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Happy the pilgrims whom you strengthen, to make the ascent to you” (Psalm 84, 5-6)
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Assumptionists in the UK
Oct 10, 20233 min read
27th Sunday in Ordinary time
27th Sunday in Ordinary time 08/10/2023 Mt 21, 33-43 Another vineyard story but with a very different purpose. In this story it is God...
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, 20233 min read
3rd Sunday Easter
3rd Sunday Easter Emmaus 2023, Lk 24,13-35 With the arrival of Spring there is an energy in the air that almost impels us to go out and...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 25, 20232 min read
Divine Mercy Sunday
2nd Sunday Easter Year A - 2023 Luke describes the early Christians forming a community of mutual support and sharing. A better word for...
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
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday Year A 2023 Jesus is testimony that being treated shamefully does not mean he was shamed. Rather, those who treated him...
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
Mar 11, 20232 min read
2rd Sunday of Lent
2rd Sunday of Lent 5/3/2023, Mt 17, 1-9 However fertile our imaginations, it is impossible for us to realise the real effect of the...
Assumptionists in the UK
Feb 28, 20232 min read
1st Sunday of Lent
1st Sunday of Lent 26/2/2023 Mt 4, 1-14 Sooner or later every human heart yearns for holiness, spirituality, for God. Mystics speak of a...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jan 31, 20232 min read
4th Sunday
4th Sunday in Ordinary time 29/1/2023, Mt 5, 1-12 David E Crawford writes the following about the Beatitudes; In writing about the poor...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jan 23, 20233 min read
3rd Sunday
3rd Sunday in Ordinary time, Year A, 23/01/2023, Mt 4, 12-23 Words of wisdom: “There’s a fine line between a long, drawn-out sermon and a...
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
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Trusting God’s plan.
Christmas night mass Year C 24/12/2021 Lk 2,1-14 Many of us may participate in different Christmas Carols this year. We can see also the...
Assumptionists in the UK
Dec 21, 20223 min read
A surprise gift
4th Sunday in Advent 18/12/2022 Mt 1, 18-24 All over the world, families and friends give presents to each other on Christmas. Most...
Assumptionists in the UK
Dec 21, 20223 min read
3rd Sunday of Advent
Third Sunday of Advent Mt 11, 2-11 Today we are on the 3rd Sunday of Advent which is called "Gaudete Sunday". Rejoicing, exulting, crying...
Assumptionists in the UK
Dec 10, 20222 min read
2rd Sunday of Advent
Second Sunday of Advent 4/12/2022 Mt 3, 1-12 Don’t give up hope and the Lord will always come to help you said St Paul. Advent invites us...
Assumptionists in the UK
Nov 29, 20222 min read
1st Sunday of Advent
First Sunday of Advent Year A, 27/11/2022, Mt 24, 37-44 We live in a world of staggering beauty and overpowering wonder and fail to see...
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