2013

Wisdom is the power to put our time

 and our knowledge to the proper use. 

Thomas J. Watson 

Have a very Happy and Holy Year 2013.

The Holy Family Sunday

A Family Prayer

Heavenly Father, keep our family in Your love.

Help us to imitate the example of the Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Make our home a holy place where the love of Jesus will be in all that we think, do and say.

Give us the strength to overcome difficulties and may our family life lead only to Jesus - the source of true happiness.

Amen.

... and some pictures as our Parish Family celebrated Christmas this year

Christmas 2012

Mary gave birth to a son, her first-born.She wrapped him in swaddling clothes,and laid him a mangerbecause there was no roomfor them at the inn

Luke 2:6-7

 ‘What good is it for the Christ

to be born two thousand years ago

if Christ is not born in you?’

Meister Eckhart

  Every year as we recall the first coming of Christ into our world, we are challenged to live his way of justice, truth and love. Christmas does not guarantee us a trouble free life. During the Christmas season as we contemplate Mary and Joseph we come to realise that they had only their faith to sustain them in difficult times. It was their deep abiding trust in God’s love that enabled them to cope with hard decisions. That’s all we have too. During this Year of Faith, we pray that as our relationship with Christ deepens, we will have the strength to respond to the challenging decisions of every day life. By keeping our minds and hearts focused on Emmanuel-God-with-us, we too will discover in him the inner source of our hope.

  May we often go to the Bethlehem of our hearts and spend time with the One who offers us love, inner peace and hope.

With prayerful good wishes for this Christmas season 

and the New Year.

Fr.Adam MS and Fr.Chris MS

4th Sunday of Advent

...be focused on 

as we are so close ...

3rd Sunday of Advent

 And the multitudes asked John the Baptist, "What then shall we do?"  And he answered them, "He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise."  Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?"  And he said to them, "Collect no more than is appointed you."  Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages."  As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ,  John answered them all, "I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy  to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.  His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."  So, with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people.

Luke 3:10-18

2nd Sunday of Advent

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiber'i-us Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturae'a and Trachoni'tis, and Lysa'ni-as tetrarch of Abile'ne,  in the high-priesthood of Annas and Ca'iaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechari'ah in the wilderness;  and he went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.  As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness:  Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.  Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;  and all flesh shall see the salvation of God."

 Luke 3:1-6

1st Sunday of Advent

Today we begin the season of Advent - a time of longing and waiting for Christmas and for the second coming of the Lord Jesus.

As we light the first candle, we pray:

Heavenly Father, bless our Advent wreath. 

Touch our hearts with the warmth of your love and keep us attentive to Jesus, the light of the world.