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Dear friends, Last week, on annual leave, I attended Sunday Mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception and St Egwin, in Evesham, Worcestershire. This parish is twinned with another parish nearby, and a process of formal amalgamation [...]

Dear friends, (Fr Richard remains on annual leave, until Tuesday, 20 January.) Each year in January Christians pray especially for the unity of the Church, and this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity resources can be found [...]

Dear friends, This weekend we will celebrate with joy the Baptism of the Lord, and also renew our own baptismal promises. Bottles of blessed water will then be available to take home, as well as blessed chalk: the formula [...]

Dear friends, Happy New Year! Yesterday, at the conclusion of Mass, we sang the Church's great and ancient hymn of praise, the Te Deum - thanking God for His goodness over the past year; today, we intoned the Veni [...]

Dear friends, Merry Christmas! This week's mailing will be understandably brief - and it begins with my thanks: thank youfor your kind cards, gifts and Christmas wishes to the clergy; and thank you for everything that so many of you [...]

Dear friends, This Sunday's Gospel reading invites us to contemplate the figure of St Joseph in the Christmas story: although no words of his (beyond the name he gives to his foster-child) are recorded in Scripture, yet his [...]