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Lancaster Cathedral

an oasis of calm in the heart of the City

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Daily Mass Celebrated
Monday - Friday at 12:15 pm
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The Bishop's Chair
Cathedra (Chair)
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The Mother Church of the Diocese of Lancaster

Reaching out to the City and to the World

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Always Open for Prayer ...
... And Praise!
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St Thomas More Church

Sunday Mass at 9:00 am

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Ninth Bishop of Lancaster

Bishop Paul Swarbrick
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Second Sunday of Easter.

Prayers & Readings for Spiritual Communion.  Download: 2nd Sunday of Easter Readings and Prayers.

Divine Mercy Sunday.  Download: Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter

Living through a time where nothing feels like it used to?

Sound familiar??

I’m not yet referring to our present situation because of the COVID 19 pandemic, but rather as a question asked of those first disciples  in the first days and weeks after the resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel extract from St John in Mass today tells us that those disciples of Jesus who had remained in Jerusalem following the crucifixion were in lockdown! They were together not just in one house, but in one room in one house! Now that’s not social isolation as we know it now! However, it was a type of social isolation…not because of a pandemic…but because of fear. Jesus had been crucified as a criminal with a hint of subversiveness (proclaimed even by Pontius Pilate as “King of the Jews” at his execution). So being a disciple of the executed one was not a social plus…fear of capture and of a similar fate hung in the air like a contagion.

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 Why not remember Chrism Procession from @lancasterDioces @amh_home Chrism 2018 

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