The Catholic Parish of

THE HOLY FAMILY

S A N D E R S T E A D

Part of the Archdiocese of Southwark

VISIT BY THE CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE OF THE ‘WOMEN OF CHRIST’S LOVE’

By Webmaster • September 22, 2025
On the weekend of the 25th/26th October , I’m delighted to tell you that members of the Catholic Apostolate of the ‘Women of Christ’s Love’ will join us for holy Mass in our parish. They believe very strongly that “Christ’s love for humanity must be the focus of our worship.”

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD DURING 11.00am SUNDAY HOLY MASS

By Webmaster • September 21, 2025
We will begin again our ‘Liturgy of the Word’ for children of Primary School age on Sunday November 2nd and then on the following consecutive Sundays. Dear Parents please bear these dates in mind when you bring your children to holy Mass. During these ‘Liturgy of the Word’ sessions, our children will have opportunities to understand and enjoy God’s loving Word during the 11.00am holy Mass.

PARISH INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

By Webmaster • September 21, 2025
Forgive me for raising the issue of parish finances, but I need to alert you to how we must finance our parish and manage our financial resources, if we are to continue as a viable parish. We pay a monthly levy to the diocese of £1,110.59. We also pay a monthly Health and Safety levy of £118.43. Monthly charges for electricity are around £200.00 These are just a few basic monthly costs. Our general monthly expenditure is well in excess of these amounts. Our weekly Collection is presently around £450.00. As you will appreciate then, our present weekly income is not covering our normal weekly expenses. Please may I suggest that every adult member of our parish give a minimum of £15, each week, in our Collection. If you are in personal financial hardship, please just disregard this suggestion. If you are in a reasonable or good financial position, please give more than this suggestion. We live in a relatively affluent area, so our finances should be secure. In addition to a Current Account, we also have a Savings/Loan account. I am reluctant to take anything from that account to pay our normal bills. The Savings/Loan account is there in case we face any unforeseen, sudden, emergency call on our finances or for any special projects we might have. That said, we are about to incur a debt of almost £8,000 to replace our very poor church Sound System with a much-needed new system. We will have to take that cost from our Savings/Loan account.

CANDLES BURNING IN THE CHURCH - A HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUE

By Webmaster • August 24, 2025
A lovely tradition in Catholic and Orthodox Churches is to light a small votive candle as a symbol of prayer. We provide facilities for this in our church. People can ‘light a candle’ and give a little donation, when holy Mass or Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament is not taking place in the church. However, we must take matters of Health and Safety and the matter of Fire Prevention, very seriously. We cannot allow votive candles to be alight in the church when nobody is actually in the church. We must insist on this for very good reasons as I’m sure you understand. A recent serious incident involving fire, in a local Catholic church, highlighted the importance of this. When holy Mass is not taking place or hasn’t yet begun or when Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is not taking place and if someone is present in the church, please feel free to ‘light a candle’. However, please be sure to extinguish all candles before you leave the church.
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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

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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CRUCIFIX

By Webmaster • September 22, 2025
As you see, we have raised up the outside crucifix to a height which now makes it fully visible to all who pass by our church. It is also now surrounded by a solid base.  This is another way in which we are demonstrating that we are a Christian community obedient to the Lord and to our Archbishop, by becoming a missionary parish. We are trying to make stronger the ‘rumour’ of the living presence of the true God who loves everyone and who can save all who come to him from their sins and from death itself. In a secular culture where the worship of false Gods like Money and Power and Violence and Fame and Selfishness in all its forms and Greed are so strong, the Lord needs you and I to take every opportunity we can to make his saving loving presence known.

THE CATHOLIC EDUCATION SERVICE ANNUAL COLLECTION, NEXT WEEKEND

By Webmaster • September 8, 2025
The CES supports Catholic Education in the 2000 Catholic schools, academies and colleges of England and Wales, providing education over 800,000 students. The CES is the chief negotiating and advisory body on matters affecting all aspects of Catholic education.

BEQUEST, IN A WILL

By Webmaster • September 7, 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.

NEW SOUND SYSTEM INSTALLATION

By Webmaster • September 1, 2025
I’m hoping that on Thursday this week, a team of engineers will be installing a new Sound System in our church to replace the rather old, tired system that hasn’t worked well for some time.

