A message from Fr John

Dear Friends

Good morning - it’s good to be reminded that we live in Manchester - cold and wet August!

Yesterday’s Gospel passage about the Visitation and especially the Mary’s hymn, the Magnificat, teaches us that in Elizabeth and Mary, the world is turned upside down - the lowly are raised up and the mighty thrown down - and God is Holy. This is a paramount statement of God’s intent; his desire to draw us ever closer to himself.

I came across a little passage from Evelyn Underhill, an Anglo-Catholic writer from the early part of the 20th Century, which re-emphasises this.
'The coming of the Kingdom is perpetual. Again and again freshness, novelty, power from beyond the world, break in by unexpected paths, bringing unexpected change. Those who cling to tradition and fear all novelty God’s relation with his world deny the creative activity of his Holy Spirit, and forget that what is now tradition was once an innovation: that the real Christian is always a revolutionary, belongs to a new race, and has been given a new name and a new song.'

We are children of the Magnificat.

Enjoy the day

St Joseph, spouse of Mary, pray for us

Every blessing

Fr John