At the start of our new year, with our Synod gathering pace, our parish, along with all the other parishes in the Archdiocese, had completed our talks and arrived at proposals for Themes 3 and 4. These were written up and submitted to the Synod office. Thank you for playing your part in these discussions.

 

However, as you all know, Coronavirus changed all of our lives, and on 20th March 2020 our churches closed and we were given government instructions not to meet together. Our Synod working party have been working from home since then and the remaining Synod talks that had been held in the Hope University Chapel and had been very well attended had to be cancelled. This is where we are at right now, with everything held in abeyance until the government relaxes the restrictions.

 

There had been a schedule of meetings of Synod members that had been due to take place over the coming weeks. Hopefully these will be rearranged as soon as it is safe to do so.

 

I will keep you further updated as things change. They will change!

Until then, please stay safe and keep well. Then we can be sure we can all meet again in the near future.

 

Keeping you all in prayer.

 

Pat Daly (Synod member for St. John the Evangelist)