FULLY BOOKED: St Joseph's 11 am Mass 01/08/21

St Joseph's 11 am Mass has been FULLY BOOKED for Sunday 1st August. Please do not try and attend if you have not booked a place as you risk being turned away.

Protecting the Health of Our Clergy and Congregations. (Updated Step 4: guidance)

Bishop Robert Byrne CO, in consultation with the Episcopal Council, has taken both Clergy and Lay advice with regard to HM Government’s announcement about Step 4 of the Covid–19 Roadmap. Due to the very high infection rates across all areas of the Diocese, Bishop Robert has asked that Clergy retain all of the COVID control measures and cleaning protocols that they are currently following in all of our churches and church halls until at least the end of August 2021. In September there will be a review of available data and guidance to allow further decisions to be made regarding controls and protocols.

The full text of Bishop Robert’s statement is available on the Diocesan website here

A statement from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales can also be read here

Step 4 of the Covid Roadmap

The Government announced that we are moving to Step 4 of the Covid Roadmap from Monday 19th July 2021.

However, Fr Colm has decided that due to dangerously high Covid cases in our area, we will continue as we are until we await further advice from the Diocese. We will let you know as soon as possible of any changes. Thank you for your continued patience and cooperation in these difficult and everchanging times.

Please continue to book in for our three weekend Masses as we are still restricted to 44 and 59 places at St. Godric’s and St. Joseph’s respectively. Also, it would be of great help, if you are acting as a Minister, that you book in too, as you still need to be counted as an attendee for our weekly statistics.

The deadline for booking in is 2.00pm on Friday afternoon.