At St Michael's you will have seen that the builders have arrived to restore the Lady chapel into the main body of the church. Click below to see the architect's plan. 

Above is a reconstruction of how Caesaria Philippi would have looked when Jesus visited it in today's Gospel. It was the source of the river Jordan and the temple complex was dedicated to the pagan god Pan. It is here that Jesus asks the disciples "who do you say I am?"
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Just a quick reminder that you now find the bulletin on the home page of the website.

Congratulations to Peter and Margaret from SS Peter & Paul who celebrate 65 years of marriage today on Our Lady's Birthday September 8th. Mass was offered for them at SS Peter & Paul's Church this morning and they were able to have a special blessing in their back garden in the glorious sunshine!

A quick reminder that the bulletin is now found on the Home page of the Website. Please read about the preparations we are making for the first Celebration of our Parish Feast Day in October. The Feast Day is October 12th but we will be making our main celebrations on Sunday October 10th when the Archbishop will be joining us.

For simplicity of access, from now on, you will find the latest bulletin on a button on the "Home" page. On a desk top, it is next to the parish diary and on a mobile it is immediately below the parish diary. Please continue to check the "Online Activities" page for news of any parish activities that are online. Follow this link to go back to the home page

The 5 week section of the lectionary in year B on the Eucharist is interrupted this year with the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady falling on a Sunday. In Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the church from Vatican II we read in paragraph 68: "Mary as the Mother of Jesus, glorified in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected is the world to come, so too does she shine forth on earth, until the day of the Lord shall come, as a sign of sure hope and solace to the people of God during its sojourn on earth." This is the cause of our celebrations on this great summer feast day! In this beautiful image from Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome we see Mary welcomed by Jesus as the first to follow him into the glory of heaven.
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The bulletin is ready on the Online Activities and Bulletin page.

At Mass this weekend, we are now in 3rd of 5 Sundays where the readings focus on different aspects of the Eucharist. Above we see the scene from the first reading where Elijah is starving and has fallen asleep and is woken by an angel who has provided him with food for the journey.
The Eucharist is the food that sustains us in our spiritual life. What is it we need sustaining for though? The second reading from St Paul to the Ephesians describes the way of life we are called to by God: a life of kindness and forgiveness. It is a lovely image, but one which, we all know, can be very hard work at times! This is why we need the spiritual nourishment of the Holy Eucharist.

Click here for this week's bulletin.

Beginning last Sunday and then for the next 4 weeks, the gospel each Sunday is taken from St John, chapter 6. Each week we will be reflecting on different aspects of this great sacrament. Paragraph 1324 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls the Eucharist “the source and summit of the Christian Life.”  In today's gospel Jesus explains that working for God means believing in the one he has sent, that is Jesus himself. Let us pray that our belief and faith in the Real Presence of the Eucharist may  grow ever deeper.

The Bulletin is now ready to download from the Online Activities and bulletin page. Do not forget to check the guidelines in the previous post and remember, it is no longer necessary to book to attend Mass.

As each of our three churches are very different styles of building, we have different guidelines for each Church. Please click below for the particular guidelines for the church you are attending.