Welcome to the website of St Gregory the Great, Roman Catholic Parish, Northampton

CHURCH FIRE UPDATE – Sunday 12st June 2026

After a long wait following the fire in St Gregory’s Church in November last year the building will be open once again for celebration of Holy Mass on Sundays and weekdays (apart from Thursdays) from Sunday 28th June 2026. We are deeply grateful to our parish School of St Gregory who have been able to accommodate the Sunday Mass in the weeks and months following the fire. Please note that the parish hall, kitchen, sacristy and toilets are still without power and are awaiting refurbishment so unfortunately we are unable to take any hall bookings at the moment. A temporary sound system will be used in the church until power can be restored to the existing PA system.

I look forward to seeing you at Mass in St Gregory’s Church.

God Bless you all
Canon Christopher

Prayer for Pope Leo

CASPAR and why it is important

One of the important principles of the management of data is keeping it up to date. When we went into lockdown during COVID the parish tried to keep in touch by telephone, but we found that more than half our database was useless with many having moved house or stopped using their landline telephone. This was the experience of many parishes, and as a result the CASPAR system was developed, in which every user is in charge of their own data. This also reduces the responsibility of data protection for parishes and the diocese, although we are still bound by the rules of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations). The CASPAR system should be more secure than the basic systems that we were previously using. CASPAR is still under development, and will have many additional features. One which is already in use is the reporting to the diocese of bits of data which used to require form-filling. Now CASPAR does it automatically. Please sign up as soon as you can. www.caspar.church/me?ID=56067

Divine Renovation is a Catholic ministry dedicated to parish renewal.

Divine Renovation is a ministry which accompanies priests and lay leaders who desire to see their parish come alive by providing them with the tools and coaching they need to lead their parish from maintenance to mission. We have a vision that we will be a ‘thriving Catholic community’, and in order to do this we must fully embrace its missionary identity by ‘confidently and humbly proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ’. Part of our way of putting this into practice is through the Alpha course

Click here to go to the Alpha page

Gregory Care

You will find at the bottom of the page under ‘Latest News’, a link to the report of last year’s activity of Gregory Care. This represents a lot of work done by very few people, and aims to provide support to any in the parish who are disadvantaged by financial circumstances, ill health, accident or any other of life’s events.

When you read it, you will see the great breadth and scope of their work, which is not just for those of our congregation, indeed, it helps anyone of any faith or nationality. The chief source of funding comes from the parish repository, whose profits last year were shared between Gregory Care and the Hope Centre.

Each week in the Newsletter there is a notice with the telephone number of Gregory Care: if you know of anyone in need, please invite them to ring, and if, reading the report, you think of other needs, or could offer help yourself, please make contact using the same telephone number.

Donations for the Hope Centre may be made on their just giving page:
www.justgiving.com/campaign/helphope , and donations for CAFOD may be put in a clearly marked envelope and put in the CAFOD money box near the office door whenever the church is open.