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Christmas Mass Times   https://salisburycatholics.org/christmas-mass-times-2021

Mary, Holy Mother of God https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/mary-holy-mother-god

St Joseph's Carol Service https://salisburycatholics.org/st-josephs-school-carol-service

Christmas Message Board https://salisburycatholics.org/christmas-card-message-board

Liturgy A Call to Love   https://salisburycatholics.org/call-love

Peace Sunday  https://salisburycatholics.org/peace-sunday

Christian Unity   https://salisburycatholics.org/christian-unity-0

Christian Unity 2020 https://salisburycatholics.org/christian-unity

St Agnes of Rome  https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/st-agnes

St Wulfstan  https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/st-wulfstan

Saint Paul https://salisburycatholics.org/st-paul

Saints Timothy & Titus https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/saints-timothy-and-titus

Saint Thomas Aquinas https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/saint-thomas-aquinas

Saint Francis de Sales https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/saint-francis-de-sales

Racial Justice 2022 https://salisburycatholics.org/racial-justice-sunday-2022

1 John Complete https://salisburycatholics.org/1-john-complete

Ukraine https://salisburycatholics.org/ukraine

Saint Agatha 5 February https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/saint-agatha-5-february

Saint John Bosco 31 January https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/st-john-bosco-31-january

The Presentation of the Lord 2 Feb  https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/presentation-lord

What is God Saying to the Church ?  https://salisburycatholics.org/what

Cafod Family Fast Day 2022 https://salisburycatholics.org/fast-2022

Pastoral Letter https://salisburycatholics.org/pastoral-letter

Parish Renewal https://salisburycatholics.org/parish-renewal

Music In Isolation  https://salisburycatholics.org/music-isolation

A Call to Love   https://salisburycatholics.org/call-love

Daily Readings should they ever come back https://salisburycatholics.org/daily-readings

Merger Questionnaire https://salisburycatholics.org/q-0

God Who Speaks https://salisburycatholics.org/god-who-speaks

PRAYER FOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS https://salisburycatholics.org/prayer-expectant-mothers

Pope Francis Triduum & Easter 2021 https://salisburycatholics.org/pope-francis-triduum-and-easter

Lent 2022  https://salisburycatholics.org/lent-2022

Why Catholic  https://salisburycatholics.org/why-catholic

Explore Your Faith  https://salisburycatholics.org/explore-your-faith

https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/visitation-blessed-virgin-mary

https://salisburycatholics.org/saint-charles

https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/mary-mother-church

https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/jesus-christ-high-priest

May Devotions https://salisburycatholics.org/may-devotions

The Most Holy Trinity  https://salisburycatholics.org/holy-trinity

Day for Life 2022 https://salisburycatholics.org/day-life-2022

Bernadette https://salisburycatholics.org/bernadette

Vacancies  https://salisburycatholics.org/vacancies

Acts in Easter https://salisburycatholics.org/acts-easter

Sea Sunday  https://salisburycatholics.org/sea-sunday

Ukraine https://salisburycatholics.org/ukraine

Outreach https://salisburycatholics.org/outreach-2017-2019

Traidcraft https://salisburycatholics.org/traidcraft

Year of Communion 2019 - 20  https://salisburycatholics.org/year-communion-2019-20

Year of Prayer 2018-19 https://salisburycatholics.org/year-prayer-2018-19

Explore Your Faith https://salisburycatholics.org/explore-your-faith taken over by 'Becoming Catholic'.

Church Support Needs updating https://salisburycatholics.org/church-support

Reinstatement of Sunday Obligation  https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/spring-plenary-2022-resolution-returning-mass-pentecost

Season of Creation https://salisburycatholics.org/season-creation

Migrant 22 https://salisburycatholics.org/migrant22

Prisoners Sunday 9 October https://salisburycatholics.org/prisoners-sunday

Homeless Sunday 9 October https://salisburycatholics.org/homeless

World Mission Sunday 2023  https://salisburycatholics.org/world-mission-sunday

The Message of Saint Bernadette  https://salisburycatholics.org/message-saint-bernadette

World Day of Poor 13 Nov https://salisburycatholics.org/world-day-poor

Christmas 2022 https://salisburycatholics.org/christmas

Adopt a Street https://salisburycatholics.org/adopt-street

Parish Merger https://salisburycatholics.org/parish-merger

Advent Reflections https://salisburycatholics.org/advent-reflections

Pastoral Letter https://salisburycatholics.org/pastoral-letter

Benedict XVI https://salisburycatholics.org/benedict-xvi

Yout Worker Vacancy https://salisburycatholics.org/youth-work-leader

Pope Francis Triduum & Easter 2022 https://salisburycatholics.org/pope-francis-triduum-easter-2022

