CAFOD - Harvest Fast Day

Thank you for your generosity for the recent Harvest Fast Day collection which raised ?620.00.  Through your donations, your actions and your prayers, you are helping CAFOD?s partners fight poverty worldwide. 

First Communion

The introductory Parents session will be in the week commencing 3rd November and the Children?s sessions start in the week commencing 10th November.

Baptism Forms

To collect a pack of forms, please see Fr Martin or Fr John.  If you have already completed a form and booked a date, but have not completed a preparation course, please see Dominic.

First Reconciliation & Communion Course Dates 2008-2009

Please see the Catechetics notice board in the side porch for dates of the introductory parents? session and the Mass of Enrolment for the course.  It is important that parents watch this board for further details of dates as the course progresses.

Christmas Bazaar

The Parish Christmas Bazaar takes place on Saturday 29th November.  Draw tickets will be available from the Parish office by next weekend.   

Prizes include:

1st Prize ? Adult?s bicycle;  2nd Prize??200;  3rd Prize? ?100.

Other prizes include a Mobile phone, Christmas Hamper, a Gourmet Multicooker, Small Football TV (B & W), and many others. Thanks to those who have contributed some great prizes! Please bring any good saleable items e.g. CD?s, New Books, especially new Toys, Unused Gift vouchers,  i.e. M & S., to the Parish Office.

Will stall holders please leave details in the Parish Office of their requirements for tables etc.

Cherry Lane Cemetery

We would encourage parishioners to sign a petition either in the church porch, Parish Office or online against the planned road through Cherry Lane Cemetery and to keep all affected in your prayers.  Once filled these will be collated with others from around the area and submitted to Downing Street .  We again include the Cardinal?s contact details here as requested for those who are interested in making a difference. Any letters should be directed to His Eminence, Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O?Connor at Archbishop?s House, Ambrosden Avenue, Westminster, London SW1P 1QJ.

Parish Readers

Will Parish Readers please collect a newsletter from the Sacristy.

Sick & Retired Priests

There will be a retiring collection next weekend for the Sick & Retired Priest?s fund, please collect a donation envelope as you leave the church today and bring it back with your contribution next weekend, completing the Gift Aid declaration if you are a taxpayer.   The money collected is divided between the Diocese and the Claretian Missionaries.

Abortion Act

MPs have tabled an amendment to the HFE Bill calling for the extension of the Abortion Act to Northern Ireland . 

The move flies in the face of the will of the people of Northern Ireland who have, through their elected representatives in both Stormont and Westminster , continued to say NO to abortion.  Please write to your MP, John McDonnell, opposing the amendment as undemocratic and calling on him to withdraw the amendment.

Mr John McDonnell MP

House of Commons, Westminster , London. SW1A 0AA

Email: mcdonnellj@parliament.uk

Knights of St Columba

The Annual Provincial Presentation Evening with a Fish/Chicken & Chips Supper will be held on Saturday 15th November in the Main Hall.  Music is by Dylan and tickets at ?7.50 are available from the Parish Office?please see poster in the porch.  

Legion of Mary

1    We are inviting the children and their families to join us for 15 minutes on the 29th October in praying the rosary in honour of our Lady.

2.    The annual Blessing of the Graves will take place in Cherry Lane Cemetery next Sunday 2nd November commencing at 3.00pm.

St Edmund Campion

This Saturday at the 6.30pm Mass we welcome a group of walkers from the Catenian Association ? an international fellowship of practicing catholic laymen who meet socially at least monthly in groups or circles. The name comes from the Latin word ?Catena? or chain ? the circles being the links in a continuous chain. 

As part of their centenary year celebrations, they have walked a section of the St. Edmund Campion Pilgrimage walk ? completed in 16 stages starting in June from  Oxford where St. Edmund was presented to Queen Elizabeth I and will finish next month at Tyburn where he was executed. Each stage of the Pilgrimage finishes at the local Catholic Church for Mass, where the Holy Relics of St. Edmund Campion will be present.  Details about the walk can be found at: www.stedmundcampionwalk.co.uk

The Walk is also supported by the Knights of St Columba, who are responsible for transporting the Holy Relics to each local church and which will be placed on the Altar during the 6.30 pm Saturday evening Mass. Please make them welcome and feel free to talk to any of them about their Association and its activities in this area.