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  Dear Friends, Today Luke’s snapshot of the early Church may be an idealized one but it does tell us what is required to be called Spirit-filled followers of Christ: unity in heart and mind; sharing our resources; witnessing to the resurrection and caring for the least. If our parish communities witnessed these signs to the world, who would not want to join … [Read more...] about Newsletter 08.04.18.

With Holy Week and the Triduum just ahead the Services for the coming week, at the Sacred Heart Church are: Holy Thursday at 7.30pm; Good Friday at 3.00pm and the Easter Vigil & First Mass of Easter at 8.30pm - which really is the high point of the whole week. We should make every effort to join our community for these three great Liturgies. The Senior Citizens Group … [Read more...] about Newsletter 25.03.18.

Dear Friends, Today we begin Holy Week, the high point of the Church's year when we relive the central events of our faith: the passion, death and resurrection of Our Lord.  During the Triduum we come together as one parish community to take part in the beautiful liturgies and to celebrate them together.  The three services over Thursday, Friday and Saturday are really one … [Read more...] about Newsletter 25.03.18.

Dear Friends, The request of the Greek visitors in today’s Gospel is also ours: ‘We would like to see Jesus’. Over the next two weeks the liturgy will reveal to us the one whose ‘hour has come’. We will follow Jesus in his darkest hours alone, betrayed and deserted by his followers. But he will also be lifted up and glorified so that all peoples will be drawn to him … [Read more...] about Newsletter 18.03.18.