We are happy to have restarted refreshments after the 9.30 Family Mass on Sundays. For it to continue each week we really need more help. People to join the rota to serve the drinks are always needed, but we also need a rota of people to spend a few minutes
Continue readingThank you to all of you for continuing to support St Edmund’s by having a number or two or three in the monthly draw for the 300 Club. Thanks to your generosity the 300 Club have been able to make funds available to purchase new garden tables and chairs in
Continue readingThere will be a special Mass for Fr Ashley to celebrate, and thank him, for his 27 years of service at St Edmunds and this will be on Saturday 20 January at 6pm followed by a reception in the hall to which everyone is invited. There is also a collection
Continue readingHappy New Year! January is a time both to look back and to look forward, to reflect on what went well in 2023 and what didn’t, and to anticipate the potential of a new year and the good things that it will bring. Many of us make resolutions for the
Continue readingHave you ever started the year resolving to read through the whole bible – or resolving to increase your knowledge and understanding of the bible? I’ve tried many times and failed! This year I discovered a plan that worked!! Not only will I have read (with 18 days to go)
Continue readingWhat a fantastic SVP Christmas lunch we all enjoyed in the church hall last Monday. We welcomed 77 of our parishioners and friends to a delicious three course traditional Christmas lunch cooked that morning. A quartet of cellists played for the first half of the lunch and then a choir
Continue readingWhy is it important to have a dedicated ‘Family Mass’? The answer is simple: children are the future of the Church. For that reason we need to give children a positive experience of Mass, welcoming them and showing them with their families how they can all play an active part
Continue readingIt seems an age since I last wrote the parish newsletter’s front page and I do so now at a time of flux and adjustment. Since my accident on 25th October when I damaged the tendons in my right leg, and the subsequent operation less than a week later, I
Continue readingIt has been announced today that Father Ray Brennan is retiring as Parish Priest of our neighbouring parish of West Wickham after many years of faithful service. He has been on our prayer list – please pray for him as he begins his retirement. The archbishop has asked me to become
Continue readingChristmas is the best time of the year for many, but the worst time of the year from an environmental perspective. On Christmas Day last year, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a programme, “Christmas Recycled”, which looked at how we could make Christmas more sustainable and less wasteful in the UK. They looked
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