There is more to life than wealth and riches

by | Jul 28, 2022 | News

Today’s readings are about material things and our attitude towards them. Are they at the centre of our lives? The texts also suggest that what we are is more important than what we have. Qoheleth, ‘the Preacher’, who wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes 300 years before...

A few words from Father Joe…………………

by | Jul 28, 2022 | News

Last week when I was writing these few words I hadn’t realised that it was a weekend of special prayers for Grandparents and the elderly. Pope Francis, who is getting on in years himself, has many kind and thoughtful things to say to, and about, the senior members of...

Jesus our Guest

by | Jul 15, 2022 | News

This Sunday’s readings lead us to ponder the gift of hospitality; the giving and receiving we experience. May we learn to welcome our Lord who wishes to dwell with us. In the First Reading, Abraham gives us the example of Bedouin hospitality. In welcoming three...

A few words from Father Joe…………………..

by | Jul 15, 2022 | News

I have a Pope Francis mug on my shelf. It is a souvenir of his visit here in 2018, and very predictably his smiling face is looking out. I don’t use it for tea or coffee, but from time to time take a drink of water from it, but mostly is just sits there on the shelf,...

‘And who is my neighbour?‘

by | Jul 8, 2022 | News

Today’s readings celebrate the nearness of the Lord to us. Created through God and for God, we are drawn ever closer by peace and reconciliation. Not only that. We are also called to become like the Lord in our service to all. The First Reading commands us to love,...

A few words from Fr Joe…………………

by | Jul 8, 2022 | News

Many single people eat alone most of the time, maybe with the radio playing in the background; familiar voices and music softens the isolation. As someone who is single, and lives alone I can speak both to the value and pain of sitting without company at the table,...