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FR DAVID WRITES
Many congratulations to our young people who received their Confirmations on Friday. Thank you to everyone who helped them to this day, and to those who helped to prepare or celebrate the Mass, including Bishop John for presiding. Next weekend is Pentecost - the culmination of the Easter season and a day which marks the beginning of the age of the Church.

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FR DAVID WRITES
This Thursday is the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (Ascension Thursday) and is a Holy Day. The Ascension marks the fortieth day of Easter time, when Our Lord was taken up to heaven. Masses here will be at 8am, 10am with the primary school joining us, and 7pm. The car park will be open for all Masses.

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FR DAVID WRITES
Well done to our children who celebrated First Confession last weekend, and many thanks to their parents, families and our catechists. This coming Saturday is First Holy Communion day: Masses at 11 am and 2 pm. Please pray for the candidates. It is always such a lovely day in the life of the parish. Thank you for your generosity towards the Priest Training Fund last weekend. There are some copies of the new Allen Hall Seminary News magazine available in the church porch—but there are not many, apologies! Have a wonderful week and may God bless you all.

MONSIGNOR JAMES CURRY
On Monday it was announced in Rome that Pope Francis has appointed Mgr James Curry as a new Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, to join the Cardinal and the other bishops who serve in our diocese. Mgr Curry is currently the Parish Priest of Our Lady of Victories Parish, Kensington. Please keep him and the whole diocese in your prayers as he prepares for his Episcopal Ordination.

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FR DAVID WRITES
Today, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, is Good Shepherd Sunday and the World Day of Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood. Please pray for Ashley, our own seminarian, who is currently completing his second year of formation (his first in Chelsea, as he was in Spain last year). Please also pray for more vocations in the diocese. Please also pray for our young candidates for First Holy Communion who made their First Confessions here yesterday (Saturday morning) and for their families. God bless you all.

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FR DAVID WRITES
We continue our joyful journey through the Easter season. Easter isn’t just one day or even one week - it is a special season of fifty days which leads to the great feasts of the Ascension and Pentecost. Please keep on celebrating! I hope everyone had a good Easter holiday from school, college or work and send you all love and best wishes for the summer term which begins this week.

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THANK YOU
Fr David, Fr Andrew & Fr Johnson would like to thank you for your kindness over the Easter.  For your prayers, good wishes, cards and gifts.

VOLUNTEERS
A very big thank you to all those who helped prepare the Church for Easter, the cleaners, Choirs, servers, readers, Eucharistic ministers, flower arrangers, collectors and anyone else who helped in anyway.

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FR DAVID WRITES
Happy Easter! Today is the greatest of all solemnities: the Resurrection of the Lord from the dead. The Lenten journey is now concluded, and we have lived the days of Passiontide and Holy Week with real faith and devotion. We send you all every good wish for the days of Easter and hope you all have a good Easter holiday. Many thanks go to all our parishioners and volunteers who have helped with, prepared, led or participated in our great celebrations and in preparing the church - thank you all! Christ is Risen. Alleluia!

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THIS IS HOLY WEEK
This week is Holy Week, the greatest week in the Church’s year. This week, in the liturgy, we celebrate the greatest mystery at the heart of our faith: the Paschal Mystery of Christ’s passion, death and resurrection. Let us live these days with faith and devotion. We look forward to seeing you all at church in the coming days.

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FR DAVID WRITES
We had a lovely Mothers Day last weekend and hope all our mothers had a special day. Today is the Fifth Sunday of Lent (the beginning of Passiontide) and next week we will celebrate Palm Sunday which is the start of Holy Week. I hope that we will all be able to live these special days with faith, devotion and participation at church.

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FR DAVID WRITES
Today is Mothering Sunday. We hope all our mums and families have a lovely day.  Let us remember to pray for all the mothers who have gone to God. In the liturgy, today is Laetare Sunday - the Fourth in Lent. Today we are reminded of the joyful destination of our journey that leads towards Easter. Next Sunday, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, is the beginning of Passiontide. This week Lemmy has her first birthday! However, she was 8 weeks old when she came to live in the presbytery and take her up new appointments as ‘chief evangeliser’ and ‘centre of attention’. She says she loves her life in the parish and says hello to you all. Thank you to all who have helped me by looking after her during Mass and other times too! God bless.

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FR DAVID WRITES
Today is already the Third Sunday of Lent. In the liturgy we hear about how the Law and worship are connected - for Christians these two realities exist in Christ who is the true and real presence of God among us. The more we worship him, the more we become his living Body. The first Christians understood this when they said, ‘We become what we receive’. Next Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Lent, known as ‘Laetare Sunday’. Next Sunday is also Mothering Sunday. Next weekend you will be able to take a sheet with the times of celebrations here during Holy Week. Last week I had a wonderful time at the celebrations for the Feast of St Paul’s Shipwreck in Malta. I prayed for you all and the whole parish at the statue and also during the liturgies. May God bless you all and your Lenten journeys.