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Sunday 28th June 2015

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Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles  A Holy Day of Obligation transferred to Sunday 10.30am. Ordinariate Solemn Mass at Hockley  Celebrant: Fr. Jeff Woolnough A Reflection by Pope Benedict XVI on Ss. Peter and Paul https://stpaulcenter.com/blog/reflection-by-benedict-xvi-on-sts.-peter-and-paul “The aim of the Church’s mission is a humanity that has itself become a living glorification of God, the true worship that God expects: this is the profound meaning of catholicity… Like Paul, Peter also came to Rome, the city that was the place of convergence of all peoples and which precisely because of this could become the first of all expressions of the universality of the Gospel. Undertaking the journey from Jerusalem to Rome, Peter surely felt himself guided by the voices of the prophets, by the faith and by the prayer of Israel… The great psalm of the Passion, Psalm 22, whose first verse “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Jesus pronounced on the cross ended

Sunday 21 June 2105

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12th Sunday in Ordinary Time 10.30 am. Ordinariate Sung Mass at Hockley Celebrant: Fr. Bob White. From our dear friend, Dr. Scott Hahn. Please visit: https://stpaulcenter.com/reflections/in-the-storm-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-twelfth-sunday-in-ordinary-time In the Storm: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings: Job 38:1 ,  8-11 Psalm 107:23-26 ,  28-31 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-41 "Do you not yet have faith?" Our Lord's question in today's Gospel frames the Sunday liturgies for the remainder of the year, which the Church calls "Ordinary Time." In the weeks ahead, the Church's liturgy will have us journeying with Jesus and His disciples, reliving their experience of His words and deeds, coming to know and believe in Him as they did. Notice that today's Psalm almost provides an outline for the Gospel. We sing of sailors caught in a storm; in their desperation, they call to the Lord and He

Sunday 14th June 2015

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11 th Sunday in Ordinary Time 10.30 am. Sung Mass at Hockley Celebrant Fr. Jeff Woolnough  “God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. ― John Henry Newman

Sunday 7th June

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CORPUS et SANGUIS CHRISTI 10.30am. Solemn Mass at Hockley Celebrant: Fr. Bob White Anima Christi Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O Good Jesus, hear me. Within your wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from you. From the wicked foe, defend me. At the hour of my death, call me and bid me come to you That with your saints I may praise you for ever and ever. Amen.