The Catholic Parish of

THE HOLY FAMILY

S A N D E R S T E A D

Part of the Archdiocese of Southwark

BAKERS FOR THE CAFÉ

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
Thank you so much to everyone who bakes cakes or provides cakes for our Cafe. If you are not yet actively involved in our parish, this would be an excellent way of doing so. I could tell you all about it. Our Cafe is presently open on Tuesdays from 10.30am until 12.00midday, on Wednesdays from 12.15pm until 1.15pm, on Saturdays from 11.00am until 12.30pm and on Sundays following 11.00am holy Mass until 1.30pm. Thank you to our Gardening Group who have kindly offered to provide cakes for Tuesday and Wednesday, each week. That means we only need cakes for Saturdays and Sundays each week. Thank you to the wonderful folks who already provide us with cakes. Please join them. Let me know. Many thanks.

WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY RETIRING COLLECTION - NEXT WEEKEND

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
This Collection supports the work of the Catholic Communications Network, the media office of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, promoting the Gospel message through the media.

OLDE FORGE CAFE - FREE COFFEE AND CAKE FOR OUR VISITORS

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
Please do your best to bring members of your family, your friends, neighbours and colleagues who normally have little, if any contact with our Catholic parish, to the Olde Forge Cafe. Please remember that those you bring with you DO NOT give a donation for their coffee and cake. Only us, who are regular members of our parish, are asked to give a donation, each time, to cover the cost of the Coffee machine, coffee beans, heat, light etc. Dear Bakers and those who provide milk, please remember to take your expenses from the donations received.

THE OLDE FORGE CAFE - OUR WAY OF TRYING TO EVANGELISE

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
It’s good to remind ourselves, from time to time, that the Cafe is not about making money nor is it about attracting lots of people because our coffee is good! The Cafe exists because if even only one person gets to know us and our Faith a little better, then that is great success. We leave the rest to the Lord! Let’s not view the Cafe with pagan, secular eyes but with eyes of Faith and hearts filled with a desire to make the Lord known and loved.
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Welcome to Holy Family Parish

I wish all our visitors to this website, great peace and joy.
I hope you enjoy exploring our site and discovering the varied life of our vibrant parish.
If you would like to join us for the celebration of holy Mass, you will be welcomed with open arms.
So too, if you would like to join in any of our events and meetings, it will be a pleasure to see you.
If there is anything I can do to help or support you, please let me know.
With assurance of my prayers and warmest best wishes,

Fr Malachy

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    Monsignor Malachy's Golden Jubilee Celebration

Holy Family Catholic Church

I wish all our visitors to this website, great peace and joy.
I hope you enjoy exploring our site and discovering the varied life of our vibrant parish.
If you would like to join us for the celebration of holy Mass, you will be welcomed with open arms.
So too, if you would like to join in any of our events and meetings, it will be a pleasure to see you.
If there is anything I can do to help or support you, please let me know.
With assurance of my prayers and warmest best wishes,

Fr Malachy


  • Weekend Mass

    Saturday: 5:00pm (Vigil Holy Mass)

    Sunday: 9am and  11am 

  • Weekday Mass

    Monday: 9:30am

    Tuesday:  9:30am

    Wednesday: 9.30 am

    Thursday: 9.30am

    Friday: 9.30am

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NOVENA PRAYER FOR THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON US

