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Congratulations Fr Zbigniew

Congratulations to Fr Zbigniew on the Anniversary of his ordination.

Please keep him, along with others with special occasions at this time, in your prayers as they celebrate under the current unusual circumstances.

Prayer and Listening Service

Prayer and listening to God is a vital part of our everyday life, but sometimes it is difficult to pray. The Diocese have set up a prayer and listening service at the instigation of Bishop Philip and a trained Prayer Minister is available to help you, if you wish. Have a look at https://www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/prayer-support

Happy Easter 2020

We wish you all a very Happy and Peaceful Easter in these strange times.

If you missed it, you can watch Easter Sunday Mass here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9w6id9uBe0

Collection

While we are separated from each other, if you usually put money in the collection at Mass, we would like to encourage you to donate direct to the parish account instead. Details of this are:

Lloyds Bank
30 93 04
00882993

PRCDTR Newbury St Francis de Sales
Ref: St Francis de Sales/Your name

Holy Saturday Short Service

Our final short service of the Triduum before Easter Sunday Mass.

Good Friday Short Service

Fr Zbigniew leads us in the reading of the Passion in a short Good Friday service.

Maundy Thursday Short Service

Fr Zbigniew shares the Gospel and his homily in this intimate service with the community.

Easter Triduum Online Services

An update on the services we will be streaming over the Easter Triduum.

While we will not be bringing you the main Easter Triduum services, you will be able to join us for a short service at 6pm on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Please tune in at http://www.stfrancisdesales.org.uk/mass-live.

Palm Sunday

We successfully streamed Palm Sunday mass, with readers, music and no major technical hiccups this week. If you missed it, you can catch up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Z-jh5ujec

Thank you everyone who has helped out with this including the readers, musicians and cameraman. Particular thanks to Fr Zbigniew for continuing to celebrate mass with us, despite no being able to see or hear us.

Mass Live with Readers

We were able to bring you mass live again today with readers joining us from St Francis de Sales, Wash Common and Our Lady of Lourdes, Hungerford, along with some music as well. Thank you all those who participated and made it possible.

We did unfortunately have some technical issues at the time of the offertory, and this ended up generating a second video on Youtube with a different link. We will be further testing and investigating our system this week to hopefully improve for next week.