The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is running in our town from Monday 18^th January  – Sunday 24th.

Due to the current situation we cannot meet together with different churches in the usual way to pray, but all are being encouraged to sign up on a prayer diary and commit to engage in prayer for one hour slots.

Many people from across the various congregations in our town will be doing this over the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and all at St Joseph’s are encouraged to participate and join in.

You can access the prayer diary and some prayer resources through the ‘Week of Prayer’ poster on the home page of Holy Trinity’s website www.trinitytewkesbury.org.uk which takes you to the Prayer page with a link to the Prayer Diary where individuals can input their name to a slot of their choice – any hour between 7.00am – 10.00pm Monday – Sunday.

Whilst people in our various church communities cannot meet physically in large numbers, we can at least come together virtually in prayer – expressing our unity as one church across different congregations in and around Tewkesbury. Please get in touch with any other parishioners you know who may not have seen this post and would like to be involved.

Below a video is provided, by Holy Trinity, ‘Call to Prayer’ as an encouragement to sign up. Feel free to use it as you see fit.

The following information has been received from Clifton and covers most questions that people might have regarding public worship etc.

We thank our volunteers and stewards for keeping our church safe during this most difficult and worrying time.

In a new Apostolic Letter entitled Patris corde (“With a Father’s Heart”), Pope Francis describes Saint Joseph as a beloved father, a tender and loving father, an obedient father, an accepting father; a father who is creatively courageous, a working father, a father in the shadows.

The Letter marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX’s declaration of St Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. To celebrate the anniversary, Pope Francis has proclaimed a special “Year of St Joseph,” beginning on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 2020 and extending to the same feast in 2021.

Each time we say Mass we will recite together the prayer to St Joseph which you will find on a card at the end of the row where you are sitting.

Please see below the copy of a letter from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference to the government, concerning the closure of places of worship.

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