St Joseph’s Church
Holy Trinity House, 15 Marian Gardens BR1 3FH
St Swithun’s Church
Fashoda Road, Bromley BR2 9RE
020 8402 0459 / bromley@rcaos.org.uk
The Archdiocese of Southwark recently celebrated its 46th Annual Altar Servers Mass & Rally, a significant event attended by over 400 altar servers from 30 parishes. This year, St. Joseph’s Bromley Parish was honoured to be chosen to serve as the main altar servers at the sanctuary.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales will host “Adoremus at Oscott” on 14 September 2024, aligning with the 53rd International Eucharistic Congress in Quito, Ecuador.
By DEACON BARRY This weekend we said goodbye to Fr Peter and we await the arrival of Fr Saju this coming Wednesday. Looking back to September 2019 when we met Fr Peter for the first time, we did not realise the extent of the challenges that we would face together – probably the greatest challenges…
Fr Peter is moving to a new Parish and a new Parish priest will be starting in Bromley from 1 May.
This summer, our Parish came together for our annual One Parish Mass at Aylesford Priory. Fr Peter celebrated Mass, which was followed by a social picnic.
By FATHER PETER MURPHY Over the past week, Friday in particular, we have commemorated the events of Our Lord’s suffering and death. This Sunday, we are celebrating His Resurrection: He must have Risen some time during the night, since the Gospel Reading tells us that when the women went to the tomb, very early in…
By FATHER MARK WHARTON
There are very few words to describe my Ordination into the Priesthood on 1 October. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for your love and support and joy.
By DEACON BARRY MELLISH
There are people who talk all the time – or perhaps it just seems that way! We could be one of them and not realise it. Perhaps it is our personality or we are so full of ideas that we cannot wait to explain them all. Or perhaps it is our ego: what we say must be more important than whatever anyone else has to say so they never get a word in edgeways. It takes all sorts to make the world! But there is a lesson to be learned from this and it affects us all.
By DEACON BARRY MELLISH
Time spent at home during lockdown seems an excellent opportunity to catch up with some modern or contemporary spiritual authors and their books. The problem is how to get hold of these if all the local libraries are shut.
The Open Library seems to offer a way forward, if you are happy to read or browse text on a computer, tablet or maybe even mobile phone.
Fr MATTHEW KWAGHTAVER
It was Thanksgiving season in the nursing home. The small resident population gathered around their humble Thanksgiving table, and the director of the home asked each in turn to express one thing for which he or she was thankful for. “Thanks” were expressed for a home in which to stay, families, friends, etc. One old lady, when her turn came, she said, “I thank the Lord for two perfectly good teeth left in my mouth, one in my upper jaw and one in my lower jaw. They match so well that I can chew my food.” The psalmist says, “It is good to give thanks to the Lord.” (Ps.92:1).