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Sacred Heart Parish Newsletter 12th Week in Ordinary Time 2020 The key word in today’s Gospel reading (Matthew 10:26-33) is witness. To be a witness is to ‘declare’ oneself for Gospel values rather than those of the world: to make a conscious choice to follow Christ as a disciple rather than the fashionable gods of our time. The most compelling witnesses … [Read more...] about NEWSLETTER 21.06.20

Sacred Heart Parish Newsletter10th Week in Ordinary Time 2020 Today we celebrate the mystery of God himself – the blessed Trinity. God alone can speak adequately about God. This He has done by becoming man in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the divine love in human form: in him dwells the fulness of the Godhead. It is through him that God makes himself known in the … [Read more...] about NEWSLETTER 07.06.20

Sacred Heart Parish Newsletter 9th Week in Ordinary Time 2020  Today is the feast of Pentecost. The disciples were in lockdown, isolated and imprisoned in their fear. The Spirit of God gave them the courage to go our and proclaim the Good News of redemption, of a new relationship with God and new life in the world. Today we celebrate the superabundance of God’s … [Read more...] about NEWSLETTER 31.05.20

 Sacred Heart Parish Newsletter 5th Week of Easter 2020 Today’s Gospel tells us that to follow Jesus is to find our way to the presence of God. Jesus himself is that way, as he says. He is also the truth because he is the expression of the Absolute which we human beings seek and for which we were created. He is the life, by the gift he makes continually of himself. He is … [Read more...] about NEWSLETTER 10.05.20

 Sacred Heart Parish Newsletter 4th Week of Easter 2020 In this Sunday’s Gospel Jesus condemns the religious leaders who claimed to be shepherds of the people as ‘thieves and brigands’.  He is a shepherd who knows his sheep, who calls them by name, whose voice they recognise and follow. In these dark times we hold fast to the Lord asking him to protect us from all that … [Read more...] about NEWSLETTER 03.05.20