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Happy Eastertide!
Happy Eastertide!
We have spent forty days of Lent preparing to celebrate Easter and now we have fifty days of Eastertide in which to do so.
Our celebrations began with the Easter Triduum which was made extra special this year at Holy Souls as we shared two of the liturgies with our Polish community and also by the fact that we had an adult baptism at the Easter Vigil. Easter Sunday also was a very joyful occasion and it was good to be able to welcome a number of visitors and 'occasional attenders' to our parish.
It would be easy to think 'well that is all that over for another year' but there are a number of occasions during the Eastertide that are worthy of note. The Sunday immediately after Easter is traditionally known as Low Sunday but in recent years has become associated with the Divine Mercy devotion and is thus another opportunity to recall the immensity of the mercy of Christ. For the first two Sundays after Easter the Gospels at Mass tell of the appearances of the Risen Jesus to his disciples, then there follows Good Shepherd Sunday with the World Day of Prayer for vocations, and after that we prepare for the Ascension and then the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Feast of Pentecost which brings Eastertide to a fitting close.
We also return to celebrating Feastdays of the Saints including during this period St George (23 April), The English Martyrs (4 May), and St Bede (25 May). We also look forward to our parish celebration of First Holy Communion on Saturday 26 May.
I hope that our various Easter celebrations will give us a renewed sense of confidence. The word 'con-fidence' means believing together. Often as Christians we can feel isolated and marginalised in our world today. Our Easter celebrations remind us not only that the Lord is truly Risen, but that even in our own neighbourhood hundreds of others share that faith with us. Together we can go forward and make a difference, allowing our lives to be changed by our faith, and sharing that difference with others.
Welcome to the Holy Souls Parish Website
Welcome to the website for Holy Souls Parish. We hope this site will be a useful source of information both for parishioners and for those who are looking for information about our parish and about the Catholic community in the Northern part of Scunthorpe and in the smaller towns and villages immediatley to the north of the town.
This is a very special year for us at Holy Souls because we are now 100 years old and there will be a number of special events throughout our centenary year. Some photos from the Mass which began the centenary year can be seen in the gallery section. If you are near Scunthorpe then I hope you might join in some of our centenary activities in person, if you live some distance away then you will be able to keep in touch through this website.
With every blessing,
Father Eddy Jarosz (Parish Priest)