Well, it has finally happened. The Church re-opens this Wednesday for private prayer.
We will at first only be open on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This has been agreed by all the priests in Hackney. It allows the Church to clean itself of any lingering presence of the virus between openings. You still need to observe the rules about social distancing, being careful about what you touch, and about taking any paper you touch home with you. DO NOT READ THE NEWSLETTER AND THEN LEAVE IT IN CHURCH. I put this in capitals because normally several people do this. Now this is an infection risk to those who clean the Church. This re-opening is a great opportunity for us to renew our prayer in front of the Tabernacle, in the presence of Jesus. That is stressed because Sunday is the feast of Corpus and Sanguis Christi when we thank our Lord for his gift to us of the Eucharist. In Communion our Lord unites us to himself and gives us countless graces and virtues. Then on Friday we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. This Wednesday, 17th June, is the anniversary of the consecration of the diocese to the Sacred Heart in 1873, just as our parish was founded. This feast is an opportunity to reflect on how our Lord pours the love of God onto us from his heart, conceived in Mary’s womb by the Holy Spirit and pierced on the cross by the soldier’s spear. From it pours the blood and water of the Eucharist and Baptism. This is immediately followed on Saturday by the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to whom our Church and parish are consecrated. This is our chance to thank our Blessed Mother for all the gifts, favours and graces she has won for us by her continual prayer. She who lived all her life without sin yet looks down on us in our weakness with compassion and love. She pleads with her Son for us that we may grow ever more pleasing to him.
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