With the royal funeral, we may have almost forgotten that we have a new Prime Minister. Here are some thoughts from the late Sister Joan Chittister OSB, written probably before a US presidential election, but relevant for us now too… Give us, O God, leaders whose hearts are large enoughto match the breadth of our…

St Brigid’s Church will stay open this Saturday, 17 September, from 10am until midday. Parishioners of 3 Churches and residents from our local communities can light a candle and pray for the repose of the soul of the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Please come at any time between 10am and midday and stay for as…

In our return to some appearance of normality in the life of our 3 Churches, we put back this week a very important part of the annual timetable or, perhaps, tapestry of life. This coming Saturday (24 September) will celebrate a Mass with the Sick at 11.00am in Christ the King church. When we read…

I was born in the same month that Queen Elizabeth was crowned – June 1953. Like the majority, I cannot remember and have not experienced any other monarch. I unite my thoughts and prayers with those of Cardinal Nichols of Westminster in his statement issued on Thursday… “On 21 April 1947, on her twenty-first birthday,…