A message from Fr John

Dear Friends

Good morning - another lovely day is promised - please continue to stay safe

It’s in weather like this that one must surely turn to Gerard Manley Hopkins; his poem ‘Pied Beauty’ is so evocative of the wonders of God’s creation and our share in it.

Gory be to God for dappled things-
For skies of couple-colour as a branded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

Make time today to wander, to gaze and to wonder - and give thanks for all that is good and true and holy.

In our prayers we must also remember the people of Beirut in their unimaginable trauma

St Joseph, pray for us

Every Blessing

Fr John

Masses received:
Emily Louise Jones, Freda Jones, Anniversary of Ordination, Agnes Allen, Michael Shearer Snr, Bertha Hughson, Audrey Judge, Kay Machell, Keisha, People of Lebanon, Thomas McKinney, Tom Middleton