Tidying the church grounds

CAFOD Family Fast Day Friday 4th October 2024 This year CAFOD are using a ‘virtual envelope’ to collect any money raised for their Family Fast Day Appeal. Please click the link below to make a donation. https://cafod.org.uk/fundraise/parish-fundraising?form=harvestcollection2024

For the next five weekends, (or to put it another way, for the rest of the school holidays) the Gospel reading comes from Chapter 6 of John. It is close to the Jewish Feast of Passover as Jesus feeds a multitude of people, a miracle that recalls God feeding Israel with manna in the wilderness….

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…

May everyone receive the blessings of Jesus Christ, find peace of mind and heart and have a joyful Christmas and grace to embrace a New Year. Thank you to everyone for all that you do to help with the mission of our parish communities to serve God, each other and our neighbour in His name….

The month of November begins with All Saints Day on the first day. It was known in the past as All Hallows and the eve of All Hallows became known as Halloween. So instead of witches and ghosts the original purpose of Halloween was to mark the evening as the eve before celebrating our saints…