Holy Week Services

During Holy Week we focus more particularly on the Passion and death of Our Lord, before celebrating his glorious resurrection.

The veiling of the statues gives a striking austerity to the Church, reminding us of the solemn and mournful time of the suffering and death of the Lord as we approach the liturgical celebration of his Passion.

At the website, you can look up times of all our Holy Week Services and Confessions.

Feast of St Patrick

There will be an extra Mass this Wednesday 17 March, the feast of St Patrick, at 7.30pm. The Mass will be in English with hymns. The Rosary Social club will be open after the Mass.

Plenary indulgence for Pentecost

A plenary indulgence can be gained today by those who participate in the public singing of the Veni Creator Spiritus (or the English translation “Come Holy Ghost, creator come”). This hymn will be sung at the 6pm and 9am Masses in English and after the 10.30am Mass in Latin.

If you want further information about the conditions for gaining a plenary indulgence, my post "Plenary indulgences not impossible" may be helpful.

Feast of Corpus Christi

The bishops have transferred the feast of Corpus Christi to Sunday 14 June.
However, there will also be a sung Latin Mass (older form) for the traditional feast of Corpus Christi on Thursday 11 June at 8pm for those who wish to come. (It is not a holyday of obligation.)

Feast of the Ascension

The bishops of England and Wales have transferred the feast of the Ascension to Sunday 24 May in the ordinary form of the Roman Rite.

However, there will also be a sung Mass in the usus antiquior for the traditional feast of the Ascension on Thursday 21 May at 8pm for those who wish to come. (It is not a holyday of obligation.)

Holy Week and Easter Services

We now enter the last two weeks of Lent when we focus more particularly on the Passion and death of Our Lord, before celebration his glorious resurrection.

By ancient custom, the crucifixes and statues in the Church are veiled from today until the Easter Vigil. As with many of our ancient liturgical customs, this has various meanings. Before his Passion, Jesus hid himself and no longer went openly among the Jews. At his passion, the divinity of Jesus was hidden by his humiliation and sufferings for our sake. The statues of Our Lady and the saints are covered because it is not fitting for the servants to be honoured when their Master is hidden.

The veiling of the statues gives a striking austerity to the Church, reminding us of the solemn and mournful time of the suffering and death of the Lord as we approach the liturgical celebration of his Passion.

At the website, you can look up times of all our Holy Week Services and Confessions.

There is also a printable version of the Holy Week Services sheet.

The Feast of St Patrick

Evening Mass
There will be an extra Mass (English, with hymns) at 7.30pm on the Feast of St Patrick (Tuesday 17 March).

Social Club
On Saturday 14 March, there will be a St Patrick’s celebration in the Social Club with Irish music, dancing and food. Tickets for food £3.50 available in the Club. The Social Club will also be open on the feast of St Patrick, Tuesday 17 March, from 8pm.

St Thomas More School
The PA are holding a St Patrick’s Night on Saturday 14 March from 8-11pm. Tickets £10 (Adult) £5 (Child) includes Traditional Irish Food. Traditional Irish Dancers also in attendance.

Feast of the Assumption

Friday 15 August is the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady and is a Holyday of Obligation on which we are bound to attend Mass. Masses in the parish will be at 10am, 4.15pm and 8pm. The 8pm Mass will be a sung Latin Mass.

High Mass, Thursday (Corpus Christi)

This Thursday 22 May, there will be a solemn High Mass (Latin) in the older form of the Roman Rite at 8pm in the Church, sung with Gregorian chant according to the Roman Gradual. The Mass will be followed by a procession of the Blessed Sacrament within the Church grounds.

(Thursday is not a Holyday of Obligation and our English Masses on Sunday will be the Mass of Corpus Christi.)

Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

This Sunday, 7 October, is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: our parish patronal feast day.

We have Mass at our usual times (6pm Saturday, 9am, 10.30am and 6pm Sunday). Our 10.30am Mass will be sung in Latin.

In the afternoon, at 3pm we have the Rosary, an indoor procession of the statue of Our Lady, and Benediction.

Holy Week Services

Times of all our Holy Week Services and Confessions.

Printable version of the Holy Week Services sheet.

Ash Wednesday

Masses on Ash Wednesday will be at 9.30am, 4.15pm and 8pm. Ashes will be blessed and distributed at all Masses.

Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence. We are bound to abstain from meat and to fast in accord with our state in life. We are allowed to take one full meal and two snacks if necessary but not to eat apart from this. Many able-bodied Catholics could do more.

All Saints and All Souls

All Saints Day (Wednesday 1 November) is a Holyday of Obligation on which we are bound to attend Mass. Masses in the parish are at 9.30am, 4.15pm and 8pm.

All Souls Day (Thursday 2 November) is not a Holyday of Obligation but we will have an extra evening Mass at 8pm in addition to our usual morning Mass at 9.30amMasses at

A plenary indulgence, applicable to the Holy Souls, may be gained on the usual conditions, by visiting a Catholic Church on All Souls Day and devoutly reciting the Our Father and the Creed.