11th Ordinary Times | GARDEN MASS Redemptorist Publications | 16 June 2024

[@geraldgostling3731]

God bless all six of you - thank you for the Garden Mass, and all its grace and Joy…..

[@DenisMcBride-ey3dh]

Thank you, Fr Gerald, and every good wish for you and your community in South Africa.

[@AliceTheresa88]

Thank you once more, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Paul, Giselle, and our dynamo Cosmo (that rhymes so well!), for this beautiful Garden Mass amidst such lush leaves and flowers. The drone's view of the garden is breathtaking! Thank you for the thought-provoking homily on the parables of the sower and the mustard seed; the miracle of growth (within us especially) that takes place silently. "No instant results here," you said, we need fertile hearts and minds. May our faith grow! So we too, might find shade under the mustard tree, sharing this with "strange birds!" Thank you too, for the lovely R.S. Thomas poem, "The Kingdom." The lines "if you purge yourself/ Of desire, and present yourself with /Your need only..." resounds so well, indeed!

[@DenisMcBride-ey3dh]

Many thanks, Alice, as always for your support and encouragement. Yes, Alessandro borrowed the drone and put it to work in the garden. Like you, I think the results are splendid and you can see what a small space it is. I love populated it with different plants and colours. R.S. Thomas is sometimes criticised for being a dark brooding poet but I find his poems insightful, spare and without flummery.

[@antonytompkin1203]

Many thanks and blessings.

[@DenisMcBride-ey3dh]

Thank you, Antony, and every blessing from all of us on the Mass team.

[@carolweller1246]

Please share the address of where this meaningful holy Eucharistic celebration is televised from?? I have been faithfully following holymass since 2019 and am in love with this entire team and of course the holymass itself...gbu all...love and prayers from me and my family from Bangalore India

[@DenisMcBride-ey3dh]

Warm regards to you, Carol, in Bangalore. Some years ago I was there giving the Redemptorists a few sessions on the Gospels - a beautiful and colourful city. If you Google Redemptorist Publications you will see where we are.