God bless you Fr Denis and Team and Family - Peace Joy and Wonder to you all. Fr Gerald G

getting to the Garden Mass a bit late this week. I too would like to say that Natalie and Rachel are doing a great job and read very well. Thank you to all of you. As you raised the host I could see all the brave priests who risked their lives to say mass over the centuries when it was forbidden to do so.and thus brought such comfort to their people.We will endure with God's help.

Thank you for all yoy share and offering us opportunity to share these message via link utube.

Gaudate in Domino Semper! Thank you once more, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Natalie and Rachel (missing Giselle, Paul, Cosmo and Kallistos a lot!) for this lovely and evocative Gaudate Mass. Here, it is a dreary, grey Sunday, but what joy to attend the Mass and be uplifted! Amidst so much tension and suffering in the Middle East, Ukraine, Syria, Sudan, it is really difficult to find reasons to rejoice. However we need to be excited by John the Baptist, in whom we can glimpse the tenderness of God. This will really put a spring into our Advent shuffle, as you so aptly put. Thank you, too, for introducing us to Simon Foulkes, whose poem "John the Baptist" drives the message across very clearly.

Hi Garden Mass team. Thank you for your good work in bringing to the world Sunday mass. Just wondering why you havent been including the second reading of late.

I love that bright stole you are wearing Fr Denis. Please forgive those who make an issue of design colours. I also love the inclusion of communities outside this island. 🙏🏼 A truly Catholic stole.

Blessings to you and your family and your ministry

Another slave to the woke agenda ! Pathetic; this individual needs a proper education. Stand up to this heresy and nonsense. Avoid their ‘churches’ like the plague.

Thank you once more, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Natalie and Rachel, for this beautiful Garden Mass with four voices in the readings reminding us to be the best of ourselves, to change and grow, and take charge of our lives, through God' grace. Advent is a time to reflect, especially on the truth that God will never abandon us. Thank you for the heartfelt homily on this. I hope Paul, Giselle, Cosmo and Kallistos are fine, and are simply taking a holiday. The painting on wood with the Blessed Virgin surrounded by the saints looks interesting! And we see the titles of your books as the camera goes around the room. Thank you, too, for Ursula Askham Fanthorpe's poem --- I remember her most for her tongue-in-cheek poem, "Not my Best Side, and now BC:AD with the lines: "three members of an obscure Persian sect." She is lovely!

Thank you for allowing me to join in your celebration from Thailand once again. God Bless you.

Thank you Fr Denis, and God bless you all…from our Township community. Fr GG

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A new missal for a new false pagan religion. How touching. The fella pretending to be a priest looks a right tutti frutti., very apt for the new false religion

Blessed for Baby Kallistos 🙏🏼 . Hands are full now 😊 . Thank you Fr Denis for a Wonderful Mass.

Thank you, again your words hit the mark.

A blessed Advent Sunday to everyone! Thank you once again, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Giselle, Paul, Cosmo and Kallistos (who certainly looks like Cosmo when he was at that age!) for this beautiful indoor Garden Mass. Congratulations on the new Sunday Missal, too! Thank you for the lovely homily on looking back with much kindness, strong in the faith of God's healing mercy, and on looking forward with much hope that we may not face it alone. Advent indeed gives us time to pause, a breather, to look at the year that had gone by. Thank you too, for the poem "Advent Calendar" by Rowan Williams, which still gives me goosebumps when I hear it recited.

Today, we had the first reading from the new Missal. The Epistle is from 1 Thess. 3:12 to 4:2. In the old Missal, taken from the Jerusalem Bible, St. Paul writes “Finally, brothers, we urge you and appeal to you in the Lord….” This is what he actually wrote. The new Missal says “Finally, then, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord….” This is not what St. Paul wrote and, in context, as you read on in the passage, what St. Paul actually wrote is the only rendering which makes sense, since St. Paul refers to not taking advantage of a brother in business dealings. In those days, women had no involvement in business dealings. What makes it all rather amusing is that, some years ago, the Canadian Bishops prepared a new Lectionary making use of the NRSV. Initially, this was approved by Rome, but then, after learned study, Rome changed its mind and ruled that a translation which made use of gender neutral language did not comply with the norms for Biblical translation set by Rome, so no other Bishops’ Conferences would be permitted to make use of the NRSV. So, the English Bishops found a simple way around this - instead of using the NRSV, they used the ESV (which is a correct and accurate translation which does not make use of gender neutral language) and altered it to correspond with the renderings found in the NRSV. Brilliant! Rome has been successfully defied and, these days, there is no longer anyone at Rome who takes the slightest interest in these matters. However, it is rather comic that, having been advised by the English Hierarchy that we must abandon the Jerusalem translation in favour of one which is a more accurate, literal, word for word rendering of the original languages, we now have the new Lectionary including an inaccurate translation - while the old Lectionary, using the Jerusalem translation, actually gets it right! Such fun!

