A Happy & Peaceful New Year to you all.

Here is the Message of Pope Francis for New Year's Day, the World Day of Peace.

Online prayer resources

I mentioned in my homily this weekend that some families have found online prayer resources valuable as an aid to praying together, and to encouraging young people to pray. Here are a few that I like. There are many others. If you have a favourite, please email me the details and I will post them on this site.

• Pray as you go has a daily audio reflection and an increasing number of other resources. It has recently produced very convenient apps for iPhone/iPad and for Android devices. All free!
• Universalis is an excellent resource. It provides the daily Mass readings, and the Divine Office, the daily prayer of the Church, prayed by priests, religious and many lay people. There are a variety of different platforms explained here. They cost around £10 or £20 as a one off, and this allows you to install them on a number of devices. Although the website is unattractive, the apps are excellent and work very well indeed: I have used them on PC, Android phones, and iPads for a long time, and thoroughly recommend them. You can try them free before you buy.
• Laudate for Apple (iOS) Devices and Android Devices is a very comprehensive free app. It has much of the material found on Universalis, but not always in the translations used in this country. It also provides links to other resources. It is not the most elegant app in the world, but is a useful place to start.

Lastly, to inspire us to make our homes places of prayer and faith, here is the Nazareth address of Blessed Pope Paul VI to which I referred in my homily.

Newsletter for 27/28 December - Holy Family

Click here to read this week's brief newsletter.
A blessed Christmas to you all.




For technical reasons there may be difficulties displaying this newsletter. If the link doesn't work correctly, here, at least, is the timetable for the week:

Ashby
Sat 27 4.45pm Exposition & Confessions (until 5.15pm)
        5.30pm Mass for Susan Hewitt RIP
Sun 28 10.00am Mass for the People of the Parish
Mon 29 9.30am Mass for Peter Macdonald RIP
Tue 30 9.30am Mass for the Election of a new Bishop
Wed 31 9.30am Mass for Joseph & Margaret Hicks RIP
Thu 1 10.30am Mass for Patricia Daley RIP
Fri 2         10.30am Mass for Private Intention
Sat 3 4.45pm Exposition & Confessions (until 5.15pm)
        5.30pm Mass for Holy Souls (November list)
Sun 4 10.00am Mass for Intentions of Rev Andrew & Kathryn Martin

Measham
Sat 27 6.45pm Mass for Private Intention
Sat 3 6.45pm Mass for the People of the Parish

This week:
Mon: St Thomas of Canterbury; Thursday: Mary, the Holy Mother of God;
Fri: Ss Basil & Gregory — Abstinence from meat; Next Sun: Epiphany

Monsignor in Rome

You may remember this picture of Monsignor Phelan meeting Pope Francis earlier this year. The January 2015 Nottingham Diocesan "Catholic News" tells  the story of  "An Unexpected Pilgrimage."
Click here and scroll to page 7 to read it.

O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

A wondrous story....

Come home for Christmas

Information about Confessions and Christmas Masses here.