31st May Most Holy Trinity
Parish Priest: Fr. David Palmer: Tel: 01673 842323 E:mail: holyroodchurchmr@outlook.com
Welcome to our website. Here are the Mass times for this week:
Confessions are available after Mass or during exposition Thursday 10:30am or on request
Coffee and tea etc. in the schoolroom after Sunday 11.30 Sunday Mass.
Parish BBQ We will be holding our BBQ on the 19th July 2026 at Holy Rood. The event will take place after 11.30 am mass. Tickets will be £10 per Adult, children under 12 will be free, tickets will be on sale from June. Bishop Patrick is visiting the Parish that weekend, this will be an opportunity to meet him. Further details will be available in the coming weeks. Please add your name to the volunteers list so that this event can go ahead.
Exploring Catholicism The last two sessions of our course will now be taking place on Thursday 4th June and Thursday 11th June, at 7pm the Old School Room, at Holy Rood. All welcome.
First Aid kits: Two new First Aid kits and Accident Report books are available. One kit and book is in the Narthex; the other kit and book are in the schoolroom. Bottled water is also available in the Narthex.
Schoolroom Hire: The amended Booking Forms and Amended T&Cs are now available. A copy of the T&Cs is on the schoolroom noticeboard. Please see Mary Q or Keith for more information.
Parish E-Mailing List: . If you would like to join, please just send an E-mail with “Parish List” in the subject line to holyroodchurchmr@outlook.com (You can leave at any time).
Rosary: The Rosary is said before the 10am Mass at Holy Rood on Tuesdays, all are welcome to join in.
Exposition and Adoration (Confessions available) Thursdays 10:30am Holy Rood (after Mass)
Mass Intentions: If you want to have a Mass offered for a particular intention, we have “Mass intention Envelopes” at the back of each Church. The Diocese recommends a donation of £10 for a Mass intention.
Food Bank: Tinned & dried goods are always needed to help those families who are struggling at this time of year. If you would like any further information please have a chat with Pauline.
What‘s happening out and about?
One heart, one voice the annual conference of the National Network of Pastoral Musicians, will take place between Friday 24th and Sunday 26th July at Highgate House, Northampton NN6 8NN. Whether you are a choir director, choir member, instrumentalist or new to music ministry, this conference includes something suitable for all. Through discussion, idea sharing, and singing together with one heart and voice, participants may develop their musical skills and contribute to a sense of community within their churches, encouraging each other in the valuable work of everyday liturgy in our local parishes. Importantly, the conference offers the opportunity to meet and share experiences with others involved in church music from across the country. For more details, email jburridge@me.com or visit: https://nnpm.org/NNPM_%28current%29/2026_Conference.html
Venerable Mary Potter Bishop Patrick will celebrate Mass praying for the Beatification and Canonisation of Venerable Mary Potter, on Thursday 4th June at 1.00pm at Saint Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham. This special celebration is an opportunity to come together in prayer and thanksgiving, honouring the life and enduring legacy of Venerable Mary Potter. All are very welcome.
The Diocesan Walsingham Pilgrimage is taking place on Saturday 20th June led by Bishop Patrick. Arrivals are from 11.30am, with Mass at the Catholic Shrine at 3.45pm. For more details see the poster.
All Young Adults are warmly invited to join the Diocese of Nottingham and Pope Leo in Seoul, South Korea, for World Youth Day 2027: a week of Encounter and Discipleship with 100,000s of other Young Catholics ready to hear the Lord speak into their lives. Please contact charles.archer@dioceseofnottingham.uk for more information! As numbers are limited please do this by 31st July 2026.
Young adults Pilgrimage young adults aged 18–35 are invited to join a special overnight Pilgrimage to Walsingham (Saturday 20th to Sunday 21st June), taking place alongside the annual diocesan pilgrimage, with dedicated time, space and community for young adults. Staying at Elmham House (half board) pilgrims will share in the wider celebrations while also enjoying moments specifically for the young adult community and encounter. For any questions, contact Charles Archer, Young Adult Ministry Lead charles.archer@dioceseofnottingham.uk Bookings at www.dioceseofnottingham.uk/events/walsingham-2026
Come away with your spouse and pray … Get away from the bustle of everyday life. Give your spouse the gift of time – to deepen your love in Christ. A Retreat for Married Couples is being held at the Carmelite Priory, Oxford, between Friday 19th and Sunday 21st June. You and your spouse will learn about Saint John Paul II’s Rule for Married Couples and experience the deep spiritual union, available in sacramental marriage! To book, visit: www.wojtylaci.com/marriage-retreats-events/marriage-retreat-at-boars-hill-carmelite-priory-outside-oxford.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children will be holding a Tiny Feet Coffee and Cake Sale, with a Celebration of Life Exhibition, in Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church, 1 Fairfield Road, Market Harborough, LE16 9QQ, on Saturday 4th July, from 10.00am until 4.00pm. All are very welcome.