I have. The CTS New Sunday Missal: People’s Edition. I don’t know if your of Rome? As you publish books for both the Anglican and Catholic communities that being the Catholic Church and Anglican Community as the CofE has abandoned the traditional and fundamental use of the term Church. I have to say I’m not a massive fan of that stole. 😬

This is gross. We need tradition, not this nonsense

Happy Feast of the Cristo Rey! Thank you once more, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Natalie (bundled well against the cold!) and Rachel for this beautiful Garden Mass on such cold weather, vapours from the mouth as you speak. I enjoyed Fr. Denis' memories of his first days in the seminary, especially going home after a year in a trilby hat and a large Roman collar! Thank you for reminding us that each day is an interview, and that we are questioned about our attitude and behavior, so that salvation is worked out, day by day, for a place of honor in heaven. Thank you too, for the poem by my favourite poet Carol Ann Duffy, "Pilate's Wife," with such a different take on the execution and crucifixion of Jesus.

What is that sole's Liturgical color?

Thank you Fr Denis for blessing my New Sunday Missal received yesterday 🙏

God Bless thank you for this service

Just received mine! It looks lovely. Father Denis, thank you for blessing the missals.That was a wonderful idea! Joyce Pomfret

My beautiful Missal has arrived. How lovely to know it has been blessed and thank you for producing the Missal and sharing the blessing with us.

My beautiful missal arrived safely yesterday. Will treasure it for years to come. The blessing is certainly and added bonus🙏

Received mine. The new missal is a work of art. Thank you all for your hard work. Special congratulations to Fr Denis. God bless you all.

I received mine today. What a beautiful missal! Thank you for blessing them. God bless 🙏

Thank you….blessings to all. Fr GG

Thank you for blessing the new missals, Fr Denis. Really looking forward to receiving mine. 🙏🏻

Have started going to mass locally since Steve died, but I miss this Community and try to watch whenever I can. It is the fallback and I feel Steve with me as you share the mass with us. I miss the comments at the end, the sudden understanding when Steve suddenly got something that he’d struggled with. I’m told life goes on, there is just a big gap in my life.

Everyone is bundled up and vapor seems to be hanging in the air! Very soon, everyone will be indoors again. Thank you once more, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Eliana and Natalie for this beautiful autumnal Garden Mass. Missing Cosmo, Giselle and Paul.. Thank you, Fr. Denis, for the heart-warming homily on the apocalypse, which was painted as a cosmic upheaval, a suffering, until Jesus came, because He sees peace beyond all suffering, all chaos. We are thus given hope with this version of a future joy with Him, and not to despair but to hold fast. This should be enough for us. Love the antiques on the altar, especially the small bishop figurine. And of course the garden ---the fiery blooms of the Chinese lanterns are so eye-catching!. Thank you as well for introducing us to Valsa George, and her poem, "Apocalypse." P.S. May I make a suggestion? Why not put the heavy box (4 years and 8 months' worth!) of heavy petition letters on a base with small caster wheels so Fr. Denis can easily pull them in and out and does not need to exert his bicep and tricep muscles so much whilst moving it across the altar?

Thank you so much Fr. Denis and thank you to Alessandro for the beautiful filming. Loved the cheeky little robin listening in. Thank you to Natalie and Eliana who read so well. The Garden mass is an oasis of calm and hope in these turbulent times.

Thank you so much Fr. Denis,and thanks to Alessandro, Natalie and Eliana for bringing us this lovely Garden Mass. Please don't get too cold. We need you to stay healthy. The mass is an oasis of calm and hope for all of us. May God bless us all.

