Join us as we celebrate this holy season. All our Masses, and a weekly Rosary, are being made available live via Zoom. You can pariticipate, in real time, with parishioners in their homes, as Fr Darren Carden celebrates the Mass at Hornby church. Click the button, then follow the on-screen instructions. There’s no need to download the Zoom app, you can join from your internet browser, unless you use Safari, which it seems not to like.

We will have a nominated person saying the Mass responses, so you can join in from home, but we’ll not be able to hear you.

We look forward to seeing you soon. Meantime, have a happy and blessed Easter.

As we are all aware, we face difficult times both as a society and a church. Many things that we took for granted are no longer possible at this time. Many of our priests are over 70 and due to Covid-19 they are self-isolating. This means that there are fewer priests available to offer support at this time.

To protect as far as possible the few priests that are available, priests that were sharing houses have been asked to live in separate houses. To accommodate this Fr Darren Carden has moved from St Joseph’s Lancaster to reside at St Mary’s Hornby; he arrived on Sunday 16th March.

All public acts of worship are suspended until further notice. However, the celebration of Mass, Sunday by Sunday and day by day, will take place without a public congregation. Knowing that the Mass is being celebrated; joining in spiritually in that celebration; watching the live-streaming of the Mass; following its prayers at home; making an act of spiritual communion: this is how we share in the Sacrifice of Christ in these days. These are the ways in which we will sanctify Sunday. Indeed, every day. In this parish, we have now set up a videoconferencing facility so that you can participate in the daily masses. See the Calendar for details, or

Join the daily rhythm of prayer in the parish

To help us to achieve this in our own parishes Fr Darren will be celebrating Mass each day at 9 am at St Mary’s Hornby without a physical congregation, but you are warmly invited to join in via Zoom videoconferencing. To further help us to be united in prayer at this time, he will also have exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 8:30 am till 9:00 am and he will also pray the Rosary each evening at 6:00 pm.

Please see the Weekly Blog below, and the calendar, for updates of prayer intentions and other news.