Blessings in Difficult Times

The parish is receiving a lot of messages and letters from both people from within the parish and further afield. Here’s a flavour in thanksgiving to a good God:

“The world needs this isolation. We all need it personally to reconnect with our souls so that we can rediscover who God made us to be and to live out our real mission. The family of St Joseph’s is really helping me to reflect on all that is good and needed and I feel alive, awake and spiritually inspired”.

“A huge thank you for all that your parish are doing during lockdown. It is so evident that the Holy Spirit is working overtime in St Joseph’s. Fr Philip spoke about the parish as a tree in one of his homilies, but I wonder whether the parish can see the seeds on it? St Joseph’s and all its ministries is, as it were, sending out seeds like tealights of the Holy Spirit which are then growing in other parishes”.

“Being able to ‘attend’ Mass from home has been a new and strange experience for me. This online presence of St Joseph’s has brought something of the nature of God into our homes and is a silver lining in these times and I did want the parish to know that you are touching people who may not have otherwise experienced Easter or Resurrection. I find myself beginning to discover some resurrection of the spirit within me, helping me to rebuild once again a closeness to God that has been lost to me for far too long”