Weekly Diary

21st December - 28th December 2025

Fourth Week in Advent

Fourth Sunday of Advent 21st December

Is 7:10-14 Rm 1:1-7 Mt 1:18-24

9.00 Andrew Cunningham RIP

11.00am Catherine & James Murphy RIP

 6.00pm Mass  People of the Parish 

Exit Collection Christmas Flowers

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

Today so near to feasting Jesus’ birth   we pray for all expectant mothers and ask the Lord’s blessing on them for a safe delivery and good health for both mother and child.

St.John of Kety (Tuesday) was a Polish priest of the  15th century who excelled in both science & theology, but remembered especially for love of  neighbour.

Christmas (Thursday) is a material feast, because we celebrate the Son of God taking shape in the flesh & blood we  are made of. So it is right to make a big feast out of God becoming one of us!

The Christmas Day Collection* is the  annual offering to the SCJ community. It supports personal material needs like clothes, shoes, & breaks, all the things that do not come from parish funds.

*Special gift aid envelope in narthex.

St.Stephen’s Day (Friday) the feast of our first martyr, is also the day we bless  our altar servers, at 10.15 mass this day. New medals to be given to new servers

St.John the apostle (Saturday) the only evangelist among the 12, gave us the poem that begins his gospel, with its powerful line near the end: ‘The Word became flesh, and he lived among us’

Holy Family Sunday: we feast wedding jubilees & thank God for his presence in all our families. Blessing for Infants and Children at 9.00am. Blessing for Jubilee couples at 11.00am.

 

 

Monday - 22nd December

Zep 3:1-2,9-13 Mt 21:28-32

7.00 Mass Private Intention

10.15  Mass Ewa Sawicka (in church)

10.45-11.30 Confessions

Tuesday - 23rd  December

St.John of Kety

Zep 3:1-2,9-13 Mt 21:28-32

7.00 Mass Vicky Colwill

10.15  Mass Steve Liddard (in church)

10.45-11.30 Confessions

7.00pm Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament

Wednesday - 24th December

Christmas Eve

Gn 49:2,8-10 Mt 1:1-17

(No morning Mass)

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5.00pm Carols

5.30pm Mass of Christmas People of the Parish  

7.30pm Carols

8pm Mass of Christmas People of the Parish

Thursday - 25th  December

Christmas Day

  Jer 23:5-8 Mt 1:18-24

9.00 Mass People of the Parish

11.00 Mass People of the Parish

Friday - 26th December

St.Stephen

Jd 13:2-7,24-25 Lk 1:5-25    

10.15 Mass Guild of St Stephen

Saturday 27th December

St John the Evangelist

Is 7:10-14 Lk 1:26-38

9.30 Confessions

10.15 Mass Rita Vranch 

also Mary Johnson

Holy Family Sunday 28th December

Is 7:10-14 Rm 1:1-7 Mt 1:18-24

9.00 People of the Parish also Jess McKee

11.00am George Everard RIP

 6.00pm Mass  Michael Brennan 

Exit Collection Parish Roof Fund

 

 

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