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22nd August - Feast of Our Lady Queen of Heaven

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors,   This weekend we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady Queen of Heaven. Again like the Feast of the Assumption last week, there is no reference to this in Sacred Scripture. But it is a title given to Mary after the Council...

15th August, 19th Sunday of the Year

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors,               This weekend we celebrate the Feast of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven.  It was the subject of one of the very few (four) infallible statements made by any Pope.  It wa...

8th August, 19th Sunday of the Year

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, The idea of service is deeply rooted in scripture.  Jesus speaks of service in today’s gospel – he who assumed the image of the suffering servant of O.T.  So the talents, goods, gadgets, material possessions are ...

4th July 14th Sunday of the year

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Dear Parishioners & Visitors, Today I am taking the liberty of writing the Gospel. ‘This is the best team and the best chance we have had for decades to become world champions,’ screamed the headlines. A few isolated observers warned that the...

27th June - 13th Sunday of the Year

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Dear Parishioners & Visitors, It is not that long since Easter and today in Luke’s Gospel we have, “Jesus resolutely took the road to Jerusalem and sent messengers ahead of him” (Chapter 9).  In Matthew this happens much later (Chapter20)....

20th June, 12th Sunday of the Year

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Dear Parishioners & Visitors,   In today’s second reading from Galatians, St Paul gives us an insight into the development and change he himself was experiencing and as this flowed from “baptism in Christ”, so all who are “clothed in Chr...

6th June - The Body & Blood of Christ

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Dear Parishioners & Visitors,   I for one am delighted that this great church feast has been moved from the traditional Thursday to the week end. Some will see it as another concession to modernity. I look on it as a gift that more can “give t...

30th May, Trinity Sunday

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  Today we celebrate the Feast of the Blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. No, I am not going to attempt an explanation. One could rightly say, we are mysteries ourselves, quite capable of surprising not only others but ourselves. If we are...

9th May - 6th Sunday of Easter

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Dear Parishioners & Visitors, I am writing this during Election Day. What we end up with or whom, we will not know for 24 hours or longer. There has been much argument and disagreement these past few weeks on the political front. The claims being...

2nd May - 5th Sunday of Easter

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors,Today’s Gospel goes back to the Last Supper. In terms of time and the rhythm of the liturgy, it seems ages ago yet we celebrate it every time we come to the Eucharist (thanksgiving) or the breaking of bread as it was ...

25th April, 4th Sunday of Easter

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Dear Parishioners & Visitors, In today’s first reading from Acts we meet Paul [ a zealous Jew who began attacking the first Christians, but now a zealous Christian missionary] and Barnabas [ also a convert Jew] making their way to Antioch, a ci...

Easter Sunday 4th April 2010

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Dear Parishioners & Visitors,   Welcome to you all at Easter as celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus.  No longer does the Passover mean the escape from Egypt under Moses but rather the journey of all God’s children from baptism through life an...

5th Sunday of Lent

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, In today’s Gospel Jesus goes to the Temple in Jerusalem. By now, many are seeking to get rid of him, he has caused them embarrassment ( because of the crowds who come to see and hear him), he has not observed the Sab...

28th February 2010, 2nd Sunday of Lent

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, That event which we hear about in today’s Gospel called the Transfiguration of Jesus is a wonderful reminder to all of us that God is very near, but we don’t see Him as we do not expect to meet Him. What happened o...

21st February, 1st Sunday in Lent

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors,   In Hebrew, the word Satan means adversary or enemy. This was the common usage in the Old Testament, but its current usage grew and by the time Jesus arrived on the scene, Satan was understood to be the principal spi...

5th Sunday of the Year

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors,   Jesus expresses words we are all familiar with from hymns and Sacred Scripture Readings, “ Do not be afraid...”. Is it enough to say it often and fear will leave us? We are given a glimpse of what our reaction w...

31st January, 4th Sunday of the Year

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, Today’s gospel continued on from last Sunday. Jesus has come back to Nazareth where he was raised, would have been well known, village life and no TV etc. He impresses those at the synagogue and he won their approval...

24th January, 3rd Sunday of the Year

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, Today’s Gospel reminds us of something we have experienced ourselves, you have to leave home to find yourself. So did Jesus and when he returned no doubt many greeted him warmly but others had great reservations. He ...

17th Jan 2010 - Second Sunday of the Year

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, We now enter into what is called “ordinary time” in the Church’s year. We will hear a selection of readings from the Old and New Testament which seem random at times; indeed they are to the extent that the Gospel...

9th/10th January - Baptism of Our Lord

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors This weekend marks the end of the Christmas Season as far as the church is concerned.  People have gone back to work, so to have the children – well a bit – it’s their good luck the snow arrived and we have seen ...

3rd January, Feast of the Epiphany

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors We are still in the season of Christmas and today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. It was fashionable a couple of decades ago to say ‘I had an epiphany moment!’ we seem to have got over that. This...

Feast of the Holy Family 27th December 2009

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We wish you all a happy New year FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH Many thanks to all those who helped to make Christmas 2009 a really wonderful celebration of the birth of Jesus. It doesn’t just happen, you know; the flowers are ...

4th Sunday of Advent

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, As Advent draws to a close, hectic for schools etc and stressful for relationships, in the Gospel we are told that Mary is blessed for believing “that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled”. God keeps...

Third Sunday of Advent

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This Sunday is traditionally known as Gaudete or Joyful Sunday because of the call of the introit of the Mass, ‘Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, Rejoice!’ Taken from St Paul to the Philippians 4:4. The Latin word gaudete mean rejoice or b...

29th November. 1st Sunday of Advent

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, Today we celebrate the Church’s New Year. Advent prepares us in mind and heart to understand Christmas and Christ’s Mission. It puts it in a context. Strangely Jesus is putting before us a scary view of the future,...

21st November 2009

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors, Today we ask: what is Christ the King of?  Pilate found himself asking the same question as Jesus was handed over to him. “Are you the King of the Jews?” There were many kings in the surrounding countries, so Pil...

15th November 2009

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Dear Parishioners and Visitors   This weekend we have a Pastoral Message from Bishop Kieran.  It will be played over the PA, but I encourage you to take a copy of the text – on the pink sheet.  There is plenty of food for thought in it.  Would ...
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Recent News

New Website Launched

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  • November 24, 2009
Welcome to the updated website for Our Lady Queen of Heaven.  Please browse through it, make comments, and feel free to email me with anything you would like to see here. In particular we want to have a "Resources" section - so, for example, if you'...