I hope that you will be able to join us over the coming days as we celebrate our Patronal Festival as a Parish. A Patronal Festival  is when we give thanks for the saint we are named after and so whose ‘patronage’ we are under. It is a bit like a birthday celebration as we look back to what has been and forward with hope and prayer to what will be – asking that we may be inspiredby, and seek to follow the example of, our patron saint.  For us as a Parish Mary is our patron – and 15th August is a major festival of Mary. (Later on we will celebrate her as Patron of St Mary’s Church and then St Faith as patron of St Faith’s Church).

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