Ordinariate Catholics - Perth

31/08/2026

Sermon for the 13th Sunday after Trinity
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Jer 20:7-9
Rom 12:1-2
Mt 16:21-27
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We are all familiar with the expression, “Between a rock and a hard place.” This is where Jeremiah found himself in his life as one of God’s prophets. He was reluctant to accept the call to prophecy and while God promised that He would not let Jeremiah down, Jeremiah’s experience was such that he felt deceived by God. “If I speak God’s truth, why do people hate me?”, is a sentiment very much in Jeremiah’s thoughts. Jeremiah knew first-hand the cost of discipleship.

Last week we read of Peter’s confession of faith concerning the identity of Jesus. Today we read of Jesus telling His disciples that He was to be put to death and rise again. He wanted the disciples to understand that His mission was not only to announce the presence of the Kingdom of God, but also to offer the sacrifice necessary to enable others to respond by loving God and embracing the life of the Kingdom. Jesus also wanted His disciples to be under no illusion about the cost involved in living their lives of self-giving discipleship.

Peter reacted negatively to Jesus’ words and was accused by Jesus of being like Satan in his temptations in the wilderness, where Satan tempted Jesus to grab worldly power in order to establish His kingdom. The disciples were still thinking in worldly terms – might is right and power means control. Jesus needed them to change their thinking from the view that God’s Messiah would be another warrior king like King David, to the view of the Messiah as Isaiah’s Suffering Servant. This shift entailed moving from being worldly and self-focussed to being God centred and Christ like. As St Paul reminds us, disciples must develop Christ-like minds which lead to Christ-like actions.

Jesus told His disciples to ‘Take up your Cross and follow me.’ This doesn’t mean that there is a pile of crosses somewhere with your name on one of them. There is only one cross to be taken up, and that is the Cross of Christ. As Cardinal Sarah says, “Without the Cross, a man gropes his way through the night of ignorance and hardness of heart.” It is on the Cross that Jesus, disfigured by suffering and evil reveals the face of the invisible God.

The Cross is the centre of the Christian life. In the Cross there is no mingling of good and evil as in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. The fruit of the tree of the Cross is not death but life, not darkness but light. It is the place of forgiveness and reconciliation. For Christians, the Cross is the beginning of a new life. As the Curé D’Ars said, “Crosses are the road to heaven, like a fine stone bridge over a river so as to cross it… Christians who do not embrace suffering with and on behalf of Jesus on their journey, travel over a very fragile bridge that is ready to break beneath their feet. (Sarah, Catechism of the Spiritual Life ch. 8).

The suffering of the Cross is that of turning from self-centredness to God-centredness. I saw a poster once that seemed to promote self-denial. It said, ‘My tastes are simple……. I only like the best!’ In Scripture and in the life of the Church there are numerous examples of people, despite the suffering that it brings, who said to God, “Not my will, but thine be done.’ Christian discipleship is not a hobby. It is God-focussed, Christ-centred, Cross-shaped and self-offering tough love. In our woke Western culture we are told to affirm ourselves, because we alone are the centre of our universe. Other people’s rights, views and needs are of no consequence if they don’t fit in with our truth.

Even so, people are still fascinated by Jesus as a historical figure just as they are fascinated by the scandals of the rich, famous and even footy players. Being fascinated by Jesus is a far cry from accepting his invitation to “Take up your Cross and follow me.”

Transformation from sliding into, or from abandoning worldly values, to embracing and living according to the heavenly values of love, justice and mercy, begins in the mind. It is a struggle that involves letting go of always doing what we want and not letting our feelings dictate our every decision. When we are between a rock and a hard place and don’t know the right choice to make, we must avoid making the choices that we know to be wrong. Change our thinking, and we change our behaviour. Remember that Jesus promises that when He returns in the glory of the Father with His angels, each of us will be rewarded, not according to what riches we have amassed, but according to the life we have lived.

