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3 churches newsletter, 7 March 2021 (3rd Sunday of Lent, year B)
Download the 3 churches newsletter for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, year B (issue 10/21).
Conversion and repentance
Dear friends and parishioners
We are at the middle part of the great season of Lent, when the Church brings us to the central Lenten theme of conversion and repentance. The Church reminds us in the first reading today of God’s Word to us at Sinai, urging us to live his life and walk in his ways. We are then urged in the Gospel to cleanse the Temple of our hearts so that we can enthrone there Christ, who St Paul proclaims in the second reading to be “the power and the wisdom of God.” Let us spend some time during the week reflecting on our situation in life, on our journey in faith, and prepare to bring our sins next Sunday to that same Jesus, to the Father and to the Spirit, to receive “pardon and peace”.
Fr Matthew
Father Ray O’Shea’s funeral
The funeral of Father Ray will take place on Thursday 4th March at 11.30 am at St Brigid’s. It will live streamed via the St Brigid webcam. You can download the order of service to follow it during the live stream.
Following the funeral, Fr Ray’s cortège will be routed from St Brigid’s, past Christ the King church, where it will turn in in front of the church and pause for a few minutes, before going on to the Crematorium. That will happen at around 1pm. If you would like to pay your respects in person, please gather outside the church in a socially distanced way.
3 churches newsletter, 28 February 2021 (2nd Sunday of Lent)
Amazing grace
Dear friends and parishioners,
When we are overfamiliar with something, it risks losing its impact. It’s true of seasons – like Lent so this year let’s ask the Lord to help us all make Lent something real in our lives. Let’s connect its meaning and impact to the Lent we have all been living for the last year, and to the individual Lents many have to experience from time to time. Let’s pledge to get our lives in a bit better order, give the Lord space to get in and fill us with His new life – reconciliation within ourselves and with one another, and, most of all with God – amazing grace!
Lots of people kindly responded to my attempt at singing “Amazing Grace” last Sunday, and many commented on the extra words which are often used nowadays. So here they are, with a link to a video if you want to hear it sung by Chris Tomlin
“My chains are gone I’ve been set free
My God, My Saviour has ransomed me
And like a flood his mercy rains
Unending love, amazing grace”