What a wonderful year this has been for our children here at St Paulinus in Guisborough.
Since September 2023, all the children from Reception to Year Six have been able to come into church with Maggs Harrison, one of our parishioners, to spend time with Jesus before the exposed Blessed Sacrament.
Our school and parish work hard together, and this is just one of the many ways we are trying to make Christ known to the children and families of our loving community. We are lucky to have the school and church building on the same site but do now take it for granted!
The children have developed their understanding of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and what it means for them. They have sung and prayed, experiencing being still with Our Lord. What a joy it has been!
Maggs has been supported each week by one of our priests – Father Phil, Father Paul or Father Jose – and this has helped to draw us all into the mystery of this most beautiful way of being close to the Lord. We are so grateful for the time given by all involved.
Earlier this year we celebrated a whole-school Adoration, which brought all our children together, and we prayed, sung our hearts out and watched as Jesus moved around the church in the Monstrance. It was a truly wonderful time with the children, teachers, parents and parishioners.
There was no more beautiful sound that day than the children singing O, Sacrament Most Holy as the Blessed Sacrament was reposed into the Tabernacle.
We wait with bated breath for the Holy Spirit to reveal what may be in store for us at St Paulinus in the new school year.

Rachel Bircham, Head of School