Homely so good, and encouraging ,❤❤❤😊

Congratularions to Giselle, Paul and Cosmo for the arrival of baby Kallisto Theodore Roland! Rejoicing with everyone for such happy news! Thank you again, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Eliana and Natalie, for this Garden Mass on Remembrance Day. We remember the fallen, those who have given their lives so that we may have peace. Thank you too for the thought-provoking homily, on how we should not give out of our abundance, but from our own substance, "to toil and not seek for rest." Thank you as well, for W. Owen's poem. "Dulce et Decorum Est," although I remember most, after seeing the red poppies, one of my favorite poems by Dr. John McCrae: "In Flander's fields/ the poppies blow/ Between the crosses/ row on row..." P.S. The provenance of the leather saddle bags and the leather tube for messages is so heart-warming!

Wonderful & divine Mass as always.Thank you dear Fr.❤ 🎉Congratulations! dear Cosmo, Paul & Giselle..absolutely thrilled to hear the lovely news... super busy days ahead for the big bro.Thank you All for making this feel of belonging so very special.God bless you all abundantly.❤

A beautiful Mass for Remembrance Day, Fr Denis. The holy table looked wonderful (as usual). Coincidentally, I've just been watching the film "Benediction" featuring the life of Siegfried Sassoon and his friendship with Wilfred Owen.

Congratulations to Giselle, Paul and Cosmo! The Garden Mass should be even more interesting going forward! Lovely to see Natalie and Eliana.

With grateful thanks. God bless you all….Fr G South Africa

Thanks as always Father Denis to you and your mass team for this wondrful mass. I attend a vigil mass on Saturdays and am part of the music group there. The music takes up part of my attention so it's good to be able to give you and your team my full attention when I watch you online (mind you, I'm sure it still wanders then too😅).

The Garden Mass looks so mysterious in the half-dark, candles flickering in the soft wind! Thank you once more, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Paul and Giselle and adorable Cosmo, for this weekly sanctuary which I am attending here in Samarkand, with the call to prayers from the nearby mosque filling the air. Thank you for the questions you posed, Fr. Denis, something we need to think about, this week: What is the governing law of your life? Active love of neighbor means the love of God. Like the old man stung to death by the scorpion, Jesus' love for us is this way: dying for us and our salvation. I wept after listening to the letter about the very sensitive young boy Andrew; thank you for sharing this with us. And for the beautiful love poem of my favorite poet, Adrienne Rich.

Thank you Fr Denis and mass team for another wonderful mass. I’m watching this in Spain and it is now thundering and lightning, hopefully it will not progress into anything more than a storm. God bless you all.

Thank you to all of the wonderful Garden Mass team for another thought provoking mass. As I live in the UK I shouldn't have been surprised that it was dark for this week's mass, but I was! May God bless all who watch this mass.

Did you advise him to put in all that feminist bullshit too?

Thank You so much for another wonderful Mass,Blesses

Until last week it had been a while since I attended the Garden Mass. I can see I have missed a lot! Thank you again for the beautiful prayers, music, poetry and colour. I almost cheered aloud at the end of the homily last week - powerful and important words. Go raibh maith agaibh/thank you.

Thank you once more, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Paul, Giselle and just-awakened Cosmo, for this Garden Mass, heard here in Tashkent, Uzbekistán, under a pomegranate tree heavy with fruit. Am here for a 2-week poetry and writing residency. Thank you for the homily, emphasizing that we need to say our needs aloud to the Lord, let our lamentations be heard like the blind man, because we believe in a God that listens. Loss of language is a loss of prayer. Thank you too for the beautiful autumnal atmosphere of "mellow fruitfulness" and the piercing poem of Tony Harrison, "Long Distance II." Oh, how well we know the "disconnected number I still call."

Thank you to all of the mass team, Cosma who was so good , Fr. Denis and the wonderful Mungo singers for reminding us to keep calm and trust in the love of God. These are very scary times and we need to trust that God will not forsake us.

The Autumn Colour's look Amazing in the garden . Always look forward Blessed and Thankful for This Mass. 🙏🏻