Our Lady of Lourdes RC Parish Wanstead

11/06/2026

08/06/2026

Headline quotations from Pope Leo's speech to the Cortes Generales, the Spanish Parliament. 8 June 2026:

"The moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its ability to accompany, protect and love those lives that experience greatest fragility."

"All human life must be recognized and guarded from conception to natural setting, in every circumstance of its existence."

"Can a community that leaves in the shadow the unborn child, the old, the sick, who suffers in silence or who depends entirely on the care of others be called righteous?"

"The defense of human life is not a partial matter or a denominational interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"A law does not reach its true greatness by the mere fact that it has been formally approved; it reaches when it can appear before the dignity of the person and pass that exam without shame."

"The family will always be the first school of humanity in which one learns, before anywhere else, the elementary grammar of coexistence: to receive life, to care for the other, to forgive, to serve and to belong."

“The common good is the social form of human dignity.”

"Words can open roads or close them; they can illuminate reality or distort it into making the meeting impossible."

"Guns can impose temporary silence; but they can never build genuine and lasting peace."

"True security is born of justice, patient dialogue, respect for international law and a policy capable of putting the lives of peoples above the interests that benefit from war."

"To be free does not simply mean to be free of coercion or to have many possibilities of choice; it means to be able to recognize good and cling to it responsibly."

"May this noble nation never lose the memory of its roots nor the courage to look to the future."

"The peoples learned that law must serve good, that justice sets limits to force, that power needs legitimacy, that the poor belong fully to the community, that the foreigner must be welcomed in accordance with his dignity."

07/06/2026

The parish family thanking God for the children who recently received Holy Commmunion for the first time and their families.

A sincere thank you to , Eugenia Tetteh, Ansi Britto, Sonia Shrestha, Vania Casini, Carola Geist-Divver, Kathryn and Sebastian Whittingham.

05/06/2026

Our Lady of Lourdes RC Parish Wanstead newsletter: Corpus Christi, Young Adults Group, Welcome lunch for new parishioners and much more https://ourladyoflourdeswanstead.com/newsletters/

30/05/2026

Some months ago I was approached by , a former parishioner , for a space to hold the three hundred strong gospel choir plus a surprise singer. I agreed.

A joyous sound. A song of hope.

The surprise singer

29/05/2026

Our Lady of Lourdes RC Parish Wanstead newsletter: Trinity Sunday, Young Adults Group, World Communications day, Welcome lunch for new parishioners and much more https://ourladyoflourdeswanstead.com/newsletters/

28/05/2026

Stronger Together in Christ: Young Adults group meeting this coming Trinity Sunday 31st at 3.30 pm in Clergy House. All welcome.

https://ourladyoflourdeswanstead.com/stronger-together-in-christ/