In today’s gospel reading, Jesus tells us: “You are the light of the world ..... your light must shine in the sight of everyone, so that, seeing your good works they may give the praise to your Father in heaven.”
We need confidence in our faith and the sad fact is that many of us do not have this confidence. There is an urgent need to address this, and Pope Benedict quoted Blessed John Henry Newman in his homily at Cofton Park last September.
“I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but people who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.”
All of us should make time for daily prayer and spiritual reading of some kind – not heavy theological books but the Scriptures and our Catholic history, and in particular the lives of the saints.
We fully intend to start a parish library and many of you have given books for this, and I am prepared to loan many of my own books. This should help us all to grow in confidence in our faith, to “shine” – but also to ensure that others may shine and give praise to God.
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Mass attendances last Sunday were 585. |
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Sunday 6/2/11 |
5th Sunday in Ordinary time (A) 6pm – People of the Parish
9.15am- Gregory Panek RIP (Kate Kaminski)
11am – Pat O’ Donnell (Leish O’Sullivan) |
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Monday 7/2/11 |
Feria 9.30am – Susan Blasocca RIP (A & S Barradell)
1-30-3.30 pm - craft/card games/tea and chat in the hall. Everyone very welcome!
Misson and Planning Team - in the meeting room 7.45pm (please let members know if you wish a topic to be discussed) |
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Tuesday 8/2/11 |
Feria
9.30am- Holy Souls (Anonymous) Benediction and confessions after morning Mass.
7.15pm- John Cassidy RIP the Casey family
8pm Evangelium –(281A Crescent Drive) |
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Wednesday 9/2/11 |
Feria
9.30am –Daniel Carrigan RIP (Gwen Carrigan) |
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Thursday 10/2/11 |
St Scholastica
9.30am – Olive Cosgrave RIP (Ned) |
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Friday 11/2/11 |
Our Lady of Lourdes
9.30am – Gerald Grace ( M & P Cantopher) |
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Sunday 13/2/11 |
6th Sunday in Ordinary time (A)
6pm – Douglas Bowman RIP (the Bowman family)
9.15am- People of the Parish
11am – Martin Browne RIP (A Lane)
2nd Collection for You Touch Africa
Guides cake sale today after Mass
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Tuesday 15/2/11 |
Finance Committee - presbytery 10.15am |
Next weekend, we shall be publishing the results of the hall survey – my thanks to the Teams who have worked so hard on this.
Attendance registration- from today parents and children who will be applying for church schools next December for 2012 are required to register their attendance at Mass each week (after Mass).
Please remember the sick in your prayers: Bill Morley, Gerald Colman, Gloria Calnan, Joshua Canning (11 yrs.), Florence Angel, Christopher Drew, Ernest Field and Bishop Michael Evans (East Anglia).
Ministry to the sick – please let me know as soon as possible if you are ill (and especially if you are in hospital) so that a visit can be arranged. I am always pleased to visit but I must know!
Moving Mountains
Only have faith...
But that’s the problem;
How much do we need?
What if we haven’t enough?
The questions miss the point:
Faith is not a commodity
To be possessed,
A bargaining counter
Used to get things done;
Faith is the orientation
Of our lives, a gift
Which shifts perceptions,
Takes us deeper
Into the mystery of God.
a poem by Ann Lewin
Every blessing...... Fr Bryan