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Dear Parishioners At all our Sunday Masses this weekend there will be a Diocesan Second Collection as you leave church for The Sick and Retired Priests Fund. On the weekend 28th/29th January we will have a retiring collection for the work of SPUC and the White Flower Appeal 2023. The Society for the Protection of Unborn children (SPUC) are currently campaigning to protect Pro-Life speech. […]

Dear Parishioners This weekend we keep the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord which marks the end of the liturgical season of Christmas. But what is this moment of Jesus being baptised by John in the river Jordan really all about? The Baptism of Jesus is part of His epiphany which we celebrated last […]

Dear Parishioners May I take this opportunity of wishing each of you a very Happy Christmas and to thank you for the many kind gifts, generous Christmas offerings and beautiful Christmas cards and messages already received by me. This year we are having just one Weekly Bulletin to span the Christmas period from Christmas Day […]

Dear Parishioners On the fourth Sunday of Advent, we meditate on the peace that Jesus brings to our hearts and lives and to our broken and fractured world. On this Sunday, we light the final purple candle to mark the final week of prayer and penance as we wait with joy the birth of our Saviour at Christmas. […]

Dear Parishioners This Sunday is the 3rd Sunday of Advent – Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete, is the Latin word which means “rejoice,” and is taken from the entrance antiphon for this Sunday’s Mass. Today we are reminded that Christmas draws ever closer, and we are at the mid-point of our Advent journey, and so today we are given the […]

Dear Parishioners We continue our journey through the season of Advent, a chance to renew our relationship with God and with each other and as we prepare to receive the precious gift of God’s love coming amongst us through the birth of His Son at Christmas. Part of our preparation should be to renew our relationship with […]

Dear Parishioners Admission to the Guild of St Stephen: This Sunday – 1st Sunday of Advent – at the 9.30 am Mass I shall admit two of our young servers into the Guild of St Stephen. We shall do this in a simple ceremony towards the end of Mass, just before the Final Blessing. We are greatly blessed […]

Dear Parishioners This weekend we keep the great Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. We honour the Lord Jesus Christ today as King whose Kingdom is eternal in time, universal in scope, yet very personal in power. To speak of Christ as Universal King is, among many other things, to be reminded […]

Dear Parishioners Changes to Mass Times this week: On Friday 18th November I will offer the Funeral Mass for Barbara Fiorentino at 11am this will replace the normal 9.30 am Mass that day. Remembrance Sunday: This Sunday 13th November we keep Remembrance Sunday and the 9.30 am Mass this Sunday will be a Requiem Mass in anniversario for all who died during the past […]

Dear Parishioners November is now upon us, the month of the Holy Souls’, and this Sunday 6th November, at 2 pm we shall have the yearly Blessing of Catholic Graves. I invite you to come to Grantham cemetery and to meet me at the stone archway as you enter the main cemetery gates. Changes to Mass Times this week: From Monday 7th November […]