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Invitation to webinar

Thank you for your recent generous support for seafarers and fishers on Sea Sunday. The Catholic charity Stella Maris (formerly Apostleship of the Sea) invites you to join a webinar on Tuesday 27th September 7.30 to 9pm  to learn more about the issue of seafarer abandonment, and how donations like yours on Sea Sunday are supporting those in crisis. If you would like to attend, please register in advance at www.stellamaris.org.uk/abandonment

Youth Opportunity for school years 10 or 11

You are invited to the ‘mini-Lourdes’ experience at Worth Abbey Sunday 23rd October 2.30pm-8.30pm.  You will join other young Catholics across the diocese in having fun together and being inspired in your faith, taking part in a candlelight procession and visit the relics of St Bernadette while they Tour the UK.  For more information email [email protected]. 

Side note — don’t forget our Parish Youth Group Launch for all our 11-19 year olds and their friends  Sun 9th October.4pm

October – The month of the Holy Rosary

October is the Month of the Holy Rosary, it is a good time to pray the Rosary more frequently.  The Holy Rosary is one of the best known Catholic devotions. We can pray the Rosary anywhere, alone, with our family/friends, or as a parish group .  In our Parish there are opportunities to pray the Rosary together, all are welcome to join them. 

Our Parish Rosary Group, takes place at St George’s  Church.  It started in 2009 and some of us are still going strong! We have met every Monday afternoon at 2.30pm , except on Bank Holidays and, of course, during the pandemic. We have a core group but are frequently joined  by others praying for a special intention , we pray for any intention that is passed to us. After our prayers we enjoy tea and cake and always have a lot to say to each other. Visitors and new regular members are always more than welcome. For more information or to request an intention please speak to Jean Hines or make the request via the parish office FAO Parish Rosary Group.

The Rosary is also prayed before weekday masses  at St Wilfrid’s on Wednesday and Friday. 

Whole Parish Harvest Celebration

TODAY (Sunday 25th) after MASS — Cafod Fundraising:

Whole Parish Harvest Celebration

This Sunday we celebrate the Harvest and we are grateful for all the donations already given to support our local foodbanks and also for our CAFOD fundraising as detailed below.

St Wilfrid’s:  Please join us in the hall after mass for tea/coffee and also to purchase fresh produce.

St George’s:  A parish breakfast of pastries, scones and cakes will be served after mass.  Everyone is welcome. 

All money raised during our hall refreshments, breakfasts and produce sales will be donated to the CAFOD

Thank you for your generosity in helping our Parish support both these worthy causes

Deacon John Writes

His Majesty King Charles III has expressed the wish that all in the Catholic community know of his gratitude for the many prayers that have been offered for the late Queen and for the Royal Family during these past weeks. 

Deacon John Writes:

Speaking at a Requiem Mass for the Queen celebrated at Westminster Cathedral on Friday 9 September, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said: “Queen Elizabeth took so many opportunities to explain her faith, gently yet directly… She saw, as [St Paul did], that it was her duty to proclaim her faith in Jesus Christ. And, she said, among the treasures that flowed from that faith was her readiness not to judge others, to treat people with respect and without unnecessary criticism, to make them welcome.”

Prayer for the Royal Family — Almighty God, source of all consolation, we pray for the members of the Royal Family who mourn the loss of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. Uphold them in your love and pour out on them the consolation of your healing Spirit.

Let them find in your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ comfort in their sadness, certainty in their doubt and courage to live through this hour. We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen.

Prayer for the King — O God, to whom every human power is subject, Grant to your servant His Majesty the King wisdom in the exercise of his high office, so that, always revering to you and striving to please you, he may constantly secure and preserve for the people entrusted to his care the freedom that comes from unity and peace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit God, forever and ever, Amen.

Fr Rory Writes

“Back on the road again”.  This year, please God, will be an important and fruitful one.  The work that is in progress for the Synod has paved the way, and the images that we have used begin to bear fruit..

The reference to renew is significantly important.   We planted the renew acorn at St Paul’s, Haywards Heath, we can now see a fine good tree has come into being.  Up and down the Diocese there are certainly not a lot of other trees to be seen.  Some parishes did put in a lot of work; and all parishes had available to them the resources to bear the expected fruit.  I am sure many would tell their story.  I am convinced the vision we are trying to develop and grow is promising.

The awareness of the two communities working together.  The call for a new generation for the new generation.  We are blessed by the work that is in place.  St George’s first initiative was extremely fit for purpose and provides an outline that we can build upon.  At St Wilfrid’s some great work has been done and lots of preparation for the future.  I am really looking forward to the outcome when the two teams get together.  Streaming and website are major looks for the future and the nourishment that they will provide will dictate the outcome.  Please God, it will be great.