Poems by our Faith Community
2020-09-29
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Read the inspiring poetry that our Faith Community are sending in to us at Sacred Heart. Do you have a poem to share?
Vocational Witness of a Carmelite Friar
2020-07-13
A vocation is a call to the person’s destiny in life. It is a call to be who God intended us to be. This identity is discovered most fully when we meet Christ in a personal encounter and from this deep place in our nature, we find all the rest falls into place. Every human being is called to this fulness of life. This is the vocation of humanity: to know and be loved by God and in return to know and to love God.
Vocation to the Priesthood by Grania Egan
2020-05-22
Vocation is what God calls you to do with your life. Everybody is called by God to know, love and serve him. The difference is how each one of us does this. In the one life God gave you to live, you have one overriding purpose, to fulfil the will of God.
Lockdown
2020-03-15
Fr Paul wished to share this poem of hope at a time when there is much fear in the world.
Stephen’s Testimony – A Road Back To Faith
2020-03-15
Listen to Stephen’s inspiring testimony that discusses how he found Jesus again after almost 40 years of searching…
The Gospel and Homily For The 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Turning The Other Cheek
2020-02-23
Listen to the Gospel for the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time followed by Fr. Paul’s homily that explores how our Lord sets a very high bar for us, yet He is always there to help us every step of the way.
A Deepening of Faith
2019-11-08
During the confirmation service on Holy Saturday when Father Paul placed his hands on my head and called the Holy Spirit down, I felt an intense connection to Christ.
Reflections on a Pilgrimage to Lourdes
2019-09-21
What makes Lourdes so special and makes me want to return year after year is so very difficult to put into words. Lourdes is quite literally like ‘a little taste of heaven’.
Theresa Mahon
Compost Prayers & Rocks Afternoon
2019-07-09
On Saturday 6th, July we celebrated Thy Kingdom Come in a way that felt uniquely “Sacred Heart”. We painted rocks, wrote prayers on special cards impregnated with seeds, received blessings from Father Paul and then planted everything in a special flowerbed at the front of the Church.Father Paul then blessedContinue Reading
Charlie’s Journey to Faith
2019-04-05
“Hello, my name is Charles and I’m going to speak about how the call from God grew to radically change my life.” Read the transcript that follows. Very moving stuff.. “I’ve always held the belief that there was something more to life than the physical” I grew up in aContinue Reading