Mass Intentions

We have many parishioners who regularly remember their friends and family at our Masses, but there are many parishioners who may never have requested a Mass intention and are unsure of how to go about it. It is very straightforward. The Office needs to know the name of the person

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Planned Preventative Maintenance at St Edmund’s

We have recently commissioned a Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) Report for the church, presbytery and church hall. The report identifies critical and preventative measures required following the surveyor’s inspection. As you can imagine the report is far reaching and includes the major work required outside and inside the tower. We

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Called to Care for Creation

Catholics from across the diocese are joining CAFOD at the ‘Act Now, Change Forever’ mass lobby of Parliament on Wednesday 9 July. This is a chance to live out our faith by urging leaders to act on the climate crisis, which is already affecting the world’s poorest communities. To take

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Masses on 4 and 11 July

Bishop Challoner School will be celebrating its final Mass on the morning of July 4. It will be the very last Mass at the school. Fr Steve and Fr Andrew will be concelebrating which means that we are unable to have Mass in St Edmund’s that morning though there will be

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Mass and Readings: Universalis

Many parishioners already use the Universalis website to access the daily Mass readings. There is also a Universalis app for iPhone/iPad and Android, which gives all the readings for each day and a lot more besides. Take a look at their website.  

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Bishop Challoner School

Many of you will have heard by now that Bishop Challoner School announced this week that it will cease to operate at the end of the summer term, on 4 July. Their official statement can be read here. Please keep all those connected with the school in your prayers at

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Retiring Collections

This weekend, instead of taking the second collection whilst the notices are being read, we will trial taking it at the doors as parishioners leave the church. We will do this for a few weeks to see how it works. We are grateful to all the parishioners who use the

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