Dear Parishioner, I am delighted to write to you to give you the latest update on the Synodal process. Since my last letter there has been a series of meetings between the Parish Team (me, Fr John, Fr Ashley, and Deacons Sean, Ray and Sandy, and the Office staff, Barbara
Continue readingJerry Lohan will be running an Appeal, in our parish, this weekend on behalf of Aid to the Church in Need. Aid to the Church in Need has so far donated approximately £2.75 million Euros to ensure that priests, religious sisters and brothers who have stayed behind in Ukraine will
Continue readingThe Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is a group for adults who would like to know more about the Catholic Faith; or for any adult thinking about becoming a Catholic. Most groups are parish based and we have had our own group in St Edmunds since the late 1980s.
Continue readingI think many of you are aware that having returned from the conference in Rome about which I posted details a few weeks ago I tested positive for Covid last Thursday and I am still testing positive and am isolating. Most of your clergy in this parish have had the
Continue readingEnrolment for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion is now open. All applications must be made on ChurchSuite and registration must be made from 24th June -18th July. The course starts in September and will run twice-monthly on Saturdays until the First Communions are celebrated in June 2023.
Continue readingToday is an important festival in this country – the feast of St John Fisher and St Thomas More, beheaded by King Henry VIII in 1535. Rosary 0930, Mass 1000 followed by Exposition, Mass 1800. It’s particularly special in our diocese (where the fundraising campaign for the canonisation was spearheaded
Continue readingNow that the English Bishops have ‘invited’ us back to church to fulfil our Sunday obligation it has been decided that we no longer need to recite the prayer of spiritual communion as most of us will now be present in the church and therefore able to receive communion. Those
Continue readingMany of you will remember Joseph who came to St Edmunds for a year’s work experience just six months before the first lockdown. Joseph enriched our liturgy with his wonderful music and as lockdown started he livestreamed a daily personal reflection of words and music that was picked up by
Continue readingThis is a picture of the Notre Dame University Rome Global Gateway, a centre for the American Catholic university where some American students come to study each year. I am going there for a conference later this week inaugurating a new international Consortium of Catholic Universities, as part of a
Continue readingWe now have over 450 people making their offerings to the parish electronically, either by standing order or through ChurchSuite. These payments will be from individuals, couples and families and probably cover the majority of our parishioners. Thank you to those of you who are donating in this way. We
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