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Photographs taken over the Easter Triduum 2023

Our Lady of Peace Building Consultation link

Photographs from, Mass of Saint Benedict at the Guild Chapel 20 July 2022

Mass of Saint Benedict at the Guild Chapel

 

Our Lady of Peace (OLP) Church expansion meeting:  Saturday, the 6th of November at 11 am 

The diocese is very keen for us to expand OLP church to cater for the new housing in the area. There will be a meeting for all parishioners to discuss plans for this on Saturday, the 6th of November at 11 am in the church at Shottery.   It is hoped to expand the seating area by moving the sanctuary and altar  to the present sacristy, and to install a new moveable glass screen between it and the church, to install a new central entrance and new ceiling to cover up the existing industrial roofing, as well as new carpeting and seating. This will greatly increase the church’s capacity as well as creating a much more beautiful, worthy  and fitting place of worship that our Shottery congregation deserves. We have funds available but need to progress this as soon as possible. Hopefully this can be done smoothly and with unanimity and enthusiasm.

Proposed drawings for Our Lady of Peace, Shottery:

These are not necessarily the finished plans but simply a starting point for discussion.

Some Photograph’s taken during Lent 2021

St Gregory the Great Lent 2021

The God Who Speaks  Weekly Meditations by Fr Dries Van den Akker S.J on the Paintings of St Matthews Gospel by Peter Clare.  link 

Progress inside St Gregory’s restoration March 2020  13th June link, 30th May link,  19th May link, 23rd Feb link

Parish Update June 2020- Iyerekhu St Paul’s Mission School link

St Gregory’s Stratford-upon Avon, is a unique Catholic  Parish, the home of the town’s Catholic community and part of the universal church. It is the birthplace of Shakespeare and is both an historic and a typical English market town which receives many visitors from all over the world.  It is also home to an international community. We are situated on the River Avon in the beautiful countryside of South Warwickshire on the edge of the Cotswolds.

We are a monastic parish run by the Benedictine monks of Douai Abbey in Berkshire. The parish covers the town of Stratford and the nearby villages, including Shottery, Wilmcote and Snitterfield. Unusually it borders no fewer than eight other catholic parishes: Wooton Wawen, Hampton-on-the-Hill, Warwick, Kineton, Shipston, Chipping Campden, Bidford and Alcester.

All who come here to worship and to visit, are warmly welcomed as God’s children and part of God’s family. We hope that they may experience God’s love and a spirit of profound prayer.

St Gregory’s aims to foster that love through personal spiritual development, combined with an active expression of faith by participating in parish life, and by reaching out and caring for the wider community.

This weeks newsletter link

Parish Visitation by Bishop William Kenney 7/8 March 2020

St Gregory the Great Parish Visitation

Fr Alex’s 40th Anniversary of Ordination and his 70th Birthday  Sunday 2nd February 2020. Photos https://flic.kr/s/aHsmLag5EJ

Fr Alex Austin - 40th Anniversary of Ordination & 70th Birthday

Birmingham Diocesan Trust (the Archdiocese of Birmingham) has launched a new Whistleblowing Policy. This policy aims to help individuals to raise with confidence, and without having to worry about being victimised, discriminated against or disadvantaged in any way, as a result of any serious concerns (including safeguarding issues) they may have about post-holders, colleagues, their employer, or with how the Trust operates. Find the policy at: https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/policies. The Diocese is also a member of Protect, formerly Public Concern at Work, who are leading experts in whistleblowing. They provide confidential advice to individuals regarding whistleblowing – visit – https://protect-advice.org.uk/

Photographs from Christmas eve Mass 2018 at Our Lady of Peace  link

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