Services this summer

Starting this week and until the end of August, mass will be at the following times:

Sundays at 8am (said) and at 10am (sung)
Tuesdays at 7.30pm (said)
Wednesdays at 10.30am (said, with hymns) - followed by coffee and biscuits


Diary dates:

Tuesday 7th August: Healing mass with anointing and laying on of hands at 7.30pm
Sunday 12th August: Patronal Festival (St Laurence)
Saturday 25th August: Parish barbeque - tickets on sale now from Mothers' Union members!

Services this week

Sunday 22nd July - Dedication Festival (our 39th birthday on the present site!). Said mass at 8am, sung mass at 10am.

Weekdays: said mass at the following times -
Monday 23rd - 7.30am (S Bridget)
Tuesday 24th - 7.30pm
Wednesday 25th - 10.30am S JAMES (followed by coffee and biscuits)
Thursday 26th - 9.30am (S Joachim & Anne)
Friday 27th - 6.30pm

St Benedict

We celebrated the feast day of St Benedict this week, who is widely regarded as the father of western monasticism. It just so happened that I was away a few days ago and visited the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire (and also the gift shop, and tea shop of course!). You can read about Benedict and how the monks live here: Prinknash Abbey