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Sunday 17 December – 3rd Sunday of Advent
Masses 18:15 (Saturday Mass of Anticipation) 08:30, 10:00, 11:30 (Plainchant Choir), 17:00 (no Benediction) Coffee with The Knights of St. Columba after all Sunday morning Masses 14:30 Carols and Readings with the Polyphony Choir Monday 18 to Saturday 23 December Masses 07:30 (not Saturday) and 10:00 Confessions Saturday after 10:00 Mass until 11:30 and 17:00 to 18:00 Tuesday 19 December - Day of Penitence Adoration and Confessions from after the 10:00 Mass until Benediction at 19:30 Sunday 24 December – 4th Sunday of Advent Masses 18:15 (Saturday Mass of Anticipation) 08:30, 10:00, 11:30 (no Benediction or 17:00 Mass) Sunday 24 December - Christmas Vigil & Midnight Masses 18:00 Nativity play preceding 18:15 Vigil Mass of Christmas for children 23:30 Carols preceding Midnight Mass of Christmas Monday 25 December - Christmas Day Masses 08:30, 10:00 & 11:30 (no Benediction or 17:00 Mass) Tuesday 26 December - St. Stephen Masses 07:30 and 10:00 Wednesday 27 December to Saturday 30 December Masses 07:30 (not Saturday) and 10:00 Confessions Saturday after 10:00 Mass until 11:30 and 17:00 to 18:00 Sunday 31 December – The Holy Family Masses 18:15 (Saturday Mass of Anticipation) 08:30, 10:00 & 11:30 (Hymn Choir), 17:00 Benediction 16:00 00:00 Midnight Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Monday 1 January – Mary, Mother of God Mass 10:00 only Christmas Offerings By tradition, your offerings at Christmas are your personal gift to our priests, Father Deo and Father Paul. If you are a member of our Gift Aid Scheme, please use the dedicated envelopes from your boxes or packs. Our specially printed Christmas Offerings Envelopes will be available in all porch areas. If you are a Gift-Aider, please be sure to write your Gift Aid number clearly on the Christmas Offering envelope in the box provided. If you wish, you may make your Christmas Offering very easily online. You will find details under Making Online Donations on our Website. In order for us to claim Gift Aid, it is important that your Gift Aid number is quoted in the reference box online. For any queries about how to make your Christmas Offering, please Contact the Parish Office. The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has confirmed the approval by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales for the new Lectionary.
The Lectionary, which includes the scripture readings for Mass and the sacraments, will come into use in Catholic parishes in England and Wales from Advent 2024. Read more >>> Bishop Philip will be conferring the Sacrament of Confirmation in our parish on the great feast of Christ the King, 26 November 2023. Application Form.
At the heart of the global food crisis is a struggle for control over the world’s seeds. For generations, small-scale farmers have freely swapped and shared a wide variety of seeds.
However, the freedom of farmers to choose what seeds they use is under threat ... Read more>>> Applications must be received by the school by 12:00 Friday 23 June.
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Applications must be received by the school by 12:00 Friday 26 May.
Click / tap on the image for a printable PDF. Applications must be received by the school by 12:00 Monday 22 May.
Click / tap on the image for a printable PDF. Applications must be received by the school by 12:00 Friday 19 May.
Click / tap on the image for a printable PDF. To assist those celebrating the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, the Archbishop has granted a dispensation from Friday Abstinence on Friday 5 May.
The Bishops of England and Wales have requested that on Friday 5 May each parish celebrates Mass for His Majesty the King to mark his Coronation. At St. Bart's this will be the 10:00 Mass. At the end of Mass (after the Prayer after Communion and before the Final Blessing) the Prayer for the King is said.
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