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Cantonese Mass, priest retires, first Communions

Latest news of interest to the East Anglia Catholic community includes a first Holy Communion, a Cantonese Mass and a celebration of priestly service.


The first Holy Communions at Our Lady and St Charles Borromeo, Wisbech, took place recently on the feast of St Peter and St Paul (Sunday June 30), reports Parish Priest Fr James Caulfield.


A Cantonese Mass, with celebrant Canon John Minh, will take place at St Joseph church in St Neots on Sunday August 11 from 2 to 3pm. The church can be found at 39 East Street, St Neots, PE19 1JU.


Sudbury with Hadleigh Parish priest Rev Peter Brett (pictured right) will shortly retire after 14 years in the parish and almost 60 years as a priest reports Anne Clinch. On Sunday July 21, over 70 parishioners of St Joseph’s Hadleigh sat down to a lunch to mark the occasion of our much loved and respected priest Fr Peter’s forthcoming and highly deserved retirement. He will be very sadly missed.

Fr Peter, who recently celebrated his 83rd birthday, was ordained on January 9, 1966, for the Redemptorists. Initial ministry in London and Liverpool was followed by a time in South Africa.

Bishop Peter Collins said: “We were grateful to receive Fr Peter into East Anglia in 2000, and he was incardinated as a priest of the Diocese a year later. Fr Peter oversaw the merger of the parishes of Sacred Heart and St Oswald’s in Peterborough before being appointed to Sudbury with Hadleigh in 2008.

 

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