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...
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...
The book of Jonah addresses two major issues: the relation of Israel and Yahweh to other nations and the meaning of divine justice. The reluctant prophet Jonah was sent to proclaim God’s universal salvific...
On Monday 11th January we move into Ordinary Time and we put on the green vestments. I would normally speak about not being able to sustain feasts and festivals for a long period of...
Fr. Dominic, Fr. John, Sue and Jackie, Danica and Richard wish all the Parishioners from The Catholic Parishes of Borehamwood and St. Josephs Carpenders Park a very peaceful and blessed Christmas. This Christmas will...
When we look at the crib everything looks so pretty, so peaceful, so orderly. Not a cry is heard from the child, not a sound from the donkey or the oxen, not a smell...
COVID-19 and Vaccination When I was growing up in Dublin in the 1950’s there was, in nearly every class in the schools that I went to, at least one child with Polio. It was...
A huge big thank you from the Mercy Sisters in Addo in South Africa On Tuesday this week I received a phone call from Sr. Martha and Sr. Breda in Addo. They were very...
“Stay Awake! Be Ready! You Don’t Know the Hour When the Lord is Coming!” Jesus says, “I am going to prepare a place for you, & after I have gone and prepared the place...
It seems appropriate that at the end of the Church’s year we have a very challenging Gospel. The image of the whole world assembled before Jesus Christ and being divided into sheep and goats...