In the year 2000 the two parishes of Epping and Carlingford entered a common
relationship through the sharing of a single Parish Priest. Over the next six or
seven years the parishes entered a process of increasing collaboration and sharing
of resources and pastoral programmes, including the sharing of a common parish staff.
In July 2007 the two parishes formally became one parish with the name of
‘The Catholic Parish of Epping and Carlingford.’ In the model we are following
however we still retain two distinct (though of course collaborating and cooperating)
communities within our single parish structure – the communities gathered around
our two parish churches of St Gerard’s at Carlingford and Our Lady Help of Christians'
at Epping.
For more information about our way of working as two communities within one parish please click here.
For more information about our way of working as two communities within one parish please click here.
Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
Sunday’s Gospel: Luke 14: 1, 7-14: Hospitality is one of Jesus’ favourite themes - eating and drinking with those who are considered to be not respectable, to be sinners. Hospitality is about who we share our table with – and Jesus constantly presents this image of a God who has room at the table for all those people who don’t fit at normal tables. The question is whether we live in the image of the God we claim to believe in: an ability to have an open heart toward those who are not considered respectable, who are labelled as sinners, who are on the fringe, not part of the mainstream. Jesus proclaimed the hospitality of God. As his disciples, as his Church we’ve often failed to live up to that image in the past. What will we do in our present?
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