We at Shrewsbury have had a productive year. We still have bi-monthly Ultreyas; on the last Saturday of January, March, May, July and September, then our Christmas Ultreya on the first Saturday of December.
There have been several changes. The fact that there unfortunately is no longer a Mass with the Ultreya.
The parish in which we have the Ultreya has been joined with the church in West Kirby, with only one priest and there has not, at present, been a chance to find if Canon David will allow a priest to say Mass for us (even if we can find one as they are few and far between on the Wirral at present).
We will be starting on the 12 November, to have
groupings at St Catherine and Martina Parish Centre, Hoylake, 7.30pm. start 9pm. finish, (through blue gates at left hand side of church; on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month.
At St Michael and all Angels, Woodchurch, we are in the process of negotiating the parish room for grouping on the first and third week of the month. We do not know the day, hopefully, it will be also be 7.30. – 9pm. We have a couple of fundraising events shortly. A Christmas fair and a musical evening in the New Year.
On November 6th two of us were stewards at Bishop Brian Noble’s funeral. It was fitting that there were at least ten Cursillistas there to my knowledge. It is difficult to know as there were over 500 people in the church and the rest outside in the rain.
Bishop Brian was the bishop who allowed a Cursillo Community to be started in the Shrewsbury Diocese in 2008.
Fr. Jim Robinson, our Spiritual Director, was one of the many Clergy. At least one Priest and one Deacon were Cursillistas too.
We had our Weekend at the beginning of October at Wistaston. We only had one new Cursillista but that didn’t make it any less of a wonderful weekend. We were blessed with some of our own and Liverpool fourth day representatives for the Closura.
We have committed’ as a secretariat’ to use the weekend in the absence of participants, as we feel we would be able to use that time for prayer and reassessment and to challenge ourselves as to the way forward. What a way to hand ourselves over to God!
We were hosts of the national day of discernment at Noddfa. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend as I was having a knee replacement but Chris and Clare, I am told did a grand job. There was no reason to think otherwise.
We are in the process of having literature printed to be able to facilitate an Ideal of mine to visit each parish in the Diocese however long it takes for me to do so and hand out leaflets after giving a 5-minute altar talk on Cursillo. I intend to start in the new year. It will be interesting to see how long it takes, as it is a large Diocese. We are hopeful for the future of growth in our Diocese & in England and Wales.
We continue with groupings and Ultreyas but also with the prayer request of Canon Michael, for Prayer for Cursillo worldwide but especially in England and Wales.
Joan Nov ’19.
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