Masses at the usual times: 8.00 am, 9.30 am, 11.00 am, 5.30 am and 7.00 pm. All offerings at these masses are for our priests. Would those who pay by standing order remember that their regular payment will go to the parish as a routine collection and will not be
Continue readingDuring March 1,976 individuals logged on to view St Edmund’s webcam. Our total number of viewers was 9,275 so clearly many viewers returned to be part of other broadcast Masses. If you have friends and family who are unable physically to come to a church please tell them about our service and
Continue readingThe Pilgrimage Committee has the pleasure to announce that we have managed to secure Category 1 tickets for the much anticipated Oberammergau Passion Play 2020 and a package on half board basis in Oberammergau and Zell am See from 20th May 2020-27th May 2020. It will be a devotional and leisurely itinerary. If you wish
Continue readingPlease support our parish second collection this weekend for this emergency appeal. Your donation will give food, clean water and healthcare to people in desperate need. Gabriel, the Cafod expert working with the Church in Mozambique says: “We know that Idai has wiped out crops and livestock, damaged water supplies
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Continue readingThere are still a few places available on this pilgrimage. Pilgrims will visit the Black Madonna and Auschwitz where they will be able to pray in the cell of St Maximilian Kolbe, and visit the birthplace of Pope John Paul II. They will also visit the Salt Mines and the beautiful
Continue readingWhen I was a boy holiness was a mystery to me. I knew Jesus, Mary and the saints to be holy because they prayed a lot and never did anything wrong. As far as I could understand it this special way of life was the privilege of priests and nuns. For the rest
Continue readingOur local food bank at Holy Trinity Church in Penge has had huge demands placed on them over the last few weeks and are very short of supplies. Parishioners responded to their last call for help with such generosity that we are asking once again if you could bring supplies
Continue readingLent is around the corner and so we can start counting the days until the Easter Vigil. It is a long standing tradition in our parish that we have a party after the Vigil Mass to celebrate the resurrection of Christ and to welcome into our parish family those who have been received into
Continue readingIn this Sunday’s Gospel reading Jesus tells his disciples ‘to love your enemies, to do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly’. Indeed, the bar has been set very high. I am reminded of the words of G.K. Chesterton, ‘The Christian ideal has not been
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