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Fr Jeremy Howard |
Fr Jeremy's Corner26.05.20
This week we have are having the strange experience of being on a Virtual Pilgrimage to Lourdes rather than being there in person. We need to hold on to our desire to be in holy places but also remind ourselves that our homes need also to be places of prayer and devotion. We are about to begin the process of practical planning to make our church building a safe environment for the time when we open up again I really like these words of Bishop Robert Byrne, who was an Assistant Bishop in our Diocese but is now the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, when he celebrated a Mass for the sick, their loved ones and healthcare workers “This pandemic …. is not just a challenge to be faced but also a call to have a faith that trusts in the Lord. Our prayer .... is not merely that we be spared the pain of this disease but that we will have the faith to come through this period, maybe battered and scarred – but with a renewed sense of God in the midst of the storms that have come down upon us. When the pandemic is over, we will all need to rethink and change our lives much as our parents and grandparents did after the wars. Let us do so with faith and hope and love – for these are ultimately founded on the Lord.” |
