You may remember the special act of worship led by the Holy Father from St Peter’s on 27 March 2020 in which we reflected very powerfully on today’s gospel reading: Jesus calming the storm in chapter 4 of Mark’s gospel. The Pope gave Benediction ‘to the city and the world’
Continue readingThis Sunday is the national Day for Life. The special message for the day, and details of how to donate to the appeal, can be found at https://www.cbcew.org.uk/life-bishops-message-for-the…/ Many congratulations to Sandy Misquitta who has been ordained deacon today by Bishop Paul Hendricks. Please pray also for his family Neelam,
Continue readingFurther to our announcement earlier this week this announcement is a reminder that from this week the church remains open from the end of Mass in the morning every day until Mass in the evening. From 4 July most of our Sunday Masses will resume – 8am, 930am, 11am and
Continue readingWednesday is the feast of the thirteenth century bishop St Richard of Chichester – his shrine in the Anglican cathedral in Chichester is shown here. He’s important for us because he was a good friend of our patron saint, Edmund; in one of the side chapels in the cathedral there
Continue readingThis is a picture of something we haven’t seen for a while – a large number of people all going into our church at once, not in an ordered queue (Good Friday). We’re not at that stage yet, but we can announce some changes: From tomorrow Exposition of the Blessed
Continue readingAs restrictions ease, plans to prepare our young people to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation are being made. Please accept our apologies for the delay in finalising the arrangements and the lack of information. A number of our young people started their preparation back in early 2020. Those of you
Continue readingThe “Light of Christ” prayer meeting has found a new venue at St Edmund’s. We hope to meet each Wednesday commencing 14th July in the main hall and are so grateful for the wonderful welcome from Fr. Stephen, who knows us well, and the parish team. For many years we
Continue readingSt Mary’s Primary School PTA is running a history trail around Beckenham to raise funds for the school. It’s a self-guided trail through the winding backstreets and hidden corners of Beckenham. Solve the clues along the route to unlock some of the history and secrets of Beckenham. It costs £3
Continue readingToday is the feast of Corpus Christi. Please pray for children making their First Holy Communion this weekend. God bless and take care Fr Ashley
Continue readingThis campaign by Cafod is to ask our government to influence other world leaders at the G7 talks in June and the UN’COP26’ climate talks in November, to take action on climate change. Please go to cafod.org.uk/reclaim to learn about the campaign. There is a video (below), an online petition
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