We welcome into God’s family and our parish community Arielléa Roughley baptised recently.

Today on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, we meditate on our Blessed Mother’s suffering love.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us!

Christ the King was raised up on the cross for our sake: come, let us adore him.

The Exaltation of the Cross

What are these Christians about, exalting an instrument of torture?
First, we rejoice that something so terrible should have been transformed into a means of redemption for the whole human race.
Second, we remind ourselves of the fact that Christianity is not an abstract and spiritual religion. It springs from God’s direct intervention in the affairs of the world, a real historical event involving real people and, in the end, a real execution on a real cross. We may theorise and theologise all we like; but all our theorising and theologising are nothing without the history on which they are based. Take away that history – take away the Cross – and Christianity is nonsense