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| carmel gittins | 06 January 2009 22:30:41 |
just like to wish father john a happy and healthy new year from all the family have become a grandma-have a7 month old grandson theo! krys lisek and I hope to try and visit st josephs this year...think we should jon your pilgrimage to rome as we never got to florence when we were at school!....with kind regards carmelx | |
| Mandy Melbourne | 31 May 2008 13:52:23 |
As a parent of a pupil at St Paul's, I have recently received an e-mail from the school about the threat about the future of this school. | |
| dorothy alloway | 02 January 2008 00:00:00 |
Thankyou for this site. It's truly inspirational. | |
| Pauline Dunkley/Broughton | 08 November 2007 00:00:00 |
It was lovely see St Joseph's church on the website, I attended the church when it was a stable, I watched the church hall being built and was married there to Brian, 23/2/1957 (we are 50 years married this year) and now living on Waiheke Island NZ where I was on the building committee to build our present church here, St Peter's, and yes I did bring out old photographs for ideas of a circular church. God bless you all Pauline SFO | |
| Pat & Bob O'Brien | 28 October 2007 00:00:00 |
We are parishioners of St Joseph's - not in Leicester - in Upminster, Essex. Since our son started at University in Leicester, we have often attended Mass at your church while visiting him. Our thanks for the welcome we have always received, the great little tea bar (most welcome after our 3 hour drive) and especially for the thought provoking words of Fr John, your wonderful priest. Look after him, he is a treasure! God bless you all. Pat & Bob O'Brien | |
| Frankie | 14 October 2007 00:00:00 |
I'm so sorry you were not able to see the children's pages, Sister Maree. You do not have to use a password to see them- just click on my head ( the dog's head on the left) and that will take you to the children's site. Then click on the items you want, such as 'What happened on Sunday'. You only need a password if you want to talk to someone else on the site. I hope you enjoy the pages. We enjoyed Sister Maura's visit. Woof! | |
| Sister Maree Riddler rsj | 15 September 2007 00:00:00 |
Congratulations Father John on a wonderful parish website. It is amazing to see so much happening in the Parish catering for all ages. Sister Maura O'Connell a very good friend of mine from Australia has mentioned the parish several times so I thought I would find the website and there I saw Toddy and Maggie O'Connell at one of the activities. I would have liked to be able to open the children's liturgy website but that wasn't possible. I am a Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart from Western Australia and our foundress is Blessed Mary MacKillop.(Australia's first saint) we are waiting for the second miracle for her to be canonized for the Universal Church. You may like to go to the website www.sosj.org.au and you will find lots of interesting information about Mary and the Sisters of st. Joseph. May God Bless you John and all your Parishioners. | |
| Ian Robinson | 23 August 2007 00:00:00 |
Congratulations to all involed with your website. Its a joy to navigate and includes many useful links and handy information which you would struggle to find else where. The links to the school sites I found especially useful. I look forward to visiting the site again soon. | |
| Maura O' Connell | 27 July 2007 00:00:00 |
It's wonderful to see first hand the fantastic work being done in this parish. We are blessed to be a part of such a prayerful, caring and involved community. God bless the work and the workers too. | |
| Mary Allsop | 28 March 2007 00:00:00 |
Well done on this wonderful website. Very interesting to look at for those parishes thinking of setting one up, well done. | |
| abbie bungart | 23 March 2007 00:00:00 |
thank you God for bringing love and freedom into our kigdom help with your power to set people free who are in need and in care it means ever so mucch to them and familys help raise money today not just God but all of us please please help thank you so much for your help you can be just like Jesus and hisn family and when toy are praying please bring Eve into you prayer thank you. | |
| Nancy | 05 February 2007 00:00:00 |
Thank you for the wonderful website that keeps all catholics plus others informed. Can anyone join you in pilmgrage events or does it have to be christians from your parish? | |
| nancy | 05 February 2007 00:00:00 |
Many thanks for those who contribute in preaching the word of God to his children and keeping us united in Jesus name. All information appreciated | |
| Carmel Gittins | 23 December 2006 00:00:00 |
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, hope to visit you again in the new year! | |
| dylan farrell | 29 November 2006 00:00:00 |
hello everyone | |
| Kevin Orrell | 25 November 2006 00:00:00 |
Saw mention of your website in the Catholic News so have had a look. | |
| dorothy alloway | 30 October 2006 00:00:00 |
