Today we celebrate the great solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. This is the last Sunday of the Church’s year which means we focus on the final and glorious things to come! It also means that next Sunday will be the First Sunday of Advent. When we say Jesus is […]
Today’s Gospel tells how the followers of Jesus are to act as we await the coming of God’s Kingdom. This familiar parable talks about the talents each of us receive, each different, but all building up the family of God, the faithful followers of Jesus. The parable teaches that God’s judgment will be […]
On this Remembrance Sunday we are very conscious of the strange circumstances surrounding this year’s Act of Remembrance in churches, chapels, memorials and war cemeteries as our churches remain closed and the annual memorial held by the Royal British Legion here at Whitchurch has been cancelled due to the ‘Firebreak’. For over a century the […]
Today is the great solemnity of All Saints. The earliest observance of a feast in honour of all the saints is an early fourth-century commemoration of “all the martyrs.” In the early seventh century, after successive waves of invaders plundered the catacombs, Pope Boniface IV gathered up some 28 wagon-loads of bones and reinterred […]
Good Morning – let’s hope everyone remembered the clock went forward last night and we are here at 10am GMT not 9am! ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is […]
In today’s gospel we hear the powers that be in Jesus’ time attempting to trap him in political intrigue. Jesus wants to show those around him what really matters. So, he takes a coin and asks his questioners to look at it. Whose image is on this coin in 1st century Judea, Caesar’s image is […]
Today we hear the parable of the wedding feast. In it Jesus offers an image of the kingdom of heaven as a great banquet at a wedding, something which can no longer happen in our socially distancing times!! In today’s first reading from the prophet Isaiah and in today’s psalm, the Lord’s goodness is evident […]
In today’s Gospel, Jesus speaks to the priests and elders with a parable. In this parable, the landowner leases his vineyard to tenants and sends his servants to collect the portion of the harvest that the tenants owe to him. Several times the servants are sent to collect payment, and each time they are beaten […]
Today’s gospel invites us to reflect on our relationship with Jesus. Are we like the chief priests and elders of Jesus day, who keep the message of the gospel with our lips, but not with our lives? Or are we those who do the will of God in all we do, think and say. […]
Today’s gospel is a reminder to us all that when we come to meet the Lord we do so in trust and love, not for rewards or personal gain, but through a free offering of ourselves to him, who loves us equally in return. In the gospel we hear that the landowner paid on […]
