by Fr Marcus Goulding | Dec 14, 2024 | Newsletter
The liturgy of this Sunday, known as “Gaudete” Sunday, is a special invitation to us to joyfulness, to a vigilance that is not sad but happy. “Gaudete in Domino semper”, St Paul wrote: “Rejoice in the Lord always” (Phil 4:4)… In the all too often frenetic pace of...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Dec 7, 2024 | Newsletter
Set up an Advent wreath: The Advent wreath is made of evergreens bound to a circle of wire. It symbolizes the many years from Adam to Christ in which the world awaited its Redeemer; it also represents the years that we have awaited His second and final coming. The...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Nov 30, 2024 | Newsletter
The coming, or Advent, of Jesus is at once simple and threefold. It is simple, for it is the one same Son of God that is coming; it is threefold, because He comes at three different times and in three different ways. ‘In the first coming,’ says St. Bernard...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Nov 23, 2024 | Newsletter
On the last Sunday of each liturgical year, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, or Christ the King. Pope Pius XI instituted this feast in 1925 with his encyclical Quas primas (“In the first”) to respond to growing...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Nov 16, 2024 | Newsletter
1023. Those who die in God’s grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God forever, for they “see him as he is,” face to face. 1024. This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity—this communion of life and love with the...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Nov 8, 2024 | Newsletter
1030. All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. 1031. The Church gives the...
