Ongoing Offertory - Thank you for your generosity.
Anyone wishing to set up a new Standing Order Mandate or Gift-Aid Declaration, should contact the parish office. You can make a DONATION any time you like.
These are challenging times, financially, and in many other ways. However if it is appropriate for you, please consider making your regular Offertory gift by STANDING ORDER. If you need to reduce your Standing Order, please do so. Either way, a reliable income from your Offertory, however small, will give the Parish, the confidence to plan.
If you are a UK taxpayer, you have the option of adding Gift-Aid, whereby the UK Government adds a further 25% to your donation.
If you are used to internet banking, set up a Standing Order via your own bank's website.
Sunday 11th January Sick and Retired Priests
Sunday 15th February Review of Parish Finances
Sunday 1st March CAFOD (Lent Fast Day) *
Friday 3rd April Holy Places of Palestine
Sunday 26th April Clergy Formation Fund
Sunday 17th May Catholic Communications
Sunday 21st June Day for Life
Sunday 28th June Peter’s Pence
Sunday 12th July Stella Maris (Sea Sunday)
Sunday 13th September Catholic Education Service *
Sunday 20th September Home Mission Sunday
Sunday 4th October CAFOD (Harvest Fast Day) *
Sunday 12th October PACT (Prisoners’ Sunday) *
Sunday 18th October Missio (World Mission Sunday)
Sunday 1st November Diocesan Hospices
Sunday 6th December Poor and Needy Parishes
Sunday 10th January Sick and Retired Priests
Sunday 24th January Racial Justice Sunday
Sunday 7th February Review of Parish Finances
Lent Station Mass Bishop’s Charitable Purposes
Sunday 21st February CAFOD (Lent Fast Day)
Friday 26th March Holy Places of Palestine
[Instruction: Congregation for the Clergy] The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community (in the Service of Evangelising Mission of the Church)
101. The administration of goods which every Parish has to some extent is an important area of evangelisation and evangelical witness, both in the Church and in civil society, ... is necessary that [the Parish Priest] be assisted by collaborators to administer the goods of the Church above all with evangelising zeal and a missionary spirit.
102. For this reason, in every Parish a Finance Council must be constituted as a consultative body, presided over by the Parish Priest and formed of at least three other faithful ... The members of this Council, not necessarily belonging to the Parish itself, must be of proven good reputation, and expert in financial and legal questions, so as to render an effective and competent service, in such a way that the Council is not established as a mere formality.
106. The finance Council fulfills a role of particular importance in the growth, at the level of Parish community, of a culture of co-responsibility, of administrative transparency, and of service to the needs of the Church. in a particular way, transparency should not be understood as a mere formal presentation of statistics, but more as information that is the community's due, and an advantageous opportunity for its formative involvement . Transparency refers to a modud agendi, indispensable for the credibility of the Church, especially where there are significant goods to administer.