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How to Make May Special: Devotion to Our Lady

The month of May is dedicated to devotion to our Lady, the Mother of God. You may already have a devotion to our Lady as part of your daily or weekly prayers, or perhaps devotion to our Lady is not yet part of your prayers at home or when you come to Church. Love of our Lady is a natural consequence of love for Our Lord: no-one could love our Lady more than Jesus, and Jesus gave us His Mother to be our Mother also, when He entrusted our Lady into St John’

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How to Make may Special: Devotion to Our Lady

The month of May is dedicated to devotion to our Lady, the Mother of God. You may already have a devotion to our Lady as part of your daily or weekly prayers, or perhaps devotion to our Lady is not yet part of your prayers at home or when you come to Church. Love of our Lady is a natural consequence of love for Our Lord: no-one could love our Lady more than Jesus, and Jesus gave us His Mother to be our Mother also, when He entrusted our Lady into St John’s care before Jesus died on the Cross.

Please pray for all those Receiving the Sacraments this Easter

Please say a special prayer for Sue: she will also be married in April and so will be received into Full Communion, be Confirmed, receive her first Holy Communion and be married all in 3 weeks!

SMA Painting Restored, Reframed, and Installed

I am delighted to share the news that the restored painting of our copy of Guido Reni’s The Annunciation is now displayed at St Mary of the Angels, Hooton.

Lights for Stations of the Cross

I am hugely grateful to Tony Forshaw who, through a great deal of work, effort, skill, and care, has ensured that the newly-installed Stations of the Cross are lit up individually and in a beautiful way - each of the 14 Stations having it’s own spotlight. The effect is most noticeable in the evening time and really makes the Stations shine. Thank you, Tony!

A New Initiative for Holy Week 2024

I am always grateful to Martin and to Francis for their generosity, week in, week out, providing themusic for the celebration of our three Masses.

Marian Lamp: A New Opportunity For Prayer

Following the celebration of the feast of Candlemas, also known as the Presentation of the Lord, when I spoke about the Sanctuary Lamp burning for us as the one candle in Church that always burns to assure us of God’s Presence with us

Stonework of Concern at Hooton

I was grateful for the vigilance of a parishioner last week at St Mary of the Angels, Hooton for noticing the serious degradation and corrosion of some of the masonry in the Stanley Chapel which houses the grave of the Stanleys

Painting the Paschal Candle ahead of the Vigil

For the inscription on the blue spiral I decided to paint, in gold lettering, a traditional greeting at Easter in Greek and Latin: Christ is Risen! He is truly Risen! CHRISTVS RESVRREXIT! RESVRREXIT VERE, XPIΣTOΣ ANEΣTH AΛEΘŌΣ ANEΣTH.