Pastoral Letter for Pentecost from the Bishops of England and Wales
Can be found here:-
Pastoral Letter for Pentecost 2021
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MAY – The month of the Rosary
Pope Francis is requesting that during this month of May the entire Church invoke the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the end of the pandemic and, in a special way, he is inviting all of us to
pray fervently for those most closely affected by it.
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PLEASE RE-REGISTER FOR ALL MASSES!
STOP PRESS!!! – There are no more places available for the 11am Mass on Sunday!!!
Following the announcement made at all the Masses this weekend, all the previous registrations will be null and void as from the end of this month.
You MUST re-register for a place at one of the Masses beginning Saturday 1st May 2021.
Pink forms for this are available at the back of the church as you leave, or on our Parish Website which can be downloaded from here:-
re-Registering-to-attend-Mass-LB-wef 1st May 2021
Please return them to me at the Presbytery, or email Deacon Tony at falcon_tony@btopenworld.com Do not phone him – you have been warned!
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Our Holy Father Pope Francis imparted his traditional blessing Urbi et Orbi to the world on Easter Sunday. The text of his homily prior to this blessing can be found here:-
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REOPENING OF CHURCH
The church has now reopened for Public Mass from Thursday 4th March. The pattern of Masses will be as before:
Saturday – 6.15pm
Sunday – 9.00am and 11.00am
Monday – 10.30am
Please note – you do NOT need to re-register, unless you plan to change your choice of Mass
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Live streaming of Mass
Mass will be live-streamed from our church, at 11am on Sundays
In order to view this live on Youtube is to click on this link:-
To view the Live Stream or watch later, go to the Sacred Heart YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KkmiI9hNaOQwo8G3owsAw
You do not require an account to view the Videos or Live Streams
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- A Prayer leaflet for Spiritual Communion can be found here:-
- Prayer for Spiritual Communion
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On this page you will find copies of the Sunday Sermons, plus links to the Videos of Fr John’s Lockdown homilies
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Fr John’s / Deacon Tony’s Sermon for:-
Fr John’s Easter Sunday meditation can be found here:-
Fr John’s meditation for – Easter Sunday 4th April 2021
27/12/2020 – Bishop David – Pastoral Letter on the Feast of the Holy Family -2020
06/12/2020 – Deacon Tony – Homily for 2nd week in Advent Year B – December 6th 2020
29/11/2020 – Bishop David’s Pastoral letter for Advent: Pastoral Letter Advent 2020
22/11/2020 – Fr John – Homily 22nd November 2020 – Feast of Christ the King – Fr John
15/11/2020 – Fr John – Homily 15th November 2020 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr John
08/11/2020 – Fr John – 2020-11-08 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A – Fr John’s Homily
01/11/2020 – Deacon Tony – Homily for the feast of All Saints & All Souls Day – 2020-11-01 & 02
25/10/20 – Fr John – 2020-10-25 – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A – Fr John’s sermon
18/10/20 – Fr John – 2020-10-18 – 29th Sundayin Ordinary Time Year A – Fr John’s sermon
11/10/20 – Fr John – 2020-10-11 – 28th Sunday, Year A – Fr John’s Homily
04/10/20 – Deacon Tony – 2020-10-04 – Homily for 27th week in Ordinary time Year A October 4th 2020
27/09/20 – Fr John – 2020-09-27 – 26th Sunday, Year A – Fr John’s Homily
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- PARISH GIVING
- As you may be aware, as we have no Masses we do not have our Sunday collection but we still have to keep the church running. As a means of mitigating this loss we would like to encourage those parishioners who do not currently give by standing order to donate online. This can be done via the diocesan website which can be found at:-https://northamptondiocese.org/
- Scroll down to find the Donate button and follow the instructions on the Catholic Diocese of Northampton Virgin money-giving page.
- Please ensure the parish name and area i.e. Sacred Heart, Leighton Buzzard, that the donation is intended for is indicated in the notes section of the donate page.
- For details about standing orders contact Brian Burgess on bmburgess@me.com
