Concert Finale – Lost Chord’s Choir that Cares 5th April 2024

Prepare for Lent During Lent a 7am Wednesday morning Mass will be celebrated at the Immac-ulate Conception and the Mass at the Chapel on the Bridge in Rotherham will be celebrated on Thursdays at 12noon. Stations of the Cross will be celebrat-ed every Wednesday at St Gerard’s after the 10am Mass and at the Immacu-late…

October – The Month of the Rosary The Rosary is a meditative prayer based on scripture. When we pray the Rosary we are asking Mary to pray with us as we seek to grow closer to her Son Jesus Christ by contemplating on his life death and resurrection. There is what is called four mysteries…

We are now into the part of our liturgical year known as ‘Ordinary Time’. The word ‘ordinary’ in our common use implies something plain, unimpressive or unexciting. However, in the context of the Church’s year it means following the activities of Jesus’ public life through our Sunday worship and living our daily lives according to…

This special devotion is traditionally associated with the month of June. Mary of the Divine Heart, a member of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd received several visions of Jesus Christ during the 19th Cent. She passed on requests to Pope Leo XIII to consecrate the World to the Sacred…

Last Tuesday morning I listened to a senior police officer with 24 years of experience describe the scenes outside the Holiday Inn Express near Manvers as the most frightening encounter he had ever had. He described how the officers outside the hotel fought for the lives of the residents and staff and for each other…

The story of the encounter between the risen Christ and the two companions on the road to Emmaus shows us how Jesus patiently walks along-side them. He leads them to the clues in scripture that helps to lift their hearts in hope from the gloom they were suffering before the encounter. Jesus does not force…