Fr Philip is unwell, please keep him in your prayers

3rd March 2024 - 3rd Sunday in Lent

Readings: (Year B): 1st: Exodus 20:1-17. 2nd: 1 Cor 1:22-25. Gospel: John 2:13-25. 'Destroy this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up'

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10th March 2024 - 4th Sunday in Lent (Laetare)

Readings: (Year B): 1st: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16,19-23. 2nd: Ephesians 2:4-10. Gospel: John 3:14-21. 'God sent his Son so that through him the world might be saved'

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external link >> watch 'A Tour of the Ten Commandments' today's sermon from Bishop Robert Barron

Laetare Sunday is the new moon, which is the Paschal Moon guiding the date of Easter. This year it also marks the start of Ramadan. Also Mothering Sunday, a word I think covers something much wider than has become common “Mothers’ Day.” Of course, our own mothers are important, but it widens to Our Lady ‘mothering the Church, her children. Happy Laetare/Mothering Sunday. Fr. Philip 10th March 2024

external link >> watch 'Face Your Fears' today's sermon from Bishop Barron .. the Gospel on this Fourth Sunday of Lent includes one of the most famous verses in the Bible: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life” (John 3:16)

17th March 2024 - 5th Sunday in Lent

Readings: (Year B): 1st: Jeremiah 31:31-34. 2nd: Hebrews 5:7-9.
Gospel: John 12:20-33. 'If a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it yields a rich harvest'

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24th March 2024 -
Palm Sunday of the Passion of The Lord

Readings: (Year B): 1st: Isaiah 50:4-7. 2nd: Philippians 2:6-11. Gospel: Mark 14:1-15:47. 'The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark'

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external link >> watch 'Put Yourself in the Passion Narrative' Palm Sunday sermon from Bishop Barron ... 'what I want to do today is something a little bit different: instead of putting the focus on Jesus, I want to focus on a series of people around him as they react in different ways to the events of the Passion, putting ourselves in the scene. Who do we identify with in this story as Jesus comes toward his death?'

external link >> 'Verbum Caro, Panem Verum' 
Bishop Barron's sermon for Holy Thursday Mass 2024

external link >> 'Quod Scripsi, Scripsi' 
Bishop Barron's sermon for Good Friday 2024

31st March 2024 - Easter Sunday

Readings: (Year B): 1st: Acts 10:34,37-43. 2nd: Colossians 3:1-4.

Gospel: John 20:1-9. 'He must rise from the dead'

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‘True Life in Christ ~ A Meditation for Easter’ by Canon David Annear, based on the fourth of our Rosary windows, the Glorious Mysteries.

Archive: Renewal of Baptismal Promises 
Fr. Cormac (Easter 2004) click here (1:41 mins)

external link >> watch 'Evidence of the Resurrection' Easter Sunday sermon from Bishop Barron ... 'Friends, a very happy and blessed Easter! We come to the climax of the Church’s year, the feast of feasts, the very reason for being of Christianity. Everything in Christian life centers around the Resurrection. And the Church gives us, every year, the account of Easter morning from the Gospel of John. I want to bring out just one feature that John especially draws attention to—namely, the burial cloths left behind in the tomb. These strange and wonderful cloths that opened the door to faith long ago could perhaps do the same thing today.'

external link >> watch 'Declare the Resurrection' 
Bishop Barron's sermon at Mass for Easter Sunday 2024

Fr Philip is unwell, please continue to keep him in your prayers

7th April 2024 - Divine Mercy Sunday

Readings: (Year B): 1st: Acts 4:32-35. 2nd: 1 John 5:1-6. Gospel: John 20:19-31. 'Eight days later, Jesus came again and stood among them'

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(referenced in homily: I know that my Redeemer liveth, Aria from Handel's Messiah, sung by Dame Isobel Baillie. In a 1979 interview she spoke of singing the work with conviction (faith) never as a concert)

From our Homily Library: Divine Mercy Sunday pm devotions (2013) 
Fr. Louis Rieunier  click here (7:02 mins)

From our audio library: Readings from 2013 pm devotions. The full afternoon service included, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Eucharistic Adoration, Benediction, Veneration, Reconciliation. Parish readers and Fr. Louis Rieunier click here .... service edited to 22:43 mins ... 
(more Divine Mercy Sunday ~ prayers download)

14th April 2024 - 3rd Sunday of Easter

Readings (Year B): 1st: Acts 3:13-15. 17-19. 2nd: 1 John 2:1-5.
Gospel: Luke 24:35-48. 'It is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead'

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21st April 2024 - 4th Sunday of Easter

Readings (Year B): 1st: Acts 4:8-12. 2nd: 1 John 3:1-2. Gospel: John 10:11-18. 'The good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep'

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external link >> watch 'What Happens After We Die? 
Bishop Barron's sermon for 3rd Sunday of Easter 2024

external link >> watch 'Three Qualities of a Good Shepherd' 
Bishop Barron's sermon for 4th Sunday of Easter 2024

28th April 2024 - 5th Sunday of Easter

Readings (Year B): Acts 9:26-31. 2nd: 1 John 3:18-24.
Gospel: John 15:1-8. "I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty."

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2015 Homily by Fr. Philip Listen or download audio (11:23 mins)

2012 Homily by Fr. Philip Listen or download audio (12:32 mins)