Parish Articles

If I Had My Life To Live Over

The following was written by the late Erma Bombeck after she found out she had a fatal disease.

If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the ….

Be The Best of Whatever You Are

If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill Be a scrub in the valley–but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass, And some highway some happier [...]

Portrait of a Friend

I can’t give solutions to all of life’s problems, doubts, or fears. But I can listen to you, and together we can seek answers.
I can’t change your past with all it’s heartache and pain, nor the future with it’s untold stories.
But I can be there now when you …

Message from the Diocesan Administrator

Introducing the new translation of the Roman Missal

As announced previously, the changeover to the new Mass responses from the new English translation of the Roman Missal at all Masses will take place next weekend f(11th September). The new translation is inteneded to bring the English version closer to the ‘original’ Latin. It strengthens the biblical language and images in the Mass prayers and reintroduces some theological language lost in the present translation…..

Prayer of St Teresa

Christ has no body now, but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which
He looks compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which …