St. David’s at Pantasaph 2020 - Keeping in touch

The Fifth Week of Lent

Dear parishioners,

Welcome to our second edition of ‘Keeping in touch’. I sincerely hope that this ‘modest’ webpage will serve it’s purpose of helping us all to feel still ‘in touch’!

During a short walk in the beautiful sunshine of Thursday afternoon, I took a little rest at the bench on the road from Carmel to Gorsedd, enjoying the welcome heat and relaxation as I contemplated the awesome stillness of the moment. It was quite easy to appreciate the words of the psalmist, ‘Be still and know that I am God’, even in the midst of the current Coronavirus scourge.

Hopefully some of you might find a little help and comfort from reading this week’s page! Live Streaming is now ‘all the rage’: it enables you to watch a live Mass and other church services via the internet. You may to wish to try one of these links: How to watch Mass online; http://www.catholictv.org/masses/catholictv-mass ; Walsingham is a favourite: https://www.walsingham.org.uk/live-stream/ .

This Sunday 29th March, the Re-dedication of England to Our Lady, will take place throughout the country in homes and chuches. We are invited to join in with our own prayers.

Here is a prayer we could use To you we entrust the Church, which invokes you as Mother. On earth you preceded her in the pilgrimage of faith .

Comfort her in her difficulties and trials.

Make her always the sign and instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of the whole human race.

To you, Mother of the human family, and of the nations, we confidently entrust the whole of humanity with its

hopes and fears. Let it not lack the light of true wisdom.

Guide it to seek freedom and justice for all. Direct its steps in the ways of peace. Enable all to meet Christ,

the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Plead for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the Cross, O sorrowful Mother.

Here are a couple of links you may wish to try.

https://catholicherald.co.uk/editorial-the-church-and-the-plague-and-the-catholic-herald/

Lent: ‘A Question of Forgiveness’ (Thinking Faith) (https://mailchi.mp/thinkingfaith/prayer-and-forgiveness-at-home?

e=ccc72b22ef)

‘We are invited’ this Lent, ‘to fall in love with Jesus, to have him as our dearest friend and brother. In the

mirror of his loving gaze we see a reflection of ourselves as we truly are: sinners, yes, but loved and forgiven

sinners. We have heard Jesus invite us to walk with him, to share in his ministry of healing. He invites us to

proclaim the reign of God in our world in order to transform it’.

(from ‘Sacred Space’)

May the Lord Bless you all, and keep you in his peace. (Contact us on 01352 711053—not always manned; Mobile: 07856363760) Br. John.

Intentions for our Masses (Offered privately by our priests)

Sunday People of the Parish

Monday Friars & Benefactors

Tuesday Denbigh Foundation

Wednesday Eric Rhodes RIP

Thursday Joan Oates (birthday)

Friday Letitia Shaw

Saturday David M Parry RIP

Please pray for our sick

Sr. Carrie, Eliza Brizzi, Bob Lavery, Oonagh Foster,

Pat Sandham, Ray Norman, Mary Toumaine, Kim

Pemberton, Clare Tyson, Glynis Begley and Richard

Oates.

Anniversaries

Bridget Golightly, Rose Molloy, Sr. Therese M. Barnett,

John Wilk, Vincent Dilworth, and Margaret Barratt.

May they rest in peace.