Austen Ivereigh and Linda Mansfield married in Holy Apostles on 24th July.
Anthony Osunde and Violet Tallen married in Holy Apostles on 3rd July.

Saturday 24th April @ 7pm in the church hall. Tickets £10 includes “Bangers and Mash” Fundraising for Father Thomas Come and celebrate St George’s day with a great fun sing-a-long to celebrate our national saint! “one man band” will be performing George Formby, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and some great Cockney Music Hall ditties Contact [...]

This past Sunday, 11 April 2010, we honoured Joyce Wright the 15+ years on Parish Council and for over 2 decades of service to our community. The chair of Parish Pastoral Council, Alan Boyd, presented the award at the end of the 10:30 am mass. His tribute was beautiful, as was the gorgeous orchid and [...]

It was brought home to me  especially last year when my husband died and there was a funeral to arrange.   It is not something one does every day.   However with Father Pat’s help  I chose the readings  and the hymns to be  used with the familiar and disciplined ritual of the Requiem Mass.    His expert [...]

How God has blessed Africa? As an African myself I believe that we have been blessed by God in the very beginning. Before our ancestors realised that the Holy Spirit was really in place, God has used the Roman Catholic Church to spread his word across the African continent very early even before other faiths [...]

Looking out my office window, I can see the steady stream of people going into our Church Hall to vote. It’s been that way since early morning. I hope that means in our ward, immediate neighbourhood at least, the turnout has been good. I’m also pleased that Holy Apostles is an active agent in the [...]

Hi Everyone. We are about mid Lent, and a good time to access how we are doing with our Lenten resolves-has chocolate crept back in or the occasional pint quietly slid down? It is so often the case and of course, we forgive ourselves as we aim to fortify our will power. But Lent isn’t [...]

This morning I received this lovely picture from my son, Andy, who is stationed in Alaska. His family is getting involved in a variety of winter activities, including ice fishing, ice skating, skiing and photography. They are not overly religious, and yet their picture captures the “heart” of the season. They moved to Alaska last July, [...]

September is SVP Awareness Month and the theme this year is “Changing lives for the better” with the focus on those people whose lives have been positively impacted and helped in different capacities by the work of the SVP.   One such example is the story of Melvin (name changed to protect anonymity): ” A [...]

Sister Louise Mace was our Parish Sister from 1944 to her retirement at the age of 76 in 1967. This article tells the story of the Plaque and Relief Sculpture, which was erected in her name by her relatives and friends. Read the full story here.

  When Mass is said you hear the gentle dong of the Sanctuary bell. One of the alter servers has pushed the bell push on the alter steps and this rings the bell in the tower….[continue reading the pdf]    

In our Stations of the Cross we have a fine example of hand carved stone sculpture executed by Philip Lindsey Clark. Clark was born in London, this father being the sculptor Robert Lindsey Clark. He studied from 1905 to 1910 at Cheltenham and then, 1910 to 1914 at the City & Guild School in Kensington.

In World War I he joined the army in the 28th London Regiment, and was later commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment as a Captain. Her was awarded the D.S.O. the 1915 Star and the British & Victory Medal. It is believed he was “mentioned in dispatches”

On leaving the army he continued his studies at the Royal Academy School, and later received many commissions for war memorials and ecclesiastical works.

Welcome to the healing prayer circle. This is a new initiative and details will follow shortly.