On Sunday 29th October we’ll be having our second International Lunch of 2023. You are all welcome to attend it at St. Joseph’s after the 11 am Mass. Feel free to bring some food to share and be ready to enjoy it with our lovely parish community. For more information feel free to join the WhatsApp group
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- Oct 20, 2023
Thanks again for your continued prayers for peace in the Middle East. Our gathering was small, but powerful last Sunday at St. Godric’s. Pope Francis has asked for a day of prayer, fast and abstinence next Friday, 27th , for Peace. We’re not forgetting Ukraine.
“Human beings suffer.
They torture one another.
They get hurt and they get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
History says, don’t hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that a farther shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
Call miracle self-healing,
The utter self-revealing
Double-take of feeling.
If there’s fire on the mountain
And lightening and storm
And a god speaks from the sky
That means someone is hearing
The outcry and the birth-cry
Of new life at its term.
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme"
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes
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