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Apr 11, 20204 min read
Easter Sunday
What a strange Good Friday that was! Joe and I rang the funeral bells at 3pm to indicate the beginning of the liturgy, and heard people...
St Mary's
Apr 11, 20203 min read
Easter Sunday (Deacon Jim Curtain)
The two of us, Fr Jerome and me, are standing here in an empty church. Mary of Magdala, Peter, and John, were standing at an empty tomb...
St Mary's
Apr 11, 20202 min read
Easter: Message from Fr Jerome
Happy Easter! Jesus is risen! This is the perennial Good News. It is the only thing we really need. Human life is not in vain...
St Mary's
Apr 10, 20202 min read
Easter Vigil (Fr Joe Caddy)
What a scene confronts the women in Matthew’s Gospel when they go to the tomb!
St Mary's
Apr 9, 20204 min read
Good Friday
Good Friday is one of the quietest days of the year. Shops are closed. There is less traffic on the roads. The air seems heavier...
St Mary's
Apr 8, 20202 min read
Holy Thursday: Message from Fr Joe Caddy
This night we commemorate the last supper that Jesus shared with his disciples. This night we are called to join with Jesus...
St Mary's
Apr 4, 20202 min read
Palm Sunday: Message from Fr Jerome
What a weird Holy Week we are about to have. No Palm Sunday procession. No Chrism Mass. Priests and people separated from each other...
St Mary's
Apr 4, 20206 min read
Palm Sunday
With the upending of routine and a retreat to our homes, it is easy to understand why some people feel like one day just bleeds into the...
St Mary's
Mar 28, 20202 min read
Message from Fr Jerome
In his most recent book The Decadent Society, the NY Times writer Ross Douthat describes the speed of modern life as deceptive. The flash...
St Mary's
Mar 28, 20204 min read
5th Sunday Lent, Year A
Our first reading is one of the most famous visions in the OT, and it begins with a valley of bones, a striking lifeless image...
St Mary's
Mar 25, 20203 min read
The Annunciation
What a fittng feast for the situation in which we find ourselves. We who are struggling to come to terms with what is going on around us...
St Mary's
Mar 22, 20204 min read
4th Sunday Lent, Year A
To experience darkness is a strange thing. How do we talk about it? Is the night the end of the day, or is it the beginning of a new day...
St Mary's
Mar 15, 20205 min read
3rd Sunday Lent, Year A
Having read all that, I would like to say a few things. First, some practical things, I have made copies of the statement available down...
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