Announcements This Week

IMPORTANT: Please note that our phone line is not working. Please call us on 020 7603 0814

The Parish Office is now closed for the Easter break. It reopens on Tuesday 22nd April at 10.00 am.

HOLY WEEK INFORMATION

Please work out now when you are going to make your Confession before Easter. Daily times are provided from now on in our church.

Confessions available for as long as necessary starting at these times:

Palm Sunday 12.45 pm (approx.)

Monday 6.30 pm

Tuesday 6.30 pm

Wednesday 7.00 pm

Maundy Thursday 10.00 am

Good Friday 11.45 am

Holy Saturday 10.00 am

Tuesday 12 noon in Westminster Cathedral: Chrism Mass – Holy Oils blessed by the Cardinal; priests renew their commitment to priestly service. All welcome.

Maundy Thursday, 9.15 pm – Midnight: Please decide when you will keep watch with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Altar of Repose in church.

‘This is Holy Week’ Posters: Please take one from the back of church and display in your window from today onwards as an act of witness.

Easter Bank Holiday Monday: Mass will be at 12 noon

Donations towards the cost of Easter Flowers will be welcomed. Envelopes at the back of church.

Blessed Easter Water can be taken from the font on Easter Sunday.

MAIN EVENTS OF THE SOLEMN EASTER TRIDUUM

(Full details of all  services  Mon – Wed are given in the Holy Week and Easter leaflet)

Maundy Thursday

8.00 pm Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Washing of Feet – Commemoration of Institution of the Eucharist – Procession to Altar of Repose

9.15 pm – 12 midnight Watch of Prayer at the Altar of Repose

with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. 'Could you not watch with me one hour?'

Good Friday

11.00 am Family Stations of the Cross with an opportunity to venerate the Cross. Ideal for young children.

3.00 pm Celebration of the Passion of the Lord

Bible Readings & singing of the Passion – Universal Prayer – Veneration of the Cross – Holy Communion

8.00 pm With Mary at the Foot of the Cross a reflective meditation on the death of Christ, his taking down from the cross and his burial.

Holy Saturday

9.00 pm THE EASTER VIGIL IN THE HOLY NIGHT

Lighting of New Fire and Paschal Candle with Proclamation of Easter – Vigil of Bible Readings – Blessing of Font – Adult Baptisms and Confirmations - Renewal of our Baptismal Promises – First Mass of Easter

This is the greatest celebration of the entire Christian Year!

Easter Saturday 26th April, Vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday 2.00 -3.00 pm Divine Mercy Devotion with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. (Confessions after the 6.00 pm Mass.)

Easter Sunday

8.30 am Mass    

10.00 am Family Mass ideal for young children       

11.30am Solemn Mass

Renewal of Baptismal Promises at all Masses

No 6.30 pm Mass

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS THIS WEEK

Maundy Thursday 8.00 pm, at the offertory: Lenten Alms Collection

For the Cardinal’s Lenten Appeal fund to support projects in our diocese to relieve

those in need.

The Good Friday Collection at the end of the 3.00 pm Liturgy goes for the support of the beleaguered Church in the Holy Land.

Easter Sunday Offertory: a special envelope is available. If you are going to be away, we would be most grateful if you could take an envelope and return it any time. It is for the support of the clergy.

The Five First Saturdays Devotion, as requested by Our Lord and Our Lady at Fatima,  with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is spread over FIVE consecutive months. It will start on Saturday 3rd May followed on the 07 June, 05 July, 02 August and 06 September, at 2PM. It consists of receiving Holy Communion, going to Confession, saying the Holy Rosary and meditating for 15 minutes on the mysteries. It will be followed by 30 minutes of Adoration to the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction . NB Holy Communion can be received at the 9.30 am or 6.00 pm Masses, and Confessions heard after the evening Mass.

Prayer workshop: Thursday 24th April at 2pm in the Nazareth House prayer centre. All welcome.

Planned Giving Envelopes for the year April 25 –April 26 are again available from the church porch this Sunday. Please double-check YOUR name and address.

If you are a UK tax payer and have not signed up to gift aid your regular offerings, please contact the parish office. If you have stopped paying tax, please also let us know. If your box is not there, and you would like one, please contact the parish office.

Fr Richard, Fr Juan, Deacon James and Therese would like to wish you a very happy and blessed Easter.

'Little Rome: the story of Holy Trinity Brook Green 1851-2024' A short history book of the parish, called ‘Little Rome’, a local designation honouring the long Catholic history of our part of London is on sale from the Parish office at £12.50.

Holy Trinity Cine Club: for children in Year 7 to Year 9, and  Year 10 to 12 on a Friday evening once a month. Quality ‘surprise’ movie followed by discussion and pizza. All are welcome, suggested donation of £5 towards running costs. Contact cineclubbg@gmail.com. See poster in the church porch.

SACRAMENTS

Preparation for the Sacrament of Baptism: If you have a child for Baptism under 5 years old please email us for an application form. You will be contacted once the form has been received. A copy of one of the Catholic parents’ baptism certificate will be required.  Baptisms can only take place on Saturdays at 11am.

Adults who would like to enquire into the possibility of becoming Catholics, or adult Catholics hoping to be confirmed, please speak to one of the clergy or contact us by email.

Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund, we have received a grant to help refurbish the parish centre. We provide a weekly night shelter for homeless women from November to Easter and the money we have received has enabled us to make the hall more comfortable. The West London Scouts also had their storage area made safe and easier to use. Other community projects will now be able to resume thanks to the lottery fund. This is what your money pays for when you play the lottery (if you don’t win, that is :) )

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