Category: Uncategorized

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parish Notices X IMPORTANT: Could the person making a donation under B+M please contact Susan in the office at stephendaleroad@rcdow.org.uk X FIRST HOLY COMMUNION PARENTS MEETING: On Sunday 19th November at 10am there will be our First parent’s meeting. Please it is important to attend this meeting. Thank You. X SICK & RETIRED PRIESTS’ FUND […]

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parish Notices X IMPORTANT: Could the person making a donation under B+M please contact Susan in the office at stephendaleroad@rcdow.org.uk X SICK & RETIRED PRIESTS’ FUND COLLECTION: Our Second collection Today will be in support of the Sick & Retired Priests’ Fund. Most priests offer their resignation as a parish priest at the age of […]

Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parish Notices X BAPTISM: If you are thinking to have your child Baptised at Our Lady’s or elsewhere who will need to arrange a meeting with the Parish Priest as soon as you can. Thank You! X FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 23/24: Registration for the First Holy Communion is now Closed. X MISSIO: Missio Sunday is […]

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Jesus Christ, On 23rd September every year is the feast of Saint Pio of Pietralcina, better known as PADRE PIO. He died on this day in 1968, more than fifty years ago. No one knows how many confessions Padre Pio heard; more and more people came to receive this sacrament […]

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Pastoral Letter for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Brothers and Sisters in Jesus Christ, Coming to church today all of us will have made the Sign of the Cross, at least once. We did so at the opening words of the Mass. Many will also have done so on entering the church, using […]

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thought of the Week – MARRIAGE UNDER SEIGE Most of us over forty were brought up to accept that sex is for marriage, and marriage is for life. Today, this understanding of sex and marriage, and family life as well, is definitely under siege. The notion that the only moral way to fully express sexual […]

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thought of the Week – “IS THERE ANYONE WHO LONGS FOR LIFE?” Saint Benedict puts these words into the mouth of the Lord, in the Prologue to his famous Rule. However, you do not have to be a Benedictine monk or nun to yearn for life. No. All of us do! It is written into […]