Abbot Xavier Sunday 10 October 2021
Sunday 28B Wis 7:7-11Hb 4:12-13 Mk 10:17-30 When we hear in the Letter to the Hebrews that ‘the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart’, we are not only listening to an abstract […]
Abbot Xavier Dedication of the Church 12 October
Dedication of the Church 2021 Bereshit bara elohim et hashamayyim veet haarets. If you have done even even very little Hebrew, you know this verse, the opening verse of the Hebrew Bible: ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.’ The first word is Bereshit – in the beginning – and the first […]
Dom Brian Kelly Sunday 3 October
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year BReadings: Gen 2: 18-2Heb 2: 9-11Mk 10: 2-12 The understanding of the covenantal bond of marriage and concerns over thechallenges presented to families and the rearing of children have been greatlyemphasized in the history of the Church and especially so in our times. In recentdecades two popes have […]