Announcements This Week

IMPORTANT: Please note that our phone line is not working. Please call us on 020 7603 0814

Please note: New parking restrictions are now in force in the streets opposite the church: Monday to Sunday 8.30am-11pm, pay and display!

Music at 11.30 am Solemn Mass: Gounod - Messe Breve No. 7. Motet: Spohr - Holy Holy (from The Last Judgement). Next Sunday: Lassus - Missa octavi toni (Venatorum). Motet: Bouzignac - In pace

Music at 10.00 am Family Mass: There is now a button on the parish website, which allows parishioners to listen to and practice the Sunday hymns ahead of time

Holy Trinity Family Choir welcomes you to meet and greet session immediately after the Sunday 10am Mass on 13th July. An excellent opportunity to explore our ministry, ask questions, or simply get to know us a bit better. Please consider popping along and we look forward to seeing you there!

Foodbank Collection for the Hammersmith & Fulham foodbank this weekend: Items particularly needed are shower gel and cereal. Please bring your kind gifts to Mass with you this weekend only. We would very much appreciate help with packing of items after 6pm Mass on Sunday for early collection on Monday.

First Holy Communion 2025/2026. If you have a child in years 3 and 4 at school, they can be enrolled onto the First Holy Communion course starting in November. Enrolment begins with 2 opportunities in September to sign up after the 10am Mass. These dates are 7th and 14th September when Therese (our Catechetical Co-Ordinator) will be available for you to do this. After this initial sign-up Therese will make an appointment with you via email with the application form attached. You will be asked to bring your completed application to your appointment.

Do you want to become a Catholic or as an adult, receive the sacrament of Confirmation? Please contact Therese (if you have not done so already) to arrange a meeting with her. She can be contacted via email at brookgreencat@rcdow.org.uk or you can speak to her after either the 10am or 11.30am Mass on a Sunday. For anyone wanting to take the course to become a Catholic or receive Confirmation, there will be an initial enquiry meeting on Tuesday 16th September 2025. Attendance to this meeting is only for those who have met with Therese first.

First Saturday Hour of Devotion, 2nd August at 2pm. All welcome.

Welcome back to our friend Father Vincent Nsumba, who will be staying with us in the Parish until late August. Father Vincent teaches in seminary in Uganda.

Pilgrimage to Compostela: This Summer we are again having a (fully booked) Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Last year we undertook the Portugues Camino to Santiago. It proved to be a very beautiful and fruitful time. This year we have decided to do the Camino Primitivo from Lugo to the Tomb of the Apostle. It will take place on the last week of August: from Sunday 24th to Sunday 31st August. We will walk an average of 20km per day and enjoy plenty of time together having fun, prayer and enjoying nature and the different Galician towns we will visit. This is also a good opportunity to help the faith of our youth by supporting them financially. Please do contribute since a number of them can’t afford the cost. You can put an envelope addressed ‘Compostela’ or ‘Youth Pilgrimage’ through the Parish Office letter box with your contribution or contact Fr Juan or the Parish Office directly.

Welcome back to our friend Father Vincent Nsumba, who will be staying with us in the Parish until late August. Father Vincent teaches in seminary in Uganda.

Prayer Workshop: 2pm, Thursday 24th July at Nazareth House Prayer Centre.

Jubilee Day for Catechists with Cardinal Vincent Nichols

All catechists from parishes in West London are invited to a Jubilee Day for Catechists with Cardinal Vincent and the Agency for Evangelisation on Sat 19th July on the theme of “Reawakening Blessed Hope”, 10am to 4pm in St Gregory the Great parish, South Ruislip, HA4 0EG. Details at:rcdow.org.uk/evangelisation/jubilee-days-for-catechists-2025/. No cost, but bring a packed lunch.

Two new illustrated booklets are available as a kind of guide to our Church building here at Holy Trinity: 'The Stained Glass Windows of the Church', and 'The Church Carvings and Paintings.' Researched and written by our parishioner Christopher Road, augmenting the Parish History he has also written: 'Little Rome – The Story of Holy Trinity Brook Green'. The booklets are £5 each, and the Parish History is £12.50. They can be purchased during office hours from the Parish Office. You can also purchase a PDF version of the two booklets by emailing the parish office.

The Parish Newsletter will be published as usual on the next two Sundays. The 27th  July edition will be the last until 7th September, and will contain all the information  needed for the month of August.  

The Parish Office closes for the summer break on Thursday 31st July at 4pm and reopens at 10.00 am on Monday 1st September.

The Five First Saturdays Devotion, as requested by Our Lord and Our Lady at Fatima, with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is spread over FIVE consecutive months. It started in May and continues on 2nd August and 6th September, at 2pm. It consists of receiving Holy Communion, going to Confession, saying the Holy Rosary and meditating for 15 mins on the mysteries. It will be followed by 30 minutes of Adoration to the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction.

NB Holy Communion can be received at the 9.30 am or 6.00 pm Masses, and Confessions heard after the evening Mass. All welcome.

The Diocesan ‘Love in Action’ Volunteering Awards are back! For more information and to nominate a volunteer or volunteer team, please visit www.caritaswestminster.org.uk/volunteer-service/award or email cvs@rcdow.org.uk. Nominations close on 31st July.

Holy Trinity Cine Club: for children in Year 7 to Year 9, and  Year 10 to 12 on a Friday evening once a month. Quality ‘surprise’ movie followed by discussion and pizza. All are welcome, suggested donation of £5 towards running costs. Contact cineclubbg@gmail.com. See poster in the church porch.

SACRAMENTS

Preparation for the Sacrament of Baptism: If you have a child for Baptism under 5 years old please email us for an application form. You will be contacted once the form has been received. A copy of one of the Catholic parents’ baptism certificate will be required.  Baptisms can only take place on Saturdays at 11am.

Adults who would like to enquire into the possibility of becoming Catholics, or adult Catholics hoping to be confirmed, please speak to one of the clergy or contact us by email.

Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund, we have received a grant to help refurbish the parish centre. We provide a weekly night shelter for homeless women from November to Easter and the money we have received has enabled us to make the hall more comfortable. The West London Scouts also had their storage area made safe and easier to use. Other community projects will now be able to resume thanks to the lottery fund. This is what your money pays for when you play the lottery (if you don’t win, that is :) )

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