What’s On

Our Parish Eucharist is on Sundays at 10:30am. Our worship is in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, centred on the Mass (Holy Communion) where we encounter Jesus in the sacrament of the altar.

AUGUST AT ST MARY’S

Sunday 30 AugustWeek 22 in Ordinary Time: Thirteenth After Trinity
Parish Eucharist by Extension 10.30 am
Monday 31 AugustWalsingham Pilgrimage of Healing and Renewal
No service at St Mary’s
Wednesday 2 SeptemberEucharist 9.30 am
Thursday 3 SeptemberEucharist 7 pm
Followed by PCC Meeting
Saturday 5 SeptemberEucharist 9.30 am
Followed by Open Morning
Sunday 6 SeptemberCREATION IN CHRIST
Parish Eucharist 10.30 am

Walsingham Pilgrimage of Healing and Renewal: Bank Holiday Monday 31 August

Departure Times:St Mary Willesden 07:00, St Andrew’s Kingsbury 07:15, St Mary the Virgin Kenton 07:30, St Lawrence Little Stanmore 07.45

Fr Dumaeza will be back with us from this Tuesday 1 September!

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PCC Meeting:  Thursday 3 September following 7 pm Eucharist

CREATION IN CHRIST: Sunday 6 September

The Church of England, in companionship with many other churches, will be celebrating the Festival of Creation in Christ on the first Sunday in September, recognising that all things were made through Christ and are held together in Him, moving beyond general environmentalism into core Christian worship.

The monthly Open Morning with cake stall and raffle will resume on Saturday 5 September.

Sunday School is on holiday until September.

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MORE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Monday 31 August
Bank Holiday Monday
Day Pilgrimage to Walsingham for Service of Healing and Renewal
Saturday 5 SeptemberOpen Morning
Sunday 6 SeptemberCreation in Christ
Monday 14 SeptemberHoly Cross

IN OUR PRAYER THIS WEEK

Our new vicar: Fr Dumaeza, and his family

The Sick: Merle, Angela, Elsie, Joe, Debbie, Donovan, Antonia, Denise, Costella, Michael, Fr David, Grace, Sophie, Awura

Anniversaries of Death: Harold Nathaniel Ramdin, Minnie Elsie May Points

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CONTACTS

Churchwarden: Stephen Halliwell:  020 8459 1175, 07720 401489

Safeguarding Officer:  Lucky Enekeme: Safeguarding.shrineofmary@gmail.com

Website:  shrineofmary.org

Email:  shrineofmary@gmail.com

DONATIONS TO ST MARY’S THROUGH EASYFUNDRAISING

Supporting St Mary’s when you shop online: easyfundraising.org.uk/cause/stmaryswillesden/

If you do any online shopping, over 8,000 retailers will donate for FREE to St Mary’s Willesden – London when you use easyfundraising to shop with them. This means you can raise donations for us when you buy pretty much anything! These donations really help us, and all you have to do is use easyfundraising when you’re ordering the things you’ll be buying anyway.

Online sites including eBay, Amazon, John Lewis, Etsy, Argos, M&S, B&Q, Booking.com donate varying percentages, often only pennies but it all adds up.

Waitrose donates £1 for every grocery order, Sainsbury’s about 50p.

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Baptisms, Weddings or Funerals at St Mary’s

If you are interested in arranging a Baptism (Christening), Wedding, or Funeral at St Mary’s, please contact one of our Churchwardens: Stephen Halliwell (020 8459 1175) or Kathy Watters (07527 540779) for more details.

Safeguarding: St Mary’s Safeguarding Officer: Lucky Enekeme: safeguarding@shrineofmary@gmail.com

We have an information leaflet about baptism which you can download.