Announcements This Week

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Today we continue our three week Planned Giving Appeal in the Parish. Please take away with you the special red leaflet for Week Two, 'Our Parish, Our Responsibility.' A member of the Finance Committee will speak at Mass with details of our finances: day to day running costs, building costs & repairs, support for parish programmes & projects, saving for emergency repairs. (If you were away last weekend, some copies of the Week One leaflet are also still available.)

Day of Fasting and Prayer for Peace in the World requested by Pope Francis on Monday 7th October the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks in Israel. Church open for individual prayer from 8.00 am until 7.00 pm. Mass at 6.00 pm. Adoration and Benediction, 6.30 – 7.00 pm. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-10/pope-7-october-to-be-day-of-prayer-and-fasting-for-peace.html.

October is the month of devotion to the Rosary. A good time to start saying the Rosary as a way of contemplating the joyful, sorrowful, luminous and glorious mysteries of the life of Jesus in union with Mary, who treasured them in her heart. The Rosary is said publicly in church on Tuesday after the 6.00 pm Mass, and on Thursday after the 9.00 am Mass. It can be used individually wherever we happen to be, and at any time.

Applications to the First Communion Programme are now closed.

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. We hope to start meetings of our RCIA group later in October.

Confirmation course 2024/2025: If you are in year 10 or above in school, and you attend Mass at our Church, we would like to warmly welcome you to join our Confirmation Programme 2024/2025. We will be running the course regularly on Mondays from 7pm to 8pm from November 2024 to May 2025. If you wish to be enrolled, please complete a Confirmation Application Form that you can find at the back of the Church, and drop it through the letterbox of the Parish Office before the 24th of October. Soon you will be contacted so that we can arrange a meeting face to face, in which we will speak about the terms and conditions of the course and the different graces you will receive.

If you wish to request a Certificate of Catholic Practice because you are applying for a place in a Catholic Secondary School for your child, please email the parish office for a priest information form. If your application is for primary school, do not request the Priest Information Form until after half term.

Prayer Workshop at Nazareth House Prayer Centre on Thursday 10th October at 2pm. All welcome.

Catherine McNeil is taking responsibility for the rota for Readers at 10.00am Mass. Please see Catherine if you would like to do a Reading. Thank you Catherine for taking on this important role.

Music on Sundays

Our 10.00 am Family Mass Choir is ready to recruit new members, adults and children. There is a practice on Sundays at 9.15 am. Contact the Director of the Choir, Laurence Carroll.  See also poster in the porch.

Glass Door Women’s Night Shelter

We are helping to run the Glass Door Night Shelter for women again this winter from Tuesday 5th November until Easter in the parish centre.

Hosting the night shelter involves providing a hot meal: soup and bread, a choice of main course and our very famous cheese and pudding table. If you would like to volunteer we ask that you arrive before 7pm for the volunteer briefing and set-up. Guests will begin to arrive from 7.15 and dinner is served around 8pm with tea and coffee on arrival.  Volunteers tend to leave soon after 9pm and all volunteers are out by 10.  If you are not able to help on the night, we always need people to make and donate cakes, puddings, fruit and cheese. Contact Heather Alston by email hja@rawspace.co.uk or 07966233581.

There will be a training session for volunteers on line on Monday 28 October at 6.30pm.

This is a really interesting and at times challenging opportunity to help those less fortunate than ourselves and everyone who has helped in the past would recommend getting involved.

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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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.