SERVICES

TODAY After Mass today there will be refreshments served at the back of Church at Holy Trinity, and in the Church Hall at S. Silas. We do hope you will be able to join us. Congratulations to Elizabeth on making her First Holy Communion today.  After the 11am Mass there will be a talk on the Nicene Creed. Thank you to the choir of Holy Trinity for singing Mass today.

LENT Please take away the Lent at S. Silas and Holy Trinity sheet from Church as a guide to what is happening in Lent and how you can take part.

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER Please take away with you one of the Holy Week and Easter cards so that you can make a note of our services during the most important week of the year for Christians.

FR PHILIP is away from this afternoon until Tuesday 1st April. He will be leading a retreat in Connecticut, and teaching and preaching in Washington DC. We are grateful to the priests who will be helping us during this time.

THE ANNUNCIATION The Solemnity of the Annunciation will be celebrated with a Sung Mass on Tuesday 25th March at 7.30 p.m.

ELECTORAL ROLL This is being renewed this year, please take a form from the back of church and complete it. If you are a UK tax payer please consider also signing up to the Gift Aid scheme.

WALSINGHAM PILGRIMAGES We hope to take our own coach/minibus to Walsingham for the National Pilgrimage on Monday 26th May. If you would be interested in this please speak to Fr Philip. Our WEEKEND PILGRIMAGE will take place 1st – 3rd August 2025. The full cost of the pilgrimage is £220 we require a £40 non-refundable deposit as soon as possible and no later than Sunday 13th April. There is a special rate for any families wising to attend – please speak to Fr Philip.

WALSINGHAM STATUES With so many close connections to the Shrine at Walsingham it would be good to have an image of Our Lady of Walsingham in our churches and school. If you would like to contribute financially towards this, perhaps in memory of a loved one, or in thanksgiving please speak to Fr Philip. A new statute will cost £750.

PLEASE PRAY FOR those caught up in the war in the Middle East and in Ukraine; for all who teach and learn in our school; for the sick commended to us – Michael Devine, Eileen Bromwich, David Woolf, Leonard Hearne, Su Beard, Jeff Cridland (Pr), Caroline Essl, Norma Chisholm, Chloe Stinson, Gary Stinson, Peter Hearn, Doreen Moodie, Peter Piddock, Ian Macgregor, Gabi Cancello, Veronica Lavin, John Nelson, Pearline Squire, Kay Farrell, Carlos Stinson, John Nix, Joyce Nix, Brenda Yazdi, Dennis Holmes, Hazel Hallam, Pam Ansley, Earl Foster, Melvin Murray, Bert Brace, Clare Smith, Dave McWilliams June Clough, Melanie Grant, and Micheline Lobjois; for all who have died Margaret Goodall (Recently Departed) and for Margaret Munduck,  Samual Awadzi, Lilian Fryer, Martha Asafu-Adjaye, Louis Blackender-Reeves, Harold Chopping, Harry Fryer, George Day, Josephine Butler, Aaron Faisal, and Gertrude Ball.(Anniversaries).