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Dear Parishioners The Vigil Mass on Saturday 13th November at 6.pm in the evening will be for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. On Sunday 14thNovember we keep Remembrance Sunday and our parish Mass at 9.30 a.m. will be a Requiem Mass in anniversario for all who died in the past two World Wars and all subsequent conflicts since. […]

Dear Parishioners The poor widow in today’s Gospel reading could hardly have ever dreamed that her trip to the Temple that day would be remembered by Christians for centuries to come. This brief episode has many contrasts that carry important truths for us today. One contrast is between the widow, who gave little, and the […]

Dear Parishioners A reminder that the clocks go back an hour this Sunday, 31st October, which will allow everyone hopefully an extra hour in bed!  At all the Sunday Masses this weekend we keep the great Solemnity of All Saints. On this great solemnity we are reminded that holiness comes in all shapes and sizes. The saints were […]

Dear Parishioners We welcome Bishop Patrick to St. Mary’s again this Sunday, 24th October, to celebrate our 9.30 am Mass and to admit Andrew to Candidacy. We pray for Andrew as he takes this important next step on his journey of vocation. Candidacy is the official moment from the Church’s perspective when She accepts a candidate for Holy […]

Dear Parishioners The next few weeks continue to be very busy within the parish, the following are a few reminders for the coming weeks. Last Sunday Pope Francis launched the world-wide Synodal Process in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and this weekend sees the launch of the Synodal Process throughout all the diocese’ of the […]

Dear Parishioners This Sunday is Prisoner’s Sunday. The day in which the Church marks the start of the Ecumenical Prisons Week, a week of prayer which has been raising awareness for some years now of the issues faced by those affected by the criminal justice system. We pray for the needs of all who have been […]

Dear Parishioners It has been another very busy week of getting accustomed to life in the parish and all the many practicalities involved, making sick calls to the sick and the housebound and meeting new faces during my weeks work, along with a couple of funerals too.  This week on Friday 8th October we shall welcome Bishop Patrick […]

Dear Parishioners It has been another very busy week of getting accustomed to life in the parish and all the many practicalities involved, making sick calls to the dying and the housebound and meeting many people from within the wider community of Grantham. This week has also given me the chance to get to know […]

Dear Parishioners It has been another very busy week of getting accustomed to life in the parish and the wider community, with house calls to the sick and dying, a chance to meet with the other clergy of the deanery, meetings in Nottingham, and a many practical things to sort and organise within the parish […]

Dear Parishioners Another week has past and little by little I am starting to find my feet. At times it seems one step forward, and one step backwards! But I have enjoyed immensely starting to get to know individual members of the parish and being a part during this past week of the preparations for […]