Sunday July 1st 2012 Thirteenth Week of the Year
“Talitha Cum!” St Mark sometimes likes to interrupt a story he is telling with another story – we call it a Markan sandwich. We hear an example of it today with the healing of Jairus’ daughter and the woman with a haemorrhage. Ay first glance these stories might not seem to have a lot in common…
June 24th 2012 – Twelfth week of the Year – The Birthday of St John the Baptist
“At the end of powerful eras, and at the birth of new ones, strange spirits spew up in the world, in nature, in the heavens, from our minds.” So writes the Nigerian author, Ben Okri, in his epic poem ‘Mental Fight’. The poem is a…
June 17th 2012 11th Sunday of the year Father’s Day!!
Father’s Day!!
Anniversaries: Sun: Joseph Williams, Alfred White, John Gavin; Mon: Tracy Hinchcliffe, Brigitte Laurence,
Patrick Ward; Tues: Richard Stephen Whincop, Isobel Marshall, Ada Doris Butler; Wed: John Carr, Anthony Penna, Christy Ward; Thurs: Gaetano Tamburrini, James Caples, Albert Penna, John Frederick Thomson, John Kay;
Fri: Colin Culkin, Maurice Blenkinsop; Sat: Sydney Billington, Fred Horbury, Mark Andrew Mounce, Frank Hansbury;
Sun: Elizabeth Ford, Marie Harvey, Frederick Thomas Willoughby, Joe McNicholas.
June 10 2012 The Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ
The Eucharist: Communion with Jesus and with one another, the theme of the International Eucharistic Congress beginning in Dublin this weekend, a gathering to reflect on the central place of the Eucharist in our life, that which brings us into communion. We return on this feast day to the source. The Last Supper that Jesus shared with his chosen; we know the significance of that Passover meal Jesus celebrated, the ritual we re-enact with every Mass. His words must have made some of them sit up and listen and wonder. How could they not? Today calls us to reflect especially – do the words of Jesus make us sit up and listen and wonder? Are all of us who gather around the table of the Lord in communion with Christ and with one another? Isn’t it true to say that even at…
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June 3rd 2012 Feast of the Most Holy Trinity
That this is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity immediately focuses attention on the Trinitarian baptismal formula in the Gospel. The doctrine of the Trinity is not in the first place a philosophical conundrum or a mathematical challenge, but the recognition that the same God who is experienced in the story of the people of God in the Old Testament is present in Jesus of Nazareth and in…