24/03/2024

Newsletter: Palm Sunday of the Passion of The Lord



Good Friday - Ecumenical Walk of Witness
Join other Christians from local churches in a walk of witness on Good Friday.

Meet at 9am on Twickenham Green, outside Arthur’s café. Father Ulick of St James’s RC Church will bless the walkers. The walk will move along Heath Road and Wharf Lane to the Diamond Jubilee Gardens on Twickenham Riverside. If it is difficult for you to walk, please join the service directly at Diamond Jubilee Gardens at 9:20 am. The short service will be led by the Venerable Richard Frank, with a scripture reading by the Reverend Stephen Lewis of the United Reformed Church. Walkers are welcome to carry a cross if they wish.

One of questions we asked ourselves as a Parish in the recent synodal meetings was “how do we witness as a Parish to proclaim our faith to those who have not heard of Christ and those who have ceased walking with Christ?” Participating in this walk of witness would be one way of doing just that.

Holy Week and Easter Liturgies
Maundy Thursday
Mass - 8.00 pm; Night Prayer - 9.45 pm, Watching at the altar of repose to 10.00 pm

Good Friday
Stations of the Cross – 10.30 am
Children’s Stations of the Cross – 12.00 pm
The Liturgy of the Passion of our Lord – 3.00 pm

Easter Vigil
Mass - 8.00 pm

Easter Sunday
Mass - 8.30 am and 10.30 am
There will be no evening Mass on Easter Sunday.

Easter Monday
Mass - 12.00 noon

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Caroline Estorninho
10/03/2024

Newsletter: 4th Sunday of Lent B



Lent at St Margaret’s 
Our Lenten course We Dare To Say, has been postponed until after Easter. We regret any inconvenience caused. 

Pizza and Prayer
For all our young people 12 and over there is a Pizza and Prayer evening on Friday 15th March. There will be Adoration followed by Reconciliation between 6:30 and 7:30 pm. This will be followed by pizza in the hall. Come and join your friends. Let us know by scanning the code found in the Page.

Penance and Reconciliation Service with music 
Lent is an important season in the Church’s liturgical year, the time when we take stock of where we are in our faith and prepare for the death and Resurrection of our Saviour. Often, we lose sight of the point of this season because we get caught up in ourselves - how hard it is to fast, how bad we are at fasting - and we end up just waiting for the season to be over at Easter. Because of this, we sometimes arrive at Easter with our lives no different than they were on Ash Wednesday.

As a parish, we are seeking to prepare for Jesus’ death and Resurrection and experience true transformation in our lives during this powerful season.

Join us at on Wednesday 13th March at 7.30 pm for reconciliation and music. Guest confessors will be available.

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Caroline Estorninho
03/03/2024

Newsletter: 3rd Sunday of Lent B



Lent at St Margaret’s 
Our Lenten course We Dare To Say, a resource based on The Lord's Prayer starts tomorrow at 7.30 pm. It is a four week course with each session lasting an hour. All are welcome.

WE DARE TO SAY - Our prayers together help us to become the dwelling places of the Holy Spirit that we are called to be (‘ Concilium, 2).

At every moment of every day, somewhere in the world, Christians are praying the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples. When said in liturgy or in devotional prayer, together or privately, the Lord’s Prayer is a like a gentle, multilingual hum of heartfelt praise and petition.

St Thomas Aquinas once wrote that ‘The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect of prayers… In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things, but also in what order we should desire them.’

Pope Francis has asked us, as part of our preparation for the Holy Year in 2025, to make this year into a time for refreshing our prayer, and especially our appreciation and use of the Our Father. I am pleased, then, to commend to you We Dare To Say, a five-week faith sharing resource on the familiar and powerful words of the Our Father taking place at St Margarets on Monday’s commencing March 4th, followed by 11th, 18th & 25th from 7.30 pm - 8.30 pm.

May you come to a deeper appreciation of what the Lord Jesus himself has given us in response to the disciples’ request ‘Lord, teach us to pray’. And please remember me in your prayers.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols
Archbishop of Westminster

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Caroline Estorninho