Pastoral

THE NORTHERN PASTORAL AREA SERVES THE FOLLOWING DEANERIES:

Dudley
Lichfield
North Staffordshire
Stafford
Walsall
Wolverhampton

AREA BISHOP:

Right Reverend David McGough, Titular Bishop of Cunavia

Contact Information:
The Rocks
106 Draycott Road
Tean
Staffordshire
Tel & Fax: 01538 722433
Email: dmcgough@btinternet.com

Key responsibilities:

Affirm & strengthen Catholic life in the Pastoral Area
Represent the Archbishop locally
Facilitate initiatives to strengthen and encourage the life of deaneries and parishes
Carry out formal visitations to parishes
Celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation

Day of Pilgrimage
St Dominic’s Stone
Saturday 31st August

To mark the Year of Faith, St Dominic’s in Stone is having a day of pilgrimage on Saturday 31st August.

Day with Our Lady of Fatima
St Francis of Assisi, Handsworth
Saturday 8th June

St Francis of Assisi are delighted to invite you to their first ‘Day with Our Lady of Fatima’ of celebration and devotion.
10am – 4pm

Sunday 19 May
Acts 2:1-11 • Pentecost (Solemnity) Today we celebrate one of the key feast-days in the liturgical cycle, alongside Christmas Day (the incarnation), Good Friday (the cross) and Easter Sunday (the resurrection). Today we celebrate Pentecost, the birth of the Church. The first believers were in Jerusalem awaiting the coming of the Holy Spirit – the gift from […]