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Weekly Mass: 29th May – 6th June
Throughout the Pandemic all Masses will take place in the parish church of St Richard of Chichester, Buntingford.
The obligation to attend Mass remains suspended. Please see the Coronavirus page for more details.
Saturday 29th May: Vigil Mass of the Most Holy Trinity
- 6.00pm: Buntingford
Sunday 30th May: Most Holy Trinity
- 9.15am: Buntingford
- 11.00am: Buntingford
Tuesday 1st June: St Justin, Martyr
- 9.30am: Buntingford
Thursday 3rd June: St Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs
- 9.30am: Buntingford
Friday 4th June: Feria
- 9.30am: Buntingford
- 10.00am: Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Saturday 5th June: Vigil Mass of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
- 6.00pm: Buntingford
Sunday 6th June: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
- 9.15am: Buntingford
- 11.00am: Buntingford
The readings for Mass can be found every day on the ‘Universalis’ website.
Some churches in our diocese stream Mass online, you may be able to watch one of these during this time.
A warm Welcome to you if today is your first time to attend Mass since the easing of the lock-down. Our church is planned in a COVID-safe manner. Thank you in anticipation for adhering to the safe measures in place – maintaining safe distancing and hygiene.
Sacrament of Confession
- In these exceptional times confession is by appointment and will be held at Buntingford.
Parish Office Hours
- Please consider using the email or telephone for office matters. While we must all support each other in these times, we must also try and do our part in lessening the spread of the this disease.
Attending Mass during the pandemic – while the church remains open for public Mass during this time, please keep in mind that anyone who has any symptoms of the coronavirus is expected to stay at home and follow the government guideline. Doing so is for the good of all and speedier resolution. Also those who attend has to remain in the seat until the end of Mass.
Offertory Collection
- Many Thanks to all those who have maintained regular parish offering through Standing Order, loose plate or cheque and to those who wrote a cheque covering the time we were in lockdown.
- Setting Up A New Standing Order: If you are setting up a Standing Order or donating online for the first time, please note that a new Confirmation of Payee service has been rolled out for additional security reasons.
- Although no changes have been made to the name of our parish bank account, you would be required to use the full name of the parish account set below when setting up a new payment instruction. In other words, the full meaning of the abbreviation WRCDT has to be used.
| Account name: Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee Old Hall Green and Puckeridge Parish |
Account name: Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee Buntingford Parish |
|---|---|
| Account Number: 91270044 |
Account Number: 51308610 |
| Sort Code 40-05-20 | Sort Code 40-05-20 |
Fr Cyril Chiaha Writes:
The Feast of the Holy Trinity calls to mind the endless love and relationship in the Triune God. It is a feast that is more than a concept or doctrine, as it informs us of the composition of love dwelling in the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit; each dwelling in the other by virtue of an unceasing movement of mutual love.
The background to the thinking about the Triune God is much more of a Scriptural experience even though its doctrinal formulation emerged from the Ecumenical Councils of the first four centuries.
The Old Testament provides the understanding that God reveals Himself progressively under different names to His people. The New Testament is also replete with the threefold experience of the personal God, whose love cannot be contained; whose love flows beyond the Triune life.
This understanding of God’s love reaching out is much expressed not only in the creation of all things, but also in the incarnation, as well as, in Jesus’ invitation to all to participate in God’s life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life” (John 3.16).
Today’s feast invites us to participate in God’s life, to live a life of love, vulnerability, openness to another, selfless-giving, and participating in the life of the other in a way that the other is considered in one’s own scheme of affairs. Unfortunately, some people in the world neither recognise nor reward this kind of life.
As we mark this feast, may we remind ourselves that one is most authentically one’s self when we participate in the divine life, as it is the truest pattern of whom we are and how we are to live. May we also pray for the rekindling of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, as without God’s Spirit each of us will be unable to produce fruitful lives that reflect the desires of God. Have a blessed week!