St Mary's - The Immaculate Conception is closed for much needed refurbisment. Masses will be held at St Gerards and St Bernards School. See the list on the right for locations and keep looking back at www.tpicr.co.uk for developments. For a Hebrew, ‘take the cup of salvation’ meant taking a cup of wine and pouring it out as a libation in thanksgiving for some saving deed on God’s part. In today’s responsorial psalm the psalmist tells about an imminent threat of death, about the fear and desperation with which she or he cried out for God’s intervention and about how graciously and mercifully God responded. In the closing verses the supplicant vows to make public thanksgiving so that all the people may know what God has done. Today we take the cup of salvation not to pour it out but to drink it and thereby take into ourselves the life giving grace of Christ. We do this so that our blood, our bodies may be transformed into Christ and become his living active saving presence in the world. Instead of tipping over a cup of wine in thanksgiving we are thanking God for his grace in our lives by opening our own hearts in self sacrificing love.
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