Parish News & Events

Dear Dad!
You may have already heard me refer to it, or seen something about it in the newsletter, but I want to invite you personally to the “Day for Dads”.  This is for fathers of children who are still at school or who haven’t even started yet.
It will be held at Allen Hall Seminary 28 [...]

Dear Engaged Couple,
The next Pre-Marriage Course ifor engaged couples will be in May 2010  .
 It is one course over 3 week nights.  It will run from 7 to 9pm on Monday 17th, Friday 21st and Monday 24th May 2010 in the Holy Apostles Parish Hall, at 47 Cumberland Street, Pimlico, London  SW1V 4LY.
Do contact me [...]

Safe & Sound

Safeguarding Service
The Safeguarding Coordinator and the Safeguarding Adviser are responsible for the planning and monitoring of all aspects of vulnerable groups work within the Diocese, with the exception of schools.  This involves responding to any allegations past or present, of inappropriate behaviour or actual abuse of children or vulnerable adults by any person working for [...]

What it means for me...

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 went in [...]

Live Love Laugh

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, and [...]

Recently, I attended a day retreat, “Knocking on the Door”, advertised as a Day of Prayer and Creativity with Sr. Sheila Gosney rjm, out in Wapping. I’m no great artist and had never been to Wapping, so a day of spiritual finger-painting sounded interesting and really appealing. Sr. Sheila is a treat not to be [...]

Have you seen the new Parish Classified on our website? It’s a great way to advertise what you do, things to sell or even what you want. I’m going to try selling a few things there instead of e-bay–just to test the waters. By the way, anybody have a sofa bed or umbrella stand they’d [...]

St. Vincent de Paul Society

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 year ago Melvin [...]

Pimlico part of our history

 
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.