Weekly Team Message

Sunday, March 30th 2025

I have just returned from a few days in Rome. Alas, the Pope wasn’t up to receiving visitors and wishing me a happy Birthday!
However, this Sunday is Mothering Sunday and Pope Francis has said:
“The Church is our mother.   She is our “Holy Mother Church” that is generated through our baptism, makes us grow up in her community and has that motherly attitude, of meekness and goodness: Our Mother Mary and our Mother Church know how to caress their children and show tenderness. To think of the Church without that motherly feeling is to think of a rigid association,  an association without human warmth, an orphan”


 

Rev’d Fr. Paul Messam SCP
Team Rector,
Elstow Abbey & Elstow Team Ministry.
Assistant Area Dean of BedfordAbbey Vicarage
Church End
Elstow
Bedford
MK42 9XT
01234 261477
07711098209

vicar@elstow-abbey.org.uk

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