Friday Night Socials

Friday Night Socials
The bar will be open in the Parish Centre for socialising on Friday 14th Feb from 7pm.
Why not join us to make new friends or reconnect with old ones?
Everyone welcome.

Parish Quiz Night, Saturday 22nd February

PARISH QUIZ NIGHT
Saturday 22nd February 2025 – 7pm
Cost £5.00 per person. Licensed bar
Bring your own snacks/nibbles
Tables of 8 people – if you come on your own or with one or two people you can join a table on the evening.
Please bring friends or relatives along from outside the Parish if they enjoy a quiz.
Sign up as soon as possible by emailing the Parish Office or calling 07827 787505.

FAMILY BINGO !! Saturday 11th January 2025

FAMILY BINGO !!
Saturday 11th January 2025
7pm in the Parish Hall
Come along and join in this fun-filled family event.
The kids love it. Bring your own nibbles.

Youth Mass: Sunday, 15th December

YOUTH MASS: The next Youth Mass will take place on Sunday 15th December at 6pm. The young people are asked to meet in the Parish Centre at 5pm to help prepare for the Mass. After Mass they are all invited to the Parish Centre for refreshments and to socialise until 8pm.

CHRISTMAS MASS TIMES 2024 -updated

Fr. Jude has decided that there will now be two Masses on Christmas Day. There will be a 9.30am Mass and an 11am Mass and not one 10am Mass as previously advertised.

Tuesday 24th
10.00am Morning Mass
4.30pm Children’s Christmas Mass
6.30pm Family Christmas Mass
10.30pm Christmas Carols & Vigil Mass

Wednesday 25th
9.30am Christmas Day Mass
11.00am Christmas Day Mass
Please note there will be no Evening Mass on Christmas Day

Thursday 26th
10.00am St. Stephen’s Day
(Mass for Altar Servers & their Families)
Please note there will be no Evening Mass on Boxing Day

Tuesday 31st Dec.
10.00am Morning Mass
11.00pm New Year’s Vigil Mass

Wednesday 1st Jan.
10.00am New Year’s Day Mass

Senior Parishioners Christmas Lunch

SENIOR PARISHIONERS CHRISTMAS LUNCH:
Our annual Senior Parishioners Christmas Lunch will take place at 12.30pm on Thursday 12th December. Please let the Parish Office know if you would like to attend.

Novena to the Immaculate Conception of the blessed Virgin Mary

NOVENA TO THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: On the 30th November, we began our Novena to the Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady. Copies are available at the back of the Church. Please take a copy as you enter the Church. The Feast this year is celebrated on Monday 9th December.

New Lectionary from Advent 2024

NEW LECTIONARY: A new edition of the Lectionary will come into use in England and Wales on the first Sunday of Advent. The Lectionary is a book which contains the readings for Mass (Sundays and Weekdays), for Saints and Sacraments, and other occasions, such as funerals.
The new Lectionary is a fresh iteration of something we all ready know. Various new feast and memorials have been added to the Liturgical Calendar since 1981 and these are included in the new Lectionary.

Donations needed for our Christmas Jamboree

We are urgently in need of donations for the Christmas Jamboree Fayre: bottles of alcohol and unwanted gifts for the Prize Tombolas. We need these donations before Friday 30th November as that is when we are ticketing up the Tombolas.

Donations can be left in the green bins in the Church porch at Masses or brought to the Parish Office during the week.

Induction of Fr Jude

On Friday, 15th November 2024, our Parish celebrated the induction of Fr Jude as our new Parish Priest. The mass was at 7.00pm and was held by Bishop John Sherrington. After the mass all celebrated with food and drink in the Parish Hall.