Showing 7 results

"Three young people from Sacred Heart and St Oswald parish in Peterborough were touched deeply when Fr Arockiya Seelan brought a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes to their home. Kavya, Aleema and Adriel describe the visit." Story continues.
Image showing statue on table with candles.

"St John's Cathedral in Norwich welcomed around 1,800 socially-distanced worshippers over its 17 Christmas Masses, with many more joining via its livestream and on Radio Maria after some emergency work on its sound system, which completely failed on Christmas Eve." Story continues.
Image caption: "Pictured above is a Christmas Mass from 2019 at St John's."

"Tens of thousands of Catholics watched live-streamed Masses in up to 17 churches across the Diocese of East Anglia over Easter, after churches were closed to physical congregations due to Covid-19 restrictions." Story continues
image captioned: "Live-streaming of Mass at St John's Cathedral in Norwich has been wonderfully well-received, says Bishop Alan Hopes (right) [image insert]: "To know that so many people have been watching and have received reassurance and hope in this difficult time is a source of grate blessing..'"
images of Fr David Bagstaff, Fr Luke Goymour, Canon Eugene Harkness

"More than 70 car-loads of parishioners from Sacred Heart and St Oswald took advantage of the opportunity for a drive-through blessing on the eve of Corpus Christi, on 13th June." Story continues.
Image caption: "Fr Seelan is pictured blessing a family in the car park at St Oswald."

After 16 years, the final Mass was held at St Mark's, Lakenham. Parishioners will now use the Cathedral instead. St Marks, an Anglican church welcomed Catholics for Sunday Mass after the nearby Church of Christ the King was closed.

News items from The Catholic Universe

"Norwich: St John the Baptist Cathedral bid a sad farewell to much-loved priest Fr Arockilya Seelan on Sunday 27th January.
"Go, eat the fat, drink the sweet wine." With these words from Ezra the priest the congregation was sent out following a farewell Mass for Fr Seelan attended by over 300 people who turned out to wish him all the best for his new role and to thank him for his great contribution to St John's, particularly as chaplain at the
hospital. ..."

25th January 2019 the annual Catholic Mass was held in Peterborough's Anglican Cathedral. It marks the 483rd anniversary of Katharine of Aragon's death.