Saturday:

18.00: St Edmund’s (Vigil)

Sunday:

08.30: St Edmund’s

10.30: St Edmund’s (Live Streamed)

10.30: Lawshall

10.30: Montana

16.45: St Edmund’s (Polish Language)

Syro-Malabar Rite:

15.00: St Edmund’s (1st & 3rd Saturdays)

Confessions:

10.30: Wednesdays and Saturdays

Stations of the Cross (Lent only):

19.30: Thursdays at St Edmund’s

11.30: Fridays at St Edmund’s

Holydays of Obligation:

19.00 Lawshall (Vigil)

09.00 St Edmund’s Primary School

12.00 St Edmund’s

19.00 St Edmund’s

For weekday Mass times see the newsletter

At that time: The crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear the word of God. He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, ‘Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.’ And Simon answered, ‘Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.’ And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. They signalled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, ‘Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.’ For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.’ And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

Luke 5:1-11

Those who regularly pray Night Prayer of the Church from the Divine Office will know of the four Marian anthems sung at the end of the prayers, marking different seasons of time. From the beginning of Advent until Candlemas in February we sing Alma Redemptoris Mater (Dear Mother of the Redeemer); from Candlemas until Easter it is Ave Regina Caelorum (Hail Queen of Heaven)'; from Easter to Pentecost it is Regina Caeli Laetare (Rejoice, O Queen of Heaven); and from the day after Pentecost until the beginning of Advent we sing the most well known of the four: Salve Regina (Hail Holy Queen). The tunes for these anthems are medieval and can vary from place to place. In many monasteries and convent, a simpler tune is used for the Salve Regina on weekdays and a more complicated version sung on Sundays and Solemnities, for example.

At the moment we sing: Ave Regina Caelorum, ave domina angelorum; salve radix, salve porta, ex qua mundo lux est orta. Gaude Virgo gloriosa, super omnes speciosa; vale, O valde decora, et pro nobis Christum exora.

This can be translated: Hail Queen of Heaven, hail mistress of the angels; hail root, hail gate, from which the light of the world has arisen. Rejoice, O glorious Virgin, beautiful above all others. Farewell, O most beautiful one and pray for us to Christ.