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LIVE MUSIC, A FREE NIGHT OUT & A BAR- Come and join Larking Crew for a fantastic evening of live music at St Joseph’s Church, Ladbroke Road, Redhill, on Saturday 10 October, 7.00–10.00pm. We’ll be playing a great mix of classic rock songs you’ll know and love.Entry is FREE and there’ll be a pay bar throughout the evening. Bring your friends, bring your family and come and make a night of it. And while we’re having a great night, the pay bar will be raising money for two wonderful local charities: St Catherine’s Hospice and RDA Epsom (Riding for the Disabled Association). So come along, enjoy the music, have a drink and help us raise as much as we can for two very worthwhile causes.

We are looking forward to welcoming back all young people from Year 6 to Year 11 to our second session this term on Thursday 8th of October, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Church Hall. Come and join us, dinner will be provided and a contribution of £2.50 helps us to do this. If you or someone you know might be interested, please get in touch at: sj.youth.dorking@gmail.com or register at https://tinyurl.com/sjyouthgp . See you on Thursday!

Application forms for the next academic year’s respective programmes are available at the entrances to the church. If you have a child in year 3 or above (First Holy Communion) or in year 9 or above, (Confirmation) then, provided that you and your children are in regular attendance at Mass you and they will be able to join the programmes. The deadline for returning application forms is mid-night pm NEXT Sunday 11th October 2026 , once this deadline has expired for both programmes, no child will be accepted onto either the First Holy Communion or Confirmation programme until the following year, 2027/2028.

Sadly, this year we have a much smaller crop than last year. Therefore, to ensure everyone who wants a jar can get one, we are going to initially limit orders to one per family. You can email/phone/message Bernie Smith at bmsmith2204@gmail.com or 0798 223 2128 to place your order and let me know which Mass you go to. We will then deliver honey to you at your Mass. Jars will be the same price as last year (in fact no increase since we started up) @ £8.00 per jar. Thank you for your support.

Wednesday 14th October 2026 at 7.30 pm at ‘The Lounge’, Dorking Football Club Tickets are £10 each, including pizza. All are welcome, (no children) If Parishioners would like to buy tickets please contact the school office. Tickets are on sale now. There will be a raffle also, all funds raised will go towards resources for the Children.

We now have available the ‘Mass attendance cards’ which will be required by parents as a record of weekly attendance at Mass. Initially the card needs to be filled in, a photo of the child attached to the card (c/o parents /guardian) and a parish register created. Once a card has been created for each child, the family will need to present themselves to the priest for the card to be signed and stamped each weekend. Someone suggested this would be somewhat like a loyalty card for a coffee shop! Well, it is, only you won’t get a free coffee after 10 stamps, but you will get a “Certificate of Catholic Practice” provided Mass has been attended weekly for two years, prior to making application to over-subscribed schools, such as St. Andrew’s, Leatherhead. A reminder then, to parents of the changes to school admissions policies where schools, such as St. Andrew’s, Leatherhead, are over-subscribed. PLEASE SEE THE DETAIL on the parish web-site at: https://www.sjcc.org.uk/schools A certificate of Catholic practice, will now be required, such certificate can only be given where there is weekly attendance at Mass for at least two years and the ‘attendance card’ has been stamped by the priest.

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.

DEANERY WIDE: As has been mentioned, Fr. Charles Howell will be leaving Effingham and Fetcham for a sabbatical, and given there are no other priest to take his place, Mass times across all the churches in the Epsom Deanery are having to be adjusted to accommodate the situation, given the shortage of priests. Work is continuing to make the best provision possible, and it is hoped that details of adjustments will be available by the end of October, with the new Mass times coming into effect as of the first weekend of Advent.  Two fundamental principles of the adjusted Mass times are that a priest will celebrate a maximum of three Sunday Masses over the weekend and there will need to be a two hour gap between the start of one Mass being celebrated by a particular priest and the next Mass he would be celebrating. The two hours between the start times affords time for travel from one church to another, but more importantly, for the priest to be available, even though, for only a short time, to speak with people of the parish.

We are delighted to see so many of our parish primary school children attending the sessions. Our next session will be at 10.00 am Mass on Sunday 11th of October . A calendar of the remaining dates will be available shortly. Thank you.