Palm Crosses https://salisburycatholics.org/palm-crosses

Chrism Mass 5 April 2023   https://salisburycatholics.org/chrism-mass-2023

Becoming Cathholic https://salisburycatholics.org/becoming-catholic-0

Good Shepherd Sunday 2023 https://salisburycatholics.org/good-shepherd-sunday

Clifton Diocese 'A Faithfull Journey' https://salisburycatholics.org/faith-full-journey

Blog  https://salisburycatholics.org/news

Holy Redeemer Concultation  https://salisburycatholics.org/hr

Luke's Gospel   https://salisburycatholics.org/lukes-gospel

The God Who Speaks  https://salisburycatholics.org/god-who-speaks

Request a Mass Intention  https://salisburycatholics.org/mass-intentions

Today's Readings  http://universalis.com/mass.htm

Music in Isolation  https://salisburycatholics.org/music-isolation

Vatican Live  https://salisburycatholics.org/vatican-live

Children's Liturgy  https://salisburycatholics.org/childrens-liturgy

Christmas Vigil Pope Francis https://salisburycatholics.org/christmas-vigil-pope-francis

Jubilee Mass in Salisbury Cathedral  https://salisburycatholics.org/jubilee-mass

Outreach  https://salisburycatholics.org/outreach

Is God Calling You?  https://salisburycatholics.org/god-calling-you

Year of Prayer 2018-19  https://salisburycatholics.org/year-prayer-2018-19

Church Support  https://salisburycatholics.org/church-support

Trussell Trust  https://salisburycatholics.org/salisbury-foodbank

Traidcraft  https://salisburycatholics.org/traidcraft

International Mass  https://salisburycatholics.org/international-mass

Youth Button  https://salisburycatholics.org/youth

Youth Synod  https://salisburycatholics.org/node/649 (Page missing)

Flame 2019  https://salisburycatholics.org/flame-2019

WYD Panama 2019  https://salisburycatholics.org/node/820  (Page missing)

Holy Redeemer Consultation  https://salisburycatholics.org/hr

Youth Work Leader   https://salisburycatholics.org/youth-work-leader

Pope Francis Triduum and Easter 2021  https://salisburycatholics.org/pope-francis-triduum-and-easter

Outreach  https://salisburycatholics.org/outreach-2017-2019

Why Catholic  https://salisburycatholics.org/why-catholic

Cafod Fast Day https://salisburycatholics.org/family-fast-day

 

It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind, who raises up those who are bowed down. It is the Lord who loves the just, the Lord, who protects the stranger.
Loving God, We pray for the people of Ukraine, for all those suffering or afraid, that you will be close to them and protect them. We pray for world leaders, for compassion, strength and wisdom to guide their choices. We pray for the world that in this moment of crisis, we may reach out in solidarity to our brothers and sisters in need. May we walk in your ways so that peace and justice become a reality for the people of Ukraine and for all the world. Amen.

Saints John Fisher and Thomas More (22 June)

The lives of St Thomas More and St John Fisher are very closely linked and therefore it is quite appropriate that the Church celebrate their feasts together. They are both renowned Englishmen, martyred within two weeks of each other for the same cause of defending religious liberty, the sanctity of marriage and Papal authority against State usurpation. They were both associates of King Henry VIII before his apostasy, and it was at by his authority that they both suffered martyrdom. For more and a reflection by Bishop Robert Barron please click on the image in the ‘Top News’ box or click here

https://salisburycatholics.org/fishermore

The Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June)

 

Celebrating the birth of St John the Baptist is a feast that is relevant to all of us today. Just like St John, we would do well to “leap” with joy in announcing Jesus to all those we encounter in our world. We can do this in everything we do – not just by words, but by actions. Asking for the intercession of St John on this Feast of his birth, we can draw the strength necessary to proclaim our Lord to others. For more on this Feast and a video of the story of St John, please click on the image in the ’Top News’ box or click here.

 

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - 24 June

Devotion to the wounded heart of Jesus has its origins in the eleventh century, when pious Christians meditated on the Five Wounds of Christ. There grew up among the faithful prayers to the Sacred Heart - devotions which helped Christians to focus on the passion and death of Christ, and thus to grow in love for our Saviour who had suffered and died for us. For more and a short video on this devotion, click on the image in the ‘Top News’ box or click here.

 

 

New Cardinals | Episode 4
Queen Elizabeth II Requiescat in Pace. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace. Amen.

