Our Latest News, Views, Highlights and Events information

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! In the words of one of the Eucharistic prayers ‘He offered his life for sinners and with a love stronger than death he opened wide his arms on the cross’. His love was indeed ‘stronger than death’. His body was not found in the...

(Also known as Palm Sunday) Today is known as Palm Sunday because of what happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem on his way to celebrate the important Jewish festival of Passover. You can read more about Passover at:...

LENT is our time to repent, reflect, open our hearts a little wider and understand our Lord a little more deeply, so that when Good Friday and Easter come, we have the opportunity to receive overflowing grace from God.  This year we shall be doing these things within...

(Also known as Passion Sunday) This is the day on which many churches have traditionally turned their thoughts to the suffering of Jesus. The word ‘passion’ comes from a Latin word meaning to suffer. If you are ‘compassionate’, you suffer alongside (with) someone. We...

(Also known as Mothering Sunday) Mothering Sunday was originally a day on which Christian families would come to worship in their ‘mother church’, typically either the church in which they had been baptised or the main church or cathedral of the area. In the course of...

Our prayer last week concerned ‘staying on the path of God’s love’. What does this mean? We know Christ’s teaching on the importance of love:   One of [the Pharisees], a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the...

How is the date of Easter calculated? We read in the Gospels that the Friday on which Christ was crucified was the day before the Jews celebrated Passover – whose date followed a very complicated pattern – you can have fun trying to work it out from:...

We are now well and truly into Lent. Ash Wednesday, the first day in Lent, is behind us. Why Ash Wednesday? Ashes, often linked to the wearing of sackcloth in the Old Testament of the Bible, are traditionally a sign of repentance, a sign that we intend to change our...

What is Lent? The word comes from an old English word Lengten meaning 'lengthen'. Lent is observed in spring, when the days begin to get longer (cf. modern German Lenz = springtime).   We celebrated the birth of Jesus at the darkest period of the year, only a day...

Jesus is shown to the world! The first visitors we hear of are the shepherds. Here is Luke’s familiar telling of the powerful message of joy and praise: In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of...