Sunday 28th June 2015
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