Advent… 1st Sunday – Redeeming the Time 27 Nov 202118 Dec 2021 Part Fresco of the Second Coming, Glencairn Museum Luke 21:25-36 Happy new year! With Advent, we begin the new year in the Church. And just as you would expect Oxford…
Ordinary Time… 33rd Sunday – The Unveiling of All Things 14 Nov 20214 Dec 2021 God the 'geometer', creating the Cosmos Mark 13:24-32 We are approaching the end of the liturgical year as we reach the part of Mark’s gospel called the ‘little apocalypse’. It…
Advent… 1st Sunday – The Doorkeeper 28 Nov 202021 Dec 2020 Young Woman Holding a Lamp, Gerard Dou Mauritshuis, Netherlands. Isaiah 63:16-17,64:1-8, Mark 13:33-37 Advent is perhaps the most beautiful of the Church’s liturgical seasons. In the run up to Christmas,…
Ordinary Time… Thursday Week 33 – 7 seals, 7 Horns, 7 Eyes 19 Nov 202019 Nov 2020 Apocalypse 5:1-10 Anyone who has picked up the book of Revelation knows that it has some strange imagery. In the first reading today we see a Lamb with seven horns…