The Living Theology Summer School is being held between Friday 10th and Monday 13th July, at the Loreto Spirituality Centre in Llandudno. Under the title Explore faith and theology, keynote Ethna Regan CHF will lead a range of courses given by experienced speakers. For more information visit: www.loretocentre.org.uk or email: info@loretocentre.org.uk
Encyclical Pope Leo has released his first encyclical which is on AI (Artificial Intelligence), a brief summary is included below. The full document has been sent to those on the parish E-mail list.
Magnifica Humanitas in brief
In the time of Artificial Intelligence, humanity is faced with a choice. Whether to let itself be guided by technology and progress as the only principles on which to build our civilisation, or should it put at the centre the dignity of the person, reducing technical progress to an instrument. To explain this, Pope Leo uses two biblical images, one the construction of the Tower of Babel and the other the reconstruction of Jerusalem.
Choosing the “right” road requires a DYNAMIC APPROACH (chapter 1), which looks to the Social Doctrine of the Church following the teachings of the Second Vatican Council: listening to, discerning, and interpreting our times in light of the Gospel, in order to be able to return to humanity the revealed truth, while using the terms of the present.
To better read the res novae of our time in function of the dignity of the person, the FOUNDATIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH come to help us (chapter 2). The foundations regard the human being, the image of the Triune God, and, as such, the bearer of inviolable rights and an intrinsic dignity, without distinctions. The principles are those of the common good, the universal destination of goods, subsidiarity and solidarity, as well as social justice, which, when placed at the cornerstone of social relations, lead to what Paul VI was the first to summarise in the concept of integral human development.
And so we arrive at the fulcrum of the theme, that is, the relationship between technology, power, and the human person (chapter 3). While Pope Leo recognises the value of technological development as an expression of human creativity, he warns of the risk of it becoming the absolute criterion of judgment. Artificial intelligence, lacking experiences, values, and feelings, cannot and should not assume a role of responsibility and supremacy over human intelligence.
To escape this danger, SAFEGUARDING HUMANITY IN THE TRANSFORMATION is therefore necessary (chapter 4). The first area to attend to is that of truth: in an era in which everything can be manipulated, it is necessary to preserve a critical education that permits distinguishing what is true from what is false. The second is work: when the dominant criterion becomes efficiency, work risks losing its human and relational value. The third area is that of freedom: menaced by digital dependence that collects massive amounts of data, the defence of liberty requires just rules, shared responsibility, and education. To preserve the conditions of an authentically human life, capable of truth, dignified work, and true liberty, a choral effort is necessary.
At this point in the Encyclical Letter, Pope Leo recalls that Artificial Intelligence has effects, often dramatic, also on war. The technological innovations are not limited to making means of defence more efficient, but risk automating and impersonalizing choices that involve life and death, which ought to require ethics and moral responsibility. This is THE CULTURE OF POWER, which is opposed to THE CIVILISATION OF LOVE (chapter 5). Faced with a tendency to prioritise the effectiveness of means over moral judgment and military outcomes over the protection of human life, the only prospect of salvation is a civilisation founded on justice, brotherhood, and dialogue. In the civilisation of love, we can all do our part, beginning with the disarming of our words, practicing justice, assuming the perspective of victims, cultivating dialogue, without taking refuge in idealism, but trusting in a healthy realism. All these good practices find their vital force in prayer.
The concluding chapter lingers on the spiritual and theological dimension. Throughout history, the mercy of God has put at the centre the mystery of the Incarnation. God became human and taught us true humanity, and a preferential attention for the least. It is in this that the greatness of the human being resides, not in technical power, but rather in freedom, love, and grace. In an epoch that generates exclusion, we are called, as brothers and sisters united in “one body in Christ,” to safeguard links, in particular through solidarity and the care of the weakest.
Safeguarding the human in the time of Artificial Intelligence is, therefore, a common and shared responsibility. The initial image returns of the opposition between the Tower of Babel and the Holy City: which do we want to contribute to building? If we become “wise architects” and builders faithful to the truth, who safeguard relationships and invest in education, lovers of justice and peace, humanity will not lose its proper magnificence. It is important, therefore, not to remain resigned spectators, but rather weavers of hope, with the same faith of Mary, who, in her humility, under foreign domination and with a humiliated and divided people, was able to see the invisible and salvific work of God.
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