Fr Dominic Writes: The Sacrifice of Isaac – this is a hard ask!

The story of God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac is a strange story. In truth, it is a shocking story. What is most disturbing is the image of God that comes across....

Fr John Writes: The Spirit drove Jesus out into the Wilderness

Fr. John Writes: “The Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness, and he remained there for forty days.” (Mark 1) There are forty days between today, the first Sunday of Lent, and Good Friday....

We are sad to announce

The death of long standing parishioner, Veronica Mascarenhas, (seen here with Fr Antonio), after a long illness. Veronica died in hospital yesterday evening. She was a stalwart of St Teresa’s and many of you...

Flexible Girl Guiding: Interested?

Still as popular as ever, Girlguiding has millions of members worldwide. We are the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK and empower 400,000 girls to be their best and face...

Fr Dominic Writes: Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving – Lent in a nutshell

The word ‘Lent’ comes from an Old English word for ‘Springtime’ – a season when new life is wrested from the clutch of winter, Lent is the time for revival and renewal – the...

Fr John Writes: Restlessly I fret until Twilight fails

Months of delusion I have assigned to me . . . restlessly I fret till twilight fails.” (Job 7) Our Old Testament reading this weekend sees the prophet Job struggling to understand why his...

EU Settlement Scheme – Important Information

If you are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen, who has been resident in the UK since before the 31 December 2020 and do not have permanent right to remain it is important that...

Play your part – have the jab!

Pope Francis, Pope Emeritus Benedict, Cardinal Vincent & our very own Fr Dominic have had the jab, please do get your vaccination when you are asked. Cardinal Vincent said this week, ” I strongly...

Fr Dominic Writes: When does “Never Again” become reality?

Holocaust Memorial Day and Burn’s Night. It might seem crass to put those two events together but this week I have been involved with both of these and because of COVID 19 both are...

Burns Night – a virtual Burns Night celebration this year!

So we can’t have our usual Burns Night Supper this year but the Rotary Club have come up with a way that we can celebrate virtually, please click on the link below to see...