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Dear friends, What an encouraging beginning it was to this holy season of Lent, with such a heartening number (52) present in church on Ash Wednesday: this was excellent relative not only to the previous year (+50%), but [...]

Dear friends, Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the forty-day fast of Lent - and (depending on when you open this e-mail!) you may still just about be in time to come to Mass this morning at [...]

Dear friends, Rather remarkably, Lent is now almost upon us - beginning next week on Ash Wednesday, 14 February, when there will be Masses with the Imposition of Ashes at 9.30am and 6pm. Ash Wednesday is a day [...]

Dear friends, Somewhat to our surprise, but much to our delight, this parish ended 2023 with a modest budget surplus. Your parish officers and PCC have worked hard to turn around the previous year's (effective) deficit - and [...]

Dear friends, 'Come, ring out our joy to the Lord, / hail the rock who saves us': these words, from this Sunday's responsorial psalm, express the essence of worship, which is premised upon praise and gratitude. I look [...]

Dear friends, As well as bearing the rather prosaic name of the "Third Sunday in Ordinary Time", this coming Sunday is also the "Sunday of the Word of God", as well as the Sunday within the Octave of [...]