The Catholic Parish of Holy Family

DEALING WITH SHAME - 1st February at the London Jesuit Centre

Webmaster • January 5, 2025

This is the next workshop I am hoping to offer. Please look on the LJC website for details and to book a place.


Shame is a feeling that often lies deep and hidden within us. Even though the causes of those feelings may have occurred many years previously, they can still be alive and active in our lives today, spoiling our joy and peace. In this workshop, we will explore how Shame can take root within us, even without being consciously aware of it and how we can be healed of the damage done to us.


Hope you can come - we can travel together.

BIBLE STUDY – SATURDAY 25TH JANUARY AT 11.00AM

By webmaster • January 5, 2025
The holy Bible is God’s living Word. The Word of God is proclaimed every time we come to holy Mass. It acts like a Navigation System to direct us into a special way of living our lives, a special way that will lead us safely to our destination of Heaven. It is so important that we listen with our hearts and minds to God’s Word whenever it is proclaimed to us. It is vitally important that we understand God’s Word whether we listen to it or indeed whether we are the ones proclaiming the Word, as Lectors.  It was recently suggested to me that we have regular Bible Study meetings. We did this, if you remember, in pre-COVID days! Let’s start again! May I invite everyone to join me, in our Parish Room, once a month, for an hour, to look at and to pray the Bible Readings used in our celebrations of holy Mass each month. Understanding the Readings will help us to gain so much from them, whether you are someone, during holy Mass, who simply listens to the Word or someone who also proclaims the Word. These Bible Study meetings are for everyone but may I ask, especially that our Lectors make these meetings a priority. The meetings will help us all to better understand God’s Word and if we are Lectors to better proclaim God’s Word with meaning and skill. The date and time of our next meeting is above. Please note that it is on a Saturday morning rather than a weekday evening, to make it easier for everyone to attend, especially our Lectors

THE PARISH IN COUNCIL

By Webmaster • January 5, 2025
SATURDAY 8TH FEBRUARY; 10.30AM TO 12.30PM IN THE PARISH ROOM As we begin a new calendar year, I think it would be really good to take a general look, together, at our parish. We can talk about what is going well and how we can continue to make progress; we can identify areas of our parish life that need attention and how we can improve them. A general review of our life together in our community of Faith. Please come. I need to hear your insights. Together we can better hear the Lord telling us of his wishes and plans for us.

ADULT FAITH FORMATION MEETING

By Webmaster • January 5, 2025
SATURDAY 25TH JANUARY AT 12.00MIDDAY If you think you could understand your Faith better and discover how close the Lord is to you; if you have a sense that the Lord wishes you to be closer to him; if you wish to be open and faithful to Lord’s Call to you, then this meeting is for you. We speak about anything and everything that you would like to speak about. Please be brave and open your heart to this invitation from your loving God and come to this very informal meeting. I think you will enjoy it and you will be doing something very pleasing to the Lord.

THANK YOU

By Webmaster • December 30, 2024
To everyone one who made the time to come and help to clean and tidy and decorate God’s House, our church, in preparation for the Christmas Season.  To everyone for your very kind cards and gifts and generosity. I feel honoured to be your priest.

Pastoral Letter on the Solemnity of the Holy Family 2024 for the Opening of the Jubilee Year of Hope

By Webmaster • December 30, 2024
The Archbishop of Southwark published a pastoral letter to be read at all Sunday masses on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 December 2024. As we approach the Year of Jubilee, Archbishop John said “looking to the Holy Family, we too are called to be pilgrims of hope, just like Mary and Joseph. As they journeyed with faith and trust, so must we”.  Read the pastoral letter in full below.

Nativity Scene

By Webmaster • December 30, 2024
A nativity scene in solidarity with the poor in Gaza

New Year

By Webmaster • December 29, 2024
May the New Year, 2025, declared a Holy Year of God’s love by Pope Francis, help you to rejoice in the Lord’ s gift to you of time,  to know him, to love him and to serve him.

Christmas

By Webmaster • December 29, 2024
A joyful Season of Christmas be yours. As we begin our Christmas time and the great Feast of the Epiphany, my prayer is that you will discover the depth of God’s love for you and that you may have the wisdom and the courage to help others to know him too, as our Saviour, our Friend and our Brother.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION; FIRST RECONCILIATION

By Webmaster • December 22, 2024
If there is anyone who hasn’t yet made their First Holy Communion or First Reconciliation, whether a child, young person, an adult who is young or older, please let me know. We will begin a programme of preparation for these Sacraments on Saturday 18th January 2025 at 11.00am in the Parish Room.

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION ROTA

By Webmaster • December 22, 2024
December 7/8: 5.00 Angela; 9.00 Phil; 11.00 Margaret, Mary, Simone(H) 14/15: 5.00 Lisa; 9.00 Carolyn; 11.00 Jim, Gabriella, John(H) 21/22: 5.00 Giannina; 9.00 Lesley; 11.00 Linda, Lorenza, Patricia(H) 24/25: 5.00 Maggie, Ross, David; 12.00Midnight Marian;11.00 Angela, Margaret, Phil(H) 28/29: 5.00 Margaret;9.00 Simone; 11.00 Lisa, Carolyn, Mary(H) January 2025 4/5 : 5pm Jim; 9am John; 11am Gabriella, Giannina, Lesley(H) 11/12 : 5pm Linda; 9am Patricia; 11am Maggie, Ross, David 18/19 : 5pm Regina; 9am Patrick; 11am Paul, Lorenza, Marian(H) 26/27 : 5pm Lizzie; 9am Angela; 11am Phil, Margaret, Simone(H) February 2025 1/2 : 5pm Mary; 9am Lisa; 11am Carolyn, John, Jim(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.
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