A message from Fr John

Dear Friends

Good morning

Did you enjoy the poem about Manchester? Today’s offering is rather different.

As we are all learning to pray in different ways - Countryfile on BBC1 yesterday was interesting - and developing the more contemplative side of our relationship with God, I thought this little piece from Dom Paul Delotte of Solesmes might help.

'We are ‘the Lord’. Each one of us must be a new edition of the life the Lord, and not only in the sense that our actions must be conformed to those of the Lord himself, but in the sense the life of our Lord must be active within us. There must come to pass in us what was in the Lord, whose whole nature was in the grip of the Word. Everything in us must be brought into unity in our Lord Jesus Christ; for what is the living and active principle, the unique agent, that sets everything in motion and applies it to the task? It is he.'

Or, as we have already seen, St Therese of Lisieux puts it very simply:

'For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.'

Stick with it!

St Joseph, pray for us

Every blessing

Fr John

Today: Mass on Zoom at 12.00pm and Exposition on Zoom at 5.00pm