Cannock Catholic Latest 18 March 2020 4pm
Hi everyone! and welcome to yet more members to the Cannock Catholic Latest WhatsApp list. (73, now!)
For those who are new and for those who have forgotten, please remember that this is not a chat - only one user can post to the list - and at present that is me, Fr Peter. You can REPLY to the list - and it is great when you do - those messages go only to me, which I am delighted to read, and they have kept me busy all day. Also please remind anyone wanting to join the list, they must send a message through WhatsApp to me - a text message alone doesn’t let me connect to the list.
Anyway …
The most recent update to pass on is the latest guidance from the Bishops of England and Wales - I posted this earlier today. If you are new to the list you can read the letter from here: http://bit.ly/33yVUFt - but as I type this, the website seems to be responding very slowly.
Basically the letter says that from Friday evening “we must not gather for public acts of worship in our churches”. The letter goes on to say that “our churches will remain open. They are not closing” and that “the celebration of Mass, Sunday by Sunday and day by day, will take place without a public congregation.”
It doesn’t say anything directly about weddings, funerals and baptisms, which we usually understand to be “public” worship. As the episcopal ordination of Canon David Oakley, and the Holy Week ceremonies in Rome are to take place behind closed doors, I presume that it is intended that not only masses but also for these “family” liturgies will take place only as “private” ceremonies.
So, we are waiting for further guidance before Friday.
In the meantime, mass will be celebrated as already advertised in Church on Thursday and Friday morning this week. There will be some announcements soon also about how we will be able to keep the faith and strengthen the spiritual bonds of communion, while we are all, to a greater or lesser extent, “socially distancing”.
On the Bishop’s website there is a useful leaflet of prayers you can download, which can be used at any time when you cannot get to Church to receive communion. (When Mass cannot be celebrated publicly http://bit.ly/2Wp70vl)
Here is the Prayer for Spiritual Communion from that sheet.
Spiritual Communion : A Prayer of St Alphonsus
My Jesus,
I believe that you are present in the Holy Sacrament of the altar.
I love you above all things
and I passionately desire to receive you into my soul.
Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally,
come spiritually into my soul
so that I may unite myself wholly to you,
now and forever. Amen.
God bless you all.
FrP
Hi everyone! and welcome to yet more members to the Cannock Catholic Latest WhatsApp list. (73, now!)
For those who are new and for those who have forgotten, please remember that this is not a chat - only one user can post to the list - and at present that is me, Fr Peter. You can REPLY to the list - and it is great when you do - those messages go only to me, which I am delighted to read, and they have kept me busy all day. Also please remind anyone wanting to join the list, they must send a message through WhatsApp to me - a text message alone doesn’t let me connect to the list.
Anyway …
The most recent update to pass on is the latest guidance from the Bishops of England and Wales - I posted this earlier today. If you are new to the list you can read the letter from here: http://bit.ly/33yVUFt - but as I type this, the website seems to be responding very slowly.
Basically the letter says that from Friday evening “we must not gather for public acts of worship in our churches”. The letter goes on to say that “our churches will remain open. They are not closing” and that “the celebration of Mass, Sunday by Sunday and day by day, will take place without a public congregation.”
It doesn’t say anything directly about weddings, funerals and baptisms, which we usually understand to be “public” worship. As the episcopal ordination of Canon David Oakley, and the Holy Week ceremonies in Rome are to take place behind closed doors, I presume that it is intended that not only masses but also for these “family” liturgies will take place only as “private” ceremonies.
So, we are waiting for further guidance before Friday.
In the meantime, mass will be celebrated as already advertised in Church on Thursday and Friday morning this week. There will be some announcements soon also about how we will be able to keep the faith and strengthen the spiritual bonds of communion, while we are all, to a greater or lesser extent, “socially distancing”.
On the Bishop’s website there is a useful leaflet of prayers you can download, which can be used at any time when you cannot get to Church to receive communion. (When Mass cannot be celebrated publicly http://bit.ly/2Wp70vl)
Here is the Prayer for Spiritual Communion from that sheet.
Spiritual Communion : A Prayer of St Alphonsus
My Jesus,
I believe that you are present in the Holy Sacrament of the altar.
I love you above all things
and I passionately desire to receive you into my soul.
Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally,
come spiritually into my soul
so that I may unite myself wholly to you,
now and forever. Amen.
God bless you all.
FrP
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