BLESSING OF PETS SERVICE

1/2: 5pm Richard; 9am Gerry; 11am Mutsa 8/9: 5pm Collette; 9am Claire; 11am Paul 15/16: 5pm Marian; 9am Lorenza; 11am Patricia 22/23: 5pm Lizzie; 9am David; 11am Jim 29/30: 5pm Maggie; 9am John; 11am Lisa

Please be careful on the pavement in front of the church and on the pathways leading to the main door of the church and around the church and Cafe and presbytery. As Autumn takes hold and the daylight hours decrease, fallen leaves make for slippery surfaces. If you see fallen leaves around our church and buildings and on the pavement in front of the church, please clear the leaves. There is a brush in the church porch. Thank you. Thank you so much to everyone who helped to sweep and remove fallen leaves after holy Mass last Sunday. We will need to keep doing this for a few more weeks, I fear! If you can hold a broom, please help!

BLESSING OF GRAVES AND PRAYER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED Next Sunday afternoon, 9th November , I’ll be pleased to visit local cemeteries to bless the graves of your loved ones with holy water and pray for them. Please let me know if you would like me to do this for you.

We began the month of November with the great Feast of All Saints, inviting everyone who is now with the Lord in Heaven, living in eternal joy, to pray for us. Tomorrow, the Feast of All Souls, we begin to think of those who have died and, while not yet in Heaven, are on their way home! We believe that the holy Mass and our prayers help these Holy Souls on that journey. Do come to holy Mass tomorrow, All Souls Day, and join me and through the holy Mass we can help our loved ones to speedily reach our homeland of Heaven.  If you would like me to offer holy Mass during the month of November, for specific members of your family or friends who have died, please fill in one of the Holy Mass envelopes which you will find in the church porch, enclose your stipend and please give it to me or pop it through the presbytery letterbox. In the holy Mass, we are connected to the Lord Jesus in his death and resurrection. The holy Mass is the most powerful means possible to allow the Lord to bring us and our loved ones safely home to Heaven.

NOVEMBER 2025 1/2: 5pm Patrick; 9am Paul; 11am Lizzie, Ross, Marian(H) 8/9: 5pm Patricia; 9am Maggie; 11am Lorenza, David, Simone(H) 15/16: 5pm Angela; 9am Phil; 11am Margaret, Mary, Lisa(H) 22/23: 5pm Carolyn; 9am Jim; 11am John, Gabrielle, Giannina(H) 29/30: 5pm Regina; 9am Patrick; 11am Paul, Patricia, Linda(H) Thank you to our wonderful Ministers of the Eucharist who have accepted the Lord’s invitation to this awesome, sacred ministry, by their willingness to give up their own plans and convenience in order to do God’s will rather than their own. Let us pray for them because they too fight the same personal weaknesses we all have to fight against and they too have to fight the same temptations we all have to fight. God be with them.

Mon 3rd Nov: Gerry Tue 4th Nov: Paul Doherty Wed 5th Nov: David Thu 6th Nov: Jim Fri 7th Nov: Lizzie

We will begin again our ‘Liturgy of the Word’ for children of Primary School age on Sunday November 2nd and then on the following consecutive Sundays. Dear Parents please bear these dates in mind when you bring your children to holy Mass. During these ‘Liturgy of the Word’ sessions, our children will have opportunities to understand and enjoy God’s loving Word during the 11.00am holy Mass.

Please add the names of any loved ones who have died in the last year, to our Book of Remembrance, on the page of the date they left our world. The Book of Remembrance will be placed on the altar during every holy Mass in this month of November and so we will remember to pray for them at each and every holy Mass.

Each year we have a meeting for the whole parish to discuss our plans for the forthcoming year and to review all that we have achieved, by God’s grace, during the previous year. At this meeting we will cover every aspect of our parish life, from Liturgy to Finances! Last year, you may remember, we discussed our Archbishop’s plans for the diocese and parishes. May I invite everyone to this ‘Parish in Council’ meeting on Thursday 6th November at 6.30pm