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Diary Dates

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CAFE AND WARM SPACE every Tuesday 10am-12 pm - EVERYONE IS WELCOME, PARISH ROOMS: SMALL HALL. ​​

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SCHOOL ADMISSION APPLICATION FORMS:- The usual deadline for returning such forms to admission clerks is the end of October! Fr. Ian is hoping to have a holiday at that time, so PLEASE circulate to people that they need to get his signature before the 6th October. Thank you.

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First Holy Communion and Confirmation programmes 2024 /2025, application forms to join these programmes are now available at the entrances to the church. The deadline for returning applications to Fr. Ian, in person, is Sunday 6th October, no further applications for the year 2024/ 2025 will be accepted after this date. If your child is in year 3 or above they are eligible to join the First Holy Communion programme. For the Confirmation programme candidates must be 14 years of age or over by the end of June 2025. To join the programmes weekly attendance at Sunday Mass is a requirement.

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Going into hospital? Please remember if you or a member of your family is taken into hospital you need to inform the ward staff that you are a Catholic and would like to see the Catholic chaplain. Under data protection law chaplains do not have automatic access to patients so please inform us at the earliest opportunity or any such situation.  This also applies if you have a relative or friend in a nursing home or going into a residential home , let us know!.  

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ROSARY CIRCLE FOR PRIESTLY VOCATIONS:- Given the not insignificant decline in priestly vocations and to encourage us all to pray for such vocations, we will continue our ‘Rosary Circle’ for September. 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 circle. Each month a new ‘Rosary Circle Chart’ would be on the church noticeboard consisting of the 20 decades of the Rosary and a number of columns for people to put their initial or a tick in the box to indicate they
will pray the particular decade each day.  The chart for September is now available in the church.
To keep this spiritual exercise in our minds and hearts, the first Sunday of each month would be a ‘sign up’ weekend, when people can recommit to this by 'signing up again' or indeed take up this prayerful activity. Let it be said, however, that anyone can join the Rosary Circles at any time. Details of how to be involved will be along side the ‘sign up’ chart on the noticeboard.​

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Sunday 29th September 2024 - PARISH SOCIAL:- it is proposed that we have a lunchtime international food festival! Given the not insignificant number of nationalities in the parish, the proposal is that people bring along a local dish from their home country, sufficient for 6 or 7 people to have a ‘taste’, not the feeding of the millions. Further details to follow.​

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​Adult Formation / RCIA A number of adults have requested to be received into the Church, so to facilitate an initial discussion and outline of a programme, there will be a meeting for anyone interested in knowing more about our faith on Monday 11th November at 7.30 in the small hall.​

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Children’s liturgy:- Only a couple of people have offered to help with this, and so until there are more volunteers who are prepared to have the DBS checks and undergo the ‘safeguarding’ training, this activity will remain in abeyance. The evangelization of the young is a primary work of the church to help and support young families in the practise and living out their faith, and so WE, as a parish, need to be supportive of them.

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Youth provision:- There is a gathering of those at secondary school and one parent on Friday 4th October at 7pm to discuss a good time to meet and the ‘shape’ of the meetings for the future.  Previous discussions can continue, with a view to the time, frequency and day to meet. If you are of secondary school age, do come along, bringing a parent with you.

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