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With Holy Week and the Triduum just ahead the Services for the coming week, at the Sacred Heart Church are: Holy Thursday at 7.30pm; Good Friday at 3.00pm and the Easter Vigil & First Mass of Easter at 8.30pm - which really is the high point of the whole week. We should make every effort to join our community for these three great Liturgies. The Senior Citizens Group … [Read more...] about Newsletter 25.03.18.

Dear Friends, Today we begin Holy Week, the high point of the Church's year when we relive the central events of our faith: the passion, death and resurrection of Our Lord.  During the Triduum we come together as one parish community to take part in the beautiful liturgies and to celebrate them together.  The three services over Thursday, Friday and Saturday are really one … [Read more...] about Newsletter 25.03.18.

Dear Friends, The request of the Greek visitors in today’s Gospel is also ours: ‘We would like to see Jesus’. Over the next two weeks the liturgy will reveal to us the one whose ‘hour has come’. We will follow Jesus in his darkest hours alone, betrayed and deserted by his followers. But he will also be lifted up and glorified so that all peoples will be drawn to him … [Read more...] about Newsletter 18.03.18.

Dear Friends, This Sunday is the mid point in Lent when we can briefly have a break from our Lenten penances! Have you seen the pictures of our twinned parish in Cambodia which include the presentation of our gift to Father Greg of a set of new altar bells? Father James   At North Walsham today (Sunday) the Mass is a Family Mass with the children taking major … [Read more...] about Newsletter 11.03.18.

Dear Friends, Last week’s Gospel of the temptations of Jesus reminds us of the challenges of Lent. The gospel of the Transfiguration reminds us of the destination of Lent which is a pilgrimage to encounter the Risen Lord at Easter. I hope you remembered the Lenten CAFOD fast day last Friday. If you didn’t you can still make a donation. Remember that the government adds … [Read more...] about Newsletter 25 02 18