The lock on the Family Centre/Canon Street door has been giving us issues for several years, and last week it finally gave out. New parts are on order, but in the meantime the door is inoperative (although it can still be opened in case of a fire).

When the Family Centre door is repaired in a few weeks, we will also be taking the opportunity to change the locks on all of the other doors in the church. Through the years, some keys have been either misplaced or we no longer have a record of who actually has them. New locks will enable us to start fresh and maintain an accurate record of who has a key. We will be contacting those individuals requiring a key to let them know when their replacement is available.

Most of the phone lines in the church were damaged by a recent lightning strike. The phone line in the kitchen won’t be repaired for several more weeks. If you normally use that phone to call a taxi after Mass, we suggest booking the taxi to pick you up at a pre-arranged time before coming to Mass. We apologize for any additional inconvenience that the phone disruption might cause.

We are accepting weekend Mass intentions for 2011. Should you wish to book a Mass on a Saturday or Sunday during the coming year, we suggest you do so sooner rather than later as about a quarter of the Masses have already been spoken for.

Fr. David Martin has graciously agreed to celebrate this weekend’s Masses at Holy Trinity on very short notice. We are confident that we will be able to welcome another priest next weekend as well. Although, exactly who that will be hasn’t been completely finalized yet…

Weekday Masses are now cancelled until at least the end of September. We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused to those who have scheduled Masses during the week. Once we have a clearer picture of when weekday Masses will resume, we will reschedule those Masses that we have had to postpone.

For those who normally attend our weekday Masses, we would like to remind you that St. Pius X also offers a weekday Mass at 9am each day except Wednesday (although they do sometimes cancel them because of funerals), and the Cathedral has Mass each day at noon.