The Gift of a Shepherd
Our prayers have been answered. Pope Leo has appointed Fr Stephen Wang as the Sixth Bishop of Arundel and Brighton. He is currently the Rector of the Venerable English College in Rome and a priest of the Diocese of Westminster. When you read his CV, you can see he will bring much to the Diocese and lead us into the future.
He is now described as Bishop-Elect and will be ordained Bishop and take possession of the Diocese sometime in the autumn. We have to wait until then to include him in the Eucharistic Prayers, but we will be praying for him from now on.
He has spoken to us on video and has been welcomed by Archbishop Richard and Archbishop John Wilson of the Southwark Province.
For more details of Fr Stephen Wang’s appointment, please click here.
The Patronal Feast
9 July 1963 was the date the Bishop of Southwark blessed and opened the church of St Thomas More, serving the areas of Patcham, Westdene, and Hollingbury. It was the Parish Priest of St Mary’s, Fr Edward Fooks, who initiated its building for the growing area. Subsequently, it was erected as a parish with Fr Peter Rogers as its first Parish Priest.
St Thomas More—scholar, statesman, and saint—was executed on Tower Hill on 6 July.
The Mass of the Dedication of the Church can be found in the back part of your Sunday Missals. We will be celebrating with a celebratory drink after Mass.
Mass Schedule
- Sunday, 5 July, 10am – Patronal & Dedication Feast Mass
- Monday, 6 July, 8.15am – St Maria Goretti Mass (at St Mary’s House)
- Wednesday, 8 July, 9.30am – Weekday Mass
- Friday, 10 July, 9.30am – Weekday Mass
- Sunday, 12 July, 10am – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sea Sunday Mass)
The Word of Life
Copies for the month of July’s prayerful reflection are now available.
The Pallium
St Bernadette’s Governors
The governors will meet this Thursday afternoon.
Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
Psalm 122
St Thomas More Church, Patcham, Brighton 