Pope Francis calls for prayer and fasting for Syria and the Middle East . . .

Pope Francis calls for prayer and fasting for Syria and the Middle East . . .

   

Join us at St Ann's for a Holy Hour on Saturday 7th September from 9am, followed by the parish Mass at 10am.

The church will be open all day for private prayer as usual.

All welcome!

Habemus Papam . . . !

White smoke!

I'm sure I'm not the only one in the parish who has been glued to the TV over recent days.  What an exciting time for us all.

And then fairly quickly, after just the fifth ballot, we saw the white smoke.  Such excitement!

After what seemed an interminable wait, we had our first glimpse of our new Holy Father, Pope Francis.

There are many 'firsts' with our new Pope; the first Jesuit Pope; the first to take the name Francis, after St Francis of Assisi; the first from South America.

Pope Francis giving his blessing from the balcony, after first having asked the crowd to pray and ask for God's blessing on him:

We will be singing this at Mass tomorrow:

God bless our Pope!