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6th Sunday of Easter A 2026, A message from the Diocesan Administrator

REMINDER: Fr. Simon is away this Sunday, and we welcome Fr. Denys from the Rosminians who will celebrate 3 of our 4 Sunday Masses. There is no 5pm Mass on Sunday evening (10th May).

Brothers and sisters, it’s become a regular Sunday evening ‘thing' for me to flick through parish websites and social media platforms to glimpse at the life of our communities.

How blessed we are to be in such good company with one another in our discipleship and service of the Gospel. I was recently in Rome with the Bishops of England and Wales, who showed an encouraging interest in our Diocesan Pastoral Plan. I know that you are all working closely with your priests and deacons to help realise the beautiful vision Archbishop Richard gave us in ‘The Word Who is Life’. I pray for you all daily and am especially mindful of the parishes in which I have been privileged to serve; of the specific needs, sorrows, and joys marking the life of our people each week; and of those names who appear in parish newsletters because they are sick or are recently deceased. All these prayers I remember in the Mass I am asked to offer each Sunday ‘for all the people of the Diocese’. Please pray for me and for the election of a new Bishop for our Diocese. God bless. Father Jonathan Martin, Diocesan Administrator.

Thursday is the ‘Ascension of the Lord’ and a ‘Holy Day of Obligation’. Masses locally are:
• 7pm on Wednesday 13th May, the Vigil Mass in St Joan’s Farnham
• 9.30am on Thursday 14th May, the Mass of the Day in Holy Angels, Ash
• 11am on Thursday 14th May, the Mass of the Day in St Joan’s, Farnham
• 7.30pm on Thursday 14th May, the Mass of the Day in Holy Family, Heath End