First Holy Communion

Corpus et Sanguis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi

Today is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, commonly shortened to Corpus Christi. It is the day in our calendar on which we celebrate our children's First Holy Communion. They been preparing since last September for this day by working with our Catechists and their parents month by month.

Ben, Raquel, Uzoma, Molly, Luke, Riya and Mathio with Fr John Berry, Fr Philip McBrien and Fr Justin Onouha who celebrated the First Communion Mass at 10 am today.

Forty Hours in Leicester East Deanery

On the traditional day that we used to celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, we are beginning the devotion of Forty Hours. This is forty hours of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, chosen this year as a preparation for our celebration of Corpus Christi this weekend.





Here in the Leicester East Deanery were are sharing out the forty hours between our eight parishes, each taking five hours in turn on a rota. Beginning at 7am each day until 12 noon, one parish begins the rota of adoration handing over to the next parish at noon until 5pm and then a third parish takes over from 5pm until 10pm when the devotion ends for that day. Some churches are equipped with chapels that can accommodate this devotion 24 hours a day, but they are few and far between and so we have chosen to spread our adoration over three days in daylight hours. The forty hours will end at 5pm on Saturday just in time for the celebration of the Vigil Mass in most churches of the Deanery.

In Immaculate Conception our turn on the Deanery rota begins at 12 noon today as we take over from St Thomas More, Knighton Road.

Pentecost 2013

To bring the Easter season to a close the church is resplendent in red for the feast of Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit. The other name of Whit Sunday refers to the white garment of the Neophytes or newly baptised who were clothed in it at the Easter Vigil when they were baptised and now put it aside after today.

Coffee Morning

After our 10 am Mass today, as it is the last Monday of the month, we had a Coffee Morning in our refurbished parish room

Planting out the runner beans

Now that the Easter Garden has been dismantled, the some children have taken home their runner bean plants that they grew. Some however have been planted out in the church garden.

LOW SUNDAY

As the Easter Octave draws to a close we celebrated on Low Sunday the Investiture of one of our altar servers into the Guild of St Stephen.

 

 

At the end of the Children's Liturgy, he received his medal after reciting the Guild Promise with the other servers present at Mass.



EASTER SUNDAY

Jesus Christ is risen, alleluia!

As we celebrated the Mass of Easter Day we were presented with the sign of the empty tomb

Our children's liturgy group added brightly coloured flowers to complete their Easter Garden during the Mass and spoke about their Liturgy to a packed congregation at the 10am Mass