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Flipping Good Fun: Flip, Stack, and Feast.
Join us for Pancake Sunday! Flip, Stack and Feast. Enjoy delicious pancakes with friends, family and Father Stan, at Our Lady of Peace, Earley. Don’t miss out on the fun, fellowship, and food! Bring your appetite and come hungry—because these pancakes are worth it! See you there! #March2nd
Continue ReadingThe Crib: where faith, tradition, and community meet.
“A journey through time and tradition, exploring the origins, significance, and enduring appeal of the Christmas crib in our church community.” The Christmas crib, or nativity scene, has its roots in early Christian art, where the story of Christ’s birth was depicted in mosaics and frescoes. However, the tradition of creating a physical crib for […]
Continue ReadingThe CRIB – “Bethlehem, Where Love Becomes Flesh.”
Journey to Bethlehem, the “House of Bread and Flesh,” where the infinite enters the vulnerable, the sacred transforms the ordinary, and the covenant of eternal love calls us to partake, sacrifice, and be transformed.Father Stan from Our Lady of Peace and Dominic Barberi, delivers a shortened version of his Christmas Homily.
Continue ReadingThe world deserves to know the truth about itself – Here I am, send Me.
The world deserves to know the truth about itself. The truth partly comes from an amazement. Once any person is amazed by the beauty and power of nature, he or she might admire how much more beautiful and powerful is He who formed them. “For from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a […]
Continue ReadingReflection on lukewarm Christians
Christians rightly say and learn to treat others with humility and respect. They rightly reject all kinds of agenda of indoctrination. In doing so, they loose missionary zeal and they use methods that do not work with many challenges. It seems like alien ideas take over more and more space in the Christian sphere, whereas […]
Continue ReadingMary’s guidance before the coming of Christ.
Christ is the Fullness of the Revelation, the Law, the Truth and the Love revealed in the Old and New Covenants. He founded the Church, His Mystical Body, which means that the Catholic Faith is not of human origin, it does not come from people. As St Cyprian confirms for us, the Catholic Church is […]
Continue ReadingBaptism of the Lord
The great joy of Christmas Celebrations has been flowing through the Epiphany to the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, where it has reached its fulfilment. Here, at the bank of the river Jordan, the Only Begotten (not Created) Son of God joined those sinners who asked for the gift of conversion, seeking God […]
Continue ReadingWe experience Christmas when we experience Advent
We are given entire weeks to prepare our hearts for the special graces of Christmas. During this time the Church prays incessantly for the coming of Jesus. Advent is then a special period to focus our hearts for His coming down to earth: “Let justice descend, O heavens, like dew from above” (Is 45:8). The Church […]
Continue ReadingThe Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven
God, the King of the universe, has granted you favours that surpass nature. As he kept you a virgin in childbirth, thus He has kept your body incorrupt in the tomb and has glorified it by His divine act of transferring it from the tomb.” Menaei Totius Anni, after Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus. At […]
Continue ReadingWalk with the Lord in the valley of darkness
Let us keep in our mind that the Lord is sovereign, that we are safe and we are ready to walk ALWAYS with the Lord even (especially) in the valley of darkness (Psalm 23:4) – always being nourished by the Holy Communion with humbleness, love of God and great faith. Otherwise we are full of […]
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