FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - YEAR B
Dear Sons and Daughters of God our Heavenly Father,
As his adopted children we continue to celebrate the Easter Season. This weekend it is Vocations Sunday when we pray especially for leaders of faith within the church community. Vocations are God the Father’s call to us all. What does he wish for us, and wish for us to do as an expression of his love for us and our love for him? Leadership of many sorts are required. Priests, religious, committed married people, singles who have time to give to the Lord in prayer and work. There are many avenues. Our vocation is to listen to the calls that God gives us as we commit to following him. Remember too that we are all called to holiness!
This Tuesday we Celebrate the Solemn Feast of St George, Martyr, and Patron of England! Let us pray for our country and its well-being this week that working together as a nation we may find stability and security. At this time let us pray for all our young people growing in a world so challenged with modern living. Let us also remember to pray to Our Lady, the patroness of England, her dowry!
Next month is May the time of the Rosary, a time to renew prayerful meditations on the life of Christ. Remember to look at the groups of icons at the back of church, to your right as you look backwards. The twenty mysteries as they are called cover the basic events of the life of her Son Jesus. Know them well and you have a very good basic grasp of the life of Christ. Thank you Our Lady!
Next Thursday school/parish Mass is the Feast Day of St Mark, the gospel writer. His is the shortest gospel of the four, a chance to read and say that you have read a complete gospel. It may be an encouragement reading the other gospels and using them in meditation and prayer.
Please pray for the repose of the soul Chris Davies along with his family and friends. We remember all our faithful departed and pray that they have fulfilled their vocations in life.
Take care and God bless, thank you for all you do!
Father Anton s.c.j.