As we sang in our Introit hymn, “In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o’er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime.”
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Msgr Harry Entwistle
August 30th, 2026
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25/08/2026

Sermon for the 12th Sunday after Trinity
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Isaiah 22:19-23
Rom 11:33-36
Mt 16:13-20
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Isaiah knows how to deliver a knockout blow to those who he thinks have done the wrong thing. Shebna was a high-ranking administrator in the Kingdom of Judah, but he was also a political opportunist who pitted himself against God’s prophet Isaiah. Shebna tried to undermine Isaiah, so the prophet ensured that Shebna was moved sideways and Eliakim, who Isaiah could rely on, was appointed in his stead. Nothing much has changed in Church or secular politics.

Jesus also needed a trustworthy leader in the Church He was gathering, and today’s Gospel reading tells us that it was Peter who is described as the solid rock upon which Jesus would build His Church.

In response to Jesus’ question to the apostles as to who people said He was, it was Peter who confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Jesus realised that Peter could only make a statement like that if the Father had revealed it to him. Some Christians think that ‘the rock’ on which the Church is founded is Peter’s confession of faith, and not Peter himself. However, the revelation was given to Peter and he and his confession stand together. Despite his flaws and shortcomings, Jesus assures Peter that the Church will overcome evil despite the flaws and weaknesses of the members of it.

We are in one of those times at the moment when the forces of evil are spawning a culture of death, negativity and destruction. Christians are persecuted, churches are burned and Governments are actively working for the eradication of our faith and the Church. Notice the sneaky evil way some of it is done – abortion is described as a caring routine medical procedure; euthanasia is ‘end of life’ compassionate care. A Catholic hospital and a hospice in Canberra were forcefully acquired recently so that a wider range of these ‘compassionate’ medical procedures will be available to more people. In some Western countries, quoting the Bible in public is hate speech that could cause civil disturbances. “Evil, be thou my good,” are words from Milton’s Paradise Lost. They are spoken by Satan who has been cast out of heaven and is seeking to corrupt humanity by ensuring that we worship him.

The faith of committed disciples will not be overcome if we stand firm. Peter became the head of the Church and was given the keys of the Kingdom. That does not mean he is the Border Control officer at the pearly gates. Being given the keys is a sign of authority. When Isaiah installed Eliakim as the king’s steward, he placed the keys of David’s kingdom on his shoulder.

Peter was given authority in the Church, but he and his papal successors are not unbridled dictators, even if some have behaved as though they were. Jesus’ model of leadership is that of a servant, and that is the model for the Pope, his bishops and all Christian leaders. Leaders are also called to be shepherds who gather Jesus’ flock together from wherever they have strayed in order to feed, care and protect them. Without loyalty to the successor of Peter, the Church will split into thousands of fragments as the Protestant churches have done and the Catholic Church is also facing.

In God’s dealings with His people Israel and the Church, He has always given them an opportunity to repent before He judges them. He affords us that opportunity while we are still on earth. This is why the Church and her members must never give up on those who persecute us, distance themselves from God, or try to create division or have given up on the Church and God. We must stand firm in the faith which the Church has received and continue to proclaim God’s love, forgiveness and mercy. Not only that, we must also live the life of the the Kingdom, namely, to love God our creator so that we can love our neighbour in the same way as we love ourselves by working for our and other’s salvation.

When the faithful fall below these standards, evil gains a foothold and chaos reigns. Difficult as these times are, if the worship of God is our priority and we keep our eyes on Jesus, we will not sink into chaos.
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Msgr Harry Entwistle
August 23rd, 2026
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11/08/2026

Announcements:

Weekday Masses this remaining week - Wednesday (12th) and Friday (14th) - will be held in the undercroft at St Paul's, Mt Lawley.

There will be no weekday Masses next week (17th-21st Aug).

Mass for the Assumption of the BVM - Saturday 15th August:
Mass - 7.30am (St Paul's; No Mattins preceding)

12/07/2026

Sermon for the 6th Sunday after Trinity
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Isaiah 55:10-11
Rom 8:18-23
Mt 13:1-9
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Does God keep His promises? Isaiah assured his people that God’s promises are as sure as the rain from heaven causing seeds to germinate. He tells those of God’s people who were in exile in Babylon that God would soon return them to their homeland where they would restore the city and Temple in Jerusalem. They are invited to share in this God’s undeserved free gift of a Second Exodus but Isaiah warned them that they must make an immediate response to God’s powerful act. Procrastinators would miss out.

