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Please note there will be NO bulletins or E-News during August. Printed bulletins will resume September 2025.

There will be a hold on E-News for the moment.

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Awe-inspiring feast of Pentecost

Wisdom; Understanding; Knowledge; Counsel; Courage; Piety and Fear of the Lord,  7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit: given to us when we receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.

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Come to the Lord, Come to the Spirit

And the reading from Revelation gives the final, hopeful word. It is Christ’s own voice saying: “I am coming soon… Let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.”

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The Father will send the Holy Spirit in his name

If anyone loved me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come and make out home with him”. The Father and the Son will make their home with us in the Holy Spirit when we ask God that we will be loving people.

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Barnabus – Son of encouragement

And it was in Antioch that the followers of Christ were first known as Christians. Clearly Barnabas and Paul fulfilled the command of Jesus:  “By this love you have for one another, everyone will know that you are my disciples.”

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Good Shepherd Sunday

Today, we can pray for each other that we may hear and follow Jesus’ voice as he leads us through the coming week – probably a quiet voice, not a commanding voice, that keeps us aware of others who are also ‘the flock’.

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Charcoal for the fire

A despondent Peter spent the night looking for fish, but what he found at dawn was self-knowledge and Christ-knowledge and became the very first Bishop of Rome as a result.

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Lent

The Passion of Jesus – from joy to suffering

The Passion we hear today and listen to again in the coming days speaks to every human heart. It is a story of pain and betrayal, of fear and silence, of courage, love, and obedience. Jesus shares fully in our human experience. He knows what it is to suffer. He shows us what it means to trust God even when the path ahead is dark and difficult.

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Lent

New Life in Christ

Today we are all called to REJOICE as all together we celebrate NEW LIFE in CHRIST!  In Him we are reconciled with the Father and with one another! 

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