APPEAL TO FEED THE STARVING PEOPLE OF GAZA

By Webmaster • September 1, 2025
Thank you to everybody who has already shared their financial resources. We will keep our Appeal open until Wednesday this week. Please put any contribution you wish to make into an envelope and drop it into the presbytery before Wednesday. There may still be a few ‘Cafod’ Gift-Aid envelopes in the porch of the church which you might like to use. If you use these envelopes, Cafod can also claim a Gift-Aid contribution.
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Golden Jubilee of Priesthood

By Webmaster • September 1, 2022
PARISH CELEBRATION - THANK YOU, WITH ALL MY HEART What an amazing, quite wonderful Celebration we all enjoyed, last Sunday. It was an occasion full of joy and happiness, as we thanked the good Lord for all his loving kindness. It reminded me of the description, in the Acts of the Apostles, of how the first Christians lived - sharing and caring, as they rejoiced in their awareness of the risen Lord alive in their midst, by the power of the Holy Spirit. There isn’t enough space on this Newsletter to thank so many people by name, who in so many ways, made the Parish Celebration a huge success. Thank you, with all my heart, to everyone for everything you did. The memory of my Golden Anniversary of Priesthood will remain with me for ever. Please send me, digitally, your photographs. Unless you instruct me otherwise, I would like to publish some of them on our parish website, as a permanent reminder of a quite wonderful moment in the life our parish. Thank you for all your gifts and cards and best wishes. I am deeply honoured to be your priest. Thank you for your generous Collection for me which raised £1,596.00.

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ROTA FOR LECTORS – OCTOBER

By Webmaster • September 22, 2025
4/5: 5pm Jim; 9am Lisa; 11am Richard 11/12: 5pm Claire; 9am Gerry; 11am Patricia 18/19: 5pm Marian; 9am Lizzie; 11am Paul 25/26: 5pm Mary; 9am Giannina; 11am Lorenza

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION ROTA

By Webmaster • September 21, 2025
SEPTEMBER 2025  27/28: 5pm Patrick; 9am Lizzie; 11am Paul(H) OCTOBER 2025 4/5 : 5pm Patricia; 9am Angela; 11am Ross, David, Marian(H) 11/12 : 5pm Phil; 9am Margaret; 11am Simone(H) 18/19 : 5pm Carolyn; 9am Lisa; 11am Mary, Lorenza, Gabrielle(H) 25/26 : 5pm John; 9am Giannina; 11am Linda, Regina, Lesley(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.

RETIRING COLLECTION NEXT WEEK FOR THE ‘HOME MISSION’ FUND

By Webmaster • September 21, 2025
FOR THE ‘HOME MISSION’ FUND. The ‘Home Mission’ Fund provides the Bishops of England and Wales with resources to support the work of sharing our Faith in our home countries

THANK YOU

By Webmaster • September 22, 2025
To Bridget who delivers a supply of our weekly ‘Food Bank’ fruit and vegetables to our sisters and brothers in New Addington.

OLDE FORGE CAFE - A CALL FROM THE LORD TO BE EVANGELISERS

By Webmaster • September 21, 2025
Our Olde Forge Cafe has been up and running for some time now. There have been very wonderful signs, during these past months, that the Lord has been working through our efforts in the Cafe, to bring his love and truth to others who don’t yet know him well. Thank you so much especially to everyone who ministers as a Host or Baker. Thank you to everyone who has invited friends, family members, neighbours, colleagues to join them for refreshments in the Cafe. Of course we are delighted to offer our guests free drinks and cakes, while we ourselves offer a donation to cover costs. If you haven’t yet come into the Cafe or if you haven’t yet brought a guest with you, please may I urge you in the name of the Lord and at the request of our Archbishop, to please do so. Every one of us is called by the Lord to bring others to know him. If you do or even if you don’t think our Cafe is the best way to do this as a parish Faith community, nonetheless please take a full and active part in this initiative. In that way we really are trying to fulfil what our dear Lord Jesus is asking of us.

OLDE FORGE CAFE - FREE COFFEE AND CAKE FOR OUR VISITORS

By Webmaster • September 21, 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.

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VISIT BY THE CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE OF THE ‘WOMEN OF CHRIST’S LOVE’

By Webmaster • September 22, 2025
On the weekend of the 25th/26th October , I’m delighted to tell you that members of the Catholic Apostolate of the ‘Women of Christ’s Love’ will join us for holy Mass in our parish. They believe very strongly that “Christ’s love for humanity must be the focus of our worship.”

‘HOW TO LIVE AND DIE WELL’ - A COURSE AT THE LONDON JESUIT CENTRE

By Webmaster • September 22, 2025
On Saturday 6th December , from 10.00am until 2.00pm, I’ll be delivering this course. The course will bring hope to anyone who is struggling in any way with the complexities and disappointments of life and deeper meaning to anyone who wishes to live and die with peace and joy. The Lord who loves us, is with us in everything. He can show us how to live and even how to die, in the ways that will bring peace and joy to our hearts and minds, whatever be our circumstances. Please book early for this course, on the London Jesuit Centre website, to avoid disappointment.

DAY OF CELEBRATION AND THANKSGIVING FOR JUBILEE BLESSINGS IN THE CATHEDRAL OF ST GEORGE, SOUTHWARK

By Webmaster • September 21, 2025
On Saturday 4th October , Archbishop John will lead a day of prayer and praise, from 10.15am to 5.00pm, which includes, holy Mass, Adoration, Reconciliation.

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