Corpus Christi Sunday

 

On Sunday we celebrate the transferred feast of Corpus Christi. 

The Mass at Saint Patrick's, Bradford will start at the later time of 1.30 p.m. because the celebrant has First Holy Communions and a Corpus Christi procession in his own parish as I announced last Sunday after Mass. 

Father will give Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament on Sunday after the Low Mass and I am most grateful to him for this.

Please remember Fr. Driver in your prayers as he continues to recover from scheduled surgery last Tuesday. I am hoping he is well enough to offer Mass for us on the Feast of Ss Peter and Paul on June 29th. If he is well enough I have offered to pick him up and take him home afterwards.

Also in your prayers, will you remember the vote to legalise euthanasia which comes before Parliament on Friday. 

The atrocious Bill to decriminalise abortion up to birth sailed through this week in the Commons and now the Lords must  be lobbied to prevent this iniquitous and diabolical wickedness from becoming law. 

The Conference of Catholic Bishops for England and Wales published this on their website following the vote:

 “New Clause 1 lifts any criminal liability for women performing their abortions for any reason, at any time, including up to and during birth. This decision significantly reduces the protection of unborn lives and will result in grave harm for pregnant women. Women will be even more vulnerable to manipulation, coerced and forced abortions. This legal change will also discourage medical consultation and make the use of abortion pills for dangerous late-term, at-home abortions more likely."

I think that the decision results in even graver harm for the unborn child. Words cannot describe my revulsion at what this vote means. 

We are living in the culture of death.

The Blessed Trinity

 

Fr Driver will offer the 1.00 p.m. Mass on Trinity Sunday at St. Patrick's, Bradford.

Confessions at call before Mass.

June, the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

I have just seen this new prayer from Pope Leo to the Sacred Heart:

Pope Leo XIV's Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Lord, I come to your tender heart today,
to you who have words that set my heart ablaze,
to you who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor,
on those who suffer, and on all human miseries. 

I desire to know you more, to contemplate you in the Gospel, to be with you

 and learn from you and from the charity with which you allowed yourself to be touched by all forms of poverty.

You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure
with your divine and human heart.

Grant all your children the grace of encountering you.
Change, shape, and transform our plans,
so that we seek only you in every circumstance:
in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine. From this encounter, send us out on mission, a mission of compassion for the world in which you are the source from which all consolation flows. Amen.

Pentecost

 

Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost and is the birthday of the Church. Mass at St. Patrick's at 1.00 p.m. will be a Low Mass. There will be a red frontal on the altar in the lady chapel for the octave of Pentecost.

Last week after Mass, our server Paddy was able to send £350 (equivalent to 400 Euros) to the seminary in Griciliagno where Abbe James Baxter will be ordained to the diaconate in early July. I hope Deacon James will be able to join us at Mass in July. Thank you to all who contributed. the seminary gratefully acknowledged receipt of the donation.

Confessions available before Mass on Sunday.