Announcements This Week

IMPORTANT: Please note that our permanent phone number is: 020 7603 0814

Music at 11.30 am Solemn Mass: Today: Wood, C (ed. D Bamford) - Mass based on Wood in Phrygian mode.  Motet: Gibbons - Almighty and everlasting God

Music at 10.00 am Family Mass: There is now a button on the parish website, which allows parishioners to listen to and practice the Sunday hymns ahead of time.

The Parish Office is now closed for the summer break. It reopens on Wednesday 2^nd  September at 10.00 am.

This newsletter covers the month of August. The next edition will be published on Sunday 6^th September.

Mass times remain the same as usual, apart from Bank Holiday Monday 31^st August, when Mass is at 12 noon.

Important dates in August:

Thurs 6^th August:  Transfiguration of the Lord

Sat 15^th August:  Vigil of Assumption

Sun 16^th August: Assumption of Our Lady

                         ASSUMPTION OF OUR LADY                     

                                  Sunday 16^th August

                                Holyday of Obligation

                  Mass (said) at 8.30,10.00 and 6.30pm

                       11.30am Solemn Mass with choir

                   Mass of the Vigil, Saturday 15^th at 6pm

Parish Picnic – On Sunday 19th July a few parishioners had a small picnic after the 11.30am Mass. As this was such a success there will be another parish picnic (with more notice) on Sunday 20th September starting after the 10am Mass and continuing after the 11.30am Mass (for those who attend this Mass). All are welcome to join us on the green close to the church. Please bring something to share (food and drink) and something to sit on. This will be an opportunity to get to know other parishioners a bit better and spend time together.

Safeguarding Training for Parish Volunteers at Holy Trinity Parish, All volunteers are now required by the Diocese to undertake safeguarding training, or update it if you have done it a while ago This is to help us all play our part in ensuring the safety of children and vulnerable adults in all our parish activities. The training is not long, and is attractively presented. It can be easily accessed through:

https://training.catholicsafeguarding.org.uk/course/Westminsterarchdiocese.

The Level 3 Training, which is the one we need to complete, is the one which has a picture of the Cathedral as the course back drop. The training is online and can be completed within an hour. After completion, volunteers will immediately receive a certificate on line. We ask you to show it to our Parish Safeguarding Representative, by handing a copy of it into our Parish office, marked ‘To Holy Trinity Parish Safeguarding Representative.’

Applying to be registered for the First Communion Programme, 2026-7In order to do this you are asked to speak to Therese, our Catechetical Coordinator, at the back of church after one of the Sunday Morning Masses on Sunday 6th or Sunday 13th September. It is not possible to apply by email, phone, or in the parish office. Therese will then arrange a time to meet with you to explain what commitment the programme involves. The programme is intended for those children who will be beginning Year 3 or older, and who already regularly attend Sunday Mass with their parents in our parish.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is back in the House of Commons and seeks to legalise assisted suicide. This would undermine the sanctity and dignity of human life. As Catholics, we are against this Bill in principle, and it remains deeply flawed and dangerous in practice. There will be a vote on Friday, 11th September 2026 - please contact your MP asap.

Radio Maria UK is hosting a World Wide Rosary at the Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden, on Wednesday 26th August at 3.00 pm. The Rosary will be broadcast live across their global network of sister Radio Maria stations, with almost a billion people praying together. They are inviting pilgrims to come to the Shrine for the 3pm Rosary broadcast and bring their voices to this extraordinary moment of worldwide prayer. More information can be found at www.RadioMaria.uk.

DEVOTIONS ON FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

Saturday 1st August 9.30 am Mass with Infant Baptism, followed by Rosary for the Five First Saturdays.

Information sheet about the Five First Saturdays can be taken from the back of church.

Saturday 1st August 2.00-3.00 pm Monthly Devotion followed by Adoration until 3.30 pm.

Saturday 5th September 9.30 am Mass followed by Rosary for Five First Saturdays.

Saturday 5th September 3.00-4.00 pm Monthly Devotion followed by Adoration until 4.30 pm.

Holy Trinity is part of the Glass Door Night Shelter circuit, which runs from November to March.  We host around 30 women a week in the Parish Centre, serving hot drinks, a three-course meal including fresh fruit, cheese and homemade cakes.  Each year Glass Door organise a Sleep Out to raise money to support their services which include the Night Shelters and other services, this year it is on Friday 9th October in Duke of York Square, Chelsea and we are organising a Holy Trinity Brook Green Team.  If you would like to join us please go to the Glass Door website - glassdoor.org.uk  and search for sleep out to register.  There are several of us already signed up and others would be very welcome. I know that the ground will be hard, that it can be cold and damp or even raining and that even though there are people there to keep everyone safe you do feel vulnerable and don’t get much sleep, but it is for a good cause.  If you would like to volunteer at the Night Shelter next winter or have any questions do please contact me by WhatsApp or email

Heather Alston, 07966233581, hja@rawspace.co.uk

There is a New Parking Meter in the church porch where you can register your car and pay a reduced parking rate. Sadly, the council will not agree to free parking on Sundays but this meter will at least make the pay to park fee a bit less painful. Times are unrestricted, the 90 minute parking restriction does not apply.

Our former parish priest Fr Terry Tastard has written a book of 25 short stories

asking how ordinary people interpreted Jesus. We hear a range of voices,

such as a midwife, a physician, a religious expert, a spy, a bandit, an orphan

and a waitress. They relate their encounter with Jesus as they piece

together the clues and try to understand who he is. Each story is followed

by related gospel passages, and an explanation of the cultural setting

drawn from research of scholars into the historical Jesus. Each concludes

with a spiritual reflection, about the message of Jesus for us.

The book is called Voices from the Fringe: Asking who Jesus might be 

and is available from Amazon.

Two new Contactless machines: Our new contactless machines in the porch are now ready to process your donations .Please use the gift aid facility if you are a tax payer as we will then receive an additional 25p for every £1 you donate at no extra cost to you. Simply follow the instructions on the tablet.

‘Arise’ A newly published book on the resurrection has emerged from our Parish! Based on a 50 Day Journey into the Mystery of the Resurrection, newly published by Sophia Press and written by one of our parishioners. The cost of the book is £15 and those who would like to purchase it can obtain a copy from the parish office.

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.

Need a gift for someone who has everything? Why not book a Mass for their intentions? Masses can be booked in the parish office where you will also receive a beautiful card. Recommended donation £10.

Major Repairs to the stonework of the Tower and Spire of the Church are urgently needed. Protective scaffolding has been erected and a detailed programme of the works required is being drawn up.

Two new illustrated booklets are available as a kind of guide to our Church building here at Holy Trinity: 'The Stained Glass Windows of the Church', and 'The Church Carvings and Paintings.' Researched and written by our parishioner Christopher Road, augmenting the Parish History he has also written: 'Little Rome – The Story of Holy Trinity Brook Green'. The booklets are £5 each, and the Parish History is £12.50. They can be purchased during office hours from the Parish Office. You can also purchase a PDF version of the two booklets by emailing the parish office.

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.