Fr Richard and I look after one of the largest parishes in the diocese if not in the country. We are so privileged to be the parish clergy for St Joseph's Richmond, St Mary's Wycliffe, St Peter and St Paul Leyburn and St Simon and St Jude Ulshaw Bridge.
Today we honour St Norbert, the founder of the Premonstratensian order, who established three monasteries in our parish: Easby, Egglestone and Coverham. St Norbert was from the Rhine. Yesterday we honoured the apostle of Germany , St Boniface a Devon man. He is one of only 5 British saints who are in the universal calendar of the Church. Interestingly the faith spread form England to the rhine and three hundred years later the White canons came to our dales. We live on holy ground where saints have trod.
It is very hard to look into the future. The monks must never have thought that one day a king of England would close down all the monasteries and change the religion of the country. So now, it is difficult to look into the future, but perhaps one day we will see a revival of the faith and the establishing of new religious communities in the dales.
Let us pray for the growth of our Catholic Faith and for vocations form the dales.
St Norbert and st Boniface pray for us
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