FORTHCOMING DATES TO NOTE
Wednesday 1 November: All Saints’ Day - Masses at 8am, 10am, 7.30pm
Thursday 2 November: All Souls’ Day - 8am, 10am, & special Mass at 7.30pm
Saturday 11 November: Fr Jerome’s Farewell Mass here 11.30am
Tuesday 14 November: Deanery Requiem Mass at Enfield Town Church 12 noon
Friday 17 November: Fr Andrew Bowden’s Installation Mass as PP at Poplar 7pm
18/19 November: Parish Christmas Market event here after all Masses.
CAFOD
Thank you for your generous donation of £1,606.53 towards the CAFOD’s Family Fast Day Appeal. Together, we are supporting local experts like Dr Nasha in Pakistan to get help to families and communities when they need it most. It’s not too late to give online at www.cafod.org.uk The petition was handed in to the world foodbank on Wednesday and we received positive feedback.
OCTOBER
October is month of the Holy Rosary. You can join the rosary here every weekday at 9.30am, before 10am Mass. A plenary indulgence may be obtained, under the usual conditions, by reciting five decades of the Rosary in church, as a family at home, or in general whenever several persons have gathered for a good purpose; in every other circumstance, a partial indulgence may be gained.
NOVEMBER: MASSES & PRAYERS FOR THE HOLY SOULS RIP
November is the month of the Holy Souls. Prayer sheets and envelopes are available in the church porch. Please take one of each and return to the letter box with the names of your departed loved ones to be included in our prayers for the Holy Souls in November. Please include an offering if you can as many of the Masses in November are given over to Holy Souls and replace a Mass when the priest would otherwise receive a stipend. Thank you.
FR DAVID WRITES
Thank you to everyone who came to our lovely primary school ‘Welcome Mass’ on Friday. We wish you all well for the academic year ahead. Congratulations to our 11.15 choir who celebrated their fiftieth anniversary at a special Mass on Friday evening. God bless you all in the coming week.
FR JEROME
Fr Jerome is looking forward to coming back here for a special ‘Farewell Mass’ on Saturday 11 November at 11.30am. This will be followed by a reception in the church hall. We would like to give Fr Jerome a presentation. A collection for this will be taken at all Masses next weekend.
RCIA - JOURNEY IN FAITH
If you have signed up for the RCIA, please keep an eye on the newsletter for information about the start date. We hope to begin the Journey of Faith after the half-term break. If you want to sign up to be received into the Church, please speak to Fr Andrew. There are some forms in the church porch.
EARLY BIRD CHRISTMAS CARDS!
There is now a stock of Christmas cards and other items for sale in the Paper Shop, open after the 8.45am, 10am and 11.15 Masses.
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL APPLICATIONS
The Governors invite applications from parents of children who reach their 4th birthday between 1st September 2023 and 31st August 2024. If you wish to visit the school, you are most welcome to do so, please contact the school office on 020 8361 0767 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED - RED WEDNESDAY
The annual Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) "Red Wednesday" will take place on Wednesday 22nd November this year. In the first of a line up of events, all are welcome to join Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme of Maiduguri, launching ACN's #Red Wednesday Rosary campaign at St Patrick's Church in Soho Square next Sunday, 22nd October, at 2.30pm. Maiduguri Diocese in northern Nigeria has been at the epicentre of extremist violence targeting Christians and other minorities. Bishop Oliver received a vision in which Our Lord called on the world to pray the Rosary in the struggle to overcome persecution, mass displacement, extreme poverty and hunger. Join ACN in person to pray for persecuted Christians in Africa and around the world. Further information can be found at https://acnuk.org/event/rw-rosary-campaign-launch/