Newsletters

Dear Parishioners Our Lenten journey and pilgrimage are over. Our fasting is complete; now we can feast and celebrate!  We have travelled with Jesus from the harshness of the desert to the new life coming from the empty tomb. Having walked with Jesus on the way of the cross, we now share in and experience […]

Dear Parishioners Canon Anthony Dolan RIP: You will have heard from me last weekend at Mass or maybe seen on the notice board as you come into church the very sad news that Canon Anthony Dolan our much-loved former parish priest of St Mary’s died peacefully in the early hours of Saturday 16th March. I […]

Dear Parishioners The Fifth Sunday in Lent – Passion Sunday – strikes a different chord than previous Sundays in Lent. It seems the dial is turned up in our Lenten intensity. Our visual signal for this reality is the covering of statues, crosses, and holy images in our churches, a tradition which we keep here […]

Dear Parishioners First Holy Communion Candidates and their Families: This Sunday we welcome to the 9.30 am Mass all our First Holy Communion Candidates along with their families. Today our candidates will stay for the whole of Mass. Please continue to pray for them as they prepare this coming week to make their First Confessions on […]

Dear Parishioners Confirmation Candidates Enrolment during Mass – Sunday 3rd March: This Sunday we formally welcome our Confirmation Candidates and their families and sponsors to Mass in the parish. After the Creed our young people will stand in their places to make their commitment and we as the parish community will endorse that commitment and offer to […]

Dear Parishioners Mountains are important places in Sacred Scripture. Today’s Gospel reading for the 2nd Sunday of Lent is about Mount Tabor, the mountain of the Transfiguration, which we can call the mountain of worship. Here Peter, James, and John had a startling experience as Jesus’ face and clothes changed and Moses and Elijah flanked him. Then came […]

Dear Parishioners Communion under both Kinds: From this weekend the First Sunday of Lent, we resume offering the Precious Blood from the chalice at the Saturday evening Vigil Mass and the Sunday morning Mass. Whilst the Covid -19 pandemic may have past, covid is as we all know still very much present within our society and so I would […]

Dear Parishioners Changes to Mass Schedule this coming week: Ash Wednesday 14th February. We shall offer two Masses that day at which there will be the Imposition of Ashes. A simple said Mass at 9.30 am in the morning and in the evening a Sung Mass at 7pm. Friday 16th February – Requiem Funeral Mass at 11am replacing the 9.30 am parish […]

Dear Parishioners This Sunday, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B the readings at Mass invite each of us to look more deeply into the experience of human suffering. It is only through Christ that our pain and despair can and will be transformed. Just like the suffering people in today’s Gospel, we all long for Christ. It is […]

Dear Parishioners Change to Weekly Mass schedule – Tuesday 30th January: This Tuesday 30th January there will be no public worship in church. The church will be closed all day as I have to be away at meetings. SPUC and the White Flower Appeal 2024: This weekend at all our Sunday Masses we will have a retiring collection for the work of SPUC and the White Flower […]