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Latest newsletters and Mass Information Sheets

- 2 November 2025, All Saints (C)

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Save the Date(s):

- Induction Ceremony of Canon Liam: Sat 15 Nov at 6.00pm followed by Reception in the Hall. All welcome!
- Parish Christmas Fair: Sat 22 Nov, 11am-3pm.
- Seniors’ Christmas Lunch: Sun 7 Dec at 2pm in the Hall.

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CHRISTMAS FAIR

DONATIONS NEEDED: The Fair is the only fundraising event we run for our parish & is also a fabulous, friendly, popular community event! We rely entirely on your kind donations for our lovely stalls. Each week leading up to the Fair we will be asking for specific donations to be brought in the following weekend.

Next weekend of 8/9 Nov we are asking for you to please bring in donations of CHOCOLATES. These will be for the very popular Chocolate Tombola. We need boxes, bags, tubes etc of chocolates. Please do make sure items are in date! There will be labelled boxes at the back of the church for your donations.

We still need more volunteers, so if you were not able to make the Fair Planning Meeting but would be interested in knowing more or helping out in some way, please email Sharon - see newsletter for details. Thank you!

TREE OF PROMISES: Our most popular, highest earning stall. Info sheets will be given out this weekend or pick up from the newsletter tables. Please consider making a ‘promise’ and, if you or a member of your family know of a business you feel able to ask to donate a voucher/product or other service, such as any children’s extracurricular activity, please do pick up more of the leaflets to distribute.

GRAND CHRISTMAS DRAW: The main prizes will be £250, £100 & £50 Tickets will be on sale after masses or just pick up book(s) from the table at the back of the church and return completed stubs with cash in an envelope – at weekend masses to the BLACK BOX . Alternatively, you can pay via the card machines. Tickets cost £1 each & £5 for a book. It would be great if each family in the Parish could buy at least one book.

CHRISTMAS TREES: Green order forms are at the back of the church for high quality trees at great prices. For a small fee they can be delivered to your home. Please do order from us! Payment can also be made via the card machines.

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Induction Mass of Canon Liam

A SPECIAL INVITATION: We really hope you will be coming to the Induction Mass of Canon Liam at 6pm on Saturday 15th November. This is the official ceremony when Canon Gerard Bradley, The Episcopal Vicar for South West, will present Canon Liam to us as our new Parish Priest. During the ceremony, Canon Liam kneels before the Altar and prays the Creed, is presented with keys of the Church and led to the Presidential Chair. Members of Canon Liam’s family will be joining us as well as people from his previous parish of Maidstone. We want to give them a classic Christ the King Welcome. So, let us worship together in good number and party on like we’ve never partied before.

We also want to get the word out there about our new Parish Priest and this great celebration that’s going to take place. There are a number of cards at the back of the Church titled ‘A Special Invitation’. We ask you please to take some and post them through letterboxes around your neighbourhood. It would be especially good if you could drop them through anybody you know who is Catholic but not attending Christ the King. We would love to see them here.

RSVP SHEETS FOR THE INDUCTION: Would all parishioners of CTK who plan to attend the Induction & Reception please either complete a response form, available from the newsletter table, & pop it in the black box, or sign up on the sheet provided. This will help us with the catering. We are asking for contributions of finger food so please can you indicate on the same sheet if you will be bringing something for that.

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From the newsletter:

HELP LORD THE SOULS: Please note that there will be Mass celebrated this Mon 3 November at 9.30am. As the feast of All Souls, which is traditionally celebrated on 2 November, fell on a Sunday this year, it was celebrated as the feast of All Saints. Therefore, All Souls has been transferred this year to Mon 3 Nov. During the Mass of All Souls we shall especially remember those whose funerals have been celebrated at Christ the King during the past twelve months and light a candle as each of their names are read out. May they rest in peace and rise in glory.

NOVEMBER is the month of the Holy Souls. Please take the opportunity of writing the names of loved ones who have died in the special book in the Lady Chapel. They will be prayed for.

REMBEMBRANCE SUNDAY – Next Sunday 9 November is Remembrance Sunday. The 10.30am Mass will be a Requiem Mass for those who have died in the two World Wars.

SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND will be for THE ARCHBISHOP’S APPEAL which funds three key mission areas: Youth and Evangelization, Our Faith in Action and Clergy Care & Formation.

BLESSING OF THE GRAVES: There will be a Ceremony of the Graves at Garth Road Cemetery on Sunday 9 Nov at 2.30pm. The clergy and people of Merton Deanery will be attending. All, of course, are welcome to attend in praying for all who have died but we especially invite anybody who has a family member or friend laid to rest at the cemetery. May they rest in peace and rise in glory.

CALLING ALL WHO ARE AGED 13-21: The Feast of Christ the King, which this year is Sunday 23 Nov, is celebrated around the world as Youth Sunday. We would like to dedicate the Sunday 10.30am Mass that day for our young people, so if you are between the ages of 13-21 and would like to participate in the Mass in any way, please let Canon Liam know. We are looking for readers, welcomers, collectors, offertory carriers, servers, singers, musicians or anything that you feel you could assist with.

VISITING: Canon Liam is very excited to get to know the people of the parish and is very much looking forward to visiting your homes. He would be especially grateful if you were prepared to invite him for Sunday Lunch. Just contact him via his email and he will gladly get back to you to arrange a date. Canon Liam does not want to come across fussy but he cannot eat spicy food. He is most grateful for your kindness.

