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FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT (YEAR B)
Today is the First Sunday of Advent and the beginning of a new cycle in the Church’s calendar. Advent is a season of hope and of preparation for the coming of Christ. It is also a time when we prepare for the liturgical celebration of Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem at Christmas.
END OF LOCKDOWN—WEDNESDAY
This week the lockdown ends at 12.01am on Wednesday 2nd December. That means the faithful will be able to come to public Masses, the first being Wednesday lunchtime 12 noon. The system we had in place until 5th November will recommence. Saturday Mass 4pm & 6pm; Sundays 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm; Monday-Friday 12pm & 6pm. We will hear Confessions on Saturday afternoons at 2pm. The same procedures apply to the church as before: limit on numbers, face covering, hand sanitiser, shorter Mass. Please note there are no toilet facilities available.
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ENGLISH MASS TIMES ONLINE
Monday-Friday 12 noon; Saturdays 6pm; Sundays 10am
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ENGLISH MASS TIMES ONLINE
Monday-Friday 12 noon; Saturdays 6pm; Sundays 10am (extra Mass Tues 10am this week)
MALAYALAM MASSES
Fr Johnson will also celebrate Mass in Malayalam every evening at 7pm online.
CHURCH OPENING TIMES (PRIVATE PRAYER)
Wednesdays 12.30pm-2pm; Fridays 12.30pm-2pm; Sundays 10.30am-12 noon.
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Today is Remembrance Sunday when we pray for all those who died in war. The 10am Mass on Sunday will be a Requiem Mass. Please join us online and in prayer.
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FR DAVID WRITES
Perhaps like you, I can hardly believe that we have already marked Remembrance Sunday (last week) and are almost at the Feast of Christ the King (next weekend). The strangest of years is almost at an end (please God, is there light at the end of tunnel?) Perhaps later we will have a better opportunity and perspective to make sense of just what has happened and how we have truly experienced it. For now, the lockdown goes on. Thank you for your prayers, support, love for each other, and kind messages which are shared throughout the parish. Let us persevere together! Finally, please keep me in your prayers next Sunday which will be the twelfth anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood; twelve years that have also gone by very quickly! God bless you all.
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ALL SAINTS & ALL SOULS
Today, 1st November, is the solemnity of All Saints. This is the feast of the saints in
heaven - God’s heavenly city, the new Jerusalem, to which we are all headed. Tomorrow is All Souls’ Day. This is a day of prayer for all the faithful departed—the Holy Souls. On All Souls’ Day (Monday) we will have Mass at 12 noon and 6pm. At each Mass we will present our Book of Remembrance as we pray for our deceased loved ones and friends. November is the month of the Holy Souls. We will continue to offer prayers and Masses for the faithful departed throughout the month.