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WEEKEND MASSES
Saturday 27th December - 4.15pm Confession
Sunday 28th December - 9.15am Children's Mass, 11.15am Parish Mass, 5pm Youth Mass
WEEK OF 29th December Masses
Monday 29th December - 11am Mass
Tuesday 30th December - 11am Mass
Wednesday 31st December - CHURCH CLOSED
Thursday 1st January - 12 noon Mass
Friday 2nd January - 10am Requiem Mass for Sallie Wheater RIP
WEEKEND MASSES
Saturday 3rd January - 4.15pm Confession
Sunday 4th January - 9.15am Children's Mass, 11.15am Parish Mass, 5pm Youth Mass
Father Simon's Reflections Week of 29th December
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The Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and the child Jesus, Year A.
‘May God firmly establish our families firmly in your grace and peace’.
Thank you to all who made our Christmas Masses such wonderful expressions of our community’s faith. As always, I am extremely grateful to those who took on a special role in the liturgy: welcoming, stewarding, reading, singing, playing, serving, sacristans, flowers, decorations and any critical role that went unnoticed but was nonetheless important. Thank you also for your kind Christmas greetings, cards, and offerings – they are much appreciated.
Our celebration of Christmas Day continues today, ending on Thursday 1st January 2026, the ‘octave day’ of Christmas, with the Solemnity of Holy Mary, Mother of God. To give people a lie in after the night before, Mass will be at 12noon in St Joan of Arc. The season of Christmas continues until the Baptism of the Lord on Sunday 11th January 2026. It is customary to keep our decorations up until 12th night, until the Solemnity of the Epiphany, which itself is a Holy Day of Obligation. Our HUB Masses will be:
• A Vigil Mass at 7pm on Monday 5th January 2026 in St Joan’s.
• A Mass of the Day at 9.30am on Tuesday 6th January 2026 in Holy Family, Heath End.
• A Mass of the Day at 11am on Tuesday 6th January 2026 in St Joan’s
• An Evening Mass will also be celebrated on Tuesday 6th January 2026 in Holy Angels, Ash – please check their newsletter for the time, which was not available at the time of composing this newsletter.
You may also keep your cribs up to the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas), 2nd February 2026.
Wishing you every blessing for the New Year, Fr. Simon.
Father Simon's Parish Advent Talk can be read here: The O Antiphons Heralding the Advent of Christ
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