For a good few days now most, if not all of the country, has been experiencing snow, blizzards and very cold temperatures. The weather forecasters have called it the Beast from the East. It’s an interesting name; although it can describe an animal, beast can also mean someone or something
Continue readingLast Saturday the RCIA Team, including Father Steve, accompanied our catechumens (unbaptised) and candidate (baptised) to St George’s Cathedral to be presented to the Archbishop and Bishops. They joined 388 people from other parishes in the diocese to prepare for their full admission into the Catholic Church at Easter. Please pray for our elect, Shalyte, Jayne
Continue readingDon’t forget to log onto ChurchSuite to keep up to date with the latest parish news, view the calendar of events, make on-line donations, manage GiftAid, keep track of parish correspondence and update your own data. We use a parish database called ChurchSuite to manage parish data, events and rotas. ChurchSuite allows us
Continue readingFriday 23 February is CAFOD Lent Fast Day. Please try to give something up on that day and make a donation to this weekend’s appeal for CAFOD’s work. There are envelopes at the back of the church for you to take home and return. If you are a taxpayer please put your details on the
Continue readingSt Edmund’s Parishioners are cordially invited to join some Lent sessions taking place at other CTiB Churches: Penge Congregational Church, Kenilworth Road/High Street Penge is running The Bible Through Art, led by Chris McShane. This is a repeat of a very successful course from 2017. Timings are 7.30-9.00pm in the Vestry at PCC on five Tuesdays
Continue readingThis Sunday you will hear how Jesus is driven into the wilderness by the spirit. What ensued was forty days and forty nights of fasting. It may help us in the first week of our Lenten journey to identify with Jesus and to see our time in the desert as a period of
Continue readingAll parishioners but particularly catechists, readers and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, Sacristans and MCs are invited to sign up to a new monthly email from the Centre for Catholic Formation which is the education centre for our Southwark Diocese. These monthly emails will contain details of courses, events, resources
Continue readingThis Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten journey. I am sure some of you need no reminding of this! Too often the Season of Lent can be seen as a miserable and joyless period of time endured with gritted teeth and dogged determination. However, Lent can be, for all of us, a
Continue readingFaith in Action is a national award scheme for young people aged between 9-18yrs. There are four levels of the award: Pin, Bronze, Silver and Gold and each one challenges young people to make a difference in the world through service to others. By combining practical activities which positively contribute
Continue readingAny parishioner can make a donation towards the cost of our Altar flowers or have them dedicated for a particular reason e.g. Baptism, birthday, ‘special wedding anniversary’, ‘In Thanksgiving’ or ‘In Loving Memory’. These extra donations help me to ‘stretch’ the flower fund in order to provide flowers throughout the year. All contributions, modest or otherwise,
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