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WEEKEND MASSES
Saturday 6th September - 4.15pm Confession, 5pm Mass
Sunday 7th September - 9.15am Family Mass, 11.15am Mass, 5pm Youth Mass
WEEK OF 1st September
Monday 8th September - Church Closed
Tuesday 9th September - Church Closed, 7.30pm Father's Prayers
Wednesday 10th September - Church Closed, 2:2 Club in Centre
Thursday 11th September - Church Closed
Friday 12th September - Church Closed
WEEKEND MASSES
Saturday 13th September - 10.30am Mass for 45th Anniversary of Life in the Spirit Prayer Group, 4.15pm Confession, 5pm Mass
Sunday 14th September - 9.15am Family Mass, 11.15am Mass, 5pm Youth Mass
Fr Simon's Reflections for week of 8th September - 13th September
RAISE THE ROOF
The entire roof of the church, presbytery and bell tower will have to be stripped and recovered. The cost of the work will be about £300,000. CLICK HERE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A TASTE OF SOUTH AFRICA - FOR RAISE THE ROOF - at 12 noon on Sunday Sept 21st
BRIDGE AFTERNOON Raises £900 for RAISE THE ROOF
A HUGE THANK YOU to Christina McKeating for an amazingly organised and wonderful Bridge Game Tea. Click for details
Choral Concert Raises the Roof and Kicks off Fundraising Appeal
FIRST COMMUNION PROGRAMME 2026
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CONFIRMATION PROGRAMME 2026
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URGENT PETITION: Assisted Suicide Bill Threatens Vulnerable People
RAISE THE ROOF - DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time C.
Credo – I believe
2025 is the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed. In AD 313, Constantine converted to Christianity, claiming a vision or simply because he saw a change in the political attitude. The ‘Edit of Milan’ ended Christian Persecution, giving the Church the freedom to explore its belief in Christ – and there were differences in opinion! In dealing with these 4th Century errors, the Nicene Creed is precise, having a diamond-like clarity spelling out the symbol of our faith. It is so sublime that it has been updated only once, to add the ‘filioque cause’, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, a form of tension between Catholics and the Orthodox.
In 2011, the English translation of the Creed was corrected from ‘We believe’ to ‘I believe’, reminding us that our confession of faith is a personal statement of belief. In Lent & Eastertide, we often pray the ‘Apostles’ Creed’, the basis of the ‘baptismal promises’, which require the answer ‘I do’ to each proposition of faith. Each Sunday, we profess our faith, renewing our ‘I do’, it being appropriate that we ‘make’ a communion before ‘receiving’ Holy Communion.
In the Creed, we profess Jesus Christ is ‘consubstantial’ with the Father. What does this mean? Con = same, and the word substantial = substance or essence; so, we say that ‘whatever it is’ that makes God, God, also make Jesus, God, and the same with the Holy Spirit – that they are both co-eternal in glory and majesty with the Father! Along with our faith in the Trinity, we ‘confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins’, recognising that salvation includes a conversion to the gospel and repentance of sin which restores friendship with God and leads to eternal life. When people ask us what we believe, we can simply say ‘Credo! I believe in God, the Father Almighty… in his Son Jesus Christ our Lord… and in the Holy Spirit… the Holy Catholic Church, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the dead and life everlasting.’
Fr Simon
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