Joe Dunphy is retiring!!

Published on May 3, 2022

For nigh on 40 years Joe has looked after the rota for readers of the Word of God in our Parish Church and is retiring. Thank you, Joe. Joe has carried out his responsibility with great dedication, arranging readers and getting readings to them. Very rarely in the past 15 years has the rota broken down.

Joe has a new book on the way, which will make for good reading. Now that he will have time on his hands we might expect more of them, as he has many stories to tell.

Thanks too to all our readers over the years. It is a wonderful calling to proclaim God’s Word. We will be depending on you to continue and call on new people who will be prepared to be readers in Church. Contact the Office – 7793191 – if you would be prepared to read God’s word for God’s people.

Reflection

Following one’s vocation is a response from within to the needs outside us. A vocation meets the human needs of the world but with a motivation from within. We care for our children and grandchildren not just because they are sick or insecure, but because we love them. this love will move us out to help them in various situations. We find a call to be ‘people for others’ because our heart teaches us that with Jesus we are all brothers and sisters, and that God wants to save the world, and needs our help to do so. This is the Sunday we all pray that our particular vocation in life may become clear and may become stronger. God calls each of us to love God and love our neighbour. This is the first Christian calling at our Baptism; we then find the best way for each of us with our own particular set of gifts, talents and even weaknesses to live out that call to love. We think especially today of religious life and priesthood. There are needs for priests, sisters and brothers in most parts of the world. as a community in families and parishes we thank those who have given their lives in these vocations and pray they may increase.