A total of over 800 attended in person at Masses celebrated in Leigh on Sea, Clacton, Canning Town, Wanstead and the Cathedral during the pilgrimage week and after each Mass the parish hall, school or garden was filled with joyful encounter and conversation.
The children of St Teresa’s Primary School in Rochford have produced a special video recording special memories of their own grandparents for the Department for Marriage and Family Life.
Pope Francis has decided to modify the norms regulating the use of the 1962 missal granted 14 years ago by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, as the “extraordinary form of the Roman Rite”.
Fr Gerald Gostling, who worked with orphaned children and vulnerable people in our twinned Diocese of Dundee for many years, recently returned to the UK. Here he gives his view on what is happening in South Africa.
The emphasis is now on a corporate endeavour of all involved in our Church life to maintain the exemplary good practice that has been exhibited over the past 15 months.
The Relay 100 event aims to link up every parish church and mass centre in the Brentwood Diocese by recruiting individual supporters to walk, run or cycle one of 100 routes, raising much-needed funds through sponsorship.
As a global maritime charity, Stella Maris has been playing a crucial role in supporting seafarers and fishers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is continuing to offer spiritual and practical help to those most in need.
