Monday, May 4, 2020

Parish news

This morning I offered Holy Mass for the intentions of Christopher & Fenella Harker.  The Mass Intentions for the rest of the week are as follows: Gerard Smith, Tess O'Friel, David Donovan, our parish SVP and Peter Gallagher (Fr Frank's brother)

Today is the feast of the English Martyrs. It was on this day in 1535 that three Carthusian monks were brutally put to death for their loyalty to the true Faith and the unity of the Christian religion. Hundreds more were to suffer over the next 150 years. Catholicism was associated with treachery, Our monasteries were destroyed including Easby Abbey and the Franciscan and Benedictine priories in Richmond.Images of Our blessed Lady and the saints were burnt It was a time of persecution. I have noticed there is a plaque to John Acrige on the side of Trinity Church in the market square. John was once a curate in the town. He was involved in the revolt of the Northern Earls in 1569 and died in the infamous Blockhouses of Hull. He is not classed as a martyr by the Church but he was an undoubted victim of the turbulent times of the sixteenth century.

On a jollier note it is Fr Richard's birthday on Thursday. he will be 35. That's as many years I've been a priest!
God bless him.


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