Bishop Bosco and the Clifton Diocese warmly invite you to embark on a pilgrimage to visit the churches where the specially commissioned icon — celebrating the Jubilee Year 2025, Pilgrims of Hope — will be displayed next.

• 1st -2nd May: St Nicholas of Tolentino, Bristol

• 3rd May: Encounter 2025 event

• 4th-6th May: Holy Rood, Swindon

• 7th-9th May: The Shrine of Our Lady of Glastonbury

We are running a new six-week formation course at St John the Evangelist, Bath, for new catechists and anyone who is interested in learning more about their faith & passing it onto others.
The sessions will take place on Thursday evenings (7:00pm – 9:00pm), starting on 1st May. We will have refreshments from 6.30pm. Series dates are 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th May & 5th June.
adult.education@cliftondiocese.com   /   catechistsbath.eventbrite.co.uk

The date for First Holy Communion 2025 is on Saturday 10th May 2025 at 11:00am and Sunday 11th May at 2pm.
The next preparation session will be on Saturday 3rd May 2025 from 10:00am to 11:00am.

The date for the Sacrament of Confirmation is on Tuesday 20th May 2025 at 7:00pm
The next preparation session will on Tuesday 6th May 2025 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
The preparation programme is on the parish notice board.

Gift Aid Envelopes for the 2025-2026 tax year are now available in the parish porch. All the tax payers are kindly requested to make use of the tax benefit.

250 Club renewal forms for the Year 2025-2026 are now available in the parish porch. Thanks to all who subscribed last time and we encourage you to renew for the new year and welcome new members at this time (application form on the 250 Club page).
Thank you for your continuous support.

A warm invitation to all the vibrant youth of our parish to join the Holy Family youth group. Those who are interested please contact the parish office.

Thursday social group meet fortnightly from 2:00pm to 3:15pm in the convent. All are welcome to meet old friends and make new ones over a cuppa and chat.
Next meeting is on 15th May 2025.

A very big thank you to all the volunteers in our parish community. We  cannot thank you enough for the gift of your time and talents. However, we are mindful that our parish priest and the entire pastoral team have the duty of care over our staff and over those who volunteer to support us in any way. We have carefully discerned that some are beginning to be burdened by their voluntary services. Recently, we have received a good number of brilliant recommendations in the suggestion box; part of it being the need to make some changes and to relieve some volunteers of their duties. Therefore, without prejudice to the excellent services of our volunteers, we invite anyone who wish to be relieved of their duties in the parish, especially those in the finance and pastoral committees of the parish to inform our parish priest as soon as possible. We do hope that any decision taken in this regard will rightly be understood as having been carefully made with prayer and discernment.

Good news! We have now a card payment system after a lot of demands by parishioners who are cashless donors. This will be going to our hall building. Please, support this important project through this donation. Thank you.

This is an important message to families in our parish, concerning any sick and housebound that needs the parish priest for visit and for the sacrament of the sick. Please call the parish office or send us email as soon as possible. It is better not left till the last minute.

In view of the plan to build the Holy Family Church Hall, the finance committee members have decided that donations to the church will henceforth be directed to the church hall funding, except the donor advises otherwise. Thank you for every support so far.