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Fr John Daley IC (RIP)
Co-founder of the Watermead Apostolate
died on Sunday 10th March 2024
He had been suffering from myeloma cancer for the past 3 years, although had remained the priest serving St Joseph's parish up until a month before he died and his involvement with our Watermead Apostolate until the end of life.
Fr John was born in Splott in Cardiff, Wales, and joined the Institute of Charity (nick-named the "Rosminians" after their founder, Antonio Rosmini), serving in parishes, schools and missions in the UK, Canada, New Zealand.
He will be received into St Joseph's Church on Wednesday 10th April at 7.00 pm and his Requiem Mass will take place on Thursday 11th April at 11.00 am.
We are hoping to livestream both services.
"Requiescat in Pace"
Below is the last mass celebrated by Fr John at St Joseph's, Leicester, before the final stages of his illness and hospital admission prevented him from taking his place at the altar.
Below is a link to the last mass celebrated by Fr John at St Joseph's. Unfortunately, the following Monday he had a serious reaction to the chemotherapy drug and was taken into hospital. Once out of hospital he spent his final 4 months in his prayer room.
SHARING Fr JOHN'S FUNERAL LITURGIES
Both Funeral liturgies for Fr John were live-streamed through the parish YouTube channel which can be accessed through by searching "St Joseph's Leicester Live" or clicking on the following link to access the channel.
St Joseph's Leicester Livestream Channel
Following both funeral liturgies there will be a "tidied" version of the livestreams available on this Watermead website.
Service Sheet insides can be downloaded by following the links below (no covers). Copies of service booklets will be available after the dates and can be ordered l(details later)
Our Community Newsletter
On 2nd February Bishop Patrick asked Fr John to retire owing to ill health and a new priest was appointed. The new priest took over the parish on 3rd February and immediately stopped St Joseph's parish newsletter in favour of the new cluster parish newsletter. As so many Watermead followers kept up-to-date with our news through the St Joseph's parish newsletter we began the Community Newsletter and these are available by clicking on the buttons below.
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Background to 'The Lord's Day' newsletters
The Lord’s Day weekly newsletter is part of our sharing and is offered as a free download for duplicating and sharing within parish communities. The newsletter began a number of years ago when Father John was asked to put on paper the insights he shares at the regular retreats he preaches. He wrote a weekly reference guide for the Sunday readings at Mass and, as we worked on a page design, it was decided to offer these as a weekly newsletter - sharing a living faith from parish and apostolate experience.
The Questions of Faith section comes from our parish “Questions of Faith” discussion group; People of God may be the living saints who have shared the journey with us or the people who have inspired us; the weekly message is
summed up through the Theme and the This Week activity; and, of course, no Watermead venture is complete without the “Little Saints” who add their humour and heart through the Wisdom from the Saints cartoon.
We know that downloading The Lord’s Day offers people various options. Readers have told us that they find it useful to the ir Sunday Mass preparation and we know that parishes download and reproduce it for their congregations – with some using it as part of their own parish newsletter. However people choose to share the newsletter is fine with us - we are just pleased to be able to serve the wider Church community.
RESOURCES
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Join us for MassList Item 3
Fr John, author of "The Lord's Day", was the priest serving St Joseph's, Leicester, until 3rd February 2024. Over the years his challenging and inspiring homilies at mass were recorded and will soon be available through YouTube with links on these pages.
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Scriptural ReferencesList Item 4
The Sunday readings can be found on various Bible translation sites and you may already use a preferred site and translation. We used to link our newsletter readings direct to the relevant reading on Bible Gateway. If this is still helpful follow the link below and copy the reading reference into the search bar.
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Daily PrayersList Item 1
A site put together by our friend and an excellent resource with prayers, devotions, reflections and stories for people of all ages and professions - from the young to the old, believers to non-believers and parents to teachers.
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Heavens Road FMList Item 2
Heavens Road FM is a Catholic Radio Station that broadcasts daily over the internet. It is the inspiration of one of our friends and offers a variety of programmes and a "Listen Again" service. They also play some of our Watermead recordings.
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Catholic News
Independent Catholic News began in May 2000 as a response to Tertio Millennio Adveniente and the call for lay people to play a more active role in the Catholic Church. The aim is to provide speedy and accurate news coverage of all subjects of interest to Catholics and the wider Christian community.
