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Maundy Thursday Short Service

Fr Zbigniew shares the Gospel and his homily in this intimate service with the community.

Easter Triduum Online Services

An update on the services we will be streaming over the Easter Triduum.

While we will not be bringing you the main Easter Triduum services, you will be able to join us for a short service at 6pm on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Please tune in at http://www.stfrancisdesales.org.uk/mass-live.

Palm Sunday

We successfully streamed Palm Sunday mass, with readers, music and no major technical hiccups this week. If you missed it, you can catch up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Z-jh5ujec

Thank you everyone who has helped out with this including the readers, musicians and cameraman. Particular thanks to Fr Zbigniew for continuing to celebrate mass with us, despite no being able to see or hear us.

Mass Live with Readers

We were able to bring you mass live again today with readers joining us from St Francis de Sales, Wash Common and Our Lady of Lourdes, Hungerford, along with some music as well. Thank you all those who participated and made it possible.

We did unfortunately have some technical issues at the time of the offertory, and this ended up generating a second video on Youtube with a different link. We will be further testing and investigating our system this week to hopefully improve for next week.

Mass Live Success

Over 200 people joined us for our first ever live streamed mass. Thank you for joining us. We hope we will make improvements to the system going forward. Any feedback on the experience, please send it to webmaster@stfrancisdesales.org.uk.

If you missed the live stream for Sunday 22nd March, here's the link to the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEgxBoCeDYs

Sunday Mass Online

Please note, there are no public services at St Francis de Sales until further notice. This is due to the developing situation with COVID-19.

We would like to invite you to join us ONLINE for Sunday Mass which will be streamed live via our website. We intend to start at 10 am on Sunday, and you will be able to tune in at http://www.stfrancisdesales.org.uk/mass-live.

We hope you will join our parish celebration.

COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

In light of the advice from Bishop Philip, we are to act as if we are in “stage 2” of the advice given by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference.

Guild of St Stephen Medal Ceremony 2020

Last Sunday, we presented 3 of our young servers with their Bronze Guild of St Stephen medals, having each served a year. Congratulations to all of them. Please keep them in your prayers.

Annual Parish Meeting 24th November 2019

The Annual Parish Meeting was well attended on 24th November 2019. These are the draft minutes awaiting approval at the next Annual Meeting.

Merry Christmas Everyone

We wish everyone a very happy, peaceful and enjoyable Christmas. Please note the service times here: http://www.stfrancisdesales.org.uk/church-info/service-times

PPC Meeting 17th September 2019

On 17th September, the first Parish Pastoral Council meeting joining the parishes of St Francis de Sale and Our Lady of Lourdes took place. Please find attached the minutes of this combined/overarching PPC meeting.

Welcome Fr Zbigniew

The parish is pleased to welcome Fr Zbigniew Budyn as our new Parish Priest. As part of his appointment at St Francis de Sales, Fr Zbigniew will also be looking after Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Hungerford. Please note that going forward, Sunday mass times will be:

9am at Our Lady of Lourdes and
11am at St Francis de Sales.

Please keep Fr Zbigniew Budyn in your prayers, especially in his first few weeks.

Farewell Fr Bruce

On Sunday, we said farewell to Fr Bruce who has been with us since 2015. The parish got together for a BBQ followed by some amazing cakes and many desserts.

Fr Bruce leaves us to go to the parish in Guernsey. We all wish him the very best.

BBQ and Music

Last Sunday we enjoyed an afternoon of music by various members of the parish and guests. There was a wide array of performances including piano, guitar, flute, trombone, cello, trumpet and singing. All enjoyed with burger and sausage from the BBQ.

First Holy Communion

Congratulations to this year's First Holy Communion group. We had good weather for the special day and a lively service. Thank you everyone who helped make the day go smoothly.