Today, maybe John the Baptist calls us to do the same as he did; to let go of our own false Gods and say that the one born in that stable is “more powerful than I am, the straps of his sandals I am not worthy to untie.”  When we do this, we can look at this child in a new way and we can, through him rather than through ourselves, see the true face of God.

How wonderful it would be to do this.

There are ditches and valleys that must be filled with confidence and hope to prepare for Our Lord’s coming.

if we read todays Gospel as the first Christian communities read it, then we truly can “…Stand erect and raise your heads” because the tiny child who will be born into our world in just four weeks is indeed ‘our God’, coming in love, to reveal to us a God of love and to say to us, “I do not call you servants but friends…”;

Jesus is King of all that is, and the Kingdom of God has come and will fully come when Jesus returns… and he will return.

As Christians – followers of Jesus,  we are called to embrace a hope and a trust that is greater. The Kingdom of God is here with us now and we are its witnesses. The rest we can safely leave in God’s hands…. Amen.

Blessed Carlo Acutis

A saint for our time and a model for the young

His relics will be visiting St John's Cathedral Tue 26th Nov and Wed 27th Nov.

Benefit Concert at St Michael's Church has been cancelled

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The call of todays Gospel is not to be poor or have nothing. The call is to be authentic human beings; happy with who we are, knowing that that is enough.