This Week
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
15/11/2026
November is the month of the Holy Souls
Using our talents
Dear Friends,
This Sunday we listen to a parable which challenges us to ask ourselves what God has given to us, and what we are doing with it. The Parable of the Talents is clear and to the point. It leaves us with something to ponder and pray about.
This Sunday we reach the final Sunday of the Planned Giving Drive in Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St George. During all Masses we will be asked to prayerfully consider our responses. We are all asked to complete a pledge form and to leave it in the boxes as we depart from the church. Then the work of collating all of the responses begins in earnest. Our prayer is surely that this campaign will bear good fruit and that it will clearly reveal our commitment to the work of the Gospel in this place, both now and in the future. Thank you for your willingness to listen to, and engage with, the message we have been putting across over the last few Sundays. Remember we are asking for volunteers as well as for financial commitment.
I would like also to thank those from the Finance Committee, and other supporters, who are helping with the various tasks connected with the campaign, not least those in church today handing out pens and papers and answering queries. Please do not be afraid to ask if anything is unclear or requires clarification.
Meanwhile, together we pray:
Lord, teach me to be generous,
to serve you as you deserve,
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labour and not to look for any reward,
save that of knowing that I do your holy will.
(St Ignatius of Loyola)
Father Daniel
Readings at Mass Today
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Second Reading
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