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Sunday
28th Dec 2008
THE HOLY
FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH
The Feast of the Holy Family: We are reminded today that a holy family
will be a happy one because everything is based on God's will of love ...a
love that shows itself in patience, forgiveness and sincere gratitude. The
spirit of such a family will be the Spirit of God who brings peace. |
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Sunday
21st Dec 2008
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
God�s anointed was born by the power of God�s Spirit. He is the Son of God
and fulfills God�s promise of an everlasting kingdom for his people. |
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Sunday
14th Dec 2008
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
John the Baptist was sent by God to prepare for Christ�s coming. His task
was to make them attentive to the Spirit who would be fully present in God�s
anointed. |
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Sunday
7th Dec 2008
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
When God comes, he comes with power but also with compassion restoring all
things. We can prepare the way of his coming with lives of holiness. |
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Sunday
30th Nov 2008
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
God comes to those who wait for him. Our waiting needs to be prayerful if
we are to be truly ready to receive him when he comes. |
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Sunday
23rd Nov 2008
SOLEMNITY
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, UNIVERSAL KING
Jesus, the Lord of all creation cared so much for those in his domain,
that he was willing to die, in order to care for them. Those who will
finally belong to him, will be those who have shared his care for the
hungry, the naked, the lost, the crippled and the strays of this world. |
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Sunday
16th Nov 2008
THIRTY
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
How often fear and anxiety prevent people from producing their best, from
using their God-given talents to the full. In today's parable Jesus shows
that a God who inspires fear may inspire little else. His image of God as a
loving father inspires confidence and so enables us to develop what he has
given us.. |
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Sunday
9th Nov 2008
THIRTY
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Restorative Justice Week
We commemorate today not the dedication of a building but the reality for
which it stands - God's presence in the lives of his people gathered as a
community. The most perfect meeting-point between God and man took place in
Jesus Christ. We come to Church to deepen our share in that meeting. |
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Sunday
2nd Nov 2008
THIRTY
FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
A Souls Day
The Commemoration of all the faithful
departed.
God is full of mercy: he waits patiently for our conversion. No matter how
much we may have failed him, he still calls us and encourages us towards
goodness.. |
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Sunday
26th Oct 2008
THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The Pharisees fault was not gratitude for doing good hut contempt for
those less successful, a lack of humility before the grace of God. Paul too
could �boast� and give thanks that he had kept the faith, but he recognised
that this had not been simply his own doing but because �the Lord stood by
me.� We too should thank God for any good we have been able to do. It is
with his help that we do it, and it gives us no grounds for complacency or a
sense of superiority. |
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Sunday
19th Oct 2008
TWENTY
NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Mission Sunday
By its nature, the Church is missionary. Christ sent her to let her light
shine to the whole human race. We cannot leave this task to the
professionals. The prophets and the apostles were ordinary lay people when
chosen to speak and act in God�s name. As the result of our baptism, each of
us has a duty to work for the missions in our own special way and in our own
particular place. |
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Sunday
12th Oct 2008
TWENTY
EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Emigrant Sunday
God promised his people a future of great blessings where death and mourning
would be no more. Christ came to issue God�s final invitation to this
future. Some rejected it, others accepted it but then made light of it. What
have we done with our invitation? |
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Sunday
5th Oct 2008
TWENTY
SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
DAY FOR LIFE
God cares for his people with great love, he gives them many blessings. We
belong to His people, but we must remember that we cannot presume upon God's
love and patience - we are expected to produce the fruit of what we have
received. |
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Sunday
28th Sep 2008
TWENTY
SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
It takes at least two to make a friendship. God loves us, but there is no
relationship between him and us unless we return his love. In this
relationship there can be no pretence nor living on the past. Our response
to God must continue every day to be real, just as his love for us is a
daily reality. |
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Sunday
21st Sep 2008
TWENTY
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Our human horizons are so limited! So often we calculate the cost of our
generosity � giving only to the DESERVING � afraid that our �goodness� may
be wasted. Our God is not limited. He takes the risk of his love being
wasted and it is only because of such love that we can have hope. |
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Sunday
14th Sep 2008
TWENTY
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The Triumph Of The Cross
This feast is a reminder that God sent his son
into the world to take on the human condition in all its weakness, a
weakness symbolised by death. Through his triumph over death Christ offers
us the way to the Father, the way to eternal life. |
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Sunday
22nd Jun 2008
TWELFTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
No matter what the trials in this life may be, we are assured of God�s
love for us. St. Matthew in today�s Gospel tells us not to be afraid. What
greater reassurance is needed. |
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Sunday
15th Jun 2008
ELEVENTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The Lord protects us and gives us his strength for the mission to which he
calls us. |
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Sunday
