Updated guidance on Children's Liturgy

Please note below updated guidance from the Diocesan Safeguarding Department:

Can Parents or Guardians attend?

The Diocesan Safeguarding Department indicate that parents should not normally attend children’s liturgy with their children. To this guidance there are two exceptions:

• If the child has learning difficulties/disabilities or medical needs and the parent is there as a carer to help. • At the first session for the child, the parent may attend to settle their child. However if the child is unable to be left alone with the group leaders, then they may be too young for the session.

Thought from Fr. Colm - 26th November

Our Memorial Mass is this Sunday. Always a very moving occasion to remember our loved ones. There have been too many this year. Do join us. Well done to our Wednesday Lunch Club. A well-deserved Belmont Local Hero Award in recognition to all who help. A thank you to our cooks from St. Joseph’s School.

“The Kingdom It’s a long way off but inside it there are quite different things going on; festivals at which the poor man is king, and the consumptive is healed; mirrors in which the blind look at themselves and love looks at them back; and industry is for mending the bent bones and the minds fractured by life. It’s a long way off but to get there takes no time and admission is free, if you will purge yourself of desire, and present yourself with your need only and the simple offering of your faith, green as a leaf.”

R.S. Thomas 1913-2000

Charity Mini-Bake Sale

We invite you on 3rd December after our 11,00am Mass to a Charity Mini-Bake Sale where you can try different sweets prepared by Ukrainians and leave your generous donation. Since the winter promises to be harsher and more difficult than the previous one in Ukraine during the war, all funds raised will go to warm winter clothes, special equipment, ammunition, and supplies for Hannah’s relatives, brother and nephew who are bravely defending Ukrainian lands. Thank you, Roksolana.