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“Happy are those who live in your house, continually singing your praise!
Happy the pilgrims whom you strengthen, to make the ascent to you” (Psalm 84, 5-6)
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Assumptionists in the UK
Mar 12, 20242 min read
Fourth Sunday of Lent
4th Sunday of Lent 10/3/2024 Jn 3, 14-21 Although we are encouraged throughout Lent to seek God’s mercy for your sins and failings and...
Assumptionists in the UK
Mar 6, 20242 min read
3rd Sunday of lent
3rd Sunday of Lent 03/03/2024 Jn 2, 13-25' Before we receive Holy Communion, we pray: “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20232 min read
Pentecost Sunday
7th Sunday Easter year A 2023 Jn 20, 19 -23 After the Ascension, the apostles and disciples spent much of their time in prayer. They had...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
6th Sunday of Easter
6th Sunday of Easter Year A 2023 Jn 17, 1-11 The community within which Jesus grew up, like all communities in Israel at that time,...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
5th Sunday of Easter
5th Sunday Easter Year A 2023 Jn 14, 15-21 The Truth Jesus refers to is not something we can possess, nor is it about knowledge, words or...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
Good Shepherd
4th Sunday Easter Year A - Good Shepherd – Vocations - 2023 Pope Francis writes about Vocations : This is the 60th celebration of the...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 25, 20232 min read
East Sunday
East Sunday Year A 2023 Sr Macrina Wiederkehr osb has an interesting way of welcoming Easter. Rather than being observers of this...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 1, 20232 min read
5th Sunday of Lent
5th Sunday Lent Year A 2023 The raising of Lazarus is like a trailer for what is to come when Jesus will be laid in the tomb and is freed...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 1, 20232 min read
3rd Sunday of Lent
3rd Sunday of Lent Year A 12/3/2023 Jn 4, 5-42 We are today in the third Sunday of Lent. We have the story of Jesus and the Samaritan...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jan 23, 20233 min read
2nd Sunday
2nd Sunday in Ordinary time, Year A, 15 January 2023, Jn 1, 29-34 Once again, we are reminded of Jesus’ baptism, and John the Baptist...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jun 15, 20223 min read
The Most Holy Trinity
Sunday of the Holy Trinity 12/6/2022 Jn 16, 12-15 The Trinity and the model of our Christian life. We are here to celebrate to the very...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jun 15, 20223 min read
The gift of the Holy Spirit.
Pentecost Sunday 5/6/2022 Jn 14, 15-16,23-26 We are today on the Pentecost Sunday, the day the Apostles received the gift of the Holy...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jun 15, 20222 min read
7th Sunday of Easter
7th Sunday of Easter 30/5/2022 Jn 17, 20-26 We talk and pray and yearn for Christian Unity but do we ever give serious thought to what it...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 24, 20223 min read
6th Sunday of Easter
6th Sunday of Easter Year C, 22/05/2022 Jn 14, 23-29 Revelation speaks of the temple of the city being Jesus Christ. This reminds us of...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 24, 20222 min read
5th Sunday of Easter
5th Sunday of Easter Year C 15/5/2022 Jn 13, 31-35 We often talk about the glory of God or about giving glory to God but do we pause to...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 9, 20222 min read
4th Sunday of Easter
4th Sunday of Easter 8/5/2022 Jn10, 27-30 Only a small reference about Jesus being the Good Shepherd but that is all we need. In Jesus’...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 9, 20222 min read
3th Sunday of Easter
3th Sunday of Easter 1/5/2022 Jn 21, 1-19 Yesterday I was privileged to bless a sundial in the Quaker Peace Garden which contains...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 18, 20223 min read
Be aware of what we see.
Easter Sunday 17/04/2022 Year C, Jn 20, 1-9 Happy Easter! Today’s the church proclaims throughout the world “Jesus Christ is risen,...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 4, 20222 min read
5th Sunday of Lent
Fifth Sunday of Lent Year C, 03/04/2022 Jn 8, 1-11 Before becoming caught up with all the possible shenanigans going on in the Gospel,...
Assumptionists in the UK
Dec 29, 20212 min read
Christmas Day
Christmas time 25/12/2021 Year C, Jn 1,1-18 The Christmas message is that God is not up there or out there or distant from us or removed...
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