St. Michael's Church Derby

06/05/2026

Celebration of the Holy Mass - Live Stream Schedule
Solemnity of the most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Sunday - Year A

Please join us Saturday, 06June2026 as we Celebrate the Holy Mass. The Mass will be live streamed at 4:30PM here on our page.

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WEEKLY SCHEDULE: Saturday, Solemnity of the most Holy Trinity – Year A – 31May2026 at 4:30PM here on our page.

06/05/2026

Saint Michael's Parish - Weekly Bulletin for the Week of 07June2026

Following is the link to the Saint Michael's Church Bulletin for the week of 07June2026.
https://saintmichaelsderby.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Bulletin_07June2026.pdf

The Saint Michael's website has been updated.

06/05/2026

St Michael's Church - Hymn Selection - 05June2026 - Sing Your Praises To The Father

06/05/2026

Saint Boniface - 05June2026

Saint Boniface’s Story
Boniface, known as the apostle of the Germans, was an English Benedictine monk who gave up being elected abbot to devote his life to the conversion of the Germanic tribes. Two characteristics stand out: his Christian orthodoxy and his fidelity to the pope of Rome.

How absolutely necessary this orthodoxy and fidelity were is borne out by the conditions Boniface found on his first missionary journey in 719 at the request of Pope Gregory II. Paganism was a way of life. What Christianity he did find had either lapsed into paganism or was mixed with error. The clergy were mainly responsible for these latter conditions since they were in many instances uneducated, lax and questionably obedient to their bishops. In particular instances their very ordinations were questionable.

These are the conditions that Boniface was to report in 722 on his first return visit to Rome. The Holy Father instructed him to reform the German Church. The pope sent letters of recommendation to religious and civil leaders. Boniface later admitted that his work would have been unsuccessful, from a human viewpoint, without a letter of safe-conduct from Charles Martel, the powerful Frankish ruler, grandfather of Charlemagne. Boniface was finally made a regional bishop and authorized to organize the whole German Church. He was eminently successful.
In the Frankish kingdom, he met great problems because of lay interference in bishops’ elections, the worldliness of the clergy and lack of papal control.

During a final mission to the Frisians, Boniface and 53 companions were massacred while he was preparing converts for confirmation.

In order to restore the Germanic Church to its fidelity to Rome and to convert the pagans, Boniface had been guided by two principles. The first was to restore the obedience of the clergy to their bishops in union with the pope of Rome. The second was the establishment of many houses of prayer which took the form of Benedictine monasteries. A great number of Anglo-Saxon monks and nuns followed him to the continent, where he introduced the Benedictine nuns to the active apostolate of education. Taken from and Read more…

Saint Boniface was an English Benedictine monk who made it his life’s mission to convert the Germanic tribes to Christianity. He found it was no easy task and ended up giving his life for the cause. Boniface was martyred on June 5, 754.

06/05/2026

Daily Reading 05June2026
Good Morning,
Following are the readings for the Memorial of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060526.cfm
We are praying that you are safe and well.
God Bless,
Deacon Bob

Daily Bible Readings, Podcast Audio and Videos and Prayers brought to you by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

06/04/2026

St Michael's Church - Hymn Selection - 04June2026 - Come, Our Almightly King

06/04/2026

Blessed Angelina of Marsciano - 04June2026

Blessed Angeline of Marsciano’s Story
Blessed Angeline founded the first community of Franciscan women other than Poor Clares to receive papal approval.

Angeline was born to the Duke of Marsciano near Orvieto. She was 12 when her mother died. Three years later, the young woman made a vow of perpetual chastity. That same year, however, she yielded to her father’s decision that she marry the Duke of Civitella. Her husband agreed to respect her previous vow.

When he died two years later, Angeline joined the Secular Franciscans and with several other women dedicated herself to caring for the sick, the poor, widows and orphans. When many other young women were attracted to Angeline’s community, some people accused her of condemning the married vocation. Legend has it that when she came before the King of Naples to answer these charges, she had burning coals hidden in the folds of her cloak. When she proclaimed her innocence and showed the king that these coals had not harmed her, he dropped the case.
Angeline and her companions later went to Foligno, where her community of Third Order sisters received papal approval in 1397. She soon established 15 similar communities of women in other Italian cities.

Angeline died on July 14, 1435, and was beatified in 1825. Her liturgical feast is celebrated on July 13. Taken from and Read more…

Blessed Angeline of Marsciano founded the first Third Order community of women in the Franciscan family; something new in her day. While briefly married, Blessed Angeline did not set aside the vow of perpetual chastity she'd made as a child. She spent her life caring for the sick and the poor.

06/04/2026

Daily Reading 04June2026
Good Morning,
Following are the readings for Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060426.cfm
We are praying that you are safe and well.
God Bless,
Deacon Bob

Daily Bible Readings, Podcast Audio and Videos and Prayers brought to you by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

06/03/2026

St Michael's Church - Hymn Selection - 03June2026 - All Hail Adored Trinity

06/03/2026

Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions - 03June2026

Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions’ Story
One of 22 Ugandan martyrs, Charles Lwanga is the patron of youth and Catholic action in most of tropical Africa. He protected his fellow pages, aged 13 to 30, from the homosexual demands of the Bagandan ruler, Mwanga, and encouraged and instructed them in the Catholic faith during their imprisonment for refusing the ruler’s demands.

Charles first learned of Christ’s teachings from two retainers in the court of Chief Mawulugungu. While a catechumen, he entered the royal household as assistant to Joseph Mukaso, head of the court pages.

On the night of Mukaso’s martyrdom for encouraging the African youths to resist Mwanga, Charles requested and received baptism. Imprisoned with his friends, Charles’s courage and belief in God inspired them to remain chaste and faithful.
For his own unwillingness to submit to the immoral acts and his efforts to safeguard the faith of his friends, Charles was burned to death at Namugongo on June 3, 1886, by Mwanga’s order.

When Pope Paul VI canonized these 22 martyrs on October 18, 1964, he also made reference to the Anglican pages martyred for the same reason. Taken from and Read more…

Today we celebrate the 22 martyrs of Uganda, Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions. Their stories are set in the court of a chief who did not share their faith. Even though they were pages in his court, their faith meant more to them than his approval and support.