Author: Toni Rowland

June 25.  12th Sunday. Fr Fidelis  preached especially to the youth, as so many of whom seemed to see Confirmation as a church-leaving certificate.  “Have you had a genuine encounter with Jesus as Pope Francis so...

June 24. Birth of John the Baptist “JB is one of my favourite saints,” Alan said, “He was a specially chosen person, to begin a new era in salvation history as we heard in Luke’s gospel and his birth was quite unusual as his...

June 23.  The parents in the Sacred Heart sodality discussed.  “I think that devotion to the Sacred Heart is an earlier form of the Divine Mercy devotion.  It is essentially about Jesus’ love, but also about his heart that was...

June 22.    “This is becoming one of my pet hates,” Georgina declared, “empty phrases, words that have lost their meaning.  We seem to just babble on.  I think we’ve fallen into the same trap that Jesus...

June 21.  “Now girls, no showing off any more.”  The boys teased the girls mostly about how they looked but the girls got their own back by challenging the guys on how they acted.   “Remember that ex-singer...