---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please pray for the sick in our
parish and for those who have died: Walter
Service; Sr Philomena; Mary Chinn; Joseph Priest; William Walker (anniversaries).
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you would like to help decorate the
church at Christmas, please place your donation on the plate at the back of
church.
The first Mass of Christmas will be at 8.00
pm on Christmas Eve. Mass on
Christmas Day will be at 9.30 am.
Mass on Saturday, 26th December and
Friday, 1st January will be at 10.00 am.
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Last Week’s
Collection: £317.53. Second
Collection: £97.81 Thank you.
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We live always during Advent.
We are always waiting for the messiah to come. The messiah has come, but is not yet fully
manifest. The messiah is not fully
manifest in each of our souls, not fully manifest in humankind as a whole;
that is to say, that Just as Christ was born according to the flesh in
Bethlehem of Judah, so must he be born according to the spirit in each of our
souls.
Jean Danielou
Our brokenness is the wound through which the full power of God
can penetrate our being and transfigure us in God.
Loneliness is not something from which we must flee, but the place
from where we can cry out to God, where God will find us and we can find God.
Yes, through our wounds the power of God can penetrate us and
become like rivers of living water to irrigate the arid earth within us.
Thus may we irrigate the arid earth of others, so that hope and
love are reborn.
Jean Vanier
THE ANGELUS
V/. The Angel of the Lord
declared to Mary.
R/. And she conceived
by the Holy Spirit
Hail Mary…
V/. Behold the handmaid
of the Lord.
R/. Be it done unto me
according to Thy word.
Hail Mary…
V/. The Word was made
flesh.
R/. And dwelt among
us.
Hail Mary…
V/. Pray for us, O holy
Mother of God.
R/. That we may be
made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray.
Pour forth, we
beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to
whom the Incarnation of Christ Thy Son was
made known by the message of
an angel, may by His passion and cross be
brought to the glory of His
resurrection, through the same Christ our
Lord. Amen.
