Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe

15/03/2026

All are invited! 😊A special lunch for children is also available at a lesser cost, upon request.

13/11/2025

Come one, come all!

Louth S. Mary's is holding their annual Christmas Fayre on Saturday 15th November, from 2 PM to 6 PM and Sunday 16th November from 10 AM to 12 PM, in the parish centre.

Admission is free! Sit down with a cuppa and cake and browse our collection of items for sale. We have everything from books (fiction, non-fiction, and lots of children's books) to clothes and shoes, household items and various knick-knacks.

There will also be a raffle draw, so you could be in for a chance to win some lovely prizes!

This is one of our main fundraising events of the year, so please do come along on the day to support us, and invite your family and friends!

All proceeds go to the Building Maintenance Fund.

07/09/2025

The homily given by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of the canonisations of Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St Peter’s Basilica.

07/09/2025

We've been talking about martyrdom again this Sunday; for how else shall we approach Christ's declaration that we should *hate* what is dearest to us in order to be Christians?

“ollowing after Christ then obviously involves a mortification that results in our denying not only sinfulness, but other human goods that people take for granted, even family. And this is wh…

04/08/2025

I've put Cardinal Newman's famous Second Spring sermon on the website. This was given only about two years after the Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales was restored by the Holy Father Pius IX in 1850, and we can see the Cardinal's enthusiasm for the new development in this delivery to those new bishops and their canons and priests at the seminary at Oscott S. Mary...

“No longer, the Catholic Church in the country; nay, no longer I may say, a Catholic community; — but a few adherents of the Old Religion, moving silently and sorrowfully about, as memorials …

03/08/2025

It's Vanity-of-vanities Sunday, and I just remembered again that this page wants updating!

Here's the homily for this Sunday...

“What, should one man go on toiling, his the craft, his the skill, his the anxious care, leaving all to another, and an idler? That were frustration surely, and great mischief done. Tell me, …

03/08/2025

Our parish visit two Fridays ago to Newman's Oratory, very near Birmingham, at Edgbaston. Also called the Birmingham Oratory.

We planned this visit long before we learnt this last week of the Holy Father's decision to name S. John Henry Newman as a Doctor of the Universal Church, a singular honour for the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

S. JHN has had a heavy influence on Catholic intellectual life in the English-speaking world, and it is very appropriate that a pope who emerged from that world has granted him this supreme doctorate.

29/04/2025

Hello, everybody. Hope you've all had a great Easter. The season continues until Pentecost Sunday.

Please continue to pray for the repose of the soul of the Holy Father Francis. And for the Cardinal electors preparing to elect his successor.

04/03/2025

It's Ash Wednesday tomorrow, and the Latin Church launches into her forty-days of asceticism, walking with Christ in the wilderness of Judah, in preparation for His great Sacrifice outside Jerusalem.

They may just be ashes, but Fr. Mike points out that what they represent goes far beyond mere dust of the earth. With a simple cross on the forehead, we are ...

24/02/2025

That has been the update every morning for days now, and yet he had a difficult evening on Saturday.

Please continue to pray for the physical and spiritual health of the Holy Father.

Pope Francis had a restful tenth night in the hospital, according to a statement published on Monday morning by the Holy See Press Office.

"The night went well; the Pope slept and is resting," read the statement.

The Pope is receiving treatment for double pneumonia at Rome's Gemelli Hospital.

On Sunday evening, the Holy See Press Office said his condition remains critical, though he has not experienced any respiratory crises since Saturday morning.

Pope Francis had received blood transfusions to bring up his hemoglobin levels.

"The thrombocytopenia remains stable; however, some blood tests show early, mild renal insufficiency, which is currently under control," said the Sunday press statement, adding that "high-flow oxygen therapy continues through nasal cannulas."

Earlier on Sunday, the Pope attended Mass in his apartment in Gemelli Hospital with the doctors and nurses who are overseeing his treatment.

01/02/2025

Very rarely does the festival of Candlemas - the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple - fall upon a Sunday. Here's the homily on the parish website:

“…S. Simeon returns the Child to Our Lady, saying to her that she would have to suffer much on the Child’s behalf, but through it all would Judgement come upon mankind, and Salvation to…