Dear Parents, As you may be aware, many years ago, at the direction of the Archdiocese, the sacramental preparation programme moved from schools to the parish. Children are prepared for their First Confession and First Holy Communion by catechists from their parishes and the programme is overseen by the clergy.
Continue readingToday is the feast, in the dioceses of England and Wales and of Ireland, of St Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh and the last priest to be martyred in these islands.
Continue readingToday, in the aftermath of yesterday’s feast of Ss Peter and Paul, the Church honours those who followed them, the first martyrs of the Roman Church. God bless and take care Fr Ashley
Continue readingThe feast day of St Peter and St Paul, normally a Holy Day of Obligation – this is suspended still, but you are most welcome to come to Mass at 10 or 6. We make a special effort today to pray for the Holy Father.
Continue readingThis Sunday’s gospel, the raising of the daughter of Jairus (also the healing of the woman with a haemorrhage) from Mark chapter 5. God bless and take care Fr Ashley
Continue readingI recently had this article published in ET Studies, the journal of the European Society for Catholic Theology. My thanks to Louisa Warren for translating the abstract into French and German: READ HERE. God bless Fr Ashley (From our Facebook Page)
Continue readingToday is the feast day of St John Fisher and St Thomas More. It has an important history in this diocese: in the 20s and 30s the Southwark diocese played a big part in the fund-raising for the canonisation process, because St John Fisher’s diocese (Rochester) is within the territory
Continue readingWith the additional masses that are now being celebrated in our church we have quite a few that do not have an intention. If you wish to have a Mass intention, please would you email the office. It would help if you didn’t specify a date for the Mass unless
Continue readingYou 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,
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