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First Holy Communion Programme The programme continues this Thursday 16 th April at 5 pm. The children should have looked Chapter 13 of their books, having worked their way through it for revision that day.
Our programme continues this Monday 20th April, when we look at the sacrament of Baptism. Please note we will begin at the earlier time of 7.00 pm; all are welcome.
Thanks to all those of you who provided goodies last Sunday and to all those who supported the coffee and cakes; we are pleased to say the necessary £50 donation for the Surrey Churches Preservation Society was surpassed and the made. Further, we are delighted that SCPS have advised that a preliminary grant towards the cost of the scaffold tower shall been given with a further grant towards the cost of repair works being additionally advised.
HOLY WEEK LITURGIES are follows: Palm Sunday Mass and on Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st March are at 9.30. Maundy Thursday 2nd April: 7.30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by watching at the Altar of Repose until midnight. Good Friday 3rd April: 3.00 pm Solemn Liturgy of the Passion. 7.00 pm Stations of the Cross Holy Saturday 4th: 8.30 pm THE EASTER VIGIL (Sunset is at 19.49) Easter Sunday 5th April: Dawn Mass at 8.00 Mass of the Day at 10.00 am. BLESSING OF EASTER BASKETS The blessing of the Easter Baskets will be on Easter Saturday, 5th April at 10.30am SWIECENIE JAJEK i POKARMOW bedzie w sobote o godz. 10.30.
Martin Stebbings, on behalf of Group 17 writes:- May I/we thank all those very kind and generous parishioners who have donated to the Just Giving page over the past few weeks. The response has been amazing, and I thank you whole-heartedly. Again, I would be very happy to take prayer petitions or intentions from parishioners. If you would like me to carry an intention to the Grotto on your behalf, please feel free to pass it on before the Easter Tridium Weekend. As previously mentioned, please keep all our pilgrims in your prayers, and be assured of mine for you when I travel to Lourdes at Easter. Thank you. Martin Stebbings
GOOD FRIDAY COLLECTION:- is a collection for the Holy Places in the Holy Land; this collection helps the missionary work of the Franciscans, supporting the upkeep of the holy sites, for which they are responsible, as well as the schools, hospitals and other endeavours.
CONFIRMATION PROGRAMME 2025 /2026 Will continue after the schools Easter holiday on Thursday 16th April at 7 pm in the small hall. Many thanks for arriving promptly.
If you haven’t already done so, but would still like to commit to praying a decade of the Rosary each day during February, then please do put your initial or a tick in one of the boxes on the ‘Rosary Circle’ chart in the church porch. The ‘Chart’ lists the 20 decades of the Rosary and a number of columns for people to put their initial or a tick in a box to indicate they will commit to praying the particular decade each day for the month of February, and hopefully, this will create a number of ‘circles’ praying for this intention. This is a very simple spiritual exercise many of us could join in with; at least 20 people praying one decade of the Rosary each day, so the whole of the Rosary is prayed for this particular intention, thus creating a ‘Rosary Circle’. Let it be said, however, that anyone can join the Rosary Circles at any time.
Youth Group at St Joseph’s will begin on Thursday 23rd April and will meet fortnightly from 6:00–8:00pm in the Church Hall (dinner provided). The group is open to young people in Years 6 to 11, offering a welcoming space to build friendships, have fun, and explore faith and life together. More details and registration information will be shared shortly. Thank you for your encouragement and please continue to keep this initiative in your prayers. Kathia, Lucy, Matthew and Denzyl
EASTER OFFERING A reminder that the collection at the Easter Vigil and on Easter Sunday is your personal offering to Fr. Ian. PLEASE NOTE that if you usually contribute by some kind of internal bank transfer, BACS / standing order etc. but you wish to make a personal offering, then you will have to stipulate to your bank that any such offering to Fr. Ian should be annotated accordingly; if offerings are not annotated as such, then they will go into the general parish funds, rather than to Fr. Ian! The Easter Offering, along with the Christmas Day Offering, are the major source of personal income for the whole year for the diocesan priest in Arundel and Brighton, so we ask you to be as generous as you can. ‘Easter Offering’ envelopes are available at the church entrances and given the varied manner of financial transactions, the ‘Easter Offering’ envelopes are possibly the least ambiguous manner of offering. Many thanks.