FR DAVID WRITES
Today is the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Today we hear Jesus speaking about the cost of discipleship and his own fate. However, we know that our faith in Jesus, and our baptism, allows us to follow him on his journey from death to life. The children of the Church are born again by and in his Paschal Mystery that leads to the ultimate victory over sin and death.
HOLY YEAR & EUCHARISTIC FESTIVAL - ADORATION TODAY 1.15-2.30
A reminder that the Holy Year (Jubilee 2025) begins on Christmas Eve and will be celebrated throughout next year. The theme of the Holy Year will be ’Pilgrims of Hope’. In view of this, today there is a Eucharistic Festival taking place in Birmingham. Everyone has been asked to join in spiritually. Today, after the 12.30 Mass, there will be an hour of Eucharistic adoration ending with Benediction at 2.15. Please stay or join us if you can, and pray that our hearts may be ready and open to receive the graces of the forthcoming Holy Year.
MICHAEL McCARTHY RIP
The Funeral Mass will take place on Monday 16th September at 10am. May he rest in peace.
MASS TIMES
There will be 8am Mass Tuesday—Friday next week, plus 10 am Masses.
PARISH OFFICE
Please note the Parish Office will be closed on Wednesday next week.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2025
Registration is open this weekend. The programme begins in December and runs on Saturday mornings 10am—11.15am, plus Sunday Mass.
BAPTISM
The next Baptism meeting will be on Monday 7th October at 6.30pm in the Parish Centre.
BAPTISM
The next meeting to sign up for infant baptisms will be on Monday 7th October at 6.30pm in the Parish Centre.
RCIA (JOURNEY IN FAITH)
If you would like to register your interest to become a Catholic, or a Catholic adult who needs to be confirmed, please speak to Fr David, Fr Tom or the office. If you would like to talk about the possibility or your current situation, please see one of the priests.
SECONDARY SCHOOL FORMS
Fr David will be available to sign secondary school transfer forms on Saturday 12th October at 5pm. Please have forms completed for each school to be applied to. Fr David politely requests that parents make every effort to attend at this time. If there are any issues or later forms that subsequently need signing or changing, please contact the parish office. Thank you.
ST ANNE’S CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
St Anne’s will be holding their Open Evening on Monday 30th September 2024 from 6pm to 8pm at the Enfield Campus, 50 London Road, Enfield, EN2 6EL.
FAIR TRADE
The first Fair Trade stall of the Autumn is after all Masses on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September in our parish hall.
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
If you shop in Asda from now until the end of November Asda will donate 0.5% of your total shopping spend to your school. If have the Asda App, just click on the ‘Cashpots for Schools’ link and select our school. If you don’t have the App, you can download it. Thank you for your support.
https://www.asda.com/cashpotforschools
CPZ CONSULTATION
The deadline for this consultation was on Friday. Thank you to everyone from the whole parish - church, school, local area and other churches - who have joined in the process. Many of you copied me in, so I know that there has been a strong and considered response.
TOILET FACILITIES
Please use the parish centre toilets rather than the church toilet.