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THE HOLY FAMILY

S A N D E R S T E A D

Part of the Archdiocese of Southwark

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

By Webmaster • November 16, 2025
We began again our ‘Liturgy of the Word’ for children of Primary School age on Sunday November 2nd and will continue 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.

HEALTH AND SAFETY - LEAVES!

By Webmaster • November 16, 2025
Please be careful on the pavement in front of the church and on the pathways leading to the main door of the church and around the church and Cafe and presbytery. As Autumn takes hold and the daylight hours decrease, fallen leaves make for slippery surfaces. If you see fallen leaves around our church and buildings and on the pavement in front of the church, please clear the leaves. There is a brush in the church porch. Thank you.

ADULT ON-GOING FAITH FORMATION MEETINGS - DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

By Webmaster • November 9, 2025
We will shortly begin again our meetings for everyone who is ready to grow in Faith and who wishes to have a grown-up Faith. For many people, opportunities to move from a childish Faith to a mature Faith have been very limited or even not available at all! These meetings are moments to talk about any aspect whatsoever of human life and to receive a little help to see how our loving Lord is so close to us in everything and to see how he is trying to draw us all into a genuine adult Faith relationship with him and his Church. We will meet on Saturday mornings, at 12.00midday for one hour, in our Parish Room. Owing to other commitments, we can only have 4 meetings before Christmas, on the 22nd and 29th November and the 13th and 20th December.

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.”
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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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PROGRAMME OF PREPARATION FOR FIRST RECONCILIATION AND FIRST HOLY COMMUNION, FOR CHILDREN

By Webmaster • November 17, 2025
Our programme to help parents to prepare their children for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist will begin early in the New Year. Meetings for Parents and meetings for their children will be on Friday evenings at 5.00pm. The parents will meet with Fr Malachy in the Parish Room and the children will meet with our Catechists in the Sacristy of the church, at the same time. Each meeting will last just 30 minutes. The dates of the meetings are flexible but we are planning to have the first six meetings on: 16th, 23rd, and 30th January 2026, then the 6th, 13th and 20th of February 2026. First Reconciliation for Children and their parents will be during the Season of Lent 2026 and First Holy Communion during the month of June 2026. If you have a child who you think is ready to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Communion in 2026, please let me have details as soon as possible so that we can begin our planning.

BEQUEST, IN A WILL

By Webmaster • November 16, 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.

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.

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.
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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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CHRISTMAS CARDS

By Webmaster • November 17, 2025
It won’t be long before our thoughts will rightly begin to turn towards the great Feast and Season of Christmas. I have left in the porch of the church, Christmas cards that feature the picture of a holy Family living in the slums of Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America. When I lived and worked there, I knew this family - a single mother with a very young daughter. The mother is disabled, having lost her legs in an accident and she is only able to move by sitting on a small piece of wood fixed with castors and then propelling herself and her child forward. They live in a small shack made of bamboo and cardboard boxes over the filthy waters of the swamp. The real meaning of Christmas is that the Lord Jesus came to be especially with the poor and suffering of our world by sharing in their plight and offering everyone the chance to be saved from Sin and Death.  Perhaps you would like to buy this Christmas card and send it to family members and friends to remind them of why we celebrate the birth of Jesus. May I suggest £1 for each card and envelope. We will send any money raised to CAFOD to care for the Poor, Homeless and Suffering people of our world.

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION ROTA

By Webmaster • November 16, 2025
NOVEMBER 2025 1/2: 5pm Patrick; 9am Paul; 11am Lizzie, Ross, Marian(H) 8/9: 5pm Patricia; 9am Maggie; 11am Lorenza, David, Simone(H) 15/16: 5pm Angela; 9am Phil; 11am Margaret, Mary, Lisa(H) 22/23: 5pm Carolyn; 9am Jim; 11am John, Gabrielle, Giannina(H) 29/30: 5pm Regina; 9am Patrick; 11am Paul, Patricia, Linda(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 • November 16, 2025
Wed 19 Nov: Lizzie Thu 20 Nov: Jim Fri 21 Nov: David

THANK YOU

By Webmaster • November 17, 2025
To Manuel and Kim, for all their help in the Cafe. Manuel and Kim tell me that ‘Grandparent Duties’ have led them to feel they had to move to a different parish where their own children and grandchildren now live and where the grandchildren and their parents celebrate holy Mass. To David, for all his past work in the field of Health and Safety. David has now kindly agreed to be our Lead parishioner in matters of Maintenance and Repairs.  To Jim, for taking on the role of Lead Parishioner in the area of Health and Safety

OLDE FORGE CAFE - FREE COFFEE AND CAKE FOR OUR VISITORS

By Webmaster • November 16, 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.

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.

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HOLY MASSES IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED

By Webmaster • November 17, 2025
We began the month of November with the great Feast of All Saints, inviting everyone who is now with the Lord in Heaven, living in eternal joy, to pray for us. We think of those who have died and, while not yet in Heaven, are on their way home! We believe that the holy Mass and our prayers help these Holy Souls on that journey. Do come to holy Mass, and join me and through the holy Mass we can help our loved ones to speedily reach our homeland of Heaven.  If you would like me to offer holy Mass during the month of November, for specific members of your family or friends who have died, please fill in one of the Holy Mass envelopes which you will find in the church porch, enclose your stipend and please give it to me or pop it through the presbytery letterbox. In the holy Mass, we are connected to the Lord Jesus in his death and resurrection. The holy Mass is the most powerful means possible to allow the Lord to bring us and our loved ones safely home to Heaven.

BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

By Webmaster • November 16, 2025
Please add the names of any loved ones who have died in the last year, to our Book of Remembrance, on the page of the date they left our world. The Book of Remembrance will be placed on the altar during every holy Mass in this month of November and so we will remember to pray for them at each and every holy Mass.

RCIA - RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS

By Webmaster • November 16, 2025
The final meetings for adults preparing for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist and Confirmation will be the 21st and 28th of November, then the 12th and 19th of December. First Reconciliation will be on the 5th December and First Holy Communion, during the 11.00am holy Mass on the 21st December. The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated during 11.00am holy Mass on Sunday 4th January 2026. Please pray for Sarah and Sian as they prepare to receive the fullness of the Lord’s saving gifts for the first time in their lives and as they become adults in Faith

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