It is fitting that we celebrate today the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord soon after His Birthday, even though many years intervened between the two. Our focus changes…

On this second Sunday after Christmas, we step back from the story of Christmas itself to reflect upon the choices God made to create, to redeem and to brin everything…

It is simply and inescapably true that the family atmosphere, the family influence in the deepest and the most formative element in a person’s life. Psychologists tell us that by…

Welcome to you all and to all those who are joining us via the Parish webcam. It is good for you and me to remain near the crib – to…

The picture drawn for us in these scriptural passages is one of a God who moves and who expects of his people that they move with him.

Most of us probably have had the experience of absent-mindedly getting into our car, and arriving at a destination with no recollection of the journey.

It may be a little difficult to realise that this first reading is really a continuation of the passage from Isaiah begun last week.  The tone of the reading has…

The first Sunday of Advent starts a new liturgical year. Just as the earth needs its cycles of seasons to rejuvenate itself, so we use the seasons of the Church’s year to bring new life to the image of God in which we were created and the likeness to Christ into which we were baptised.

Today is the last Sunday of the liturgical year and it is no accident that the image selected for this Sunday is meant to sum up all the others, that is the image of Christ the King.

This weekend the Scriptural readings begin to sort of prime us, lead us into the coming Advent experience of waiting.  And the readings do this by drawing on part at least of the strong scriptural theme of the end times, the second coming of the Lord, the end of the world.