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.
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
REFLECTION ON THIS SUNDAY’S GOSPEL: Mark 1 : 29 – 39: St Paul’s words in the Second Reading that he made himself all things to all people can be taken to mean that he sacrificed himself to the whims of everyone around him (which the Gospel most certainly does not call us to do) or that he had a flexibility and compassion which enabled him to be adaptable to the many different people he encountered without judgement and with an acceptance of the weakness of others. It’s certainly in this sense that St Paul, as a faithful disciple, wrote those words and our call is to imitate him.(For urgent or late notices not available when the bulletin was printed please click on Stop Press)