Corpus Christi Sunday News

Priest-in-Charge: Fr John Ainslie (revjohnainslie@gmail.com; 01628 629827)

Do please join us after Mass for Tea, Coffee and Cake in the Vestry Hall - just ask if you don’t know the way!

Today we celebrate Corpus Christi Sunday, when we give especial thanks to God for the gift of the sacrament of the Mass and of Holy Communion, and for the sacramental presence of Christ in the Sacred Body and Blood of the Altar.

Services this week: Thursday said Mass for St Barnabas the Apostle at 10.30am; next Sunday Sung Mass at 10.30am.

                St Michael’s Church Summer Fete - Saturday 27th June 10.30am – 1.30pm.

All your favourite stalls, including Cakes, Gifts and Crafts, Tombola, Raffle, Teas, Coffee and Ploughmans Lunches !!

          There is a box at the entrance to the Ascension chapel for your donations for the stalls

                            Note the date – come and enjoy – invite your friends !!

Our 2026 Walsingham Pilgrims, pictured outside the Shrine Church with Fr Graeme, the Shrine Priest at Walsingham.

                                                     We give thanks to God for a most enjoyable and uplifting
                                                     pilgrimage, and look forward to the next time…

                                                   If you missed going on this pilgrimage, or if you went and
                                                   can’t wait to go again, there are other opportunities to visit the
                                                   Shrine – including Bible Weekend 13-15 November, led by
                                                   Bishop Lindsay Urwin (former Shrine Administrator, and who
                                                   I know from personal experience to a very accessible and
                                                   encouraging presenter of our faith); the Advent Retreat
                                                   (mainly in silence) 4th-6th December; and I believe there are
                                                   places available on the Walsingham Pilgrimage for Society Parishes in our diocese led by Fr Peter Harnden of Harbledown, 17th - 21st August this year.

FOR OUR PRAYERS:

We pray for the advancement of unity between churches, and give thanks for signs of a renewal in dialogue between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches; for greater appreciation of the value and significance of the Sacraments, and especially the Eucharist, within the Church of England, and for renewal generally across the Church of England; for a deepening of faith and practice in our attendance at Mass at St Michaels; for those who receive the Blessed Sacrament from St Michaels at home or in care homes, that they may feel within themselves the reality of being part of the Body of Christ, and be sustained by the grace and blessing of the Eucharist in their lives.

We pray for those in need, and especially Glynis Reynolds, Yvonne Young, Lindsay Wheeler, Martyn Nash, David Green, Norman Farrington, Phil and Marion, Joe, Keira, Freya, Isaac, Lexie Nicholson, Sarah, Janet, Alan and Ralph Austin.

We pray for the recently departed. We remember those who have faithfully served God in this Church in previous generations, and we pray for those whose year’s mind occurs this week: Catherine Carmody, John Frater, Rod Bristow.

FROM THE BELLTOWER: Sunday, 31 May 1280 Pudsey Surprise Major 1 Emma Jarvis 2 Mike Birkbeck 3 Stuart Cox 4 Philip Jarvis 5 Paul Barton 6 Mark Elvers 7 Stephen Coaker 8 Neil Jones (C) Rung for the Festival of the Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Remembering Paul Mounsey, 29/5/2025, R.I.P.