A message from Fr John

Dear Friends

I wonder if we might have a slight change of routine today. Can we please have Mass at 5.00pm rather than 12.00pm and rather than have an eastertide Mass let us pray instead for all those who have died.

As you know our funerals these days are very limited - especially because we cannot have a requiem Mass and the number of mourners allowed to be present are few. I have promised the grieving families that we will, in time, have a memorial Mass but I think we might remember them now.

We continue to pray for all those who are caring for and supporting those who are sick and all those who are on the front line in any way.
We pray for Evelyn, Winnie C., Mary, Patrick, Michael and Adela who are sick.
We pray for all those who have died: Roy, Alf, Malcolm, Elsie, Matthew, Stella, Chris, Kenneth, Carol Ann, Ingeburg, Winnie Y., Patricia M., Eileen, Maureen, Joan, Frank, Robert, Cecilia - we pray for the comfort of all those who mourn.
We pray today especially for Roy whose funeral we will celebrate at Agecroft at 10.20

Today is the feast day of St Anselm - a man acquainted with exile. One of his prayers might help us through lockdown:

Come now, little man, turn aside from your daily employment, escape for a moment from the tumult of your thoughts. Put aside your weighty cares, let your burdensome distractions wait, free yourself a while for God and rest awhile in him.

Dear St Joseph, pray for us

Every blessing

Fr John
PS daffodils won
How about - snow drops or crocus?