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After 14 years of tireless service to our parish Fr Niven is retiring in mid-November Click here for Full Details
SUNDAY MASSES
Saturday 9th November - 11am Mass, 5pm Mass, 5.30pm Confession
Sunday 10th November - Remembrance Sunday 9.15am Mass (Children's Mass), 11.15am Mass, 5pm Mass (Youth Mass)
WEEK OF 11th November
Monday 11th November - Church Closed
Tuesday 12th November - 11am Mass, 7.30pm Father's Prayers
Wednesday 13th November - 11am Mass
Thursday 14th November - 11am Mass
Friday 15th November - 11am Mass
SUNDAY MASSES
Saturday 16th November - 11am Mass, 5pm Mass, 5.30pm Confession
Sunday 17th November - 9.15am Mass (Children's Mass), 11.15am Mass, 5pm Mass (Youth Mass)
Homilies for week of 4th November - 10th November
Mission Statement: I want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord. I repeat what I want is your happiness. PH 4:4-4
Homily - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 10th November
The Entrance Antiphon for Mass today says this, from Psalm 87 -
"Let my prayer come into your presence,
Incline your ear to my cry for help, O Lord. "
Here we are at Mass in God's house, a house of prayer, a house of prayers.
We ask God to turn his ear to us to hear all the praying we will do in Church.
Notice how personal the verse from the Psalm is - Let MY prayer... Coming to Mass gives us the supreme privilege and opportunity of being with the others in the community who want to pray and who gather with us. We are offering our personal prayers they are offering their personal prayers, and the Mass offers the prayer of the whole community and Church and World. What a great experience it is to be in the house of God, to be in the house of prayers.
We should enjoy our time in the house of prayers and use our time here to pray. To make sure that we bring to God all that is in our hearts and to bring all the worries in our minds and to ask for God and His peace to live in our souls no matter what is going on.
Let us use today for our prayers. Prayers for our family members and friends, prayers for ourselves and the world, prayers for peace on earth and in our hearts. What a great time the time of prayer is here in the house of prayers.
"Let my prayer come into your presence,
Incline your ear to my cry for help, O Lord."