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and Sunday at 8:30 am, 10:00 am, 12 noon
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Welcome everyone to OLSG parish. Please keep up to date with the events in our Parish through our newsletters.
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Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Words from Canon Niall ~
The Lord puts a high ideal before us in the Gospel. His ideal for marriage is placed before us in both the first reading and the Gospel reading today. Jesus communicates God’s vision of two lives becoming one life I marriage, of two people bound by a love that is faithful and generous, a reflection of God’s love for his people. This is a high ideal, and it can be difficult to live this ideal.
But it is not only married people who have such a challenging calling. The Lord calls on all of us, married or single, to love one another as he has loves us. The Gospel is challenging for us all. The call of the Gospel brings home to us our need God’s Spirit to live God’s way. If we are to keep following in his way, we need to come before the Lord with open hearts, asking, begging, for the help that only the Lord can give. We need that child- like openness that Jesus refers to in the Gospel reading to receive from the Lord the strength we need to keep reaching for the ideal he puts before us. Even if we don’t always attain that ideal, it is the reaching for it that is important- not in an overly strenuous way, but in the power of the Spirit that the Lord will give to those who ask for it out of their need. We will fall short of the Gospel call, many times, but the important thing is not to give up on it. The Lord certainly never gives up on us, and if we are open and receptive to him, like children, we will receive from him all we need to keep on pursing his vision for our lives.
Have a blessed week.
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We welcome Fr Shinto Varghese to the presbytery. Fr Shinto will take pastoral care of the Syro-Malabar community.
The parish RCIA Programme (The Rite of Christian initiation for Adults) will commence in the Autumn.
On Wednesday 15th of October 2025 Bishop Alan will come for a pastoral visitation and at the evening Mass administer the Sacrament of Confirmation. A preparation programme will be available in advance of the celebration. Details will be available in the parish newsletter. All candidates must attend Mass every Sunday.
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SATURDAY 12TH OCTOBER 2024 A karaoke night from 6.00 pm – 09:00 pm in St. George's church hall. OLSG first black History Event. A fundraiser in support of Mariam Mission, Sisters of the Poor to run a vehicle for a year and a new Charity to look into the feasibility of Black History becoming part of the UK Education curriculum. See Newsletter with details.
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Thresholds of Hope : the Vicariate for Adult Formation - another wonderful tool when proclaiming the good news of God's grace to all. St John Henry Newman believed that the lay faithful were to take a full part in the life of the Church, to be confident in expressing their Catholic Faith and willing to share its beauty with others. Hope you find this resource useful; more here https://thresholdsofhope.co.uk/
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