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
As we mentioned during holy Mass, on the great Feast of the Ascension last week, we follow the example of the first Christians by praying for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon us. Between now and Pentecost Sunday, every day, please ask the Lord to send his Holy Spirit upon you and upon our parish that we may all be filled with more wisdom, with more willingness to be actively involved in our parish, with all the gifts we need to continue his work in the world. Here is the ancient prayer used by countless numbers of people, who have gone before us. Please pray this prayer every day until next Sunday, Pentecost Day. Please allow the Holy Spirit to enter your heart and allow the Spirit of God to melt and mould you into the person he wishes you to be. Come, Holy Ghost, Creator, come, From thy bright heav’nly throne, Come take possession of our souls, And make them all thy own. Thou who art called the Paraclete, Best gift of God above, The living spring, the living fire, Sweet unction and true love. Thou who art sevenfold in thy grace, Finger of God’s right hand His promise teaching little ones To speak an understand. O guide our minds with thy blessed light, With love our hearts inflame; And with thy strength, which never decays Confirm our mortal frame. Far from us drive our deadly foe; True peach unto us bring; And through all perils lead us safe Beneath thy sacred wing. Through thee may we the Father know, Through thee the eternal Son, And thee, the Spirit of them both, Thrice-blessed Three in One. All glory to the Father be, With his coequal Son; The same to thee, great Paraclete, While endless ages run.  Amen.

First Friday of the Month

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
I bring our Blessed Lord in Holy Communion, to all our parishioners who are house-bound, on the First Friday of every month.

Who Have You brought With You?

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
“WHO HAVE YOU BROUGHT WITH YOU?”  These are the words of the Lord Jesus to each one of us, every time we come to holy Mass. Please don't be content to come alone or just to come with someone who already comes every week, to holy Mass. Invite and encourage others in your family, those living next door to you, those living down your street, your friends. Do that and the Lord will work through you, probably slowly and bit by bit. Do that, and one day you will hear him say to you, “Well done, good and faithful child of mine. Enter into the joys prepared for you, for all eternity.”

BEQUEST, IN A WILL

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
It is wise to write a Will so that the resources you have when the time comes for you to leave this world, goes to the people and organisations you wish. May I suggest that you might consider leaving a Bequest in your will to our parish or to our diocese or to our priest as well as to other causes. A gift in your will can enable us to continue to help people to know the Lord Jesus and his saving love. What a wonderful legacy you would be leaving behind.

OLD FORGE CAFE BAKER’S AND HOST'S ROTA

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
OLDE FORGE CAFE BAKERS/PROVIDERS ROTA  JUNE 2025 7th : Patricia McCarthy 14th : Ros 21st : Bridget 28th : Marian Please, if possible, could you provide enough cakes for the whole of each week. Thank you to everybody who is helping to provide cakes. To avoid having too many cakes, Coral mentioned to me that non-perishable cakes can be safely stored in the Cafe for a short while. When it is your turn to provide a non-perishable cake, please bring your cake to the Cafe a few days before the date of your turn. OLDE FORGE CAFE - HOSTS ROTA JUNE 2025 1st : Patrick, Maggie 3rd : Gardening group 4th : Admin’ group 7th : Regina, Kinga 8th : Gaberielle, Geraldine 10th : Gardening group 11th : Admin’ group 14th : Phil, Patrick 15th : Mary, Kelly-Ann 17th : Gardening group 18th : Admin’ group 21st : Patricia, Lizzie 22nd : Jim, Simone 24th : Gardening group 25th : Admin’ group 28th : Colette, Giannina 29th : Kim, Grainne Please note that for each of the above dates when the Cafe is open, one of the two Hosts has been trained in the use of the new coffee machine. Please would that trained person be the only person operating the machine and also please train the other person in its use. Many thanks. Thank you to everybody who acts as a Host. If an unexpected emergency occurs on the date you are scheduled to be a Host, please don’t worry about the Cafe. No need to try to find someone to ‘stand in’ for you. There is no need whatsoever to ‘swop’ with someone! We are not a Business, having to stay open to make money! - we open when and if we can. We take this role of ‘Host’ as a Vocation from the Lord to be his Missionary and his Prophet. Actually, the Cafe has, at times, functioned well with just one Host. The success of our Evangelisation Cafe depends on us. The more we speak to others of our Cafe, inviting them to visit us, the more successful it will be. Please invite members of your families, your friends, your neighbours and colleagues. Please check when it is your turn to be a Host (or a Baker!). Please see this role as a Calling, a Vocation from the Lord which you are generously telling the Lord you will do”. Thank you so much for your trust in the good Lord
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ROTA FOR LECTORS – JUNE

