Leaving collection for Fr Sean
To show the parish’s thanks and appreciation for his service as Parish Priest at St Peter’s for nearly 13 years, we would like to make a presentation to Fr Sean at his Thanksgiving Mass on Friday September 2nd. If you want to contribute, there are several ways to donate:
- A retiring collection after Masses on the weekend 13th/14th August
- By debit or credit card using the contactless terminal
- By placing your donation in an envelope marked ‘Fr Sean’ and dropping it in to the presbytery – number 12 (cheques should be made payable to ‘WRCDT Stroud Green’)
- By Bank Transfer: Account name: WRCDT Stroud Green; Sort Code: 40-05-20; Account No: 71437399; Please add your Surname and ‘Fr Sean’ as a reference.
We aren’t planning a big Leaving Card so, if you wish, please give Fr Sean your own card. Thank you.
During August
This post will only be updated during August to publish significant changes.
We thank God for Fr Sean’s recovery after his recent illness and wish him a very restful time as he begins his well-deserved holiday. We welcome Fr Tom Forde who will be celebrating Mass and looking after the parish while Fr Sean is away.
No Sunday Evening Mass & Holy Hour: Please note that during August and until the weekend 11th September there will no Sunday evening Mass and no Friday Holy Hour.
School’s Out: We wish all our parishioners a summer of happiness, rest and refreshment. If you are going away, may you travel safely. Just as our families will be enjoying a break from school, our Family Room team are taking a break as well, so the latest activity, “Celebrating our summer adventures with God”, is designed to last for the whole month of August.
Summer Soup Run – helpers needed:– With the holiday season upon us, the Soup Run needs extra helpers to make sure sandwiches are made on Saturday afternoons and distributed – it takes about 3 hours on Saturday evening – each week for the next couple of months. Please contact Kit for more info by email, kit.greveson@hotmail.com or call 07507 138582 if you can help. We have enough Tea and Mayonnaise for now thank you – other donations always welcome!
Fr Sean
After almost 13 years at St Peter’s, the diocese has decided that this is a suitable time for Fr Sean to move on to pastures new. After returning in mid-August from his summer break, Fr Sean will end his ministry at St. Peter-in-Chains on 4th September. He plans to take a short sabbatical before commencing his new ministry. Fr David Barrow will be our new Parish priest.
The new porch, making St Peter’s easily accessible for all, with the windows depicting 6 modern saints – which was entirely Fr Sean’s idea – along with the decoration and changes within the church, are a visible, physical sign of Fr Sean’s time here. However, we must thank God firstly for his strong faith which we felt in his priestly ministry celebrating the Mass and the sacraments, his homilies and the stories he used to illustrate them as well as in simply talking to him. We give thanks also for the person of Fr Sean whom we have got to meet individually as he has been involved in events in our lives – sad or happy, or simply when discussing football or golf! We cannot forget his huge commitment to our schools and young people throughout his time here; that he kept the parish alive during the difficulties and limitations imposed during covid and that he promoted and encouraged the use of technology – streaming and social media as part of our mission today. Fr Sean would not want us to pretend he is perfect or to forget the dedicated parishioners who are the backbone of our parish and who have supported him and us. So, we offer thanks for all that God has given us through Fr Sean’s ministry for the past 13 years and ask God to continue to bless him wherever his new ministry takes him.
To mark the end of Fr Sean’s time as our Parish Priest, there will be a Mass of Celebration and Thanksgiving on Friday 2nd September at 7:30pm, followed, we hope, by a gathering in one of our schools.
Services
Sunday Masses are at 6:30pm (Saturday), 9:45am, 11:15am (livestreamed) and 7pm. Please note that from the weekend of the 7th August to the weekend 11th September there will no Sunday evening Mass.
Sunday Scripture readings
Notes on the Sunday Scripture readings
Find other livestreamed Masses in the diocese.
Weekday Masses are at 9am Monday to Friday after Morning Prayer at 8:45am unless there is a funeral or other special Mass at another time.
Rosary: Tuesday & Friday, after 9am Mass
Holy Hour: will resume in September
Confession: The Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession is available on Saturday evening from 6-6:20pm.
Family Room: Our latest activity “Celebrating our summer adventures with God”, is designed to last for the whole month of August. Continue reading Parish News – August 2022