Gallery
The purpose of The Gallery is to retain articles, photographs and information on the Parish that may be of continuing interest.
Fr Patrick’s video Reflections for past weeks can be found here:
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: https://youtu.be/bz_b29hRyvY
13th Sunday / Ss Peter & Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_MbIXESlPY
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time: https://youtu.be/7eTPzpXzavs
Corpus Christi: https://youtu.be/aYeAOCicJq0
Trinity Sunday: https://youtu.be/Y8J8fodpAUY
Pentecost Sunday: https://youtu.be/LIgp5Zj7LEM
Seventh Sunday of Easter: https://youtu.be/BplObC_fjQ8
Sixth Sunday of Easter: https://youtu.be/cLY_TIo1U8g
Fifth Sunday of Easter: https://youtu.be/u2Z3k1G3Bf8
Fourth Sunday of Easter: https://youtu.be/rdLTEX_zlLg
Third Sunday of Easter: https://youtu.be/xhyOk9hb-Xw
Second Sunday of Easter: https://youtu.be/OJ4pAMQdvFU
Easter Sunday: https://youtu.be/lX5vNRMnC-g
Palm Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww93UR2CF
Fifth Sunday of Lent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2uk93MnvkM
Fourth Sunday of Lent: https://youtu.be/zQu5B_Oj2Kg
Fr Patrick’s “Thought for the Week” for past weeks can be found here:
Seventh Sunday of Easter 24May20
Sixth Sunday of Easter 17May20
Fifth Sunday of Easter 10May20
Fourth Sunday of Easter 03May20
Third Sunday of Easter 26Apr20
Second Sunday of Easter 19Apr20
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord 02Feb20
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord 12Jan20
Solemnity of the Epiphany 05Jan20
Sunday within the Octave of Christmas 29Dec19
HIGH ALTAR IMAGES
Blessed Dominic Barberi
Blessed Dominic Barberi (born 1792) was an Italian theologian and a member of the Passionist Congregation. He was beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1963. Blessed Dominic is best known for receiving Blessed John Henry Newman into the Roman Catholic Church at Littlemore, near Oxford, in 1845, and his more local connection is that he died near Reading Railway Station in 1849.
Our Lady, Queen of Heaven
Queen of Heaven is a title given to the Virgin Mary by Christians mainly of the Roman Catholic Church, and also, to some extent, in Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism. The title is a consequence of the First Council of Ephesus in the fifth century, in which the Virgin Mary was proclaimed “theotokos”, a title rendered in Latin as Mater Dei, in English “Mother of God” (From Wikipedia).
St Anne with Our Lady
Saint Anne (also known as Ann or Anna) of David’s house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ, according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition. Mary’s mother is not named in the canonical gospels, nor in the Qur’an. Anne’s name and that of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of which the Protoevangelium of James (written perhaps around 150) seems to be the earliest that mentions them (From Wikipedia).
Blessed Hugh Faringdon
Blessed Hugh Faringdon (died 1539) was a Benedictine monk who presided as the last Abbot of Reading Abbey. At the dissolution of the monasteries under King Henry VIII of England, Blessed Hugh was accused of high treason and executed. He was declared a martyr and beatified in 1895.
The above four images, displayed at the High Altar, were painted by Marcelo Lavallen, who is the artist responsible for the beautiful artwork in the restored Shrine.
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Fr Patrick’s weekly video Reflections, and his Thoughts for the Week, for past weeks may be found in the Gallery.