Download Bulletin 23rd February 2025
Fr Hugh’s Homily for 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Many of you may know the story of John Pridmore. He grew up in the East End of London, mother a Catholic but the family did not practice. Father left home early in John’s life. He quickly began fighting and then discovered that dealing in drugs made him a lot of fast money. He basically became a gangster. Lived a life of violence and promiscuity. At 19 he was in prison. As he said, he never actually decided on this way of life, it simply happened. At some point his step-father gave him a Bible and with little to do he began to read it and he came across the story of the Prodigal Son, which we all know so well. This was the moment he began to change. What he discovered was that, just like the younger son who went off with his Father’s money and wasted it, his life felt completely empty…..
Holy Trinity and St George 