Autumn has arrived, and there is a greater chance of challenging weather and road conditions striking unexpectedly. If you use the WhatsApp app, I’d like to suggest subscribing to the parish WhatsApp channel. It’s a one-way communication tool used to make last-minute announcements. You will remain anonymous.
Jubilee 2025
Pope Francis has declared that next year, 2025, will be a Holy Year in the Universal Church and that 2024 should be a year of preparation for this great Jubilee.
The idea of Jubilee has its roots in the Old Testament, with a celebration of a year of forgiveness and reconciliation. The Sabbath was the seventh day, a day of rest, and the Jubilee year was the year following seven times seven years, so the Jubilee took place every 50th year. In the tradition of the Catholic Church, we now celebrate the Jubilee every 25 years. The Holy Year of 2025 will begin at the Christmas Vigil 2024 when the Holy Father will open the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
The Uganda Appeal results!
You may remember the Emergency Uganda Appeal from a few weeks ago when we raised £650 to assist with the repairs of the severely storm-damaged church of the Mulajje Parish. Your contribution truly had a positive impact, as evidenced in the photos below. Fr Gerald sent a message of gratitude, too:
Assisted Suicide
Cut Off from Me, You Can Do Nothing
Called to Care, Not to Kill – a Pastoral Letter on Assisted Suicide
In the parable of the Vine and the Branches, Jesus teaches us that we are one community, one family and one society. We live in a world where any one of our decisions affects all of us. We are all brothers and sisters with responsibility to each other.