PARISH OFFICE:
Please note the Parish Office will be closed this week.

PAPERSHOP AND SUNDAY MORNING REFRESHMENT ROTAS:
Volunteers are asked to collect their new rotas from the Paper shop.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY ROTA:
Thank you to all of you on the rota for your hard work this year.  Before we prepare next year’s rota, could you let us know if you are still interested?  If you could reply by email, that would be useful for future correspondence.  See our address at the top of the page.

PILGRIMAGE TO KNOCK SHRINE:
Five nights from October.  £599/person sharing.  Price includes flights, hotel, breakfast and evening meals plus excursions and tours.  Wheelchair accessible rooms.  Limited single rooms at supplement of £60.  Groups and Individual bookings welcome.
Contact Patricia for dates and availability on 01702 561757, Mobile 07715 667 896.
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Go Trouvaille is an agent of Travel Assistance International – ATOL 4634.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION CATECHISTS:
If you would be interested in becoming a catechist, or would like to know more about what is involved, please contact the Parish Office.

PENNIES FOR PEACE:
Please bring your pennies next weekend and place in the ‘Pax Christi’ basket on the Sanctuary thank you.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS:
We would like to wish everyone a very happy summer holiday and a well-deserved rest. 

MARRIAGE PREPARATION VOLUNTEERS:
Marriage Care is a faith-based organisation that draws on its Catholic Christian tradition and contemporary research to help couples with marriage preparation and relationship counselling services.
Our Barnet & Enfield centre which covers North London is in urgent need of:
A Marriage Preparation Coordinator to liaise with couples, arrange dates and venues and ensure the smooth running of our marriage preparation service. The commitment would be approx. 4-6 hours a week.
Marriage Preparation Course Facilitators to present and facilitate marriage preparation courses to small groups of engaged couples, delivering usually three to four Saturday courses per year (training is provided).  For more information or to apply, please visit: www.marriagecare.org.uk or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

VOLUNTEERS MASS:
As part of the Year of Mercy, Cardinal Vincent Nichols will celebrate a Mass for workers and volunteers on Saturday 10th September at 2 pm at Westminster Cathedral.  All are welcome.

A SPECIAL KIND OF RETREAT…
At St. Joseph’s, Ashurst, in the New Forest near Southampton, from 2nd – 8th October.  The theme is God’s Plan for the Fullness of Time. For further information or to book a place, contact Mgr. Barltrop: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; 07879 953953; St. Mary of the Angels, Moorhouse Road, Bayswater, London W2 5DJ.

GOING INTO HOSPITAL:
Just our usual reminder that if you are in hospital and would like to see a chaplain, it is up to you to make the first contact.