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The new site is now up and running but still at a very early stage - It takes time to get these things really at home on the internet. However, using the links on the left will help you familiarise yourself with the system. Members of the Leadership Team will have received by email further information as it becomes available before putting it on this site for general view, as earlier than that point most communication will be in draft form. There will, however, be no subsequent blacking out!* Sic: ................ sic! *(Readers of the Parliament website will know what this means.) The next meeting of the Leadership Pastoral Team will be at Lymington on 25th June at 7.00 pm. Minutes of the last meeting (13th May) will appear in time for people to have read them before the Meeting. There will be a few copies available on paper for any who might have had a problem downloading or forgotten to bring their copies. I am sorry to say there is no agenda for the June meeting, but Fr. Jamie tells me it is going to a be a 'brainstorming' evening and says in an email: 'No agenda. I will introduce the "brain storming" session, so bring your brain' Editor Interesting thoughts on our present political situation, especially in view of the imminent voting for a new Speaker in the Common. [ Click here ]
The 17th June marked the Silver Jubilee of Mike's Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate and the people of Our Lady of Lourdes' Church in New Milton will be celebrating the occasion at a joint Mass and Party on 24th June when Bishop Crispian will be with the parishioners' and their much-loved pastors, Father Gerrit Vervenne and Rev. Mike Deacon. On 27th June it will be the 40th Anniversary of Father Vervenne's Ordination to the Priesthood. Parishioners of Milford have also been invited to share in the Ruby and Silver Jubilee party. They will be celebrating in September in Milford to mark the 10th Anniversary of Father Vervenne's arrival to rescue the Church of St Francis of Assisi who had been left without a priest after Father Dunne retired in 1999. Our Lady of Lourdes people now look forward in their turn to sharing in those celebrations in Milford. Father Vervenne's arrival meant many changes at St. Francis - for a start all the Milford Catholics finally discovered who each other were - since each group had previously stuck to their chosen Mass timings and many had no idea who their fellow Catholics in Milford were! The Church itself was refurbished and turned into a warm, attractive and welcoming environment where the parishioners became more relaxed, all of which fitted very well into the increasingly ecumenical grouping of the Churches of Milford. Certainly the members of both churches get along well together when they meet socially and all are grateful to have been given such devoted men to look after their spiritual welfare.
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