Jesus also uses the imagery of seed to warn His disciples that they must ensure that what they preach is true to God’s word even though they will receive various responses from people.

Australian farmers use computer-controlled devices to ensure seed is sown without waste, but the farmer in Jesus’ parable was very inefficient in his sowing. He threw seed everywhere even though some seed would not germinate on hard soil because birds would eat it first. God’s word does not grow in hard-hearted people because they are self-focussed. God’s word does not grow fully in those who only want a quick feel-good buzz rather than the hard slog of committed discipleship. Neither will it grow in those who are disciples of convenience who only practice their faith when they have nothing else to do. They are like seed choked by weeds.

Discipleship is about priorities, and Jesus has little patience with those who do not make Him their priority in their life. The mission of disciples must be to sow the seed of God’s word anywhere and everywhere and then leave the rest to God. Once a person says, ‘Yes,’ to God and makes a connection with a faith community, the disciples in that community must nourish and nurture that person so that they can deepen their relationship with God and be committed to Him.

God cannot force anyone to love Him. Discipleship has always been a difficult choice and is so in our age of sentimentalism when feelings override critical thinking and hard evidence. One consequence is that the concept of absolute truth is discarded because all truth is relative and sin is merely an unfortunate weakness. So all religions are equal because they are only different pathways to the same delusion they call God. This is a kind of, ‘whatever floats your boat,’ mentality.

This view called ‘indifferentism’ or ‘relativism’ denies that our relationship with God has been damaged by original sin. Indifferentists have an image of Jesus walking the decks of a cruise ship heading for paradise full of passengers from all faiths and none. They ask whether Jesus would throw those who hadn’t got a baptism certificate overboard into the shark infested waters. The Catholic understanding of original sin is that of Jesus walking the decks of a cruise ship called The Church sailing to paradise and throwing the life raft of baptism to those who are floundering in the shark infested waters, bringing those who choose to be saved on board and in unity with Him be filled with his love and grow more like Him.

Although God wants everyone to be reconciled to Him, each individual has to choose to be so. As St Paul says, “What we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory as yet unrevealed which is waiting for us” (Rom 8:18).

To share in God’s glory is a gift offered to us and we can share in that now if we choose to accept the rigours of committed discipleship and reject the short, touchy feely, God ‘lite,’ self or community focussed discipleship that some would have us live. I wish the ‘progressives’ who present a ‘pick and choose God lite’ gospel would read the Scriptures carefully and not through a relativist secular lens. We need to pray that the Holy Spirit will keep God’s promise and lead all of us along the road to salvation.
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Msgr Harry Entwistle
July 12th, 2026
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01/07/2026

Sermon for the 4th Sunday after Trinity
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2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16
Rom 6:3-4, 8-11
Mt 10:37-42
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Choices, choices, choices; we make them every day and usually the first one is whether to get out of bed or not. Although some choices we make are the right ones, they can still cause distress. St Paul reminded his readers that when they were baptised as a disciple of Christ, they would not only share in His suffering and death, they would also share in His resurrection and new life.

Choosing Christ is not a ride in the park or sauntering along smelling the roses. He said that He brought a sword, not one that destroys, but a sword of decision which can bring division.
When Moses gathered the Children of Israel together after they had worshipped the Golden Calf he asked them to make a choice for life or death. He asked “Who is on the Lord’s side?” (Ex 32:26). Choosing to follow Christ or not is also a choice for life or death. Jesus’ sword of division is not intended to split families or friends, but it may do if some of them do not embrace God’s love. St Felicitas and St Perpetua are but two examples of those who chose to love Jesus more than abandoning their faith. They trusted in Jesus’ assurance that true life can only be found in the kingdom of God.

