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Please note a change from our usual timetable. As this month’s pro-life Mass falls on the Feast of the Assumption, we will be joining the Parish of Blessed John Duns Scotus for their Mass at 7pm. There will be no adoration / rosary / refreshments. You are still very welcome to join us in praying […]
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Friday 16th – Sunday 18th November 2018 Come and join us at some point over the weekend to celebrate the feast of St Margaret, Queen of Scotland. Building on the momentum and spirit of the ladies lunch, we are planning a ladies open weekend hosted by the Sisters and our fantastic group of co-workers, taking […]
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Good Friday
On Good Friday, the entire Church fixes her gaze on the Cross at Calvary. Each member of the Church tries to understand at what cost Christ has won our redemption. In the solemn ceremonies of Good Friday, in the Adoration of the Cross, in the chanting of the ‘Reproaches’, in the reading of the Passion, […]
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Maundy Thursday
HOLY THURSDAY is the most complex and profound of all religious observances, saving only the Easter Vigil. It celebrates both the institution by Christ himself of the Eucharist and of the institution of the sacerdotal priesthood (as distinct from the ‘priesthood of all believers’) for in this, His last supper with the disciples, a celebration […]
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St Patricks Feast Day
Patrick was not Irish to begin with. He was born in Scotland at a time when Ireland was a land of pagan kings and warriors. His parents were Romans, probably there as merchants or administrators of a Roman Colony. When Patrick was sixteen years old, Irish warriors raided Scotland and carried captives back to Ireland […]
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Nativity of Our Lord (Christmas)
Wishing you a blessed Christmas full of peace and joy.
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The Immaculate Conception
A feast called the Conception of Mary arose in the Eastern Church in the seventh century. It came to the West in the eighth century. In the 11th century it received its present name, the Immaculate Conception. In the 18th century it became a feast of the universal Church. In 1854, Pius IX solemnly proclaimed: “The […]
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St Andrews Feast Day
Saint Andrew was the brother of Saint Peter and is regarded as the first of the twelve apostles. Like Peter, Andrew was a fisherman from Bethsaida in Galilee. Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist who had followed Jesus on John’s recommendation. According to a New Testament account: Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one […]
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St Padre Pio
Today is the feast day of the much loved St Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, cannonized in 2002. This short video gives a glimpse of who he was http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=311 but there is so much more to know about this modern day saint.Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (25 May 1887 – 23 September 1968) was a Capuchin priest from Italywho is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. […]
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Feast of St Monica
Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, was born in 332. A, a girlhood of singular innocence and piety, she was given in marriage to Patritius, a pagan. She at once devoted herself to his conversion, praying for him always, and winning his reverence and love by the holiness of her life and her affectionate forbearance. […]
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