by Michael McG | Jun 11, 2024 | Voice Column, Bishop Terry
As I visit our schools in the diocese, it is very evident that much is being debated and done about Climate Change. So, I was surprised to see in a report from back in 2022 which I was recently re-reading, which said that 67% of KS3 (Key Stage 3) pupils in Catholic...
by Michael McG | May 9, 2024 | Voice Column
On May 25 and 26 the first World Children’s Day takes place at St Peter’s. For the first time ever, the Pope has invited thousands of children from across the world to come to Rome to get to know one another, to play and to pray together. As you can read in the main...
by Michael McG | Apr 9, 2024 | Voice Column
As we move into April, we bathe in the light of the Risen Lord as we celebrate Easter not just for a day, or a week, but for a whole season. Not only is the light increasing as the days lengthen, but everything is very much springing back into life all around us. At...
by Michael McG | Mar 7, 2024 | Voice Column
As you know, we are a Church in Synod and moving towards the Second Session of XVl General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2024.Just before the Christmas break the bishops were sent a set of papers encouraging every diocese to continue the synodal process,...
by Michael McG | Feb 7, 2024 | Voice Column, Bishop Terry
Liturgically, the Feast of the Presentation (February 2) is the end or completion of the Christmas Cycle or Season.We move from the expectation of the coming of the Messiah, through the Incarnation, the Feast of the Holy Family to the visit of the three Wise Men at...
by Michael McG | Jan 9, 2024 | Voice Column
Happy New Year! We pray and hope that 2024 will be blest and peaceful for all. Whenever we move into a new phase or life, a new project, a new year, we are, to a certain extent, entering the unknown. However, one thing we do know 2024 is that by this time next...