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September 12, 2021
Vocations Awareness Week
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August 15, 2021
Solemnity of the Assumption and Lifting of Restrictions
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September 26, 2020
Dear Brothers and Sisters, I want to write to you as lockdown relaxes and our schools return after summer holidays, and as our churches recommence public Masses and plan for the full resumption of parish life in the months ahead.
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May 4, 2020
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday and the World Day of Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood and Consecrated Life. When I am writing my Pastoral Letters to you I usually think of you in your parish communities at Sunday Mass, reflecting on my words after being nourished by the Word of God and preparing to welcome our Risen Lord in the Eucharist. I fondly imagine you sharing this Sacred Gathering with your families and friends and, of course, with your priests.
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April 27, 2020
The Gospel tells us how the Church’s first Easter encounter with the Risen Lord was a quiet affair. While almost all of the disciples were locked down at home, two women of their number went up to the Tomb in the dark as their representatives and carried out the necessary rites on behalf of them all.
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April 27, 2020
In today’s Gospel Mary of Magdalen comes to the Tomb. We hear how she is still in the dark as she approaches the scene; still in the dark as to the real meaning of all that has happened since the Lord was taken away from her on Calvary, and her own Way of the Cross had begun.
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January 7, 2020
Christmas Midnight Mass 2019 Dear Brothers and Sisters: Today a Saviour has been born for us Who is Christ the Lord. The Psalm for Midnight Mass takes up this message of the Angel to the Shepherds who were watching their flocks by night. Reflecting on the wonder of that Heavenly encounter, and on all the shepherds went on to see in the Bethlehem stable, tonight’s Mass contemplates the God Who made this most sacred night radiant with the splendour of the true light. The Mystery of the Messiah on earth has continued revealing itself down the ages to Christian souls who have come to see and wonder like the shepherds, even until this night. The light of Bethlehem will shine on our poor world until that Happy Day when all is at last made manifest and humble worshippers delight in His gladness in Heaven.
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January 7, 2020
Feast of the Holy Family 2019 Sixtieth Anniversary of the Holy Family Parish, Port Glasgow Dear brothers and sisters, it is a joy for me to be with you today in this Christmas Season and on the Feast of the Holy Family. It is a delight to celebrate this Holy Mass with you on the occasion of the Sixtieth Anniversary of this wonderful parish.
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December 24, 2019
After the long watching of the Advent season and, finally, all is at last made manifest, we can now enjoy the great promise in which we dared to hope.
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April 28, 2019
Dear Brothers and Sisters, as evening approached on Easter Sunday, Jesus came and stood among His disciples and greeted them with Peace. He then showed them His hands and His side. And although He still visibly bore the terrible wounds inflicted on His Sacred Body by the sins of the world, He revealed them now not as rebuke to humanity but as an offer of the kind of lasting peace that only He could give.
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April 21, 2019
Dear Brothers and Sisters. Peter and the other disciple ran together to the Tomb and saw the linen cloths on the ground. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of Scripture, that Jesus must rise from the dead. But now they saw, and they believed. Later that same day the Risen Lord appeared to them in the flesh with greetings of peace and forgiveness of sins.
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April 20, 2019
Remember what He told you when He was still in Galilee: that the Son of Man had to be handed over into the power of sinful men and be crucified and rise again on the third day!
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April 18, 2019
Dear Brothers and Sisters, as we reflect on the Great Mystery that is the Eucharist and the Holy Mass my thoughts turn to the words of Pope Saint John Paul, written in the Year of the Eucharist 2004.
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April 18, 2019
Dear brothers and sisters: The spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for the Lord has anointed me!
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March 27, 2019
Dear brother and sisters, we have arrived at our final Station Mass on this Lenten Season. I know the good people of the Port will say we have kept the best till last and who am I to disagree?
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March 21, 2019
Dear brothers and sisters, it is a joy to be with you as our Lenten journey into Easter enters its second week. We were reflecting at yesterday’s Station Mass how, by this time into Lent, some of us may have already broken our Lenten promises. But all we have to do is humbly take them up again. God Our Father understands our weakness and that we fail but he delights to see us begin again and again, each time with a little more humility, faith and love.
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March 20, 2019
Dear brothers and sisters, it is a joy to be with you as our Lenten journey into Easter enters its second week. By this time some of us may have already broken our Lenten penance. Well, there is no rule that says you cannot take up the fight again.
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March 14, 2019
In our Station Masses so far we have reflected on how the season of Lent is God’s special gift to us because He wants our discipleship to be filled with gladness as we await with hope the coming of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ and the New Life He brings.
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March 13, 2019
In our Station Masses so far we have reflected on how the season of Lent is God’s special gift to us because He wants our discipleship to be filled with joy inside as we await with increasing expectancy the New Life He brings.
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March 12, 2019
In our Lenten Masses so far we have been reflecting upon how this season, as the Liturgy points out to us, is a precious gift to us from God.
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