Horizons of Hope - The 2025 Conclave
FROM FRANCIS TO LEO: WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CONCLAVE? with CNN’s Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb in dialogue with Austen Ivereigh, who commentated for the BBC. What was the choice the Cardinals faced, and what are the indications of where Pope Leo wants the church to go. It will be held on Saturday 19th July, 10.00am - 12.30pm at Hedley Lodge, Belmont Abbey, Hereford HR2 9RZ. All are welcome.
Sunday 15th – Sunday 29th June, daily 11.00am – 3.00pm The Shroud of Turin: Is this the face of Jesus Christ? – St. Francis Xavier’s, Hereford An award-winning exhibition of the “Turin Shroud.” Open daily 11-3 free admission Saturday 21st June, 2pm to 5pm Belmont Parish Fete – Belmont Abbey, Hereford Saturday 28th June, 10.00am – 3.00pm Catholic Renewal Jubilee Day – Belmont Abbey, Hereford The diocesan Catholic Charismatic Team invites you to praise and worship. Mass and small group sharing at Jubilee Shrines across the Archdiocese. Bring a packed lunch Saturday 19th July 2025, 10am to 12.30pm FROM FRANCIS TO LEO: WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CONCLAVE ? with CNN’s Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb in dialogue with Austen Ivereigh, who commentated for the BBC. What was the choice the Cardinals faced, and what are the indications of where Pope Leo wants the church to go. It will be held on Saturday 19 th July, 10.00am - 12.30pm at Hedley Lodge, Belmont Abbey, Hereford HR2 9RZ. All are welcome. Thursday 24th July at 11.00am Annual Mass at Longworth Chapel, Bartestree Celebrant: Archbishop Mark Friday 15th August at 2.30pm Mass of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady – Rotherwas Chapel Sunday 24th August – time tba John Kemble Pilgrimage - St. Mary the Virgin, Welsh Newton Sunday 14th September at 3.00pm Ecumenical Vespers at Tintern Abbey on the Feast of the Holy Cross. Preacher: Abbot Brendan, with singing led by the monks of Belmont and Newport Cathedral Download details here
Today, the children of Our Lady's School came over to lay flowers before the statue of our Holy Mother of God. We sang a hymn, Fr Andrew said some prayers and a decade of the rosary. It was quite beautiful.
Jubilee Family Funday being held in Belmont Abbey on Saturday May 31 st from 11am
O God, who in your providential design willed that your Church be built upon blessed Peter, whom you set over the other Apostles, look with favour, we pray, on Leo our Pope and grant that he, whom you have made Peter's successor, may be for your people a visible source and foundation of unity in faith and of communion.
An Ecumenical service celebrating the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicea
Pope Francis has died at 7.35am on Easter Monday at the age of 88 Requiescat in Pace. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html
WOW (Widow or Widowers) group Since 2022 we have steadily grown in numbers and now there are almost twenty of us, aged from 65 to 80+. We meet in the Belmont parish centre on the first Tuesday of the month at 11 O'clock, share a cuppa, cake and friendly chat. We also have some sort of activity, in March it was pancakes (as the meeting fell on shrove Tuesday) supplied by the kitchen at Belmont Abbey, and a quiz. Last month we had a game of “Bird Bingo” which was enjoyed by all. We go for the occasional meal out, the Cider Orchard Restaurant at the college being a particular favourite. In the summer months we have been on outings to local National Trust Properties. We go to parish events as a group meaning there is always someone you know to sit with. As a group we help with the Annual Summer Fete either as stall holders, washer ups or car park attendants. Although based at Belmont Abbey, the group is open to any widow or widowers not just parishioners, several of our members are non-catholic. That said, we always start the meeting with our WOW Prayer,where we particularly remember our loved ones’ anniversaries. New to this year I have also started to do a newsletter for the group. Anyone interested can just turn up on the meeting day or in any further info is required my email is: juliemirfin@btinternet.com . March 25 Newsletter
13th July – Bring a dish to share, Pimm’s, strawberries and cream. 26th September – MacMillan Coffee Morning. 11th October – Parish Quiz. 18th October – Jumble Sale. 15th November – Christmas Fayre. 7th December – Christmas Lunch, bring a dish to share plus raffle. To be arranged, Bingo, Children’s Film Night, Children’s Quiz.
As part of our ‘Warm Spaces Project’ the parish will be hosting a coffee morning on Tuesday 25th March from 10.30am in the Parish Hall. Representatives from the Citizens Advice Bureau will be in attendance for private consultations. Please do your best to support the coffee morning and bring your friends as holding these community events improves our chance of obtaining Lottery grants and other funding towards our hall renovations. Thereafter, regular coffee mornings will be held on the second Tuesday of the month.
The Holy Father has decided that 2025 will be a year of Jubilee, something which happens every 25 years. The theme is “Pilgrims of Hope” We are all on a pilgrimage towards Heaven, towards ‘sharing the glory of God’, as St Paul puts it. Any pilgrimage or journey is sustained by hope: hope in the destination. We are currently preparing for the Jubilee Year 2025, which Pope Francis has given the theme, Pilgrims of Hope. We might say that this Jubilee Year, and our preparations for it, are another pilgrimage within that great pilgrimage of our faith, one in which we seek to deepen our sense of hope in God’s promises, in ‘sharing the glory of God’. As we look at the world around us, hope is something that is very much needed in these times. We need it, too, in our personal lives, in the lives of our families, and as a virtue cultivated in all of our relationships. It is important that we share the hope we gain in faith, with others, a hope borne of the knowledge of God’s love and the experience of knowing Jesus Christ. Our Year of Preparation for the Jubilee Year is to be a year of prayer, focusing, in particular, on the Lord’s Prayer, in order to foster our relationship with God our Father. This will open us up to receiving the graces and blessings that He wishes to bestow on us during the Jubilee Year…Archbishop Mark O’Toole.