A few words from Fr Joe………..

A few years ago, I was in the company of some Jewish people, they were from a liberal faith community and in the course of the conversation they used the words, observant and orthodox, a lot. They explained that they belonged to a tradition, with many rules, and...

A few words from Fr Joe…………………….

We have had a lot of funerals here in recent months. When I mention that to my own family and friends they often ask, “is the parish very old?”. Of course, they mean are the parishioners mostly in their senior years! It is true that many of the wonderful folks free to...