St Anne's, Brockenhurst

Fr David Adams Parish priest

and Co-Ordinating Pastor of

the New Forest Pastoral area

St Anne’s

Rhinefield Road, Brockenhurst

Hampshire SO42 7SR

Fr David is Parish Priest of St Anne's, St Francis of Assisi, Milford on Sea and Our Lady of Mercy and St Joseph, Lymington

Mass times

Sunday at 6pm

Weekday Mass 10am Thursday

All enquiries : contact the Parish office

which is based at

132, High Street, Lymington SO41 9AQ

Telephone 01590 676696

Emails:

office@lymbrockmil.org.uk

The office is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday but emails and answerphone messages are checked daily

Parish Safeguarding Minister

Henrietta Reynolds Safeguarding - St Anne’s

safeguarding@brock.org.uk

In case of Emergency please contact the

Diocesan Safeguarding Co-Ordinator on 02394 216 486

St Anne's is part of the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth

© Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth 2023 | Registration number: England Registered Charity No. 1199568 Jersey Registered Charity No. 457 and Guernsey Registered Charity No.CH263 | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy.

IF YOU ARE NOT DOING SO ALREADY:

PLEASE CONSIDER SUPPORTING THE PARISH FINANCIALLY WITH A REGULAR STANDING ORDER:

A/C NAME: CDP BROCKENHURST ST ANNE

A/C NUMBER: 00875962

SORT CODE: 30-93-04

FROM FR CHARLIE IN MALAWI 19th March 2023

Greetings from Malawi and Cyclone Freddy sends his big greetings! Cyclone Freddy hit southern Malawi on Sunday night. Sadly, 215 people have so far lost their lives. Many people have lost their homes and their crops due to flooding North and Central Malawi was unaffected. In response to the cyclone, Malawi’s government has declared a state of disaster in the southern region of the country.

Here where I stay there was torrential rain for 72 hours and it was fairly windy at times. We have been cut off for four days as our road is flooded in one direction heading to our nearest town and in the other direction two bridges are down. I tried to travel to town this morning as there has been no rains since yesterday but there is still too much water. I wanted

to visit the prison in town and give some money to the Governor of the prison as they have run out of food. I could not cross in my little car so I phoned the governor. I said I would wade across the water and meet him on his side. He came in the prison pick-up vehicle and as it has high

clearance he was able to cross to my side in his vehicle. On return home I received a message that some work has been done on the two bridges and that you can now cross by bike or motor bike but not in a vehicle so I’ll check that out tomorrow as I have a motor bike which, I use for most

of the pastoral work in the parish.

I feel very sorry for the people, who have had it so tough in recent years. We are still grappling with the deadliest cholera outbreak, which has killed over 1,600 people since late last year, then there is the crippling inflation, famine to name but a few.