Month: June 2023

                     25^th June 2023   12^th  Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr. A 

                                            Sung Mass 11.00am

GOOD MORNING good people, & Welcome to the Parish Mass. How often those words have been written or said. Perhaps the word ‘parish’ isn’t heard so much. The largest parish in England is a massive 85sq miles! Somewhere in Weardale, Co. Durham, I am told. St Chad’s isn’t so big. A parish is not necessarily a Christian Area or District. It is also a civil and administrative area. Have you ever noticed the Church here does not denote either its religion or ‘denomination’ on the outside notice boards? They just give out the parish church and the Parish Mass, a name and contact details. I love that. So to each parishioner, passing through, or coming to the Sacraments, or working, or at home or can’t get out; whether they are well or ill; whatever their condition in life; we say: Good morning, good people.Do you know who used to say those words? The Mass will be celebrated for each and everyone in the parish.

Monday 26^th Feria Twelfth week of Year 1 weekdays Mass 9.00am

Tuesday 27^th St John Southworth, priest & Martyr

Wednesday 28^th   St Irenaeus, Bishop, Doctor & Martyr      Mass 10.30am

Thursday 29^th     Ss Peter & Paul Apostles     Mass 11.00am

Friday 30^th Feria

Saturday 1^st July   Feria Mass      10.30am     

12pm The Baptism of:      

Ariah Vivinnie Morrison-Springer & Asiah Monique Morrison-Springer

                                                        Sunday 2^nd July

The Thirteenth Sunday Of The Year

Parish Mass at 11.00am

Next Sunday,   9^th July, Mass will be celebrated with Fr Peter Hudson,

                                         Assistant curate at St Stephen’s Lewisham

                     18^th  June 2023   11^th Sunday in Ordinary Time YrA 

                                            Sung Mass 11.00am

What with Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity & Corpus Christi it is a bit of a relief to be back in Ordinary Time again. It is a shame they didn’t think of anything a bit more poetic than ordinary time.

These ‘green’ Sundays go on now until Advent. With a few big festival days thrown in. There an old saying, Time Flies. How true. The early church had this in mind when the first mission was sent to witness to the gospel and the Lord’s teachings.

What phrase means most to you in today’s gospel reading at Mass?  Or in the first reading from Exodus..Or St Paul to the Romans? One thing is for certain it is not the worthiness of the person that brings forth God’s love. It is the overwhelming love of God that chooses us not for anything we do, but because of the immensity of that Love.

Monday 19^th Feria

Tuesday 20^th St Alban Protomartyr

Wednesday 21^st St Aloysius                                       Mass 10.30am

Thursday 22^nd St John Fisher & St Thomas More   Martyrs

Friday 23^rd St Ethelreda (Audrey) Religious

Saturday 24th THE NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST                             Mass 10.30am     

                                                        Sunday 25^th June

The Twelfth Sunday Of The Year

Parish Mass at 11.00am