FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER, 3RD OF MAY 2026

We continue to have many unassigned masses in the coming weeks - this is a beautiful way to pray for your loved ones, living or deceased. If you would like to request a Mass intention, please speak to me or contact the Parish office.

Confessions

Thursday from 7:10 – 7:25 pm and on Saturday from 10:15 to 10:45 am and from

4:30 – 4:50 pm.

Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Our Annual Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help will be held from 25th May to 3rd June 2026, as we gather for nine days of prayer, reflection, and devotion under her loving care.

We look forward to welcoming Fr. Seamus Devitt, CSsR, who will guide and accompany us throughout the Novena.

As part of the Novena, a Special Mass for the Sick and Housebound will be celebrated on Saturday 30th May 2026 at 10:30 AM.

We warmly encourage everyone to come along and to bring someone with them, so that all may share in this time of grace and prayer.

Birmingham Inner City Roman Catholic Mission.

A meeting was held at Cathedral House on Thursday 30th April, and present were the priests representing the nine parishes, bishop David Evans, the Dean, Rev. Gary Buckby, Mr Eric Kirwin, Chief Operating Officer for the archdiocese. The purpose of the meeting was to look at how the nine parishes could best work together to provide pastoral/religious/spiritual care across the inner-city region and to look at what changes/alterations to current working practices/provision of services might be required soon.

The template for our discussions is a booklet, published by the Catholic Truth Society, CTS, called

“The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community in the service of the Evangelising Mission of the Church.”

Cover price, £5.95. available from www.ctsbooks.org   or from the Cathedral bookshop or by typing in the title to a search engine you can download a copy to read or print off. Our reason for mentioning this is that people have the right to be informed and the duty to inform themselves, so there should be no surprises when change eventually comes about, which will be sooner rather than later.

DDL Sisters’ Raffle Fundraiser

The Daughters of Divine Love (DDL) Sisters will visit our parish on Sunday,10th May to sell raffle tickets in support of their 2026 fundraising initiative.

Proceeds will support their charitable works and care for elderly Sisters.

Parishioners are encouraged to support this cause by purchasing tickets and keeping the sisters in prayer.

Thank you for your support.

Gift Aid Envelopes

Parishioners who have completed a Gift Aid form are kindly informed that their Gift Aid envelopes are available for collection from today. A member of the Finance Committee will be available in the church porch to distribute them.

Come Pray the Rosary with us

We invite everyone to join us in praying the Holy Rosary on Thursdays at 7:00pm before the Novena Mass, and on Saturdays at 10:30am before the morning Mass.

Let us use this opportunity to honour Our Lady and seek her intercession for more vocations, and for peace within our families and throughout the world.

Citizens UK Birmingham

Holds their surgery in our Parish on the second Sunday of every month at 10:30am -11:30 in the ‘Fallon Room’. They offer free and confidential advice on housing, benefits, employment and public services.

Tap to Give

Our card payment machine in the porch of the Church is now working. You can now make your offering or donation by tapping your card before or after the Mass. Its quick, secure, and easy to use. Your generosity helps our Parish community to grow and serve. Thank you for your kindness and support.

Piety stall

Please remember to visit the Piety stall for any special religious items for yourselves, family members or for your home.

200 Club

Membership is still available at £60. Call the Parish office to get yours and be eligible to win in the remaining draws.

Safeguarding

The Parish operates in accordance with Statutory Safeguarding Guidance and the National and Archdiocese's policies & procedures at all times. Our Parish Safeguarding Representative and email address is noted in the header of the newsletter. They can be contacted or alternatively the Diocesan Safeguarding team can be contacted on 01212306240 or if you have any concern.

(Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi)

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

The Parish is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham Charity Number 234216

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