News and messages archive for 2005
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - December 2005
Posted on December 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
This week might just be the beginning of a quite revolution, which should it be successful, will have far reaching consequences for this country. The revolution has started in the world of primary school education because after thirty years of…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - November 2005
Posted on November 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
Rome remains the same and true to its first Apostles Last Sunday was the first time that I had seen Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI. Standing in St Peter's square, along with throngs of other pilgrims and tourists,…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - October 2005
Posted on October 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
Twenty-seventh Sunday of the Year - Sunday 2 October 2005 The journey of faith is marked by visits to the Father's house - in film and in reality. It is a sad reflection of the times that whenever the Catholic…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - September 2005
Posted on September 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
Twenty-fourth Sunday of the Year - Sunday 11 September 2005 As he lay dying in the Bishop's palace in Assisi, St Francis asked to be taken in his pallet to the chapel at Portiuncula, his first religious home. On the…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - July 2005
Posted on July 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
Fourteenth Sunday of the Year - Sunday 3 July 2005 Over these last few years I seem to have begun a Mediterranean-wide ministry amongst former members of the Chaplaincy in Oxford. The 18 year-olds who arrived in trepidation at the…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - June 2005
Posted on June 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
Tenth Sunday of the Year - Sunday 5 June 2005 There must be many Catholics throughout Europe quietly relieved that the proposed European Constitution has been torpedoed twice by a no vote in France and in Holland. Their reasons are…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - May 2005
Posted on May 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
7th Week of Easter - Sunday 8th May 2005 Nearly every traveller to the Lebanon probably takes with him or her a copy of Robert Fisk's 'Pity the Nation', a journalistic account of the twenty-five years of civil war that…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - April 2005
Posted on April 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
2nd Week of Easter - Sunday 3rd April 2005 The change of hour last weekend made me believe that the congregation on Sunday would be sadly diminished. This was to be far from the case, as nearly eighty attended Mass,…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - March 2005
Posted on March 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
5th Week of Lent - Sunday 13th March 2005 The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles Vth on his arrival to visit the new cathedral of Cordoba, which had been inserted into the former mosque of that city remarked to the builders…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - February 2005
Posted on February 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
Ash Wednesday 2005 Over the last week there must have been countless prayers offered to God for the recovery of the Pope. I hope his intentions have been in our prayers as well. All we can do is to pray…
Fr Peter’s newsletter notes - January 2005
Posted on January 1st 2005 in Weekly messages
1st Week of Ordinary Time - Sunday 9th January 2005 Last week the Archbishop of Canterbury's office has been busy putting out disclaimers that he still believes in God, a necessary action after the rather mischievous headline in a recent…
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