by Fr Marcus Goulding | May 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Rosary is made up of two things: mental prayer and vocal prayer. In the Rosary mental prayer is none other than meditation of the chief mysteries of the life, death and glory of Jesus Christ and of his blessed Mother. Vocal prayer consists in saying the decades of...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | May 18, 2024 | Newsletter
On May 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary first appeared to three shepherd children, Lúcia dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto, at the Cova da Iria outside the village of Aljustrel, near Fatima, Portugal. In the months that followed, the children would see...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | May 11, 2024 | Newsletter
By the second half of the 1500s, Christian Europe was weakened and splintered by religious and political division. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire, with its capital in modern-day Istanbul (Turkey), was strong and growing. The Ottomans had established economic and...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | May 4, 2024 | Newsletter
St Dominic receives the Rosary Catholics traditionally associate the month of May with the Blessed Virgin Mary. This association developed as a way of evangelizing pagan cultures. In the northern hemisphere, May is the last month of spring, a time of fruitfulness and...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Apr 27, 2024 | Newsletter
Over recent months, the Parish Mission Team (parish council) and I have been discussing the idea of moving the Vigil Mass to an earlier time. The Mission Team have been very supportive of the idea. I am aware that such a change has been considered before. There are...