Jesus instructed His disciples on this matter of choice and told them that if people choose to respond positively to them and their message, they are not only responding to, and welcoming Him, but also His Father. To welcome God’s agent Jesus is to welcome God.

This was the case in the encounter between Elisha and the childless non-Jewish Shunammite woman. She and her husband offered Elisha and his companion hospitality because they recognised him as a holy man. In welcoming them they welcomed the God of Israel and because of their generosity they were blessed with the gift of a son.

Day after day we are presented with news items telling us that we are in the post-Christian age and that Christianity and the Church are no longer relevant, and the prophets of doom predict the date of its collapse. Yet there are many young adults and reverting Catholics across the Western world who are open and welcoming of God. Three years ago Philippa Martyr and Stephen Bullivant conducted a survey of Catholics in Australia. Among the respondents there was a sizeable number of young adults who said they attend Mass 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 because they want to worship God and relate to Him in the sacraments, prayer and Scripture. We are privileged to have some of those among us in this community.

The pattern among those who open themselves to God is that they want to connect before they commit. Notice that Elisha wandered through non-Jewish territory and both Jesus and St Paul went to the marketplaces, the Temple and synagogues where people gather. They made themselves available to others. I did this in my prison ministry. I called it, ‘Loitering with intent.’ To be truly available means being accessible, but there is little point being available and accessible if we are not approachable.

Jesus enabled God to be available to His people here on earth. He ensured that He was accessible even to the sinners and outcasts. He was also approachable. People could speak to Him openly. Read the gospels and note how many times people approached Him and shared with Him their needs and desires. Note how He responded to them and who responded positively to Him, and who walked away. As disciples, we too must be available, accessible and approachable to others who want to connect and be willing to accompany those who respond so that they also come to the point of commitment and live their lives as children of God and agents of Jesus.

All baptised Christians are agents of Jesus who is God’s agent, and for us Catholics that means being disciplined in the practice of the faith, grounded and committed in a faith community rather than being a butterfly flitting from one community to another.

Discipleship and evangelism are two sides of the baptismal invitation – like love and marriage, you can’t have one without the other and furthermore we are not called to be secret agents, but visible, active and effective agents who are available, accessible and approachable to other.
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Msgr Harry Entwistle
June 28th, 2026
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14/06/2026

Sermon for the 2nd Sunday after Trinity
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Exodus 19:2-6
Rom 5:6-11
Mt 9:36-10:8
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Today’s epistle reading describes the Christian faithful as God’s royal priesthood. The first reading from Exodus leads up to the occasion when Moses, the shepherd of God’s people, received the 10 Commandments and looks forward to the sealing of the Covenant between God and His people who are described as a kingdom of priests. This doesn’t mean that every male in Israel was an ordained priest, it is a way of describing the kingdom that God was to establish for His people. It would not be like other kingdoms in the then world; it would have a distinctive religious status. Israel would be God’s chosen people, a royal priesthood and a holy nation because God is their king.

Jesus’ mission was one of proclaiming the closeness of God’s kingdom and making it visible through healings, miracles, teaching and the driving out of evil. In doing this He reveals the state of God’s people of His day. They are like sheep without a shepherd who are fed up because they do not look up to be fed by God. They needed leaders who would guide them into a deeper loving relationship with God and so live their lives in accordance with the values of His kingdom. This is what being a citizen of God’s kingdom means and for Catholic Christians it includes living a self-giving life of priesthood.

The leaders necessary for this task can only be provided by God, so Jesus commands His disciples to pray that God will choose and send out labourers into His harvest. It was hearing these words in a homily as a young teenager that changed my journey of twists and turns that has led me here today.

Jesus turned His chosen disciples into Apostles, a word that means ‘one who is sent,’ and gives them authority to do, in His name, what He does. The Apostles were the leaders of God’s New Israel who would enter into a new covenant with God, one that is based on love and not law. This is why Jesus sends them to the Jews first. They were the ones to whom God first promised His kingdom. It was only after Pentecost that the Church’s mission to the Gentiles began. St Matthew does not record any specific results of the mission of the Twelve Apostles, we can only presume that they did what Jesus sent them to do.

