AUGUST MASS SCHEDULE

Dear British faithful, 

 

From August, and for the foreseeable future, Mass will take place on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month at 11am at the following location: John Cumber Hall, High St, Theale, Reading RG7 5AN 

 

This means that Masses for August will be on the 11th and 25th of August at this location, at 11am, as mentioned previously. 

 

This location is about a ten minute walk from Theale train station, which is itself about an hour and a half from central London. On Sundays, owing to reduced public transport, this involves getting a train to Reading, before a brief change over to Theale, which is very close by. 

 

There is also parking for a few cars, and the town itself should have more accessible parking than Ridge, in any case. Theale is just off the M4, and, as a result, should hopefully be far more accessible for those of us who drive than Ridge was. 

 

The medium-term plan, God willing, is for Fr Gilchrist to take over a mission at the Drift Golf Club in Surrey in addition to this mission. This would be a historic first for the mission in that it would be the first time that we would offer Mass at more than one location on a regular basis. 

 

But, in any case, as Fr Gilchrist gets settled in, and his French visa approved, we can begin to get a better idea of to where we can expand and what we can begin to offer the faithful. It is my personal hope that we can add on a mission in the Midlands or the North at some point in the next year or two. 

 

Going forward, from perhaps the next newsletter onwards, Fr Aedan Gilchrist, our dear priest, will take over this newsletter. It has been a pleasure writing to you all over the past year and a half. 

 

God bless you!