Notices

A highlight of the recent church notices for the week

  • Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost – 4 August 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans, Throughout August,  our liturgical theme is COMPASSION.  IliaDelio, O.S.F., in her book Compassion, writes: “Compassion is a thread which binds together the deepest centres of life beyond…

  • Ninth Sunday after Pentecost – 21 July 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans, In our Collect for Sunday we read “…give us the stillness that restores our spirits…”. I suspect that most of us resonate with this yearning. Stillness presupposes…

  • Eighth Sunday after Pentecost – 14 July 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans, It’s so sad when people get caught up in their own machinations like King Herod did, as per our Gospel for Sunday. He sacrificed his personal integrity…

  • Seventh Sunday after Pentecost – 7 July 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans, With us and St Thomas’ Church ministering as a cluster, perhaps we’re more aware that this week was the Commemoration of the Apostle of St Thomas. St…

  • Fifth Sunday after Pentecost – 23 June 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans, There is something viscerally moving about having children’s faith in our Lord Jesus prompting them to ask to be Baptized and to be admitted to Holy Communion.…

  • Third Sunday after Pentecost – 9 June 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans, We’ve managed to come through the elections relatively safely. But still, many of us continue to feel as if we are on tenterhooks, during this post election…

  • Trinity Sunday – 26 May 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans, Trinity Sunday is always a bit of a struggle. It’s the only commemmoration, which is a doctrine of the church. It is an uncomfortable part of our…

  • The day of Pentecost – 19 May 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans, as we celebrate the invigorating and empowering Gift of the Holy Spirit this Pentecost Sunday, I wonder which figurative “doors and windows” are being blown open by…

  • Seventh Sunday after Easter 12 May 2024

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans,  Dearly Beloved Franciscans, music truly does feed our souls!  We are deeply appreciative of the additional gifts of song & music making, which will form part of…

  • Church Inclusive: Third Sunday of Advent, 17 December 2023

    Dearly Beloved Franciscans,  As we enter into Advent 3, we are invited to be aware of “the voice in the wilderness” in the form of John the Baptizer. It is…