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FOURTH  SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME                                               Year C

31^st January 2010                                                                YEAR OF PRIESTS

At the end of the Mission, Fr Edwards writes…

“It’s been a happy time for me in Scarborough and I’m sorry to leave.  I realise I owe thanks not just to all the people I know who welcomed me; but also to people who helped or prayed for the mission, people who work for the Church and many others whom I do not know.

            I congratulate the many who attended, some every day. It was a privilege to give the mission. We all know it is not easy to remain a practising Catholic today. Every worldly voice is against us: much of what we see and hear is hostile to God’s Kingdom: we are wounded by failures and sin among Christians – and our own.

            A retreat can help us turn to God in confidence. Jesus HAS won the victory; we CAN trust God to know what he is doing, and that he could allow no evil unless there is somehow, somewhere, the chance of a greater good. 

            I suppose the most important moments of our lives are when our sins are forgiven and when we are with Jesus in his sacrifice. In other words when we receive absolution and when we are at Mass. We may not feel the importance, but we know. Please pray for your priests and for me that we may be less unworthy of our service of God’s people.”

 MASS TIMES