Posts from June 2025
News for the 29th June and the Week Ahead
Dearest friends, The T.H.A.T foodbank in Buckland is really showing us how to GO AND ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL in our community. However I ask ARE YOU? I know, as I’m sure many of us do, firsthand how financial difficulties can affect our ability to feed our families. Thus meaning we have had to rely on food banks though some of the most difficult of times. Harvest is a wonderful time of giving and giving thanks for all we have and…
News for 22nd June and the week ahead
Dearest friends, Our gathering in front of the Blessed Sacrament is no simple thing. Our bowing in front of the tabernacle where Christ rests is no simple formality. Our devotion to Jesus in the Sacrament is no simple prayer. It is the heart of our faith. Jesus offered himself up for us and in His last supper he declared the bread to be His body and the wine to be His blood. No dissembling, no metaphor, no parable. So on…
News for 15th June & The Week Ahead
Dearest friends, Just a week after we celebrate the decent of the Holy Spirit into the room filled with Jesus disciples we take a moment to praise and pray for a deeper understanding of the Holy Trinity. The Trinity pervades every aspect of our faith – it is one of the central planks of our faith – everything we do, everything we are sent out to do is done in the power of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit. It…
News for 8th June & The Week Ahead
Dearest friends, On Monday we celebrate an important date in the church calendar – The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. It’s a new memorial – it was only inserted into the calendar in 2018 (by Pope Francis), although the title is much older. We call Our Lady mother of the Church because in the instant that Jesus said to John at the foot of the cross, “‘Behold, your mother!’ and from that hour the disciple took her to…