8th Jun 2008
TENTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
We tend to reduce religion to a mere formality. Today we renew our love
and approaching God with the sincerity and faith of Abraham, we offer our
praise and thanksgiving. |
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Sunday
1st Jun 2008
NINTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
It is through Christ alone that we can keep our side of the covenant,
which is to love God with all our heart and keep his commandments so as to
gain his blessing. |
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Sunday
25th May 2008
THE BODY
AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
(Corpus Christi)
The sacrifice of Christ re-united us with Christ, once for all. Every time
we celebrate the Lord's Supper and receive his body and blood then through
him our union with God is renewed. |
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Sunday
18th May 2008
THE MOST
HOLY TRINITY
Blessed be God the father and his only begotten Son and the Holy Spirit:
for he has shown that he loves us. |
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Sunday
11th May 2008
PENTECOST SUNDAY
The first coming of the Holy Spirit on the Church was wind and fire and
the telling of God's wonderful deeds in many tongues. The Spirit also comes
as many gifts for the common good, bringing peace along with God�s forgiving
power. |
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Sunday
4th May 2008
THE
ASCENSION OF THE LORD
World Communications Day
Jesus ascended to heaven so that his influence and power might be felt not
just in one place but in all the world. Today he is present everywhere
through his Church, bringing all people to God. |
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Sunday
27th Apr 2008
SIXTH
SUNDAY OF EASTER
We celebrate the coming of Christ's spirit of truth on the Church, the
source of the Church's proclamation of the Christian message in the world. |
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Sunday
20th Apr 2008
FIFTH
SUNDAY OF EASTER
Jesus is our way our truth and our life. We go to the Father through him |
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Sunday
13th Apr 2008
FOURTH
SUNDAY OF EASTER
(VOCATIONS SUNDAY)
Jesus is the good shepherd and guardian of our souls. Today we rejoice in
the Lord our shepherd who calls us to himself. |
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Sunday
6th Apr 2008
THIRD
SUNDAY OF EASTER
Christ revealed himself to the disciples on the way to Emmaus and they
recognised him in the breaking of bread. |
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Sunday
30th Mar 2008
SECOND
SUNDAY OF EASTER
We are all a bit like Thomas: unless we see we find it difficult to
believe. However, faith is a way of seeing, seeing beyond the apparent
problems of life to the hope given by the Resurrection of Jesus, the hope of
sharing heaven with Him. |
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Sunday
23rd Mar 2008
EASTER SUNDAY
Today we face the greatest mystery of our faith, the mystery of how God
works among us, bringing new life where before there was only death. With a
sense of wonder and with joy, we come today to thank God for the risen life
of Jesus. |
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Sunday
16th Mar 2008
PASSION (PALM) SUNDAY
Jesus was tortured and humiliated by the pride and self-will of people. He
accepted this fate so as to overcome human destructiveness. His humble
attentiveness to God allows God's power to be active and recreative. |
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Sunday
9th Mar 2008
FIFTH
SUNDAY OF LENT
Jesus as a man like us, wept for Lazarus his friend, as eternal God he
raised Lazarus from the dead, in his love for us all, Jesus gave us the
sacraments to lift us up to everlasting life. |
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Sunday
2nd Mar 2008
FOURTH
SUNDAY OF LENT
Jesus came among us to lead us from darkness into the light of faith.
Through Adam�s fall we were horn as slaves of sin but now through Christ we
are reborn as God�s adopted children. |
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Sunday
24th Feb 2008
THIRD
SUNDAY OF LENT
When Jesus asked the woman of Samaria for water to drink he had already
prepared her for the gift of faith. In his thirst to receive her faith he
awakened in her heart the fire of God�s love. We pray for those who are
preparing for this baptism. |
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Sunday
17th Feb 2008
SECOND
SUNDAY OF LENT
On the holy mountain Jesus revealed himself in glory to his disciples. He
had already prepared them for his approaching death. He wanted to teach them
through the Law and the Prophets that the promised Christ had first to
suffer and so come to glory. |
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Sunday
10th Feb 2008
FIRST
SUNDAY OF LENT
Jesus fast of forty days reminds us that this is a holy season of
self-denial. By rejecting the devil�s temptations Jesus has taught us to rid
ourselves of the hidden corruption of evil, and so to share his paschal
mystery in purity of heart. |
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Sunday
3rd Feb 2008
FOURTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Day of Prayer for Temperance
Our weaknesses and limitations can sometimes frustrate us, but they can also
lead us to see our dependence on God. If we turn to him as the only source
of our life and strength, his power will work through our weakness, and we
will be blessed. |
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Sunday
27th Jan 2008
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
God has given to each of us a potential to be developed. There is a
promise in us yet to be fulfilled. Jesus came to bring this fulfilment to
everyone and it will be ours when we follow like Peter and the others who
lived in Galilee. |
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Sunday
20th Jan 2008
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Jesus came as the Servant of God to serve the deepest needs of people. He
offered his life to remove the tragedy of sin from human life and so restore
us to peace with God, and each other. |
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Sunday
13th Jan 2008
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
At his baptism Jesus was revealed as the Son of God and began his work of
bringing the vision of God, his justice and his liberation to people. At our
baptism each of us is given a share in this mission, so we become children
of God. |
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Sunday
6th Jan 2008
THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
God�s plan for the world, the mysterious purpose of existence, is unveiled
by the coming of Christ. God wants it to be known and it will be known, by
all who follow the light of faith leading them to Christ. |
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