October 2020

  • Making a donation

    If you are able to help by making a donation, please contact Claire Peters, our Parish Secretary on 01297 32135 or send a cheque made payable to the account below.  Please include your name and address. NatWest Bank ‘PRCDTR St Michael & St George Restoration Fund’ Sort code: 56-00-63 Account number: 46900322 Please remember the prefix…

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  • Restoration Update

    ST. MICHAEL & ST. GEORGE RC CHURCH LYME REGIS UPDATE 7 APRIL 2021 We had some good news; Historic England through the Cultural Recovery Fund upped its grant by £41,468 to make a total grant offer of £182,368.  This was in recognition of the higher contractor’s quotes and increased costs encountered in the restoration works…

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  • Catholic Church in Lyme

    A BRIEF HISTORY OF ST  MICHAEL & ST GEORGE CATHOLIC CHURCH It all started with £100…. In the 1830s Lyme Regis was a fashionable resort (as it is now!) and its Catholic families met for Mass in some of the larger houses, such as Coram Court in Pound Street, where Monique Bellingham lived.  She was…

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  • Catholic Lyme Regis

    By Philip Mostyn Catholic Lyme seems to have begun in about 770 AD when the West Saxons were converted to Christianity – which of course was Catholicism. According to the earliest history of Lyme that I have found (G Roberts 1823), the town was probably used as a harbour and supply station by the Romans,…

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  • Walking the Pilgrim Routes

    By Judith Burke 2002 “The Camino Santiago”.  I was walking half of the ancient pilgrim route with a friend.  The first day after registering at St Jean Pied de Port you are recommended to follow “Route de Napoleon”, a strenuous uphill walk of 15.6 miles with injury likely on the steep downhills to Roncesvalles.  It…

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  • Eulogy for Jo Enright

    With thanks to her sons Jake and Sebastian Jo. – beloved mother, grandmother, sister, auntie and friend – was born in 1947 to Eddie & Mary, the 3rd of their children, sister to Brian, Rosemary, Kate and Clare. She spent the first couple of years of her life in Stanmore before the family moved to…

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  • By Roger King

    If Sunday is for praying, what about the rest of the week? I can remember, a long, long time ago, when I dutifully went to Church with my parents with the idea that this would set me up for the rest of the week. In those days praying apparently involved kneeling beside your bed with…

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  • Walsingham

    When Walsingham came to Plymouth By Doreen Baker Walsingham – England’s Nazareth – a-a-h! That’s the place my late husband and I visited several times during the 80s and 90s. We’d always stay for a couple of weeks covering the Feast of the Assumption (August 15th). That day was like no other. With bunting flying,…

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  • St Augustine of Hippo

    By Rev’d Ed Standhaft First published in The PALS Magazine No. 23 The problem with St. Augustine is that there are two of them who have prominent positions in the history of the church, each being important but in different ways. Take heart if you are already experiencing theological confusion: you will not be the…

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  • From the Head Teacher

    The Easter Story for modern times Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of lent. It was the day of celebration when people lined the streets of Jerusalem to welcome the now famous Jesus. As he entered the city on a donkey people waved palm leaves.  This was a way to show respect. In church on…

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