Sunday Mass times July 9th to August 27th inclusive:

Important Notice:

Sunday Mass times July 9th to August 27th inclusive: 8am Said Mass, 10:30am Parish Mass.

And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another…

As the summer approaches many of us are looking to family time, to vacation and travel. It is therefore always the case, for congregations everywhere, that numbers at Sunday worship decline over the summer. This can be discouraging especially when we are only slowly recovering in our congregational numbers through the rest of the year. We have been slowly gaining momentum and we do not want to go backwards.

With this in mind I took a recommendation to the Advisory Board on Wednesday evening to say that for the months of July and August only we should combine our usual 9:30 and 11:00 services into a single parish mass. There was a clear consensus in support of the recommendation. After further consultation we have agreed that the mass will begin at 10:30 to ease travel for those coming from a distance and for the choir that must rehearse before the mass. The mass will follow the pattern we have been using in our occasional combined services.

It is my hope that you will make a commitment to join with us as often as possible this summer. I never like to present church attendance as a duty, but it is, I believe, something we do not just for ourselves, but for each other. When we gather we encourage each other, we strengthen each other’s faith, and we make worship the joy it can and should be. At Pentecost we had a healthy congregation at our combined mass, and people left talking about how much they had enjoyed it and how encouraged they felt. Let’s see if we can’t similarly encourage each other over the summer months.

Eric+