Welcome to the website of the Roman Catholic Parish of St Robert of Newminster, Morpeth

The Parish Priest is Fr Peter J Stott

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St Robert’s is a Gem Church, which is open for worship and quiet prayer during daylight hours.

Morpeth is the County Town of Northumberland. It is a small market town situated in South Northumberland on the banks of the River Wansbeck and St Robert of Newminster Church stands in a beautiful spot next to the river.

St Robert of Newminster Parish shares it’s site with St Robert’s First School and has active Catholic Women’s League, St Vincent de Paul and Catenian groups running.

 

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*****  COVID 19 Coronavirus Information  *****

Because of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Epidemic, all public Masses at St Robert of Newminster Catholic Church and St Bede’s Catholic Church, Bedlington are cancelled until further notice.

Fr Peter continues to celebrate Mass each day, fulfilling the Mass Intentions for each day, for both St Robert’s Parish, Morpeth and St Bede’s Parish, Bedlington, praying for those intentions and praying for the intentions of all parishioners at this very difficult time.

It is unprecedented for us to be in this situation.  Daily and Sunday Mass is so important in the lives of so many Catholics in our parishes up and down the country and throughout the world.

We ask you to pray for all who are affected by this worldwide pandemic.

We are not permitted to celebrate any Funerals in Church at this time.  All that is allowed is a Service at a Crematorium, or at a graveside in a Cemetery, with limited numbers of people attending, depending on the local authority guidelines, which at the moment for us in Northumberland is eight people. 

Baptisms, and Weddings that are planned for the near future and also First Holy Communion celebrations and Receptions into the Church at Easter have been postponed, and new dates will be discussed once the coronavirus restrictions have been lifted.

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The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales website gives lots of information and links …   https://www.cbcew.org.uk/

This website of the Liturgy Department of the Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales is very good with information, leaflets and prayers for use at home when it is not possible to be able to attend Mass  www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/Flu/index.shtml

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The weekly Bulletin is at the bottom of this page.  There are many links below that you might find helpful at this time.

Read here the Letter of Pope Francis for the Month of May, the month of Our Blessed Lady and two new prayers that Pope Francis  is suggesting for the Rosary during May http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2020/documents/papa-francesco_20200425_lettera-mesedimaggio.html

Appeal from Missio APF

The Director of Missio has sent an appeal on behalf of the work of Missio APF, more commonly known because of the Red Mission Boxes many Catholics have in their home.  Click here to read …. COVID19_Letter-Appeal MISSIO

We have received a letter from CAFOD as they and their partners around the world struggle to help those who are suffering from COVID-19 Coronavirus: CAFOD Coronavirus Appeal 

Pentecost Sunday

Please use these links to access the Liturgy of the Word for Pentecost Sunday.  Magnificat Magificat Liturgy for Pentecost ; The Lord’s Day at Home Salford LDAH-Pentecost and Pentecost-Sunday-Liturgy

Seventh Sunday of Easter

Please use these links to help you with different versions of the Liturgy of the Word for Sunday 24th May.

Magnificat: Magnificat 7th Sunday of Easter ;  The Lord’s Day at Home:  The Lord’s Day at Home Easter-7A (Salford) ; 

Sixth Sunday of Easter

There are three different ;inks here to Liturgy of the Word for you to reflect on the 6th Sunday of Easter 6th-Sunday-Easter-Liturgy ; Salford Diocese’s Lords Day at Home Easter 6 ; and  Magnificat Liturgy 6th Sunday of Easter

We celebrate the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord on Thursday and it is traditional to have a Novena (Nine Days of Prayer) to the Holy Spirit, leading up to the descent of the Holy Spirit on the great Feast of Pentecost.  There are many versions of novenas to the Holy Spirit available on the internet but included here are two versions if you wish to use one :

 Novena to the Holy Spirit – Ascension to Pentecost  or Novena to the Holy Spirit

CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy link is here:  https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Children-s-liturgy

The Easter Season

Letter from the five Metropolitan Archbishops of England and Wales to the Catholic community in England and Wales  A People who Hope in Christ – FINAL

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These links are for Stations of the Resurrection / Via Lucis
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http://vialucis.org/index.php/en/

 

