Matthew’s Gospel shifts between light and dark with a similar deftness to Caravaggio’s use of chiaroscuro in ‘The Taking of Christ’ heightening the range and intensity of betrayal. We’ve leapt from Palm Sunday joy to Judas betraying Jesus with a single kiss. It’s easy to blame everything on Judas since his treachery is the turning
‘His face shone like the sun.’ (Matt 17:1-9) In the Gospel today, we are invited into a personal moment that Peter, James and John are experiencing. Just ahead of preparing this reflection I had been reading the book of Daniel and his vision of the Son of Man (Dan 10). It struck me that there
A Catholic Podcast to help you journey with the women of the Gospels….
A Catholic Podcast to help you journey with the women of the Gospels….
To all Parishioners – young and old, parents and grandparents, single or married, Many of us are currently enjoying a well-deserved break with our families and friends over these summer months. If you are anything like me, you may also be using the holidays to review and reset the way you do things from September
Calling all teens, aged 14-18 years old Summer 2022 is waiting for you, so put this date in you diary! From 1 – 6 August 2022 there will be a Summer Camp, run by the Chemin Neuf Community, especially for teens. The Summer Camp is for anyone keen to grow in their relationship with God,
We have created a page dedicated to Vocations Sunday, otherwise known as Good Shepherd Sunday, which this year will take place on 8 May. Vocations Sunday is when we are invited to pray for more vocations and to support those who are training for the priesthood. Preparing a man for ordination takes several years: vital
The fourth Sunday of Easter is traditionally known as Vocations Sunday or Good Shepherd Sunday as, in that Sunday’s gospel reading, Jesus says, ‘I am the Good Shepherd: the good shepherd is the one who lays down his life for his sheep’. Below is the prayer to St Joseph for Vocations Sunday from the National
Given on Palm Sunday, 10 April 2022, at Westminster Cathedral Cardinal Vincent NicholsArchbishop of WestminsterT his morning we cross the threshold of Holy Week. Now we begin to journey with our Blessed Lord in the final days of his earthly life. Now we follow him, step by step, through all the events put before us
Join Cardinal Vincent Nichols as he meditates on the Way of the Cross using images from the High Stations on the hill above the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.
