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Good Friday: The Celebration of the Lord’s Death

Our Lady of Pentecost 19 March 2021 No Comments

This Liturgy is starkly, but beautifully, simple. There are four sections to it; the simple Introduction, the Liturgy of the Word including the long General Intercessions, the Veneration of the…

The Procession with Bread and Wine

Our Lady of Pentecost 19 March 2021 No Comments

The procession which members of the gathered community bring to the altar is not an added extra to the liturgy; it is constitutive of it. It is an important part…

The Liturgy of Holy Thursday

Our Lady of Pentecost 12 March 2021 No Comments

The Liturgy of the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper begins the Triduum – the three days of the Lord’s death and resurrection. The verse which is given for the…

Why do we use Wine at Mass?

Our Lady of Pentecost 12 March 2021 1 Comment

Over many centuries we have become accustomed to receive communion only in the form of bread. It is only since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council that we have…

The Three Days of Passover

Our Lady of Pentecost 5 March 2021 No Comments

The celebration of Christ’s death and resurrection is called the Paschal Triduum. The word ‘Triduum’ is a Latin word meaning the three days. This term is used because this feast…

Bread and Wine

Our Lady of Pentecost 5 March 2021 No Comments

It is no accident that we celebrate the Eucharist in bread and wine. The Eucharist takes them over from Jewish religious meals but in both cases there are reasons for…

Lent, Easter and Symbolic Numbers

Our Lady of Pentecost 26 February 2021 No Comments

In the first centuries of Christianity, Sunday was called both the first day of the week and the eighth day of the week. In both terms what underlay them was…

My Body Given for You

Our Lady of Pentecost 26 February 2021 1 Comment

In last week’s Parish Notices, the small article on the Eucharist looked at the structure of the Eucharist as shaped by the actions of Jesus at the Last Supper. What…

Homily – First Sunday in Lent, Year B

Trac Nguyen 19 February 2021 No Comments

Today in the Eucharist, we celebrate the First Sunday of Lent. Last Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, we began the liturgical season that commemorates the forty days that Our Lord, Jesus, spent…

The Sunday Gospels of Lent

Frank O'Loughlin 19 February 2021 No Comments

In each year of the three-year cycle of readings in the Lectionary, we have different gospel readings for the Sundays of Lent. This year, we are in Year B, in…

The Structure of the Eucharist

Frank O'Loughlin 19 February 2021 No Comments

At the centre of each Eucharistic Prayer, we have the account of Jesus’ words and actions at the Last Supper. This is a solemn part of the Mass which embodies…

Ann Rennie

Our Lady of Pentecost 19 February 2021 5 Comments

The days are cooling a little as Autumn swings in and our summer selves are packed away till early December. It is time to pause and ponder and to take…

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