This week-end I am saying Masses at St.Aelred`s, to help out in Harrogate, as the Dean isn`t so well at the moment.  I will say a Saturday evening Mass at 6.30pm and a Sunday morning Mass at 10am, so obviously I won`t be saying a 9.30am Mass at Pateley Bridge. You`ll...

You probably think from listening to the media that Masses are re-starting at some churches this week-end. I think is more likely to be next week-end because most parishes will need a bit more time to get ready to re-start.  Information about how to do this was only...

Dear Brothers and sisters in Christ, Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. On Tuesday we heard the announcement that, from the 4th July this year, places of worship will be able to reopen for prayer and services. We welcome this news...

On 23 June, the Prime Minister announced that from 4 July places of worship would be allowed to re-open for collective acts of worship. This follows the permission which had already been given to re-open churches for individual private prayer from 15 June. Many of the...

As you will all know by now there will be churches opening for Mass next week-end. I am afraid this will not include us.  We still do not satisfy health and safety requirements to enable social distancing.  The most obvious way we do not satisfy these requirements is...

You are probably all wondering if we are going to be opening soon for private prayer, and then next month for Mass. There are strict health and safety criteria to be met with before churches can open and unfortunately we do not meet these criteria.  This is certainly...

Archbishop John Wilson (The Archbishop of Southwark) wrote to the Prime Minister, Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, this week expressing his understanding of “a growing sense of dissatisfaction” particularly as our churches are not yet permitted to open where a growing number...

"Christianity, as generally understood in the light of its Gentile development, is focused not on the genuine existential  spiritual legacy of the Jewish Jesus, but on the intellectual acceptance of the divine Christ and his superhuman existence within the mystery of...

Remember that the Word of God is sacramental and at a time when you cannot receive the eucharist, how about reading the Word of God, the Acts of the Apostles and St.Paul in particular? Near the end of his gospel, Luke writes:  “And now I am sending upon you what the...