This sight in the early hours of the morning is so peaceful and calming. Thankyou for being available. Half a world away in New Zealand | |
| Maura O' Connell | 07 August 2006 00:00:00 |
I have just shown our aboriginal children in Halls Creek West Australia, your lovely Website. Thank you for that. I see things are improving all the time. Well done to everyone involved. God bless the work and the workers too. | |
| abbie bungart | 09 July 2006 00:00:00 |
thank you for giving Jesus into our lives and that each day i will become more like Jesus evryday spending importent times with everyone and sharing prayrs together. | |
| neal murphy | 01 July 2006 00:00:00 |
and to think that you were all just an email away!!!! Continue to praise the Lord with music!!! | |
| Mandy Melbourne | 01 July 2006 00:00:00 |
Today has been a wonderful 1st Holy Communion day for Tiffany. I would like to thank Fr John; Alison and Rebecca for the music (the solo that was sung during the service was lovely), and the people who were in charge of the refreshments. Last but not least, we would like to thank Maria for organizing the day. She made a special day even more special. Thankyou each and everyone of you, for your contributions today.(Please feel free to add Tiffany's name to your list of children on the Holy Communion page) | |
| David Snelders | 16 June 2006 00:00:00 |
Hello Father John and Alison | |
| Simon Peter Gunns | 04 June 2006 00:00:00 |
I would just like to say how much I enjoyed the Jerusalem Mass on Pentecost Sunday 4th June at the Rosary, Netherhall., Thankyou | |
| Robert Pugsley | 25 May 2006 00:00:00 |
I have often admired your church in passing. I wonder if you could put up a few details about the architect on your website. Many thanks. | |
| Steve Meek | 15 March 2006 00:00:00 |
I just visited your website to download a picture of the church and was very impressed with the site design and detail. The photo is to appear on a card for our 25th wedding anniversary which we will celebrate on the 28 March. We were married by Monsignor O'Dowd at the church and now find ourselves 25 years later in South Africa working as missionaries. Didn't think that would have happened twenty five years later. I cannot do it personally but would like to record our thanks to Monsignor O'Dowd and various nuns from the convent who made the day very special for us. I don't think Monsignor knew at the time how much he helped to organise things for us as a young couple doing our own thing for the wedding. | |
| Zoe McDonagh | 12 March 2006 00:00:00 |
What a wonderful informative website. We can now thank Father John (and let the world know) how wonderful he made our very small and intimate wedding 3 years (4/4/03) and how beautiful he made our first son's - Jacob Christopher's baptism the most beautiful ever. We had so many comments on how wonderful you made the service. Thank-you Father for you constant support personally and throughout the parish - what would we do without you? Thank-you for making our parish one open to all xxx | |
| sheila jacob | 10 January 2006 00:00:00 |
what a delightful website,feel i'm a part of this parish by being shown so many of your activities! particularly interested to read details of the charities you support.congratulations on the new children's website,i love frankie!god bless you all | |
| The Bungarts | 08 January 2006 00:00:00 |
The Bungart family congratulate father John on his new best seller 'getting to know the bible' our whole family has found a benifit of his book so far! Thank you for doing beautiful masses! thank you again! from the bungart family xxx | |
| abbie bungart | 08 January 2006 00:00:00 |
I love liturgy and mass so much that i love taking part! always after mass i do my holy communion book and i love doing it! It is my birthday soon on 6th Febuary and i am going to be eight. When i am eight years old i want to help with father john. . love from abbie xxx | |
| Margaret Greiff | 31 December 2005 00:00:00 |
I am so pleased that Inter Care features under "Charities that we can support" on St. Joseph's website and I have been very grateful for support through Watermead. I am very happy to continue as the link person between the parish and Inter Care but thought I should let people know that I have now handed over my Adminstrator's job (after 20 years!) - to another Margaret. I'm now a Trustee of the charity - and very happy to talk about it to anyone who is interested. If you want to know more, you can identify me through Alison or Fr. John. Also, we do have a website: www.intercare.org.uk. P. S. Thanks to everyone who has made me feel part of the "St. Joseph's family" - I wish you all a blessed New Year. | |
| maura O' Connell | 15 October 2005 00:00:00 |
I love the Scatter Cards and am finding it difficult to part with them ! Another wonderful idea, thank you and God bless you. | |
| Eileen Brooks | 25 September 2005 00:00:00 |
The Parish website is looking good! It would be nice, if it was much easier to find the parish newsletter "on-line" | |
| Eileen Brooks | 25 September 2005 00:00:00 |
