At the Shrine church of SS Peter &apm; Paul and St Philomena, or Dome of Home, we continue to make progress with the restoration of this great church. Eight months ago, we received a Development Grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) for the team to prepare our application to restore the dome and main sanctuary, which is the most expensive part of the restoration project. NLHF require us to engage the wider community with the church and, of course, this gives us a great excuse to explain Tradition and the Catholic Church to a wider public and it is paying off as our congregation has been rising. We also need to do a certain amount of match funding, and also anyone who helps the Dome and the project in anyway should send in their volunteer hours to the Project Manager Anne Archer at contactus@domeofhome.org. Also, you may wish to join the Friends of the Shrine group.
The recent Latin Mass Society pilgrimage to Holywell in honour of St Winefride was a great success and much thanks is due to our Wrexham LMS Rep, Kevin Jones, for all his hard work and organisation. It was celebrated this year by Fr Gribbin from the shrine. It was wonderful to see so many young families attend with about a quarter of the congregation being 18 or under. The priests at the Dome have been offering 30 Consecutive Masses for Catholic Education, as the government has decided to implement the new Relationship and Sex Education in all schools from September 2020, despite the consultation being against it. Perhaps this initiative could be encouraged at other Catholic Churches, where reason has failed the supernatural will not. The Masses at Birkenhead Carmel continue at 7:45am on Thursdays. During July, the Carmel had a resident priest who offered a daily Latin Mass for the sisters. For more information on the Dome and our projects please contact Canon Montjean or Canon Poucin and Fr Gribbin on 0151 638 6822, email: newbrighton@icrsp.org.
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