Just a lovely, lovely hour on a Saturday morning with Adoration and Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament,
and available to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation, a time of grace and peace.
Time is flying by, but thanks be to God for Holy Week and Easter. It is a loss to see the Garden of Remembrance installed at the Altar sliding away. So our greatest care is the Ascension with Jesus returning to His true place in our Fathers House in Heaven. As these signs and symbols of a great season move on, it is essential that we focus upon this time; the most important time in the whole year. The words of Jesus; ‘It is good for you that I should go back to the father, because when I go I will send you the Holy Spirit’. Good preparation to celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit, must be the most important thing for all of us.
Then down the road is my Golden Jubilee year. I look forward to its celebration. The date chosen has been the second Sunday in July, which is the 14th. Most important to it will be our return to the sponsored walk which got off again to a good start last year. As we have two churches making up our parish community it is essential that both should celebrate the occasion and have a positive energetic experience. An experience of grace, good stories to tell, an achievement to remember and so the emphasis is on all that can be done together now that in the near future there will be a real shortage of priests. God willing I am hoping to soldier on for a time.