Parish Profile
Holy Apostles’ Parish Profile is a quick reference guide to ministries and programmes that are available in our parish community. A contact person(s) is provided for your convenience. Many of the ministries and programmes also make a commitment comment, giving you a good idea of the involvement time each one requires.
Check us out! If you see something that appeals to you, please do give them a call.
Parish Profile
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| Ascent Group
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The Ascent Movement is an International Christian Organisation for lay people in their middle and late years (50+).It’s intention and purpose is to help members grow in their spiritual life; to foster friendships and to encourage members to take their full part, as best they can, in the church and civil life.The Group in this Parish is linked to The NATIONAL ASCENT PLANNING TEAM.Commitment: We meet on the 1st Tuesday monthly for about 75 minutes. |
Contact: Sr. Louise 020 7222 6485 or Angela Hickey 020 7834 1418 |
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Altar servers |
Children can join after their First Holy Communion. A great way to start involvement in the community. Boys and girls welcome.Commitment: Children help on a regular monthly rota. |
Contact: Fr Pat Browne 0207 834 6965 or Andrew Hannon 07523 115 659 |
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Ambulance |
The “ambulance” is the parish minibus that brings our elderly people and those with disabilities to Mass on Saturday night and Sunday morning. We always need drivers and helpers, who are given full training. The ambulance provides an important link between the generations in the parish and is a great source of historical anecdotes.Commitment: A driver and 1-2 helpers go out with each ambulance, roughly on a six-week rota. The ambulance starts about 70 minutes before mass and finishes 30 minutes after mass. |
Contact: Joyce Wright 07951900380 or Jane Williams 07704904655
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Children’s Liturgy |
During the 10.30 Mass young children have their own liturgy which follows the readings of the week and introduces them in an engaging and fun way to the Catholic faith. If you’re new to the parish, it is a good opportunity to meet other parents with children of the same age.Commitment: To present a short liturgical session to the children, based on the readings and Gospel of that Sunday. Eight to twelve week rot. There is training and opportunity to meet other liturgists. Time per session is approx. 20 minutes. |
Contact: Lilian Peter 07984 160 967 020 7834 1068 or Joyce Wright 07951 900380 |
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Folk Group (Choir) |
Want to help lead the singing at the 10.30 Family Mass on Sundays? We welcome all enthusiastic singers and musicians.Rehearsals take place every Friday at 7.30 pm.Commitment: You’ll be very welcome as often as you can make it! Rehearsals on Friday nights fir an hour or so. |
Contact: Fr Pat 02078346965 & Tom Au 07957 838421 tom@aumail.org |
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Church cleaners |
Come and help clean the church on Saturday morning as a preparation for the celebration of weekly Mass. No experience needed – just lots of enthusiasm and elbow grease.Commitment: Regular on a 4 week rota basis. |
Contact: Maura Costello 0207-834 9670 or Anne Castle 07814 926 473 |
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Confirmation |
If you’re over 14, you’ll find a lively and enthusiastic group of young Christians discovering how to grow in their faith. The candidates explore and discuss contemporary spiritual issues pertinent to today’s ChristiansCommitment: Six-week course runs all day Saturdays, including two weekend retreats. Full participation is mandatory. |
Contact: Fr Pat Browne 020 7834 6965 or JudyAnn Masters 07944 490072
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Drama Group |
Fancy strutting your stuff on the stage? The drama group was founded in 1987 and presents two or three productions a year in a wide variety of styles from variety and pantomime to adaptations of famous dramas and Passion plays. There’s a part for everyone, however big or small your talent – on stage, backstage or front of house.Commitment: Full on when the productions are under way. |
Contact: Eileen Sheedy 020 7834 8053 or Colin Lavender 020 7821 0062
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Eucharistic ministers |
Young adults upwards assist in the distribution of Holy Communion at Mass and to the sick of the parish. Full training given.Commitment: On a rota basis that varies from mass to mass. |
Contact: Pat Kehoe 0207 834 5150
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First Communion |
Our First Communion class is a contemporary course designed to engage young minds in the foundations of our Faith. Commitment: We have nine monthly sessions for both parents and children–that last for an hour. |
Contact: Fr. Pat 02078346965 or Mary Teresa Fardon 020 8337 8542 |
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Flower arranging |
Do you have a flair for flowers? Come and join the group that arranges the floral decoration of the church on the altar and through the nave.Commitment: An hour once a month on a rota. |
Contact: Freddie Maes 02078347529 & Perpetua Staples 02076031037 |
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Hospitality tea /coffee volunteers |
It’s fun to serving tea and coffee after 10.30 Mass on Sunday. A great informal way of getting to put names to faces in the parish.Commitment: Half an hour before Mass and an hour afterwards once a month on a rota basis. |
Contact: Joyce Wright 07951900380
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Internet Web Designer |
Do you know your way around a computer? Could you be part of our parish IT team, maintaining the website and keeping the database up to date?
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Contact: Manlio Trovato 020 7233 9783 |
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Kenya Project |
Want to make a difference in the developing world? Our parish is twinned with a parish in Turkana, in the north of Kenya. Apart from supporting them through regular contributions from the parish budget, we also raise funds through events such as wine tasting, quiz nights, dances etc to help them in the wide range of activities they undertake, from building dams, sinking wells and setting up nutrition centres to making peace with neighbouring tribes.Commitment: Monthly meetings and help with events.Website: http://www.projectturkana.org/ |
Contact: Katy Peters 020 7828 9600 & Rita Zemaitis team@projectturkana.org
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Liturgical Art |
We help to make the interior environment of the church a place that is welcoming to everyone and inspirational for prayer. We do anything from banners to lectern cloths to altar decorations. Use your artistic flair to help create a spiritual atmosphere for our community.Commitment: Decorating church interior for up to an hour on a Saturday at the change of the liturgical seasons-approximately 6 times a year.
