Weekly News Sheet

TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY12 – 19 October 2025
Sunday Readings : Year C : for the Divine OfficePsalter: IV
  
CHILDREN'S AREA with books and activities are in the south aisle. 
  
TODAY is our HARVEST FESTIVAL. Please place any tinned goods for our Food Bank  
in the container at the back of church. Thank you for your support. 
  
If you have an email address and are not receiving our updates, PLEASE 
give it to Ross or the Churchwardens so that you can be kept in contact with what is  
going on. If you or family members are able please visit our website for  
prayer resources and also follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Just 
search for All Saints Notting Hill. This way we can all keep in touch 
Please share news with others and have them get in touch 
  
If you wish to make a donation towards the continued mission of the church  
by standing order or bank transfer, please contact the Churchwardens or Ross. 
You can also donate £5 to the work of All Saints Notting Hill by texting  
ASNH to 70085 (£5 donation plus one standard message rate). The money 
will be then transferred directly to the All Saints bank account 
  
Parish WhatsApp Group: If you would like to join the group, please  
contact the churchwardens 
  
 
 
THIS WEEK:
  
  
Monday 13 October 
S Edward the Confessor 
 
 
Tuesday 14 October10 am Mass
S Callistus I, Pope & Martyr 
 
 
Wednesday 15 October 
S Teresa of Avila, Virgin & Doctor of the Church 
 
 
Thursday 16 October10 am Mass
S Hedwig, Religious 
S Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin 
S Richard Gwyn, Martyr 
 
 
Friday 17 October 
S Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop & Martyr 
 
 
Saturday 18 OctoberNo Mass
S LUKE, EVANGELIST 
 
 
SUNDAY 19 October10.30am Morning Prayer at All Saints
TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY11 am PARISH MASS
 11:30 am Tagalog Mass at S Michael's
 
 
  
ELECTORAL ROLL is being revised in full. Please complete a new application form if you wish to remain on the roll. 
  
ALL SAINTS & ALL SOULS: This year we have the blessing of these two Solemnities  
coming at a weekend, Saturday 01 & Sunday 02 November. This is a great opportunity  
for us to celebrate the life of All Saints' church. 
  
Our PATRONAL FESTIVAL will be marked with a HIGH MASS on Saturday  
01 November at 12 noon. This will be followed by refreshments, please help by  
contributing to these, and then at 4pm there will be VESPERS sung by the choir of All Saints' Catholic College. 
  
The PARISH MASS on Sunday 02 November will be offered as a REQUIEM FOR ALL SOULS.  
If you would like someone to be prayed for by name at the requiem, please write their name  
on the Chantry Lists available at the back of church over the next few Sundays.  
There is opportunity for you to purchase a 7– DAY CANDLE (£10 each) in memory of your 
loved one – this will be lit on All Souls Day. Please give the name and payment to Ross Buchanan. 
The opportunity to purchase a candle will be for All Souls Day and not on the Solemnity of Christ the King. 
  
NOVEMBER will be kept as the season of remembrance. The PARISH MASS on  
Sunday 09 November will be for REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY when we pray for  
those who have died as a result of war and during the month, when there is mass on a  
Feria day this will be offered as a requiem with various intentions that reflect our  
privilege and duty of prayer for the departed that they may attain to heaven. 
  
PASTORAL VISITS & COMMUNION OF THE SICK 
Here is information about how to set-up a pastoral visit. 
Gone are the days when clergy and ministers could make cold-calls or  
invite themselves to your home or when you were in hospital or a care  
home. All visiting now, for the safety of all, is pre-arranged and recorded  
(simply in a diary). Non-licensed clergy or pastoral visitors are enjoined  
to visit always in pairs. This practice has been in place for many years  
and has changed the practice of pastoral work within parishes. You will  
be familiar that, under rules surrounding data protection (General Data  
Protection Regulation), the electoral roll is no longer published with  
your address, phone number or email. These changes mean that  
parishioners need to take an active role in setting up and facilitating the  
pastoral visiting and ministry of a parish. Please feel encouraged to  
contact Fr Charles or Lay Minister Gladvin Allen – we need your help to  
identify when and where such pastoral ministry is needed. In the same  
way that you wouldn't just wait without taking some actions for the GP to  
contact you if you are ill, when you seek the pastoral care of the Church  
please let us know. The best way to set up a visit is to discuss it after mass  
one day or speak to us on the phone.  
  
MAKING OUR HOLY COMMUNION: We have returned to receiving  
Communion, not in a single line, but by forming a row at the altar step. A  
sidesman will stand at the front of the nave aisle directing you.  
  
The Host may be placed either directly into your mouth or into your  
cupped hands. When you are given the Precious Blood please guide the  
base of the chalice with your fingers so that the chalice trips easily and  
safely for the administration.  
  
For safety and cleanliness, intinction, dipping the Host in the Precious Blood, 
is not practised in All Saints. 
  
Some people for reasons of personal piety and habit, or for health reasons  
choose to receive the Host only and refrain from the Precious Blood. This  
was enforced for all during the period of the pandemic as a precaution. It  
is now known that the virus was aerosol and it is very unlikely that it could  
be spread in alcohol or be held on the surface of a precious metal such as  
silver of gold. This information is given for your consideration. 
  
Please speak to Fr Charles or the Churchwardens or Ross if you are interested in  
baptism or confirmation for you or someone you know. 
  
If you wish to donate to the Foodbank the bank details are as follows.  
The account is used for no other purpose: 
  
Account Name: PCC of All Saints with St Columb Notting Hill 
Account Number: 90115932; Sort Code: 40-11-58 
  
Alternatively please bring items and leave them in the basket at back of church 
  
The next All Saints Foodbank will be Friday Friday 31 October (10-11am). 
  
The Foodbank run by WAND UK at S Michael's  
continues to serve on every Tuesday from 11.00 am to 3 pm.  
and feeds around 200 families a week. 
  
 
 
FUTURE DATES. 
  
ELECTROL ROLL : Is your name entered on our Roll of members with your contact details ? 
  
  
If you would like some Bible Notes on the regular weekday readings please speak to Sharon Fergus.  
They can be ordered on a monthly basis.