Few of us probably ever think about seafarers. Yet it’s thanks to them that we have so many of the goods we rely on each day. Those sailing the ships which bring those goods to us are being increasingly threatened by incidents of piracy and armed robbery. Please support the Stella Maris Harvest Appeal to support seafarers and fishers working in an increasingly dangerous and hostile world.
"We stand in solidarity with all victims of violence, especially with our brothers and sisters seeking asylum, our Muslim brothers and sisters, and indeed with anyone feeling threatened because of who they are or where they are from." Raymond Friel OBE writes.
This coming Sunday 11 August at 6.30pm evening mass the Cathedral parish is delighted to welcome for the very first time a youth and adult choir from Munich Cathedral. The music is by Max Eham, Domenico Bartolucci and Charles Stanford’s ‘O Be Joyful in the Lord’, conducted by Benedikt Celler and Bastian Fuchs on the
Interested in renewing your parish community or structure? Looking for new ways to engage and revitalise people? Take a look at the events planned for September and October by Fr Dan Mason, Vicar for Parish Renewal in our diocese.
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre is encouraging responses to the Health, Sport and Social Care Committee from anyone with concerns about the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill, urging those in favour or undecided to reconsider the issue, in light of the devastating consequences in jurisdictions that have already legalised it.
500 school groups across England and Wales are now supporting their local community thanks to a charity initiative The St Vincent de Paul Society (England and Wales) now has a presence in more than 500 schools through its ‘Mini Vinnie’ programme – with Sacred Heart Catholic Primary in Southend being the school that reached that
Fittingly, Canon Bob Hamill, parish priest at St Michael’s in East Ham who regularly takes disabled and disadvantaged children and young people to Lourdes with HCPT, celebrated his golden jubilee on 20 July at the pilgrimage centre, where he is part of the annual Diocesan Pilgrimage. Fr Dominic Howarth reports that ‘Fr Bob’ received many
