This annual event takes place near the Feast of St Joseph the Worker and celebrates the valuable contribution migrants make to life in the Archdiocese of Southwark, the Diocese of Westminster and the Diocese of Brentwood.
Donations made to CAFOD's Sudan crisis appeal will go towards supporting families in Sudan and surrounding countries, who are already contending with extreme hunger, as communities strive to stop the crisis becoming the worst in living memory.
Please pray for the respose of the soul of Fr George Towler who died on 4 April at Frimley Park Hospital near Ascot. Fr Towler was born on 3 September 1937 at Romford. He grew up in Holy Family Parish, Dagenham was educated for the priesthood at Wonersh and ordained on 16 June 1962 by
Bishop Paul Swarbrick, the Bishops’ Conference’s Lead Bishop for Africa, and Bishop Nick Baines, the Church of England’s Lead Bishop for Foreign Affairs, have issued a joint statement on the conflict in Sudan, saying the war is “a forgotten conflict with no winners”. The full statement is below: It is over one year since the
Pope Francis, has appointed Rev David Waller, parish priest at Christ the King, Chingford, as the next Ordinary and the first Bishop Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Fr Mark Swires, the Vocations Promoter in our diocese, has written to all parishes ahead of Good Shepherd Sunday (21 April) to ask them to pray for vocations and for those currently training for the priesthood. Good Shepherd Sunday is also known as the World Day of Prayer for Vocations – and second collections on
