Dear Friends,

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Many of us by now will have had the first Covid jab and are wondering what version of “normality” we might be returning to; will it just be status quo ante or something better?

On Saturday 6th March there will be a livestream event 11.00 – 12.30 entitled Learning from Covid; church, state and a better future by Dr Gemma Simmonds C.J.  She is a religious sister of the Congregation of Jesus formerly known as the IBVM. Many of you will have visited the Bar Convent in York, that is one of their houses. Dr Simmonds (Sr Gemma) is the senior Research Fellow & Director of the Religious Life Institute at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge. Further details on the Home page.

Ampleforth Abbey via You tube have a series of home retreats on their website.

Please pray for the following parishioners whose funerals will soon be taking place; - Joan McDonald, John Kennedy, Daniel Steele, Gwen Riley & Jane Nigg. Apart from Jane having a Requiem Mass at St John’s all the other funerals will take place at either the crematorium or the cemetery. Also please pray for the parents of Baby Gaia Greenwood. I will be conducting Gaia’s funeral Service in Hull.

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God bless,

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Canon David Grant,  

20th February 2021