Once again St. Chad’s Cathedral was packed to capacity with altar servers and their families for the annual Guild of St. Stephen Mass.

This year’s Mass on September 20 was celebrated by Bishop Philip Pargeter with priests from the diocese and beyond. These included the National director of the Guild, Fr Dennis Touw and the Diocesan director, Fr. Jan Nowotnik. Three members of the Guild’s central council travelled from London to be at the celebration. Boyce and Stanley provided the music for the Mass and servers from Our Lady and All Saints, Stourbridge were chosen to be the servers of the Mass and assisted with dignity on the sanctuary. Other servers from across the diocese helped with the offertory procession and the readings.

The first LIFE Help Station in the Country has been set up in Walsall in the West Midlands.

The venue was chosen after an offer from Canon Peter Taylor of St Mary’s the Mount RC Church, who explained, ‘LIFE were looking for Counselling rooms, and they particularly wanted to come into this area. These premises of ours were becoming available, and I approached them to see if they would be interested’.