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Perfection Some of you may remember the Olympic Games of Montreal in 1976 and a young 14 year old Romanian gymnast by the name of Nadia Comaneci. She scored the first ever perfect 10 in the history of the gymnastics … Continue reading →

How Happy are you? Apparently not very if you were born after 1957. Why? Well believe it or not, according to researchers at Warwick University, 1957 was the happi- est year in the UK of the last century. So perhaps … Continue reading →

Beginning the Journey with Matthew This year of 2017, will see us walk our pathway of discipleship with Matthew as our evangelist. The three yearly cycle of the Lectionary is a treasure, since it allows our minds to develop a … Continue reading →

The Chosen One of God. It is perhaps one of the great unanswered questions: Can we ever know what was in the mind of Jesus? How did he understand what he was undertaking? The Church has of course contemplated this … Continue reading →

What then can I bring him?  Christina Rosetti’s well-loved carol, from which the line above comes, always manages to bring a lump to the throat when we sing it. I think it’s because the words seem to transport us to … Continue reading →

JUST A THOUGHT Thinking of the Family With Christmas day falling on a Sunday our liturgical antennae may have gone a bit askew. Ordinarily the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas would be the Feast of the Holy Family. But … Continue reading →