Posted: 13 April 2020
Good morning - thank you for our celebration yesterday which was so joyful and dignified. The weather has turned a little cooler - an added incentive to stay home.
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Posted: 12 April 2020
Happy Easter with much joy and many blessings. I’m sorry that our zoomed Mass collapsed - I don’t know what happened but suspect the whole country was using the internet. I’ll try another route this morning - someone has suggested I try a ‘hot spot’!
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Posted: 11 April 2020
Holy Saturday is a quiet day; after the sadness of Good Friday we await the good news of Jesus’ resurrection - that pivotal point in human history when our relationship with God and therefore with each other is redefined.
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Posted: 10 April 2020
As you know, the country is in a national emergency, the likes of which we have never experienced before. Bolton Council urgently requires staff to support our Adult Service Users in the homes and in the Community.
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Posted: 10 April 2020
Thank you to all who were able to join us on Zoom last night - it was a very special way of commemorating the Last Supper and our communion with the Body of Christ. His Body was broken so that we might be made whole - healed and forgiven.
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Posted: 09 April 2020
Good morning - blessings for this great feast of Maundy Thursday, the feast of the great mandate, the command to love and serve one another as Christ himself showed us. The Master goes on his knees to wash the feet of his disciples and in doing overturns the whole notion of who is the servant, of who serves whom.
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Posted: 08 April 2020
I hope you are keeping well and relatively sane during these hard times. Please let me know if there’s anything we can do to help individuals or families in need.
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Posted: 08 April 2020
Pope’s Holy Week message: ‘Creativity of love can overcome isolation’
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Posted: 08 April 2020
This Holy Week has certainly been unusual but it has seen parishioners around our diocese exercising their personal faith, as we follow Jesus on his journey.
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Posted: 07 April 2020
Pope Francis urges us not to lose hope during these stormy days. The exposure of our fragility is a moment for us to reassess what is important for us - ‘to get our lives back on track’.
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Posted: 06 April 2020
This is going to be a very strange Holy Week. We will celebrate the ceremonies as best we can but that vital component of sharing in church is not possible. This is a real test of faith in the hidden mysteries revealed.
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Posted: 05 April 2020
Such a lovely morning to begin our Holy Week - a week when we would normally see a great deal of each other for our wonderful liturgies.
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