Masses: Sunday 10am and 6pm ; (12 noon at Sedbergh)
Confessions: Saturday 10 – 11am
See Bulletin below for all Masses
Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
HCPT (Lourdes) Mass in church 6pm this Saturday (17th) with celebrant Fr Paul Fletcher. It will be a signed Mass (British Sign Language). All welcome.
Download Bulletin 18th October 2026
FR HUGH’S HOMILY FOR 29th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 2026
The gospel is always going to have a twist that brings it round from very human behaviour and speaks to the message Jesus wants to give us. So what is happening here? It could be a scene from a film. Two opposing sides who hate each other. Pharisees who stick very much to the Law and hate Roman rule that forces Gentile life on its subjects and then the Herodians who hold onto power by simply through doing what the Romans want. Two groups who usually fight. So why are they united in today’s gospel? What they see is a travelling preacher who seems to have a strong following among the people. He threatens both their power in different ways. He condemns the Pharisees for the way they interpret the Jewish Law and angers the Romans as they think he will try to overthrow their power and so that of the Herodians. This preacher is of course Jesus…..
Complete Homily for 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Daily Prayers Week 29
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Twenty Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Download Bulletin 4th October 2026
DEACON GEORGE’S HOMILY FOR 27th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Prophecy is like a health and safety warning: “Don’t go too near the edge or you will fall in.” “Don’t stick your fingers in the electrical socket or you’ll be electrocuted”. In the Old Testament, the Prophets’ main task was to give warnings of what will happen, if you do not follow their instructions. And these instructions were what the prophets had received from God. In today’s Liturgy of the Word, the Old Testament reading, the Psalm and the Gospel are all prophetic warnings. In our first reading, Isaiah warns the Jewish nation that if they, (the vineyard), do not produce fruit, then, God is going to do away with his vineyard and lay waste to it. The prophecy came true. They didn’t bear fruit, and so, as prophesied, they ended up in exile in Babylon….
Complete Homily for 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Daily Prayers Week 27
Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Pope Leo’s Prayer for Season of Creation
Theme: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Is 2:4) “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Is 2:4) is the theme of Pope Leo XIV’s Message for the 2026 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. The World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will be on 1 September, thus beginning the Ecumenical Season of Creation, which will conclude on 4 October, the liturgical feast of Saint Francis of Assisi….
Pope’s Prayer for Creation 2026
Daily Prayers Week 25
Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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DEACON GEORGE’S HOMILY FOR 24th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
In Jewish tradition, the Jews were taught that God forgives three times and then on the fourth time, he punishes them. Therefore, they could not believe that an injured or offended person could be more gracious than God, and therefore forgiveness is limited to three times. Now Peter asks Jesus, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive them? Then he answers his own question, by suggesting “As many as seven times?”. Therefore, according to tradition, Peter’s measure is generous. But to Jesus, it is radically insufficient, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.” Matthew’s Gospel today, is a continuation about dealing with relations between Christians….
Complete Homily for 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Daily Prayers Week 24
Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
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FR HUGH’S HOMILY FOR 23rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
On a trip to the Holy Land, we descended to the Dead Sea on an extremely hot day and with some trepidation took a plunge or rather a float in the Dead Sea, after crossing a lot of mud to get there. As we were going back to our hotel in Bethlehem we could look up to the hills and see the caves where the Dead See scrolls had been hidden and been to be refound in 1946 by a Bedouin shepherd. Since then they have been examined over and over again, and most people think they were of the Essene Group there. Some new writings and many copies of the Hebrew scriptures. The Essenes from about 300 BC probably continued into the time of Jesus. Some people believe that some of the pieces are Christian….
Complete Homily for 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Daily Prayers Week 23
Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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FR HUGH’S HOMILY FOR ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
On a tall hill in Jerusalem, Mt. Sion in fact, is the Church of the Dormitian, of sleep! If Mary was without sin did she die or did she fall asleep at the end of her life and be lifted into heaven from there? If death is the wages of sin, could Mary die? The tradition in the eastern churches is that she slept, in the west the question has been left open. In his encyclical letter declaring the dogma of the Assumption in 1950 Pope Pius XII left the question open. Because the practicalities of Mary’s Assumption are not what this feast is truly about. What do our readings tell us today? …..
Complete Homily for Assumption
Daily Prayers Week 20
Daily Prayers Week 21
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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FR HUGH’S HOMILY FOR 19th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
In the first reading, Elijah is on the run from Jezebel after killing 400 of her prophets, and as we know Jezebel’s wrath was not to be ignored. He runs. He is terrified, and he is told to hide in the mountains. Who knows what will happen to him? Will God help him, or has his time as a prophet come to an end? So, he lives in hiding living off very little. In the gospel again the disciples are terrified, for a shorter while admittedly, but they know the lake and they know they could meet their death there if the wind keeps up. In both of these there is both a very real and physical threat to life, but also a very real feeling that God may have deserted them….
