Invitation time
As we approach the Feast of Pentecost it is a time of promise and invitation as we await a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Before his departure into glory the risen and ascended Lord foretold the gift of the Spirit to be our Helper and Advocate along side us as the Spirit of Truth and Understanding. The days before next Sunday prepare us by prayer and waiting with the call ‘Come Holy Spirit!’ We will recall with all the active words the action of this great gift.
World Communication Sunday
Pope Leo in his message calls us to preserve human faces and voices in the way we use means of communication. “We must value artificial intelligence, in as far as it can be of benefit – but be careful not to lose our sense of our own personality and humanity.”
Bishop John Arnold, Bishop of Salford and Lead Bishop for Communications for the Bishops’ Conference, has spoken ahead of the 60th World Day of Social Communication about the opportunities and pitfalls of AI. You can hear what he has to say by playing the audio file below.
There is a second collection to support the work of communications in the Church in this country.
Mass Schedule
- Sunday 17th May 10am 7th of Easter
- Monday 18th May 8:15am St Mary’s House
- Wednesday 20th May 9:30am St Dunstan – Julie Hilton RIP
- Friday 22nd May 9:30am
- Saturday 23rd May 8:30am HMP Lewes
- Sunday 24th May 10am Pentecost Day
This Week
- Monday. Clergy Welfare visit
- Tuesday Brighton & Hove Clergy Team Meeting
- Wednesday Annual Lightning Conductor inspection
- Thursday City Pre- Pentecost Day of prayer for Christians
- Friday Tribunal Judgement
Prayer for Vocations
In this 7th Week we pray for more priests who will celebrate the sacraments of healing with the living and the dying.
Our Works of Art
With the Brighton Festival wee underway it seemed an appropriate time to remember for history the works of Art , Fr Edward Fooks the builder of St Thomas More’s Church opened in 1963, commissioned. On entering the church there is the carved wooden statue of our Patron, St Thomas More,
Lord Chancellor and Martyr -Statesman , Scholar and Saint. On the base you will see the signature of Arthur J. J. Ayres. He was born in 1902 and died in 1985. Sculptor and teacher, noted as a distinguished carver. Studied at the Royal Academy Schools and the British School in Rome. Some of his works are held in the Bolton Art Gallery and others exist in the Tyburn Shrine to the Martyrs – a carved wooden crucifix, a statue of St Aidan of Lindisfarne in East Acton, stone works on Westminster Abbey – where his memorial service took place and the Adelphi building. An artist to research further. His wood carving was mainly in lime wood.
Come Holy Spirit, dance
Within our hearts today
Our earthbound spirits to entrance
Our mortal fears allay
And teach us to desire
All other things above
That self-consuming holy fire
The perfect gift of love.
St Thomas More Church, Patcham, Brighton 