PASTORAL LETTER FROM BISHOP ROBERT BYRNE FOR HOLY WEEK AND EASTER 2020 Pastoral Letter Holy Week 2020

 

ONLINE RESOURCES FOR PRAYER AT HOME

Our Diocesan Website has links to many resources … http://www.rcdhn.org.uk/index.php

Shalom World Media has some very good programmes, live steaming and recordings.  They have an App for iOS and their website is www.shalomworld.org   They also have a very good YouTube channel

Faith in Isolation –  https://www.faithinisolation.com/

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https://www.alonetogether.org.uk/

These online resources are offered to help people live through the coronavirus pandemic. Their special quality is that they don’t come from theories; they all come from those with experience of social distancing or isolation, people who have lived this reality either intentionally like monks and nuns or against their will like hostages or the housebound. This is a new and difficult journey for most people but experienced guides give us hope along the way.

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The Vatican You Tube Channel is here.  This will be broadcasting live from St Peters Basilica throughout Holy Week and Easter with the Holy Father Pope Francis presiding at the Masses and Services https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIsefyl9g9A5SGWA4FvGIA/videos

Loyola Press, run by the Jesuits in the United States, has a great selection of devotions and prayers to use online for Holy Week on this link https://www.loyolapress.com/our-catholic-faith/liturgical-year/holy-week

Our Sunday Visitor is an American website that gives many resources for prayer and news about the Church  https://www.osvnews.com/

The Wednesday Word website  http://wednesdayword.org/  has various online resources for parishes, individuals and young people, to help reflect on the Sunday Readings.

“Magnificat” are offering free access to their daily prayer and Mass booklet.  This link will take you to their US website where you can access their free download. https://us.magnificat.net/free

Live Masses are also streamed via these websites www.churchservices.tv     www.mcnmedia.tv  www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass  www.ewtn.com  www.catholictv.org  Westminster Cathedral recently joined the Churches that stream on churchserices.tv   Just click the link above to scroll through the list of Churches to find.

The Walsingham website, https://www.walsingham.org.uk/ , the National Shrine of Our Blessed Lady for England, streams Daily Mass as well as having other links available on their site

The Shrine of Our Lady at Knock in Ireland is live streaming Masses and Services.  Their website also has some very good Prayers for Holy Week … www.knockshrine.ie

The Salesians of St John Bosco has provided this website for when people cant get to church http://www.salesians.org.uk/news-articles/featured-news/when-i-can-t-get-to-church.html

The Redemptorists are live streaming Mass on this link  www.rpbooks.co.uk/holy-mass-online

St Mary’s Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne will be streaming Mass every day during the suspension of public Masses … www.youtube.com/cha…/UC12EvW0Eqg-cFTh5i2y_EQw/videos and Mass will also be streamed live from St Mary’s Church, Hexham at 10am on a Sunday  www.stmaryshexham.org.uk

Mass and The Rosary is streamed live from The Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes on this link  www.lourdes-france.org/en/tv-lourdes/ and the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima has online transmissions on this link  www.fatima.pt/en/pages/online-transmissions

KTO is a French Catholic TV Channel and broadcasts Mass and the Divine Office thought the day https://www.ktotv.com/ all times given are local French time

The “Univeraslis” website  universalis.com  gives access to the daily readings for Mass as well as other Offices of the Church. It also offers for sale via the App Store for both ios and Android operating systems, the Universalis App which gives wonderful access to Mass texts and the full Divine Office of the Church as well as other devotions.

 

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Your Weekly Offering

During this time of not being able to attend Public Masses, you may be wondering about what to do about your weekly offering to the Church.  Please do not try to come to the Presbytery to drop off your weekly envelope.  Keep your offering until such time that we are once again back to our normal Sunday routine.  To make your life much easier, you could complete a Standing Order Mandate, where you ask your bank to take your collection amount out of your account and pay it directly into the Parish Account.  If you wish to do this copies of the Mandate are available here to download and complete and post to your bank.  Copies are also available in Church.

PDF version Morpeth Standing Order Mandate

Another way of making your weekly offering is direct via BACS.  You can go online to your Bank account and make an online payment.  Send an email to the parish email address and a link will be forwarded for you to follow to make a BACS payment.

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