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This is a FREE event in preparation for Lent. Only limited place available. Please use the link below for registration. https://payments.shalommedia.org/media_festivals/events/309

Please find more information on assisted suicide with an appeal to write to your MP to ask to vote against the Bill. https://www.cbcew.org.uk/assisted-suicide-bill-presents-cascade-of-implications-in-the-care-of-human-life/

Hello everyone, my apologies for this long message but it is important. As things stand from Thursday 5th November I will not be able to perform public ceremonies in our churches except for funerals. However the church’s are open for private prayer. I have decided that the following times will help to ensure access to the…

One of our Primary schools St Mary’s begins its RE inspection today and will end tomorrow. The school has worked hard for this moment and prepared well. Please keep the pupils, staff and inspectors in your prayers over the next 48 hours. God bless, Fr. Desmond Sexton

Last Thursday was the feast of St Benedict, born in 480 at Nursia in Umbria Italy. He organised a series of small communities of monks and nuns including the great monastery of Monte Casino. His rule of life which guided the communities proved to be wise and well balanced. The Rule of St Benedict recognised…