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200 Club Winners: May/June  May:     1st   prize:    No 119   Bridie Connaghan 2nd prize:    No  99   Eamonn Hughes June:     1st   prize:   No 104   Clare Wood 2nd prize:   No  59     Jenny Lochrie  

The Holy Rosary The Rosary continues on Saturdays and Sundays at 7pm. Paper copies of the Rosary prayers can be uplifted from inside the porch of the Church house.   St Augustine on prayer “If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God … [Read more…]

Sacred Heart Devotions This continues this evening at 7pm and on the Fridays of June. You can uplift paper copies of the Consecration and Litany to the Sacred Heart at the Church house on the outside door, in the plastic pouch.

St Matthew 5: 20-26 In the culture of Jesus’s day adultery was regarded as an attack of a man on another, as he cannot protect his wife. In the culture also it affected the man’s extended family and the adulterer’s and adulteress’s family. So, basically familial feuds could last for years (like Serbs/Croats). “You must … [Read more…]

Memorial of St Barnabas St Barnabas was born as Joseph, a Cypriot Jew and Levite. In the Acts of the Apostles we read of him selling his property and giving the monies to the Church in Jerusalem. The Apostles then renamed him Barnabas which means “son of encouragement.” After St Paul’s conversion on the road … [Read more…]

What is the difference between a Solemnity, Feast and Memorial Solemnities are the celebrations of the greatest importance in the Church’s Liturgical calendar. Each Solemnity begins on the previous evening with Evening prayer of the Church and some of the Solemnities have their own Vigil Mass. Both the Gloria and the Creed are recited on … [Read more…]

Matthew 5: 20-26 Jesus has previously stated that he did not come to abolish the law and prophets (Jewish terminology for Scripture). They are permanent and have an eternal validity. The teachings of Jesus are not simply a re-statement but a bringing of them to their intended divinely goal, as they all point to him. … [Read more…]

Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen(1895-1979) “The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction”