Service

In the gospel for the feast of Christ the King (Matthew 25:31-46) in Year A of the church’s liturgical cycle, Jesus sets out the criteria for getting into heaven and they are about feeding the hungry, giving the thirsty something to drink, clothing the naked, welcoming the stranger, visiting the sick and those in prison – in short they are about ‘service’. That is why, at the final dismissal at the end of Mass,  we are instructed to ‘Go in peace to love and serve the Lord’ because, as that gospel tells us, by loving and serving our neighbour, we are loving and serving Jesus himself.

There are many ways in which we can and do express our love and service as followers of Christ in our daily lives, at home with the family, at school or college, at work or through voluntary service in the parish and the wider community where we live. This section of our website focuses on groups and organisations in the parish but for most of us, most of the time, ‘serving’ is about how we live our daily lives as living testament and witness to the faith we profess.

For the most recent report (April 2012) of the activities of our parish groups, have a look here.