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We are a mission of the Progressive Catholic Church, in the Province of Europe. Providing a place of reconciliation, love, healing, and hope.

We are an vibrant, Inclusive, Progressive Catholic Community, welcoming ALL God's children. We are an Inclusive Catholic church in God`s own county of Yorkshire. Our mission is to welcome all people, share the beauty of being Catholic, of being inclusive, and to bring Christ`s love to people`s lives. Christ the Good Shepherd was launched on Easter Sunday 2022 after formerly being known as Our Lady

of Walsingham Mission for 7 years. We are an affirming, independent, catholic community. We come from all walks of life, We are married, single, LGBTQ+, partnered, and widowed. We are racially, politically, and ethnically diverse. But we are one body in Jesus Christ and unified by the Holy Eucharist. We don't just live the Gospel. We grow together, seek Christ together, and strive to fully engage in the life of the Church and our global family which is the Progressive Catholic Church. Our church is not confined to buildings we bring the church to you!; our church is in the hearts of the faithful and fully alive!

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The Progressive Catholic Church

The Progressive Catholic Church (PCC) is a vibrant Catholic Jurisdiction. Our Synod of Bishops gently guides the Church modeling their ministry on that of Christ who washed the feet of His disciples. Serving the People of God is our heart and soul. We are a Conciliar Church, that is we are governed by our Council of Bishops, chaired by our Presiding Bishop. Though our Apostolic Succession flows from the Old Catholic Movement of Utrecht, Holland, The Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Progressive Catholic Church (PCC) is a Vatican II Church, welcoming, accepting, and embracing, seeking to provide a place where all people may come to celebrate the truth of the Gospel as proclaimed through our Catholic Faith for today. The PCC is a member of the International Council of Community Churches and an affiliate of the World Council of the Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. Find one of our Fellowships near you today and join in celebrating a life renewed in Christ! We are represented in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Latin America, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We are “Progressive” in that we are an inclusive Church, barring no one from full participation in every aspect of the Church body including Ordination to the Priesthood and our Religious Orders. In every other way, we share all things in common, including valid Episcopacy through unquestioned lines of Apostolic Succession, Priesthood, and Sacraments with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church throughout the world.

12/01/2025

Todays in person Mass with be streaming at 5pm GMT today over on our YouTube channel

Sunday Mass for the Baptism of JesusChrist the Good ShepherdA Progressive Catholic Mission Yorkshire UKA part of the Progressive Catholic ChurchAll music is ...

11/01/2025

please note: as its the beginning of a new year our website will be having a update, so you may see things missing for a time being.

10/01/2025

Fr Barry has been to the church today and can now say roads and pathways are clear so mass will go ahead on Sunday. We look forward to seeing you there!

09/01/2025

update: The paths and roads at the moment are ok so the service on Sunday is going ahead

06/01/2025

We know its still a week away for in person worship but we keeping an eye on the weather just in case we have to cancel. Please so keep checking back for updates. Thank You

05/01/2025

04/01/2025

Don't forget our next in person mass will be on the 12th, we are celebrating the Baptism of Jesus

03/01/2025

The Most Holy Name of Jesus

Christ has been born for us: come, let us adore him.

01/01/2025

We want to thank everyone who helped us throughout 2024 without you it wasn't possible for us to start having in-person worship, As we look forward into 2025 we hope that you will continue to help with you time, gifts and talents. A church really is the people who are the true family of God.

Once again thank you all.

01/01/2025

Christ the Good Shepherd is a inclusive catholic church, All are Welcome

01/01/2025

January's church mews is now available on our website

https://www.christthegoodshepherd.co.uk/newsletter

29/12/2024

Service times for January:

05-01-2025 No Service
12-01-2025 In Person Mass
19-01-2025 11am Virtual Service
26-01-2025 11am Virtual Service
31-01-2025 7pm Monthly Adoration

29/12/2024

Let us adore Christ, the Son of God, who made himself obedient to Mary and to Joseph.

28/12/2024

The Holy Innocents, Martyrs
The Holy Innocents are the children who were slaughtered at the orders of King Herod, in the hope that by killing every boy born in Bethlehem at the same time as Jesus, he would succeed in killing the new-born King of the Jews.
There was nothing about those baby boys that made them deserve death. Look at any one of them, and you can see that he had no chance to do anything, or be anyone, or become anyone. He had done nothing. He had done nothing bad, he had done nothing good. He was born, and then he died, and that was all there was to him. So passive are these babies that some people find it hard to understand how they can share the title of “martyr” with people like St Stephen (the day before yesterday), who insisted on preaching the truth until his hearers stoned him for it, or St Thomas Becket (tomorrow), who insisted on living the truth until his king had him killed because of it. These children did not insist on anything except their mothers’ milk; and unlike Stephen and Thomas, there was no voluntary act of theirs that we can see as making the difference between being martyred and not being martyred.
So in our rational human terms these children are a puzzle, and that is one reason why God has inspired the Church to celebrate this very feast – to show us how inadequate our seemingly rational, worldly-wise thoughts are. As he reminds us again and again throughout salvation history, his thoughts are not our thoughts. Babies may not rank high on the scale as far as our human calculus is concerned; but then neither do sparrows, and yet God has told us that God sees and counts every one of those.
The Holy Innocents can stand, therefore, for the “unimportant” and “unnecessary” pawns, child and adult alike, that permeate the whole of human history, the ones who can be sacrificed for some greater cause because they “don’t really matter”; the eggs that were broken to make an omelette... or even broken to make nothing at all. There are plenty of them, one way or another. The feast of the Holy Innocents reminds us that in God’s eyes (that is, according to the true value of things), no-one is unimportant, no-one is unnecessary, no-one “doesn’t really matter.” However meaningless their lives and deaths may seem to us, they shine glorious in heaven.
On a more personal level, the honour given to the Holy Innocents reminds us that if we suffer or even die for God’s sake, it has value even if we have little or no say in it ourselves. Honouring them effectively honours also the martyrdom of the people these children could have become, and their children’s children as well; and at the same time we can remember the contemporary and continuing massacre of those who die before birth for the convenience of those who have them killed.

27/12/2024

our next in person mass is on the 12th of January 2025, it would be great to have you join us in person

Address

High Road
Carlton In Lindrick
S819EA

Website

http://www.christthegoodshepherd.co.uk/

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