...and I'm going to miss Advent. It's been a little longer this year, for we've got quite a full fourth week of Advent. Sometimes you barely get two days. It appears that our Christmas Masses are all booked up, and we've just had two penitential hours, one at Mickleover and one here at Saint Joseph's. Parishioners have kindly helped decorate the tree in the church and erect the crib set in the Martyrs' chapel. A couple of knights of S. Columba rode in the other day and erected another crib set in the parish garden. It's good to see the number of people coming around increase.
Masses continue at the church, but I've decided to stop listing the Mass intentions here; you would still find them on the newsletters, on the website. Please note that there are daily Masses for seven days after Christmas. This has been arranged to allow people who cannot attend on Christmas Day, for one reason or another, to attend a Christmas Mass during these few days, the eight days (including Christmas day) together being called the Christmas octave.
I'm afraid that we cannot crowd the church on Christmas day. However, please keep trying to book; as with any other booking system, it could be that people decide not to attend here and remember to unbook themselves, freeing up spaces.
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