September 2009 edition (PDF 3.7MB) - The Church of St John The ...

On Monday the 31 st August sixteen people from St John’s travelled to
Walsingham for the Healing and Renewal pilgrimage. This year we welcomed
back Roy and Jenny (Roy Cavey’s parents) and Anne and Mick (Rob Smith’s
parents). We also welcomed Marge (Janice Williams’ Mother-in-Law). We all
gathered at church where prayers were led by Father Ivan and we were
sprinkled with holy water. Our journey then began with a full minibus off to
Walsingham! Obviously we had to stop at our usual place for breakfast
where people enjoyed drinks and hot food, including bacon rolls. After a
nice trouble-free journey we arrived in Walsingham at 10:15am.
People then had free time to
enjoy the atmosphere and sit in
the shrine grounds before mass
at 12 noon. The servers went to
the servers’ meeting in the sacristy
to find out what would be
needed of them for the rest of
the day. For the sung mass four
servers were required, so Roy
and myself decided to sit out
and watch! At this mass Rob
was Thurifer, Frances was Crucifer
and Domenico and Carolyn were acolytes. The Principal celebrant was
Bishop Lindsay Urwin OGS, administrator of the Shrine and the Preacher
was Father Tim Pike, warden of the Company of Mission Priests.
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