Announcements This Week

IMPORTANT: Please note that our permanent phone number is: 020 7603 0814

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.

Music at 11.30 Mass Today: Victoria - Requiem a 6 voces. Motet: Victoria - Versa est in luctum

Today at 10.00 am Family Mass we celebrate the First Communion Programme Enrolment. Please pray for the children, their parents and their catechists.

Today is Remembrance Sunday, and so at 11.30 am we celebrate a Solemn Requiem Mass for the War Dead, beginning with the Act of Remembrance.

Next weekend we have the Annual Collection for the Sick and Retired Priests’ Fund of our Diocese of Westminster. Using one of the envelopes available today enables you to gift aid your donation or become a patron by making a regular donation. In 2025 the cost to the Diocese for the care of 75 priests was £1,369,000. We now have 79 retired priests, some of whom are in care. The number of retired priests in our Diocese is steadily increasing.

November is the Month of the Holy Souls. Sheets are available for you to make your list of your dear departed whom you would like us to pray for at Mass throughout November, and envelopes for a Mass offering.

CONFIRMATION ALERT! We are taking applications for the Confirmation Programme, which begins in January, NOW! If you are in Year 9 or above, hoping to be confirmed next year, and haven’t signed up already, please do so by taking a form from the back of church, or by scanning the QR code on the posters. Thank you!

MARRIAGE COURSE 26/27: If you are discerning to get married or you would like to rekindle you marriage sacrament; we invite you to our Parish Marriage Course one evening a week from the end of October to the end of December. Please contact Fr Juan for more information. 

Are you interested in becoming a Catholic? Several people have expressed an interest in joining this year's Rite of Christian Initiation Course (RCIA), which will begin on Wednesday 7th October. There is still time to apply to register! If you would like to join this course, please contact our priests or Therese (our Catechetical Co-Ordinator)

Annual Christmas Carol Concert – More Singers Welcome! You are still able to join this year’s Christmas Carol Concert and help make it possible. Rehearsals are on Mondays from 7–8pm, in church. If you would like to take part, further details can be found in the church porch where you can scan the QR code to register.

There will be a Collection of Non-Perishable Foodstuffs for the Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank, Saturday evening 28th/Sunday 29th November. Please bring items with you to Mass and leave in the special box in the porch as you arrive. Specially needed items: hot chocolate, biscuits, jams, spreads, to offer their clients in December.

A Message from our Parishioner Karen Townsend: Back at Easter 2024 I travelled to Lourdes as a helper/nurse with HCPT Pilgrimage Group 115, after you had helped me to raise money to take a young person. But earlier this year Denis died. I was blessed to have been part of the team that enabled him to have a truly memorable experience. To honour his memory, I and two friends will be taking part in the Westport sea2summit challenge to raise enough money for HCPT Group 115 take another child this year. If you would like to donate to my fundraiser please follow: https://www.justgiving.com/page/karen-townsend-3?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

If you wish to request a Certificate of Catholic Practice for a place in a Catholic Primary School please request a Priest Information Form from the Parish Office by email. 

Three Days of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

       Thursday 19th – Saturday 21st November

             'They Became Little for Love’s Sake'

- Take a leaflet giving full information.

- Sign the rota on the porch noticeboard to show what half hour you will come to pray      

  quietly in church in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament

- Note the Youth Adoration on Thursday evening, & the Friday evening meditation with

  St Francis

- Share in the Sung Mass of the Vigil of Christ the King at 6.00 pm on Saturday 21st   

  November, celebrated by Bishop Michael Campbell.

- Provide some food/drink for the Bring and Share Supper in the Parish Centre

  afterwards.

- If you can, contribute to the cost of candles and flowers for the Adoration

Safeguarding Training for Parish Volunteers at Holy Trinity Parish, All volunteers are now required by the Diocese to undertake safeguarding training, or update it if you have done it a while ago This is to help us all play our part in ensuring the safety of children and vulnerable adults in all our parish activities. The training is not long, and is attractively presented. It can be easily accessed through:

https://training.catholicsafeguarding.org.uk/course/Westminsterarchdiocese.

The Level 3 Training, which is the one we need to complete, is the one which has a picture of the Cathedral as the course back drop. The training is online and can be completed within an hour. After completion, volunteers will immediately receive a certificate on line. We ask you to show it to our Parish Safeguarding Representative, by handing a copy of it into our Parish office, marked ‘To Holy Trinity Parish Safeguarding Representative.’

There is a New Parking Meter in the church porch where you can register your car and pay a reduced parking rate. Sadly, the council will not agree to free parking on Sundays but this meter will at least make the pay to park fee a bit less painful. Times are unrestricted, the 90 minute parking restriction does not apply.

‘Arise’ A newly published book on the resurrection has emerged from our Parish! Based on a 50 Day Journey into the Mystery of the Resurrection, newly published by Sophia Press and written by one of our parishioners. The cost of the book is £15 and those who would like to purchase it can obtain a copy from the parish office.

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.

Need a gift for someone who has everything? Why not book a Mass for their intentions? Masses can be booked in the parish office where you will also receive a beautiful card. Recommended donation £10.

Major Repairs to the stonework of the Tower and Spire of the Church are urgently needed. Protective scaffolding has been erected and a detailed programme of the works required is being drawn up.

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.

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. The next baptism preparation course will be on Thursday 3rd December.