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Gospel – Mark 7:31-37 Then Jesus returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He...

Statement on Marriage Marriage is a lifelong vocation of a man and a woman to a community of life and love open to children, and, between the baptized, it is a Sacrament. Aware of the many pressures today which can endanger family life, the Church is constantly...

Due to Covid –19 restrictions this year we are unable to gather as a Parish Family for the Stations of the Cross.    Instead  we will be holding this devotion through Zoom at 7.30pm.  Please save these dates in your diary 19th and 26th February, 5th, 12th, 19th and...

Bernadette Soubirous was born of a very poor family in Lourdes, a small village at the foothills of the Pyrenees in the south of France.  It was on the 11th of February 1858, whilst she and her sisters went to collect brush wood for the house fire, that 14 year-old...

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Gospel – Mark 7:14-23 Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” When he got home away from the crowd...

Gospel – Mark 7:1-13 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat...

The Feast Day of Saint Josephine Bakhita – the patron saint of victims of modern slavery and human trafficking is celebrated on 8th February. On this day Catholics are encouraged to pray for all those affected by the crimes of modern slavery and human trafficking, and...

Gospel – Mark 1:29-39 On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon's mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left...

My dear friends, In this season of  ‘ordinary time’, it is sometime now since we the blessed events of the epiphany and Christmas. We explore Jesus life and ministry, reconciliation and wholeness as he walks, like a wild fire of Hope through our hurting world. How can...