St Stephen Top

DECEMBER 26 – SAINT STEPHEN

Just after Christmas, the Catholic Church remembers its first martyr, and one of its first deacons, Saint Stephen. Roman Catholics celebrate his feast Dec. 26, while Eastern Catholics honor him one day later.

In the Acts of the Apostles, St. Luke praises St. Stephen as “a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit,” who “did great wonders and signs among the people” during the earliest days of the Church.

Luke’s history of the period also includes the moving scene of Stephen’s death – witnessed by St. Paul before his conversion – at the hands of those who refused to accept Jesus as the Jewish Messiah.

Stephen himself was a Jew who most likely came to believe in Jesus during the Lord’s ministry on earth. He may have been among the 70 disciples whom Christ sent out as missionaries, who preached the coming of God’s kingdom while traveling with almost no possessions.

This spirit of detachment from material things continued in the early Church, in which St. Luke says believers “had all things in common” and “would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.”

But such radical charity ran up against the cultural conflict between Jews and Gentiles, when a group of Greek widows felt neglected in their needs as compared to those of a Jewish background.

Stephen’s reputation for holiness led the Apostles to choose him, along with six other men, to assist them in an official and unique way as this dispute arose. Through the sacramental power given to them by Christ, the Apostles ordained the seven men as deacons, and set them to work helping the widows.

As a deacon, Stephen also preached about Christ as the fulfillment of the Old Testament law and prophets. Unable to refute his message, some members of local synagogues brought him before their religious authorities, charging him with seeking to destroy their traditions.

Stephen responded with a discourse recorded in the seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. He described Israel’s resistance to God’s grace in the past, and accused the present religious authorities of “opposing the Holy Spirit” and rejecting the Messiah.

Before he was put to death, Stephen had a vision of Christ in glory. “Look,” he told the court, “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

The council, however, dragged the deacon away and stoned him to death.

“While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit,’” records St. Luke in Acts 7. “Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them.’ When he had said this, he died.”

The first Christian martyrdom was overseen by a Pharisee named Saul – later Paul, and still later St. Paul – whose own experience of Christ would transform him into a believer, and later a martyr himself.

 

https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/holy-innocents

 

https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/saint-thomas-becket

 

https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/saint-john-apostle-evangelist

 

The Holy Family

The Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph is normally celebrated on the Sunday after Christmas. This feast developed at the beginning of the 19th century in Canada and then spread to the entire Church in 1920. At first, it was celebrated on the Sunday after Epiphany. It is a Feast that seeks to portray the Holy Family of Nazareth as the “true model of life” (cf. Opening Prayer) from which our families can draw inspiration and know where to find help and comfort.

Palm Crosses

Palm Crosses are used in churches of all denominations for Palm Sunday services.

The Palm crosses are made in eight villages in the Masasi area of southern Tanzania,these being Mpeta, Namikunda, Mlundelunde, Mumbaka, Machombei, Chivirikiti, Makanyama and Marika.

African Palm crosses are made from Dwarf Palms Hyphaena Coriacea which grow wild and are not cultivated.

The film shows villagers cutting the palms in an area near Mbangara where they grow wild, they are then dried and cut into strips before being transported back to the villages, by bicycle or on foot. They are then woven into Palm Crosses and taken to a central collection point which at present is in Mpeta.

As they are handmade size tends to vary from 15 to 25cm in length

The Palm crosses are then taken by road to the nearest port either Mtawra or Dar es Salaam, where they are loaded into containers for shipment to the UK and USA.

Buying African palm crosses:

 You will be giving extra work to people whose only other source of income is the sale of their cashew nuts. Any money they earn from palm crosses is used for the usual household necessities – clothes for the parents and their children, salt, soap and any money required to get to the nearest hospital for medical treatment.

You will encourage people in their daily lives.

https://africanpalms.co.uk/

 

Exploring a Vocation to the Priesthood w/ Cardinal Vincent

In this video, the #Cardinal answers some questions on his experience sensing God's call with a listening and prayerful heart, often asked by men seeking to discern whether they are called to the #priesthood.

Mass Times

Weekend Mass Times
Saturday: 5:30 p.m. (Vigil)
Sunday: 8 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:15 p.m. (Spanish), 6:30 p.m. (Spanish)

3rd Sunday "Filipino": 3 p.m.
4th Sunday "Indonesian": 3 p.m.

Daily Mass Times
Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.
Wednesday: 6 p.m. (Spanish)

Confession Times

Wednesday: 5-6 p.m.
Saturday: 4-5 p.m.

Eucharistic Adoration

Thurday: 8:30-9:30 p.m.