P.S. It takes a combination of 5 mouseclicks and two page scrolls to display the current pariosh newsletter; it would be lovely to have an extra weblink on the front page index which takes you straight to the latest parish newsletter ! Just a thought! | |
| mick murray | 22 September 2005 00:00:00 |
Really interesting and some of the news is not all in the major newspapers - in other words it's not secondhand news. Keep up the good work Terry. Next stop the Vatican Times...... | |
| dorothy | 15 September 2005 00:00:00 |
Hello from New Zealand. | |
| M.Melbourne. | 13 September 2005 00:00:00 |
Really good and informative website. keep up the good work. May I suggest a website to add to your links page. | |
| Elizabeth & Michael Murray | 07 September 2005 00:00:00 |
Greetings from Western Australia. Nice to see a piece of home and the church where I grew up and married.We'll be able to show our two boys. I particularly like Terry's weekly review of the catholic press but then I'm a little biased because he's my dad!! Best wishes to all. | |
| Maura O'Connell | 24 August 2005 00:00:00 |
The Guest Day is a wonderful idea. Fr John, one of your special gifts surely is community building. Those of us who are far away appreciate the wonderful care you show for our elderley parents and friends. God bless the work and the workers too. | |
| Monica & David Skilbeck | 09 August 2005 00:00:00 |
Monica & I would like to say an enormous thank you to Father John in providing us with such a reverend and beauitiful wedding celebration mass (6th Aug 05) of our daughter Loiuse to Mark McConnochie. Everyone of our guests commented on how beautiful the ceremony was. | |
| Theresa K. | 18 July 2005 00:00:00 |
Fame at last! It is great to see our garden party photos and all the other Parish information on the web site. Well Done. | |
| Maura O' Connell | 13 July 2005 00:00:00 |
Greetings again from West Australia. Loved the Garden Party pictures. Lovely to see all the old friends. You are wonderful community builders. Thank you for keeping us in touch. God bless. Maura | |
| Sr. Maura O'Connell | 15 June 2005 00:00:00 |
Congratulations on your website - reading it is like being at home. I have been telling Mam and Dad that I will have a look at the site - now I can truthfully say - I have and it's wonderful. Will see you all at Chraitmas time please God. Thank you also to the friends at The Rosary Church who support our Breakfast Programme. I wonder could I send some photos to the website - mys get my technology skills up and running. God bless. Maura | |
| Sr. Janet | 10 May 2005 00:00:00 |
Congratulations on your lovely website! You're doing lovely work. I've so enjoyed listening to your music here at Vatican Radio and wish you every grace and blessing for your future efforts. | |
| Ann Clark | 02 May 2005 00:00:00 |
I was fortunate to be one of the people who visited Rome in March this year and while I'm not a member of your church or the parish I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone I travelled with for making me feel so welcome. It was a very special experience and one I shall remember for a long time. Sadly I am unable to join the 2006 pilgrimage to Rome but I am looking forward to being with the group who travel to France in the October. Once again, many thanks to Father John, Alison and the other very special pilgrims who made up the 2005 group. | |
| Anthony Merriman | 28 April 2005 00:00:00 |
It is wonderful to see the church website looking so impressive. Mum (Noreen) and I really enjoyed reading about the history of the parish as well as viewing the photos (old & new!). Congratulations!!!!! | |
| Father Michael and Breda | 31 March 2005 00:00:00 |
Congratulations on your web site. I know it was a lot of hard work but you have got it now well done. It looks very impressive and we shall be on it every time we get a chance | |
| David Skilbeck | 27 March 2005 00:00:00 |
A great pleasure logging on to our very own web site, with all our community news at hand it will provide great reading. Congatulations to Father John, Alison and all who helped establish this site. | |
| Terry and Bev Adcock | 27 March 2005 00:00:00 |
Congratulations to Father John, Alison and The Parish. Family and friends around the world can connect and feel part of the parish of their childhood, baptism or marriage | |
| Penny Wells | 05 March 2005 00:00:00 |
It is delightful to see your web-site and to know that we can be with you all in spirit and prayer, if not in person. | |
| Father John | 24 February 2005 00:00:00 |
Delighted the parish and the apostolate can have their own web site. Good to think that friends around the world, as well as in the city and the country, can share with us what's going on. | |
| GILL RELTON | 24 February 2005 00:00:00 |
Congratulations on the new parish website! | |
| Peter Edwards | 24 February 2005 00:00:00 |
Congratulations to Father John et al. Another successful enterprise at St Joseph's. May I suggest you include in "Parish Activites" or "Watermead Apostolate" a copy of the article "The Wonderful Watermead" which appeared in The Catholic Herald: November 19, 2004. | |