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Contact: Helen Crowdey 020 7834 0139 and JudyAnn Masters 020 7630 5696 |
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Marriage Course |
Getting married in the next 12 months? Whether in the UK or abroad, you will need to do a pre-marriage course, run twice yearly. Check the weekly parish newsletter for the next course and for registration details.Commitment: Three weekly sessions, for two hours. |
Contact: Fr Pat 020 7834 6965 & Eric and Sophie Le Calvez 0209766909
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Meeters and Greeters |
Be the first smiling face to greet parishioners as they come through the doors for Mass. You’ll need to be able to answer all sorts of questions – everything from where the loos are, how to get a hymn book or who to speak to about a particular problem. Your duties include distribution of newsletters after Mass.Commitment : On a rota, approx. 20 or so minutes before and after mass. |
Contact: Monika Kettelhut 020 7233 5364 & Judith Larkin 07766 825 156 |
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Monday Club |
A regular weekly meeting place for the elderly of the parish who get together every Monday between 2 and 4 pm for tea, cakes, bingo and fun.Commitment: Help in setting up. |
Contact: Freddie Maes 020 7834 7529 &
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Open Door Meal |
Christianity in action and a joint ecumenical ministry with the Anglicans of St James the Less in Pimlico. Two Thursdays a month, volunteers prepare, serve and eat a hot meal with local homeless people. Many other sorts of help provided to the homeless during the evening, including haircuts, counselling, prayer groups. Come and butter bread, chop veg, wash up and meet other like-minded volunteers.Commitment: As often as you like, for as long as you like. |
Jerry Kearns 0773 304 7265 JKearns@cbi.com
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Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) |
Our Parish Priest works in partnership with our PPC as representative of and to develop pastoral direction for our parish community. Members are either elected, representatives of parish ministries/organisations or appointed by the parish priest.Commitment: Six meetings a year for approx. 90 minutes and often another project. |
Contact: Fr Pat Browne 020 7834 6965 or Alan Boyd (Chair) 020 7976 5226
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Parish Hall |
You can hire our Parish Hall, or one of it’s rooms, at a very reasonable price. Just contact Jan to find out availabilities. |
Contact: Jan Bidaud 020 7834 6965 or 07717 566 605
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Pimlico Playgroup |
The playgroup is open to anyone living in the locality of the parish community. Mums and toddlers meet each Tuesday morning from 10.15 to 12 noon for fun and frolics in the church hall.Commitment: Any regular help appreciated. |
Contact: Laura Evans Vogel 07984 142 82 58 laura@london-baby.com
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RCIA |
An adult group for those wishing to learn more about the Catholic faith – open to non-Catholics, lapsed Catholics – and to receive incomers into the Church.
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Contact: Fr. Pat 02078346965
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Readers |
We have a wide pool of readers who read at the weekday and Sunday Masses. If you have a clear, audible voice and would like to help with this important ministry – we need you! Commitment: Important that you show up for your turn prepared, about every six weeks. |
Contact: Radha Kearns 020 7834 3008
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Repository |
We offer a variety of reading material, religious items, rosaries, bibles, greeting cards, newspapers etc. for sale before weekend masses in the church porch.Commitment: Set-up 40 minutes before mass and selling for approx. 25 minutes after mass
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Contact: Angela Hickey 0207 834 1418 & Maura Costello 0207 834 9670 |
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Rosary Group |
We meet to say the rosary in the Lady Chapel after the 9:30 am Mass every weekday.Commitment: Saying the rosary takes approx. 15 minutes, and you are invited as often as you like. |
Contact: Anne Castle 07814 926 473 or Maura Costello 0207 834 9670 |
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Small Faith Groups |
The small faith groups meet twice yearly for six weeks usually in a member’s home for about an hour. We reflect on Scripture and discuss Christian practice in contemporary society, helped by a booklet prepared by the diocese. A great way to meet and get to know other parishioners.Commitment: An hour a week for six weeks, twice a year. |
Contact: JudyAnn Masters 020 7834 6965 079 444 900 72 or Austen Ivereigh 07905 224860 |
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Social Committee |
We do quiz nights, dances, dinners, BBQs and more. If you like to plan parties and social events, please come and join us.Commitment: Planning meetings and/or help on the day of the event. |
Contact: Eric Le Calvez 0209766909
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St Vincent de Paul Society |
The St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) befriends and visits people in need – the sick, lonely, prisoners and addicts. We meet once a fortnight on a Monday evening in the White Room.Commitment: Most members visit one or two people on a regular basis. Sr Louise is our spiritual director and visits all our housebound and sick elderly parishioners including those in hospital and in care homes |
Contact: Theresa Wyatt 07960 444 497 terry.wyatt9@btopenworld.com or Bernadette Duffy 020 7630 7157
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Union of Catholic Mothers |
A support group for Catholic mothers. Come along, have a cup of tea and meet new people with similar interests.Commitment: Monthly meetings. |
Nicol Dyness 0777 458 1159 |
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Youth Ministry |
This budding ministry is for teems above 14 yrs. We engage in a variety of fun, esteem building and bonding activities. Our group meets approximately every 2 weeks.Commitment: Core group leaders are with the teens approximately every two weeks. Others are welcome on a more casual basis. It can be a challenge, and also very rewarding! |
Cynthis Francis 07931 108 809 or Helen Crowdey 020 7834 0139 07952 184 105 |
