Mass Times
Sunday: 9am, 10:30am, 6pm
Vigil Mass: Saturday 8:15pm with NeoCatechumenal communities
Mon & Wed: 9:30am
Tues & Thur: 9:00am
Friday: 7:00pm
Saturday: 12:30pm
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Saturday 11:30am-12:30pm
Confession: Saturday 11:30am-12:15 and on request
Getting Here
By Bus
Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church is on the following Bus Routes: 25, 205. Get off at Mile End Tube Station or Regents Canal Stop.
By Underground
The parish of Guardian Angels is close to Mile End Underground Tube Station which is on the Central Line.
Note that car parking is very limited and subject to time restrictions.
PERSEVERANCE IN PRAYEREASTER= 40 Days of Lent + Three Days of Passover + 50 Days of Rejoicing Are you rejoicing in these 50 days? Do you feel you have anything to rejoice about? Has Christ passed by and stopped at your house this Easter? With Pentecost, Easter is completed. Our sins are forgiven, and with the forgiveness of our sins there is nothing – no obstacle - which prevents us from receiving the most precious gift of God – the Holy Spirit - all we have to do is ask for it. Why not join the church in its intense prayer of these 50 days, in its intense longing for this most precious of God’s gifts. Pick up your rosary, the psalms, your devotions and ask – you shall receive – Christ promises! Pentecost was the time in which the Jews celebrated the giving of the Torah, the 10 commandments, on Mount Sinai. The time when God came to Israel, as the bridegroom to the bride, and married her forever – it was not simply a giving of a few rules or a code of conduct, a few pointers how to live, but a joyous marriage, one which endures until today. According to one Rabbinic tradition before God gave Israel the two stone tablets, before he married Israel at Mount Sinai forever, God desired that the one he was marrying should be beautiful and perfect in every way. So God descended from Mount Sinai and moved among the people of Israel, healing all their sicknesses, pouring oil on all their wounds, preparing his bride so that when he took her to himself she would be beautiful with a beauty which was perfect. After 425 years of slavery in Egypt, the people of Israel, were anything but beautiful, a broken, dejected people. At Mount Sinai God wrote on stone tablets with his finger, now the Holy Spirit, called by the church the ‘finger of the hand of God’, comes to write God’s law on the heart of man himself, reaching right into the centre of our being, right into our subconscious, into the deepest part of our spirit - forming in us a new heart, a new spirit.
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DO YOU HAVE A VOCATIONDo you have a vocation? A calling from God? Of course you do! But one thing is certain: You do NOT have a vocation to be UN-married. To be un-married is a non-vocation. Whoever you are, this is not your vocation. God does not call anyone to be UN-married. In Christianity there are only two basic vocations, both positive: Marriage or Celibacy. The married are not un-celibate. The celibates are not un-married. In the Church there are no bachelors, and there are no spinsters. And no one is ever called to be half-married, or half-celibate! Each one of us has to work out the mystery of God's will for us. Mystery does not mean something we cannot understand. Mystery simply means "plan". We have to discover God's plan for our lives. God's plan for most of us is very clear: that we should marry and have a family. In fact, a Christian needs a good reason, a positive reason, NOT to be married. But God's plan for some is that they should remain "single" and lead a life of celibacy or virginity. Those who remain single are not failed people who unfortunately could not find anyone to marry! Single people are called by God to lead chaste lives and witness to God's love and beauty. Single people can express their love and service in many generous and even heroic ways. This is also true for those who because of their sexual orientation cannot marry. In the fact of their homosexuality is a call from God, a positive call, to lead a chaste life, with chaste love and friendships. Only the grace of God can make such a life possible: the same grace of God that makes fidelity in marriage possible; and fidelity to the religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
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