Parish Events

By reason of the bond of unity and charity, every diocese in the world supports, through this fund, Pope Leo and the Apostolic See in exercising works of charity and mercy throughout the world.

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.

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.

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.

The next meeting for our parishioners preparing for Adult Baptism and the Sacrament of Confirmation will be next Saturday 26th April, at 11.00am in the Parish Room

Tuesday 15th April at 6.0 0pm If you haven’t yet, during Lent, experienced the gentle forgiveness of God in this wonderful Sacrament, please come and allow the loving Lord to fill you  with his peace so that you will be ready to enter into Easter Joy.

May I ask all our Eucharistic Ministers to please join me on Saturday 12th April from 10.00am until 11.45am for a short period of prayer and reflection on this very sacred ministry. Please may I invite these women and men, chosen by the Lord, to renew their acceptance of this priceless, awesome role, on the evening of Maundy Thursday, during the holy Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Please join me in our church for half an hour of silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament at 10.00am and then from 10.30 in our Cafe for a time of reflection together.

This is the title of the next workshop that I am leading at the London Jesuit Centre on Saturday 5th April , from 10.00am until 2.00pm. Anxiety and Worry, whether mild or severe, can blight people’s lives. We need to understand where it comes from and how to deal with it, in order to live our lives in peace. Simply praying, although prayer of course is so important, it is not enough! If you would like to attend this workshop, please look on the London Jesuit Centre website to book a place. We could travel to the LJC in London together.

JOIN US FOR A FRUGAL MEAL During this sacred Season of Lent, the Lord asks us all to pray more, to share more and to fast more. Practicing self-denial makes our relationship with the Lord Jesus much more real and true; it energises us to really care for those in our world who, at this moment as you read this text, feel acutely the pangs of hunger; it enables us to genuinely enter into the spirit and meaning of Lent.  Please join me in our Cafe next Friday at 12.30pm for a coffee/tea and a hot cross bun. Let that be your midday meal and the money you save by doing so, we will give to CAFOD for the hungry people of our world. If you are working and cannot come to the Cafe, as a family please go without some food that day and the savings you make we will also give to CAFOD. You will find some CAFOD envelopes in the porch of the church, please pop your savings in the envelope and bring it to holy Mass on the 15th/16th March.