To live in the Kingdom of God is to be in a right relationship with God, and St Paul describes this as being ‘at peace’ with God. He doesn’t mean being in a state of inner calmness, be that drug induced or not. He means that peace which passes all understanding, namely, to be at one with God. It is the peace of the ocean depths no matter what storm is lashing on the surface. It is the peace that comes as we grow into Christ-likeness.

The glorious thing about this is that Jesus does not wait for us to pull up our own socks. He redeemed us while we were not able to lead good lives and do good things in our own power. God’s love to us is a gift. It is offered to those who don’t deserve it and it makes unworthy and unholy people worthy and holy. This is what God’s love for us is like. We cannot save ourselves; we must accept and respond to the love that has, is, and will continue to save us.

Now as then, the Church needs solid, sound and faithful leaders among the clergy and laity who are willing to undertake ministries within the local and wider Church. As the Saints have shown us, the great leaders, teachers and pastors do not come only from the ranks of those who possess great knowledge. They are often wounded people who come from the ranks of Cross-shaped people who love God and are willing to share in Christ’s suffering as much as His glory. They come from the ranks of ordinary people who do ordinary things extraordinarily well, so demonstrating what the life of the Kingdom is like. Living this kind of life will draw those outside the Kingdom to recognise and respond to the love that God has for them.

In our current challenging times, we must not only live the faith, we must also share it. We must continue to pray for strong prayerful people both in the Church, the Ordinariate and our own community, but above all live our ordinary lives extraordinarily well.
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Msgr Harry Entwistle
June 14th, 2026
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08/06/2026

01/06/2026

Sermon for Trinity Sunday
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Exodus 34: 4-6, 8-9
2 Cor 13:11-13
John 3:16-18
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I have recently read a homily on the Holy Trinity given by the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and I will share with you some of the things he said.

All the major celebrations of the Church from Creation through to Pentecost come together on Trinity Sunday because all these celebrations assure us that God is 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us. But how can God be 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us if the ability to be 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us is not part of His nature.

In the story of creation, God breathes on the waters and creates life. He is 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 His created beings Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and although they were banished from the Garden, God was still God but was still 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 them. Orthodox Islam does not accept God as a Trinity and so fails to have much regard for created persons. The Jews are different because they know God made several covenants with them.

In the troubles of the reign of King Ahaz, God promised that a child would be born who was to be called Immanuel, which means, God is 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us. God’s Spirit was evident in Samson, the prophets and kings of Israel. He poured out His Spirit - His wisdom, on Solomon, the wisdom that fills humans without losing its divine nature or turning them into God himself. Later Jews believed that God also suffered 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 them in their exile in Babylon and was 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 them as they returned to Jerusalem, just as He had done when they left Egypt.

Von Balthasar deduces that, ‘if God is to be 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 sinful humanity, yet still stand over it as its merciful judge without ceasing to be God, then God must become human.’

God is God and we humans are not God, but through God’s Spirit we are not separated from Him. In fact, we are able to have a deep relationship with Him. We are not the same as Him, but we bear His image. He pours His grace over us which is our sharing in His divine nature. God can only allow us to share in His life if He is able to share Himself. In the Holy Trinity, the one we call Father gives Himself to the one we call Son. The Son receives from the Father and gives obedience to Him. Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” (Jn 10:30). This giving and returning opens up what it means to be 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us. It is the ‘co’ in ‘communion’ – union between persons. That ‘withness’ is the Holy Spirit who is the spring of living water within us (Jn 4:10;14).

God is not confined to a sealed fortress in the heavens. Within the Trinity it was always the plan that we humans, while not God, can also give and receive, create and be created, be lost and be found. This is because God is 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us. It is our choosing to sin that distances us from God, and we cannot return to him under our own power. God sent his only Son to be 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us and suffer 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 and 𝘧𝘰𝘳 us, so that we can be 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 Him.

