Before the half term holiday our chaplaincy team had the opportunity to attend two masses in the diocese.

The Installation of Mgr Mark Crisp as Canon at St Chad’s Cathedral in Birmingham

On Tuesday 6th February, the St Edmund’s Chaplaincy Team, accompanied by Mrs Hazeldine, Mrs Letheren, Reverend McKearney and Mr Luis, was given the opportunity to be part of the Installation of four Canons of the Metropolitan Cathedral of St Chad in Birmingham.

Mgr Mark Crisp, Parish Priest of our very own parish, Blessed Carlo Acutis, Wolverhampton and Fr Raymond Corbett, Diocesan Chancellor and Catholic Chaplain to Aston University were installed as Chapter Canons, the groups of priests who form part of the College of Consultors, who advise the Archbishops about the life and mission of the Archdiocese.

Our students were also given the immense privilege of serving during the mass at St CHad’s and representing the Blessed Carlo Acutis parish which they were all a part of.

As well as advising the bishop of the Diocese, the Chapter of Canons has a care for the Cathedral and for its liturgical life and so meets and prays together monthly through the year at the Chapter Mass – usually the 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Mass was celebrated by Mgr Canon Tom Farrell and in the presence of Archbishop Bernard Longley.

Our students were respectful and served with gracefulness and reverence. We are incredibly proud of every single one of them.

Deanery Vocations Mass at St Michael’s

On Wednesday 7th February, the Sixth Form Chaplaincy team went to St Michael’s in Peen to attend and participate in the Deanery Vocations Mass, celebrated by the Parish Priest of Blessed Carlo Acutis, Mgr Canon Mark Crisp.

February has officially been denoted the Deanery Month of Prayer for Vocations and hence this Mass was a perfect opportunity for our students to reflect on their own vocations and ponder their future in the Church. The service was followed by light refreshments and the chance to speak to priests, nuns and other ordained members of the Church about their call and what life in the Church is like.

Our students were involved in many ways in the service, making up the readers, the altar servers and singing in the choir, all roles which were fulfilled brilliantly.