A message from Fr John

Dear Friends

There’s a lot of talk and jokes these days about the ‘new normal’ and a lot of hopes expressed about more sensitive ways of working, travel and relationships. Great! Long may it continue but ..... Christians have known this for 2,000 years.

I came across a lovely resurrection prayer by Francis Brienen:
‘When the lonely find friendship, when the hurt find new loving, when the worried find peace, the stone has been rolled away.
‘When we share instead of taking, when we stroke instead of striking, when we join around the table, the stone has been rolled away.’

We are a people not just of hope but of ‘resurrection hope’ - we cannot forget that. The early Church of the Acts of the Apostles faced huge obstacles but within 30 years they had penetrated into the very heart of the greatest empire of the time not through strength of arms or money but by building loving communities based on resurrection conviction. And so.....

We pray for all those who are sick:
Evelyn, Winnie C., Mary, Patrick, Paul & Adela

And for those who have died:
Roy, Alf, Malcolm, Elsie, Matthew, Stella, Chris, Kenneth, Carol Ann, Ingeburg, Winnie Y., Patricia M., Eileen, Maureen, Joan, Frank, Robert, Lynda, Cecilia, Lourdes, John, Michael, Dale, Eileen, Michael, Graham, Maria, Andrew & Gladys
Remembering too all those who mourn them

St Joseph the Worker, pray for us

Every blessing

Fr John