ARE YOU A NON-CATHOLIC but interested in finding out more about the faith or even considering becoming a Catholic? Please see Canon Liam after mass who would be delighted to speak to you.

SCHOOL INFORMATION FORMS 2025/26: Catholic Schools require completion of a Certificate of Catholic Practice (which needs to be downloaded from the Archdiocese of Southwark website & your section completed before submitting to Canon Liam). The parish priest is only permitted to confirm/comment on regular (weekly) attendance of the candidate, not of the parent(s). Unlike other local churches we do not use a register or ticket system to check regular attendance.
Before submitting the Certificate(s) we ask parents to please pick up a (yellow) Parish School Information Form – available from the parish priest at masses. One form should be completed for each applicant and returned to the parish office. Thank you.

ARE YOU ON OUR PARISH EMAIL LIST? There are 335 parishioners (current and former) on our list. Do you receive our weekly emails? If not, would you like to be added to our list? If so, please send a brief email to the parish office on: wimbledonpark@rcaos.org.uk and you will be added. Keep up to date with our news and also receive that week's newsletter & mass sheet. Useful when ill or away on hols etc...

POST 10.30AM TEA, COFFEE & CONVERSATION IN HALL: All are invited to come and have a cup of coffee/tea, biscuits and a chat. VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO SERVE THE DRINKS - Sign-up sheets are on the notice board in the hall kitchen. So please do sign up if you want this to continue - Thanks!

CATECHETICAL INSTITUTE: Thanks to the donors to the Archbishop's Appeal, every parish, (and all the people in our parishes and schools), has access to 160 workshops via https://franciscanathome.com/southwark. If interested please register for a free account and browse and learn at your leisure. The free access ends on 30 September 2025.

MOTHERS' PRAYERS: Join us in The Lady Chapel to pray for children every Thursday, (during term time), from 7-7.30pm in the Church. Any queries please contact Anne-Marie Craven or Isabela De Abreu: mothersprayersctk@yahoo.com

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PARISH APPEALS: Our parish receives many calls for its support and over the last few years concerns have been raised about the frequency and nature of these requests. These may be for financial contributions, participation in fundraisers or simply to raise awareness of an event or cause. For more info on this please view the (pink) notice on the noticeboard in the church lobby, or donwload here.

PARISH COUNCIL (PC) – WHAT DOES IT DO? Please view the (green) notice explaining the role of the PC which is posted on the noticeboard in the church lobby, and is also on our website, our Facebook & WhatsApp groups. Also 'What we have done in the last year.'

NEW PARISHIONERS: Welcome. Please take a Parish Directory Leaflet (light. blue). Please also complete Parish Registration & Gift Aid Form at church entrance. & return to the Presbytery Letterbox at 9 Crescent Gardens.

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Volunteering opportunities at Christ the King

VOLUNTEERINGJust because it seems the same people always do certain jobs in the church does not mean that we do not need MORE volunteers. Please do not be shy to ask e.g. READERS, SERVERS, FLORISTS, COLLECTOTRS etc.

MUSIC AT MASS: We have a rota of guitarists and pianists who accompany the sung prayers and hymns at our Sunday 10.30am mass and at major feast days. They, along with a small group of singers, help lead the congregational singing. We know from congregational feedback that this is strongly valued, but we are very reliant on a small group of people. More accompanists, and in particular more singers, are needed to ensure the sustainability of music at Christ the King. If you are interested, please do come and speak to us after 10.30 mass in the Lady Chapel or contact Clare Collins via the Parish Office.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AT CTK: Are you in Yr 9+ and looking for a volunteering opportunity? Perhaps you just are starting on your Duke of Edinburgh award? How about volunteering at CTK? There is a variety of opportunities - if you would like to learn more please contact Simon, introduce yourself to him at the 10.30 mass or via the Parish Office.

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UPDATE ON PROJECTS IN OUR TWIN PARISH

(FROM FR ED): In San Benito township on the northern side of Lima, we continue with the homework, reading and therapy clubs, the participation of the Children and Adolescents' organisations in raising their voices at local council level and undertaking surveys of adolescents’ opinions, regarding their needs, which they then feed into the municipal, education and health authorities, so as to impact their annual plans of action. What is new is that each adolescent has been challenged to work on their own personal life project, to give them support as they discern possible work opportunities and/or further studies after secondary school, be that technical or university. This includes continued socio-emotional skilling and accompanying the adolescent with the preparation of their CVs.
In the remote villages in the Province of Paucar del Sara Sara, Ayacucho, the Warmi Huasi team in coordination with the local education authorities, have selected 4 new rural schools in which to run a reading comprehension program, providing a box of reading books, mixture of Spanish and Quechua, and a methodology for the teachers (whereby the children write a brief summary of the book read and write a short story themselves) to maximise the comprehension process. As an incentive, at the end of the year, those schools that show interest, will the following year have a full reading club program, with more books. Altogether, we are now working in 7 primary schools, including socio-emotional skilling for students and parents, and in 3 secondary schools with the personal life project.
A short video that the Warmi Huasi team made on the project "Participation" with the background story of 4 of key adolescents: All four help out with the children and are key players in their communities. That is why I call them “agents of change”, as they are role models for the younger ones and also the activities they organize improve the lives of children and adolescents and that of their communities. I hope you enjoy it. It is in YouTube format. Just click on the link: https://youtu.be/Z876vKaSW9o?si=wtQqiTqsj4gw2UA8.

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IMPORTANT: If you have a loved one go into hospital, please let the CATHOLIC chaplain know.

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