This is why St Paul tells us to take up Christ’s cross and suffer 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 Him; to die 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 Him; to be raised 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 Him; to weep 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 those who weep and rejoice 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 those who rejoice. This word, ‘𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩’ is to be our ministry and mission for our being 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 God and God being 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us so that we may sing, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts.”

In the Gospel account of Jesus’ Baptism, we see the Father who sent His Son to reveal the truth of who He is, and to do so in unity with the power and wisdom of the One we call the Holy Spirit. God the Father is 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us because of the life He gives us; He is 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us in our growing into being Christ-like and He is 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 us in our actions, struggles and relationships through His Spirit of love and wisdom (Mt 10:20), so that God will be well pleased with us at the Judgement.

Today we welcome Mark who comes to be baptised in the name of the Trinity who has always been with him leading him to this point, and he now will promise to be with God who is both above, beyond and within us.
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Msgr Harry Entwistle
May 31st, 2026
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25/05/2026

Sermon for Pentecost (Whitsunday)
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Acts 2:1-11
1 Cor 12:3-7, 12-13
Jn 20:19-23
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Today we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church and the beginning of the Church’s missionary expansion. When Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate Pentecost, they celebrate the Holy Trinity. The next day they celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the disciples and the following Sunday when we celebrate the Trinity, they celebrate all the Saints of the Church. This may seem strange to us but in his book, ‘Images of Hope,’ Pope Benedict XVI said that the Eastern sequence celebrates the unity of the persons within the Trinity expressed by the Spirit.

Jesus is the icon of the Father – see Jesus and you see the Father; they are united as one. Through the gift of their love, the Spirit is given to the Apostles. They are members of the Church the mystical Body of Christ on earth who are caught up into the Holy Trinity and called to create the same unity within the Church that exists between Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

St John tells us that the risen Jesus breathes on the Apostles on Easter Day. They are given authority to forgive sins and determine the boundaries of the doctrinal, moral and ethical teaching of the Church. Jesus is the agent of the Father, baptised disciples are the agents of Jesus and empowered by the Spirit, the love that exists between Father and Son. St Luke’s account is more dramatic in that he describes the empowerment of the Spirit in images of wind and fire. The gathered community is gifted with the glory of God, i.e. the approval of God. They were caught up in God’s love and drawn into the unity of the Trinity, reversing the chaos of Babel, by being able to proclaim God’s message in several languages. The Church is Catholic, namely it is universal.

Among the group in the Upper Room was Our Lady who was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit when she submitted her will to that of God and conceived the Word of God, Jesus, in her womb. The one who became the mother of the Incarnate Son of God was empowered to become the mother of the mystical Body of Christ which is the Church. Without her, there would have been no Incarnate Son of God and no Church gathered together by Him.

As the Church grew, the Apostolic Universal Church gave birth to local Churches in differing cities. These local churches were not a federation of independent churches but were in unity with each other because they were united in the belief and teaching of the Apostles. This is why today, those in the Catholic Church in Germany and Belgium, and in other places including Australia, who are agitating to make local churches more independent of the Universal Church and so create their own version of the Catholic Faith, are in grave error and a serious danger to the Church because they are being un-Catholic. Pope Benedict XVI was very clear on this point.

The Church’s mission began at Pentecost when Peter preached to the crowds in Jerusalem. Jesus invited His disciples to take up the cross and follow Him. To do this, disciples need to understand and follow what Jesus said and did in the Garden of Gethsemane when He rejected His own desires, and like His mother before Him, chose to accept and do what God wills. We will certainly face temptations but we mustn’t let this be off-putting. Temptations are stumbling blocks but we should overcome them and turn them into steppingstones that lead us further into being open to receiving the love that only God can give. This constant turning from self to God is the repentance that Peter called the crowds to practise on the first Pentecost Sunday.

The more we turn to God through prayer and the Sacraments, the more open we become to receive the same Holy Spirit who empowers the Church and draws us into unity with the Holy Trinity. This is what St Peter called the crowds to do some 2000 years ago and what we are called to do today.

May the Holy Spirit fill us all with the joy of His love.
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Msgr Harry Entwistle
May 24th, 2026
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