St Monica was born in the year 332 in Tagaste in North Africa to Christian parents. She married Patricius, who was a pagan and three of their children survived infancy. St Augustine was the eldest. Patricius was baptised a year before his death. His conversion to Catholicism was very much influenced through St Monica’s piety, … [Read more…]
In St John’s Gospel, the Gospel chosen for today, it is St Philip that introduces St Bartholomew/ Nathanael to Jesus. When St Philip says that we have found the Messiah, St Bartholomew asks “where is he from”? When St Philip replies from Nazareth, St Bartholomew seems utterly unimpressed as he responds “can anything good come … [Read more…]
In the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, St Bartholomew appears only as a name on the list of the Apostles. In St John’s Gospel the name St Bartholomew does not appear, but the name of Nathanael is identified by scripture scholars as him. The assumption is that this one person is indicated by two … [Read more…]
Collection Gift Aid: £65.00 Non- Gift Aid: £151.60 Gift Aid Building Fund: £35.00 St Anthony’s: £83.53 Monthly Standing Orders: £1,677 Weekend Masses: Saturdays @ 4pm and Sundays @ 8.30am (until further notice.) & 10.am. Weekday Masses: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays @ 10am. The Church will be opened for Mass only and 20 minutes before … [Read more…]
Most holy Virgin Immaculate, my Mother Mary, to thee who art the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the universe, the advocate, the hope, the refuge of sinners, I who am the most miserable of all sinners, have recourse this day. I venerate thee, great queen, and I thank thee for the many graces … [Read more…]
This Feast is celebrated seven days after the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady into Heaven and was transferred from the 31st of May to the 22nd of August. Pope Pius XII announced this on the 11th of October in 1954 when he presented his Papal Encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam (To the Queen of Heaven) to … [Read more…]
St Pope Pius X was born Joseph Sarto near Treviso, in the region of Venice in 1835. His family upbringing was humble and poor. He was the second eldest of ten children. He entered the seminary at Padua in 1850 and ordained a priest in 1858. He worked pastorally in various parishes with great zeal … [Read more…]
Pius X Prayer to Our Lady Most holy Virgin, who pleased our Lord and became his mother, Virgin Immaculate in your body and soul, in your faith and love, at this solemn jubilee of the promulgation of the dogma which proclaimed you to the entire world as conceived without sin, look kindly on us unfortunate … [Read more…]
Bishop John as Shepherd of the Diocese welcomes joyfully and proudly his New Priest.
St Bernard of Clairvaux was born near Dijon, in the region of Burgundy, France in 1090. He had a religious upbringing from his parents. Along with two uncles and between 27 and thirty friends he entered the Cistercian monastery of Citeaux in 1111. Having made a deep impression on the Abbot he was assigned to … [Read more…]