Reflection
All work is empty save when done with love. And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms from those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half of man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. Work is love made visible.
Salesian Vocations
Today is Vocations Sunday, when we encourage young men and women to consider a vocation to religious life. Fr Gerry O’Shaughnessy, our Salesian Vocations Promotor, has sent various resources and handouts for Vocations Sunday.
Feel free to take them away with you and perhaps give the information to someone you think might be interested.
Do you feel called to religious life? Contact Fr Gerry directly, from the link below (gerry.oshaughnessy@salesians.org.uk):
Gift Aid
If you are a tax payer, please consider joining the gift aid scheme. The parish can claim 25p from the taxman for every £1 you donate. Please see Bob if you wish to join. The envelopes for this year are now available at the back of church.
Pope’s Message for Vocations Sunday
Dear brothers and sisters! Each year, the World Day of Prayer for Vocations invites us to reflect on the precious gift of the Lord’s call to each of us, as members of his faithful pilgrim people, to participate in his loving plan and to embody the beauty of the Gospel in different states of life...