Happy Easter
Fr Brian, Fr Jim, and the Salesian community would like to wish all out Parishioners a very Happy Easter. May the Risen Lord bless your families and grant us all a swift return to normality very soon!
A Big Thank you
After a full year of restricted Church Services, I would like to thank our group of Stewards who have faithfully monitored the numbers for each Service and cleaned the Church after each Service has taken place.
They have kept us safe and allowed us to continue to have Mass when other places have closed. A big Thank You to them for their generosity.
Gift Aid
If anyone would like to join the Gift Aid scheme or would like an offertory envelope, please see Bob.
Excerpts from the Archbishop’s Easter message
For over a year now we have been living under the darkness of the pandemic. Just as the light of the Risen Christ is always with us, so is the light offered to us by the heroes of our NHS, carers and all who have worked to keep the country going.
Easter is a time of reawakening and this year our country is approaching our own reawakening. Towns and cities have been quiet but are slowly coming back to life. We are seeing hope through the vaccine developed through the gifts of science, giving us hope for a better and safer future.
There have been times of grief, loss, doubt and despair during the dark days and we hold in prayer all who have suffered. We bring those times to our celebration of the resurrection which begins in darkness in our churches with the lighting of the Easter Candle symbolising the risen Christ. A life-giving light overcoming the darkness, bringing healing to a broken world.
Just as the lives of Mary Magdalen and the disciples were transformed on the first Easter morning so, too, our lives may be transformed as we embrace the light of the Risen Lord who sheds his peace on all humanity.