Fr Joe Words

by | Aug 28, 2025 | News

A few words from Fr Joe…………… On Monday evening, Mount Merrion will host the Advent Reconciliation Service for the Holy Trinity Partnership. For the past 20 years or more the usual format has been a penance service, with a visiting preacher, and a number of confessors...

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom abundantly

by | Jan 23, 2025 | News

The readings of this Gaudete (‘rejoice’) Sunday are full of hopeful joy in anticipation of Christ’s arrival. This will bring an end to all sorrow and mourning (First Reading), because through Christ will come salvation and new life (Psalm). In the Second Reading, St...

‘The Lord will reign for ever!’ 

by | May 24, 2024 | News

The reign of the Lord glorified in today’s Psalm is a kingdom of justice for the oppressed. The other readings, too, all focus on God’s loving concern for the poor, the weak and the powerless. In the First Reading, a destitute Gentile widow gives to Elijah all that...

A few words from Fr Joe……………….

by | May 24, 2024 | News

In November, we remember our deceased relatives and friends and pray for all the faithful departed and as it says in the Eucharistic Prayer ‘those whose faith was known to you (God) alone’. The greatest gift we can offer to those who have left us is our assurance that...

A few words from Fr Joe…………………

by | Apr 19, 2024 | News

I was invited to the home of a young woman whose wedding was coming up so that I could get to know her parents. The senior couple lived in a very fine house, with large well-proportioned rooms, many open fires, lovely art on the walls and then as the invitation was...