WIZARD OF OZ

Recently the children from St Marie's put on a wonderful production of The Wizard of Oz.  it was a splendid evening of entertainment and I am proud to know that we have such talented children in our school and parish..

SCHOOL LEAVERS

Please keep in your prayers all our children who will leave our parish primary schools this summer.  Here are a few photos taken at the Leaver's Mass at St Joseph's.  I am greateful to Fr. Morrow who came baxk to celebrate this Mass and to mark the retirement of Mrs Anne Booker after many years of service at St Joseph's School.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

Recently we celebrated First Holy Communion with our Year Three Children.  Please keep the children in your prayers so that they will grow in love of Our Lord present in the Blessed Sacrament.

OH HAPPY FLOWERS

O happy Flowers! O happy Flowers!

How quietly for hours and hours,

In dead of night in cheerful day,

Close to my own dear Lord you stay,

Until you gently fade away.

O happy Flowers! what would I give

In your sweet place all day to live,

And then to die, my service o'er,

Softly as you do, at His door.

O happy Lights! O happy Lights!

Watching my Jesus livelong nights,

How close you cluster round His throne,

Dying so meekly one by one,

As each its faithful watch has done.

Could I with you but take my turn,

And burn with love of Him, and burn

Till love had wasted me, like you,

Sweet Lights! what better could I do?

O happy Pyx, O happy Pyx!

Where Jesus doth his dwelling fix.

O little palace! dear and bright,

Where He, who is the world's true light,

Spends all the day, and stays all night!

Ah! if my heart could only be

A little home for Him like thee,

Such fires my happy sould would move,

I could not help but die of love!

O Pyx and Lights and Flowers! but I

Through envy of you will not die;

Nay, happy things! what will you do,

Since I am better off than you,

The whole day long, the whole night through?

For Jesus gives himself to me

So sweetly and so utterly,

By rights long since I should have died

For love of Jesus Crucified.

My happy Soul! My happy Soul!

How shall I then my love control?

O sweet Communion! Feast of bliss!

When the dear Host my tongue doth kiss,

What happiness is like to this?

Oh Heaven, I think must be alway

Quite like a First Communion Day,

With love so sweet and joy so strange, -

Only that Heaven will never change!



MANY THANKS

Many thanks to all the staff of our schools: St Joseph's, St Marie's and Bury Catholic Prep for all their hard work in preparing for our celebrations of Confirmation.  Without your help and unfailing support throughout the year these celebrations would not be possible.

My thanks also to the parents of the children who play their part in bringing their children to the faith.  They cannot do it on their own.  They need your help and support not just in bringing them to the Sacrament of Confirmation but as they grow into responsible adults in our world.

In the (nearly fourteen) years that I have been a priest this years celebrations of Confirmation have been the best that I have had the priviledge of presiding over.  God bless you all and keep you in His gentle care.

your devoted Parish Priest

COME HOLY GHOST

Recently we celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation with our Year 3 children from both our primary schools. Do please keep the children in your prayers as they contine thir journey of faith.  They will make their First Holy Communion in a few weeks time. 

Here are a few pictures taken during our celebrations.

LONG HAVE I WAITED HERE

A final picture of the newly moved Tabernacle in preparaton for the placing the Blessed Sacrament in it tomorrow at Mass.