I would like to welcome from the Diocese of Lira in Uganda, Fr Boniface Arapa to our parish. Fr Boniface will be with us throughout July and the first week of August. Please introduce yourselves to him and make him feel welcome as I know you will. Fr Steve
Continue readingLast weekend saw our final two first holy communion masses. Coming the week after almost forty children in our Catechism Group made theirs, the two masses saw forty-seven children from St Edmunds who attend St Mary’s School receive holy communion for the first time. It was also the first time
Continue readingAltar Servers are invited to a Summer break from Tuesday 7 to Friday 10 August at Woldingham School, Surrey. Cost: £145 This is an excellent few days for boy and girl servers aged 10 – 15. Meeting in a holiday atmosphere, activities will include talks, discussions, prayer, daily Mass, as well as a visit
Continue readingOne of the themes of this weekend’s Day for Life is the terrible and worsening incidence of human slavery and trafficking in this country. The churches have recently taken a very practical initiative in relation to something many of us do frequently – getting our cars washed. Our archbishop has
Continue readingWe have received an urgent request from the Living Well Foodbank. Supplies are very low. Each week they provide 160 bags of food to people in Penge and surrounding areas. They urgently need donations of tinned goods: tinned meat, baked beans, soups, tinned vegetables (carrots, sweetcorn, mixed veg), tinned fruit, UHT
Continue readingArchbishop Peter has asked that all Southwark parishioners are made aware of these websites: The Diocesan Adoremus web page The Adoremus pages of the Bishops’ Conference Please do take a look at them. A number of links to other websites can be found on the Resources Page of our website.
Continue readingPeople parking their vehicles on the forecourt without the express permission of the priests are continuing to cause problems. Our priests are frequently called out to administer the Sacrament of the Sick to the dying. A delay can mean they arrive too late. If you park on the drive YOU could
Continue readingThis Sunday we celebrate the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Every Mass is a memorial of Jesus’ death and resurrection, the sacrament of love and mercy, a sign of unity and a Paschal banquet. It is the unity aspect I wish to emphasise to you all and
Continue readingLearn some of the Catholic history of London. Join one of the summer evening walks in June and July. Visit some of the beautiful pre-reformation churches in the City or walk through the West End and learn about the development of Catholic London, or visit Britain’s only Catholic university, St
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