St Columba's & St Malachy's Catholic Churches

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ACCESS TO THE CELEBRATION OF MASS AND PRAYERS VIA THE INTERNET

St Mary’s Halifax

St Mary’s will continue to livestream Masses via their website:

Sunday – 9.30 & 11.00 am

Monday – no Mass

Tuesday – 7.00 pm

Wednesday – 9.30 am

Thursday – 9.30 am

Friday – 9.30 am

Saturday – 12.15 pm

www.stmaryshalifax.com and follow the link to their YouTube channel.

Pope Francis is to be found on the Vatican’s YouTube Channel: (Generally in Italian with English translation and commentary):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIsefyl9g9A5SGWA4FvGIA/featured

Bishop Marcus & Leeds Cathedral.

Visit the Cathedral’s YouTube Channel at:

www.leedscathedrallive.org.uk

The shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk offers a daily live-streamed Mass at 12 noon. Visit www.walsingham.org.uk/live-stream

EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) streams and has recordings of daily Mass. To be found on: video.ewtn.com/daily-mass/

The readings for daily and Sunday Mass can be found on:

www.universalis.com/mass.htm

A NOTE OF THANKS FROM FR MICHAEL:

Fr Michael writes:

Christmas is a special time in the life of any family or community. This year families have been unable to gather and celebrate their life together and this is no less true for our two parish communities. This year, at the heart of our celebration of Christmas there have been a number of initiatives to reach out to all those unable to join us in Church and so a big word of thanks to Maurice who produced our two parish Christmas cards and to all those who distributed them. Further words of thanks need to go to our Choir and readers and all those who participated in our online Advent Carol Service and online Christmas Mass, to Sean for his Advent reflections and editing of the Carol Service. A special word of thanks to Joe for bringing his professional skills and equipment to produce such a lovely recording of the Christmas Mass. Within our churches cleaners, flower arrangers, crib & tree erectors, servers, once again our Choir overseen so marvellously by Claire even in her confinement(!), and especially in 2020 stewards and sanitizers have ensured our Christmas Masses in church could be celebrated safely and with real dignity and decorum.

Of course, much of this goes on throughout the entire year as well as other tasks which can go unnoticed – preparation of the weekly bulletin, washing altar linen, financial book-keeping, SVP and the Social Caring Group. This year has made its own unique demands and Marina, Pauline and several others are to be thanked for their dedicated commitment to contacting the shielding and the housebound and to running errands when needed. It is possible that some-one will have been overlooked in these thanks; this is not intentional and apologies if this is the case.

Finally, Fr Michael, Sr Anne and Sean would like to thank everyone for their kind and generous gifts and offerings at this time.

Catholic Care Community Response Service

In response to the impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Catholic Care have launched a Community Response Service to support those in our Catholic communities who are sick, self-isolating, have been adversely financially impacted or are finding it difficult to cope.

The service will be available Monday – Friday, 8-6pm
A team of Catholic Care workers (we may expand later to incorporate volunteers) will be available to support parishioners and families in a number of ways:

• A telephone support service. This service will provide a listening ear and a friendly voice for those experiencing isolation in their community.
• A pick up and drop off groceries and pharmacy service.
• A dog walking service

• A hamper delivery service for those experiencing financial hardship.
Please contact us on 07739975001 or 7739975008 or 07739975009 or email janet.kent@catholic-care.org.uk or Jessica.price@catholic-care.org.uk if you would like to access this service or you would like to refer a person in your Parish or school community.