Sacramental Programme 2021-2022
Our Lady’s and St Gerard’s Parish Sacramental Programme 2021-2022 – Any child (aged 7 or over, or who is in year 3 from September) and is BAPTISED ROMAN CATHOLIC will be eligible for the Parish Sacramental programme for 2021-22 to be prepared for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Communion. If you want to enrol […]
Weekly News 11/07/2021
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Again it is prophecy that is our theme (see last week). Here, we concentrate on the sending of prophets, the entrusting of the mission to them, and most importantly the necessary qualifications to be a prophet. The only qualification necessary is an open ear, to hear the […]
Weekly News 04/07/2021
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B A prophet’s job is to open people’s eyes to the reality of their situation pointing out to them the things they would rather forget or ignore. A prophet is a sort of “national conscience”, always awake to situations of injustice and always speaking out about them. A […]
News and Views July 2021
News & Views July 2021 First Holy Communion – The Children in the Sacramental programme will have their First Holy Communion during July. Due to current restrictions the two masses will be for their families only. Thanks are due to the parents and Catechists who this year have been having classes over zoom and a […]
Weekly News 27/06/2021
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Today we are invited to marvel at one of the most dramatic and amazing of the Lord’s miracles the raising back to life of the daughter of Jairus. The story is told with a level of emotional realism: the calm faith but dreadful fear of Jairus, the […]
Weekly News 20/06/2021
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B There is a strangely simple theme to this Sunday: that God has power over the forces of nature, because he created them in the first place. This is what the first reading tells us, and also what the gospel shows us, when Jesus “rebukes the wind”. This […]
Parish Safeguarding Audit – Survey
Parish Resource Audit Parishes are central to the mission and life of the church. This is lived out in practice by the many ministries and activities which take place in parishes e.g., sacramental programmes, children’s liturgy, youth work, public worship, outreach to the sick and housebound, pastoral care of many vulnerable people and social events […]
Weekly News 13/06/2021
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B The key to today’s readings is the word “Covenant”. A Covenant is a solemn and binding agreement between two parties, which establishes the way in which each party will behave towards the other. It establishes rights and duties, and forges a new relationship between two people or […]
Weekly News 06/06/2021
THE MOST HOLY BODY & BLOOD OF CHRIST The key to today’s readings is the word “Covenant”. A Covenant is a solemn and binding agreement between two parties, which establishes the way in which each party will behave towards the other. It establishes rights and duties, and forges a new relationship between two people or […]
News & Views June 2021
News & Views June 2021 Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – The Month of June is traditionally dedicated to the Sacred Heart. The Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the Friday following the second Sunday after Pentecost. In addition to the liturgical celebration, many devotional exercises are connected […]