Services

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Baptisms take place on the first Sunday of each month at 12.00pm. To arrange a Baptism please contact the parish office, 02895 904 304.  You will be given a date for a Baptism talk which takes place on the last Tuesday of each month in the Parish Centre at 7.30pm.

In order to allow time for preparation and necessary paperwork to be complete, it is essential that you give the parish a MINIMUM of THREE MONTH’S notice of your intention to get married (Similar notice must also be given to the State through the local council offices) Please do not make firm weddings arrangements until you are sure that the date, priest and church are available. 

The sick and housebound are visited by a priest once a month, during the first Friday week. In addition, they can also receive communion on a Sunday from our Extra-ordinary Minister of Holy Communion, who visit their homes after the Sunday Masses. Please contact the parish office, if you, a relative, friend or neighbour in the parish     is sick and would like a priest to visit.  Our Mass for the sick (with the sacrament of anointing) usually takes place on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the 11th February each year.

Children attending the parish school, St John the Baptist, receive religious education throughout their school experience. Running alongside this is sacramental preparation in the parish involving both children and parents in primary three, four and seven. Parents are expected to attend a parish meeting and enrol their child for the appropriate sacrament. This pre-sacramental preparation is vital in helping parents to recognise and assume their responsibility with regard to handing on their Catholic faith to their children. 

First Confession: Thursday 11th April 2019 at 1.00pm

Confirmation: Friday 29th March 2019 at 11.00am

First Holy Communion: Saturday 18th May at  11.00am