St. Edmund of Canterbury & St. Thomas More
Parish Newsletter
January 2024
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Parish Priest: Fr Adrian Lowe
Parish Phone: 0208 508 3492/ E-mail: loughton@brcdt.org
The Brentwood Diocesan Trust Registered Charity No. 234092
PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SICK
Edgar Azzopardi, Margaret Baldwin, Evelyn Bearne, Karl Britz, Brenda Bryant,
Jane Downs, Bernadette Hall, Ann Hawkes, Claire Howes, Les Langan, Angela Long, Lilian Mothersole, John McKernan, Rosemary O’Rourke, Remy, Geraldine Taylor, James Wright, Pamela Gibson, Martha D’Souza, Peggy Howes, Geraldine Stains, Linda Moriarty, Andrew Godsave and all our loved ones who are unwell.
SPECIAL COLLECTION 28th JANUARY, 2024:
There will be a special collection after the masses on 27th & 28th January for Racial Justice.
ALTAR SOCIETY:
We need new members to join our Altar Society Group. Please if you can assist contact Sharon 07854919207 or shazzafitzm@aol.com
CONFIRMATION PROGRAMME:
The Confirmation Programme will be starting soon. If there are any young people, aged 14 or over who feel ready to take this important step in their relationship with Jesus who haven’t registered yet, then please contact the parish office for a form.
BAPTISMS: If there are parents wishing to have their children baptised at St. Edmund’s please could you kindly contact your parish priest Fr Adrian Lowe as soon as possible. For first time parents there is a Baptismal Programme run by Mrs Sharon Chalk. Baptisms take place on Saturdays at 12.30pm
NOTE FOR OUR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP:
We will next be playing at the 11am Mass on Sunday, 4th February and beforehand we’ll be having a practice on Monday, 29th January 7 to 8pm in the Choir loft.
It would be appreciated if all our singers and musicians could come to the practice as well as the Mass. We always have a good turn-out for our masses, but our practices are usually quite lonely affairs so please do come along! Thank you.
New singers and musicians who might like to join us would be made very welcome!
PARISH NEW CAFOD ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CRISIS APPEAL: Donate to CAFOD’s Israeli-Palestinian Crisis Appeal at cafod.org.uk/ipc or call 0303 303 3030 to support those affected and get funds to local trusted experts in Gaza and southern Israel who have been working with communities helping those most in need.
NEWSLETTER: If you would like to receive the Parish Newsletter via E-mail each week, please contact Iain McLay bloggeriain@gmail.com this gives an extended version of the weekly bulletin. The Parish Newsletter can also be obtained and downloaded from the Parish website. They are always published on a Saturday Morning.
HELP SUPPORT THE EPPING FOREST FOODBANK:
The Foodbank is reaching out to the local community for any help they can give, so if you are able to support them, please drop an item or two into our plastic collection boxes (in Father Adrian’s garage), we will then do the rest and deliver it to the Foodbank.
Thank you everyone for your support.
YEAR 12 Retreat ‘Life to the full’: Walsingham House are running a retreat for students in Yr12 on the weekend of the 16th-18th February. This will be a wonderful opportunity to meet other young people from across the diocese, to make new friends and to take time out from their busy lives to reflect and pray. The cost of the retreat is £35. For more information and to apply please see the website https://bcys.net/events/yr12retreat/
HCPT Easter Lourdes Volunteers Wanted!
Are you, or do you know anyone who is 18 – 30 years old and would like the opportunity to travel with The Brentwood Group on Pilgrimage to Lourdes this Easter? HCPT Group 709 are an all-adult service group who are looking for enthusiastic, hard-working individuals to join us between 1st-6th April 2024 in Lourdes to help facilitate an unforgettable week for disabled and disadvantaged children from all over the world. If you would like more information or think this is something you may want to get involved in, please contact us at group709@hcpt.org.uk or via Instagram by searching HCPT Group 709. Sign up deadline for new group members is February 7th, 2024.
St Peters Primary School, Goresbrook Road, Dagenham:
is seeking to appoint a School Office Administrator. Hours 8am to 4pm, term-time only plus one week. Closing date 29th January 2024. Please call school office for more information tel.0208 270 6524, email:- office@st-peter.bardaglea.org.uk.
IN CASES OF EMERGENCY: If there is no answer from the parish phone and you are seeking a priest in an emergency, please call one of the local parishes, either in Epping – Tel 01992 572516, or the St. Thomas of Canterbury Friary at Woodford Green – Tel: 020 8504 1688.
NOTE: VACANCIES ARE LISTED ON THE NOTICE BOARD AT THE BACK OF THE CHURCH
MASS INTENTIONS -FROM 27th January 2024
| Vigil Mass for SundayConfessions 5:30-6:00pm or by appointment | ||||
| Sat 27th January | 6:00pm | People of the Parish | ||
| Sun 28th January | 9:00am | Pat Keating RIP ( John Connolly) | ||
| Sun 28th January | 11:00am | Beryl Goodwin RIP ( Anne Cocklin) | ||
| Mon 29th January | 9:30am | Frederick George Burgess RIP ( Maria Abbs) | ||
| Tues 30th January | NO MASS | |||
| Wed 31st January | 9:30am | Mary Ann Farrow & Family INTS ( Paul Malloy) | ||
| Thurs 1st February | 9:30am | Mel O’Reilly RIP ( Maureen O’Reilly) | ||
| Fri 2nd February | 9:30am | John & Sue Campbell INTS | ||
| Sat 3rd February Sun 4th February Sun 4thFebruary | 6:00pm 9:00am 11:00am | People of the Parish Estherlita Gracia RIP ( Bacani Family) Odilia & Albert Matow RIP ( Diana & Ferdi Tisi) | ||