourteenth Sunday (3 July) 2022
Corpus Christi (Luke 9:11-17) Today we are given an opportunity to revisit the events of Holy Thursday and for deeper reflection on the mystery of the Eucharist instituted by Christ on the night before he died. St Paul reminds us that Jesus gave us not an earthly bread, but the bread which is the gift […]
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Pentecost 5 June Holy Trinity 12 June
Pentecost (John 20:19-23) In these verses Jesus brings the gift of peace and the gift of the Holy Spirit. The account of the day of Pentecost is found in our first reading, from the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Fifty days after the resurrection there was a spectacular manifestation of the power […]
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Sixth and Seventh Sundays of Easter 22 and 29 May 2022
Sixth Sunday (John 14:23-29) The theme of ‘love’ emerges again, not the love of one disciple for another, but the disciple’s love for Jesus. Love for Jesus brings down the love of the Father. This love is shown by ‘keeping the word’ of Jesus and keeping the word of Jesus is keeping the word of […]
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Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Easter (Year C) 8 and 15 May 2022
Fourth Sunday (John 10:27-30) Having listened to the accounts of the appearances of the risen Jesus in the Gospel of John we now consider some of the words of Jesus from earlier in the gospel, which richly illustrate his mission and identity. We read from the Gospel of John throughout the easter period due to […]
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Easter Sunday 17 April, Second Sunday of Easter 24 April, Third Sunday of Easter 1 May
Easter Sunday (John 20:1-9) The God of love is more powerful than death and sin, and God has shown this in raising Jesus, who became a victim of sin, to the life of the resurrection. The world is in dire need of news that is true, amid so many messages which are false, undermining and […]