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
Free Wellbeing Course for Women—A free six-week course for a happier and more relaxed you. Starting for six weekly sessions from Monday 28th October 6-7pm online. Join us to explore: Emotional Self-care – Emotional self-care allows us to take time for the benefit of our health and well-being. Thinking about putting your own needs first – building your resilience….
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…
I always enjoy parish life in the month of September. It is the start of new experiences and opportunities after the summer rest. A new beginning of explorations into what our faith is about and introducing people to the different ways they can become involved in the life of the parish. There will be…
Care of Creation – Pope Francis has established the 1st September as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, encouraging the Catholic community around the world to pray for our common home. In his landmark encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ the Pope calls on everyone to care for our shared Earth. The theme for…
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…
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….
St Thomas Patron of India The Kerala tradition links St Thomas with certain families and foundation of churches. The area had trade links with Jews, Arabs, Babylonians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Chinese and Romans that went back to a time before the birth of Jesus Christ. Pepper, known as black gold was the main commodity exported…
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…
There are two things to remember about this mystery. First, in a very real way, Jesus’ ascension into heaven is the goal for each one of us. He goes before us, and we are to follow Him there. In the Ascension, the domain of God’s glory is opened to us, and Jesus, in His glorified…