Fr Bernard writes…
15th Sunday of the Year July 12th 2020
It would be difficult not to notice how green and lush the foliage is at the moment and when we add the birdsong we can appreciate the beauty of nature, and nature is at the heart of our Scripture this weekend. We marvel at the work of human beings in nature but we also recognise the presence of God, whom we profess to be the Creator. God’s word is creative as the first story of creation in the Book of Genesis reminds us, and God invites human beings to be the stewards of creation, as the second creation story requires. We need to hear this today because there is the danger that our consumer led society will upset the delicate balance in nature and destroy precious resources for ever. God’s word became incarnate in Jesus Christ and in the first of the parables we will hear over the next three Sundays, the sower and the seed, he is asking us how receptive we are to his word? There are four different examples given and it may be that we acknowledge that there have been times when we have been deaf or only half listening; when we have been initially enthusiastic and then cooled off. But there will also have been times when we have heard the word and responded generously and effectively yielding a harvest, the results of which we may never know.
Despite the lifting of the ban on Public Worship as from July 4th there will still be NO PUBLIC Masses weekdays or Sundays until further notice. Private Mass celebrated each day at 9.00am.
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