SECOND SUNDAY OF YEAR
Friday, 15 January 2021 20:24The weeks after Epiphany and after Pentecost are styled ‘Ordinary Time’, characterised by the use of green vestments, and on Sundays take us through the public ministry of Our Lord covering each of the ‘Synoptic’ Gospels over three years. Year 2...
SUNDAY OF THE WORD OF GOD: ONLINE CONFERENCE
Friday, 15 January 2021 20:08To prepare for the second Sunday of the Word of God, which falls on January 24th 2021, the Catholic Biblical Federation has organised an online conference with participation from all over Europe. The Conference will take place at 5 pm London time...
OCTAVE OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
Friday, 15 January 2021 19:56This runs 18th-25th January. These dates were chosen because the former was formerly the Feast of the Chair of St Peter at Rome and the latter is still that of the Conversion of St Paul (when not displaced by the Sunday). This year it is not...
BRAINTREE AREA FOODBANK
Friday, 15 January 2021 19:43Provides a minimum of three days’ emergency food and support to local people experiencing crisis. We are currently looking for the following volunteers who will help play a crucial role in the running of the foodbank, from collecting and sorting...
PRAYER LIST
Friday, 15 January 2021 19:38Please contact Father Gordon or (Pat Richardson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) if you would like to add a name to the weekly prayer list. Please also advise when circumstances change, so the list can be kept up to date.
BAPTISM OF THE LORD
Saturday, 09 January 2021 16:04Each of the Evangelists in his own way attests to the importance of Jesus’ baptism. It is the outward manifestation of his mission. Jesus accepts this outward sign, although in no need of cleansing, so that the Father may send down the Holy...
GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE ON PLACES OF WORSHIP
Saturday, 09 January 2021 15:46Communal worship and life events - You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship, a funeral or event related to a death, a burial ground or a remembrance garden, or to attend a wedding ceremony. You should follow...
WHITE FLOWER COLLECTION FOR SPUC
Saturday, 09 January 2021 15:42This is normally taken at this time of year. Since they do not provide special envelopes and we cannot easily take a separate collection. I suggest that if you wish to support their work then you place an offering in a plain envelope and mark it...
RESPOND TO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CONSULTATION TO STOP HOME ABORTIONS
Saturday, 09 January 2021 15:37The Department of Health is holding a public consultation on whether to continue the practice of allowing abortion providers to send abortion pills to women so that they can perform their own abortion at home. We need as many pro-life people as...
AUSTEN IVEREIGH LIVESTREAM EVENT
Saturday, 09 January 2021 15:32On Saturday 30th January from 11.00 a.m. until 12.30 p.m. Dr Austen Ivereigh will speak about the book he recently co-authored with Pope Francis. ‘Let us Dream’ presents the Pope’s vision for the post-pandemic future. How should we move forward...
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER THE NATIVITY
Friday, 01 January 2021 13:46“Our hope is in God, not in the sense of a generic religiosity or a fatalism cloaked in faith. We trust in God who revealed completely and definitively in Jesus Christ his desire to be with human beings, to share in our history, to guide us all to...
EPIPHANY
Friday, 01 January 2021 01:51The twelve days of Christmas do not wind down but reach their climax with the Feast of the Epiphany. It marks the revealing of God’s presence among us to the whole of humanity represented by the Wise Men. This beginning will unfold, once the...