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
31/1: 5pm, Lisa; 9am, Claire; 11am, Kelly, Jim 7/8: 5pm, Lizzie; 9am Mutsa; 11am David, Marian 14/15: 5pm, Maggie; 9am Gerry; 11am Chinwe, Richard 21/22: 5pm, Jim; 9am Phil; 11am Mutsa, Lisa 28/29: 5pm, Patricia; 9am Lorenza; 11am Marian, Maggie

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION ROTA

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
JUNE 2025 1st: 9am Jim; 11am John, Gabriella, Giannina(H) 8th : 9am Lesley; 11am Linda, Regina, Patrick(H) 14/15th : 6pm Paul; 9am Lizzie; 11am Lorenza, Patricia, Maggie(H) 21/22nd : 6pm Ross; 9am David; 11am Angela, Phil, Marian(H) 28/29th : 6pm Margaret; 9am Simone; 11am Carolyn, Lisa. Mary(H) Thank you to our wonderful Ministers of the Eucharist who have accepted the Lord’s invitation to this awesome, sacred ministry, by their willingness to give up their own plans and convenience in order to do God’s will rather than their own. Let us pray for them because they too fight the same personal weaknesses we all have to fight against and they too have to fight the same temptations we all have to fight. God be with them.

WEEK DAY LECTORS

By WEBMASTER • June 1, 2025
JUNE 3: Giannina 4: Claire 5: John 6: Lizzie

THE OLDE FORGE CAFE - OUR WAY OF TRYING TO EVANGELISE

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
It’s good to remind ourselves, from time to time, that the Cafe is not about making money nor is it about attracting lots of people because our coffee is good! The Cafe exists because if even only one person gets to know us and our Faith a little better, then that is great success. We leave the rest to the Lord! Let’s not view the Cafe with pagan, secular eyes but with eyes of Faith and hearts filled with a desire to make the Lord known and loved.

THANK YOU

By Webmaster • May 11, 2025
To Linda for much help with an external finance audit To Lorenza for much help with the Parish Religious Tour  To Kelly-Anne for personal help

THANK YOU

By Webmaster • April 6, 2025
To everyone who increased their Sunday Offertory Collection contributions and no longer uses coins, either by use of the Card Reader in the church, through a Bank Order or through the Collection during Sunday holy Mass. Thank you for supporting your parish in this practical way. Thank you to the person who gave a very generous contribution.

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DIOCESAN JUBILEE - Saturday 7th June at The Friars, Aylesford, 10am - 5pm

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
Please pop that date in your diary and come to the Jubilee celebrations on the 7th June . We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of Southwark becoming an Archdiocese, following centuries of being unable to publicly live out our Catholic Faith. The celebrations at The Friars will feature Music, Teaching, Prayer, Fellowship and will conclude with holy Mass. Please sign the list in the porch if you would like to attend this historic and most joyful event. We could try to arrange transport to and from The Friars Carmelite Centre in Aylesford.

NEXT RCIA MEETING AND FOR ANYONE PREPARING FOR THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION

By Webmaster • June 1, 2025
The next meeting for the three adult candidates preparing for the Sacrament of Baptism and for any adult who has not yet received the Sacrament of Confirmation, will be on Friday 6th June at 5.30pm in the Parish Room, for one hour.

COURSE AT THE LONDON JESUIT CENTRE

By Webmaster • May 19, 2025
The Workshops and Course I deliver at the LJC have proved helpful and popular. This is just an early piece of information about a forthcoming Course and Workshop which I think you might find very helpful in your spiritual and human development. FULLY HUMAN, FULLY ALIVE, PART 2 - A course on how to be genuinely human and to be able to live with real joy and real peace, in a world where the ‘worldly’ solutions on offer, sooner or later, simply don’t work! This course takes place on 5 consecutive Saturdays at the London Jesuit Centre, beginning on the 14th June, from 11.00am until 1.00pm each Saturday.  Please book for this Workshop or this Course, on the London Jesuit Centre website. I suggest book early to avoid disappointment.

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