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Please see below the Christmas Masses for 2026 for our parish. Note there will not be a 5:30pm Mass at St Mary of the Angels, Worthing on Christmas Day.

The Advent Reconciliation services for 2026 across the Worthing Deanery are listed below.

Don’t shop – Pray! That chance to prepare for the great feast of the Incarnation is here again.

New members and old all most welcome in the Gathering Room at Holy Family on Tuesday 2nd, 9th and 16th @ 2pm. Do join us!

Help us progress our vision to refurbish the parish centre and meeting halls with the aim to dedicate some out-of-use rooms to altar servers and an office to serve the needs of our extending parish.

The parish finance committee has set a £1,000 target to get paint and materials: please donate to the “Church Fundraising” cause via digital plates or by scanning the QR code leading you to this page: donate.mydona.com/worthing-and-lancing

Update:
You helped us reach 20% last week—amazing!
🙌 Now, let’s push forward. 🙌 Share, donate (with Gift Aid so your donation gets a boost) or get involved—your support matters!

The SVP offers friendly practical help to whoever needs it. For someone in a crisis situation, help with the cost of something essential can make a big difference; or help with a small task. If we can’t provide the particular help needed, we may be able to find out who can. Please pray for our work and for SVP help, or if you are thinking of joining us, please contact:

Mike 07919 980753 or email: coadyfamily@ntlworld.com or Patrick 07943 705109

The next meeting will be on 5th November at St Peter the Apostle church, Lancing at 8am, followed by a light breakfast.

Are you ready? Are you ready to explore faith more fully? To learn more deeply about how God is calling you? Are you willing to complete the grace given to you in baptism by proclaiming Christ died and risen for “yourself”?

By preparing for and receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation you will be affirming a more mature faith. You will become “more perfectly bound to the Church and (will be) enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit.” (Lumen Gentium 11)

It’s a big step. It’s a big deal – are you ready? If you are around Year 10 and want to know more about preparing for Confirmation do the following things:
• Register on our database
• Fill in the online Confirmation form
• Email Deacon Phil if you have any questions (philip.richardson@abdiocese.org.uk)
• Or even better, introduce yourself at Mass.

Sessions are on Thursday evenings @6.30pm at St Mary of the Angels, starting in January. We look forward to hearing from you.

HOLY FAMILY LANCING needs more Welcomers for Sunday Mass to hand out newsletters and mass sheets. Are you able to help us from 10.45 a.m. before the 11.15 mass? We have a rota, so you would only be helping once a month at the most. Interested?
Contact Mary Lyons:mob:07935296692, email: moolyons1962@gmail.com (or see Mary at Sunday Mass). Thank-you.

Second collection Sunday 2nd November

ACN UK Homepage are a Catholic charity bringing spiritual and practical help to Catholics and other Christians where they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need through prayer, information and action. This Sunday 2nd November there will be a second collection going towards their good work across the world, you can give through the baskets at the ends of the church, the card machines or online at ACN UK Homepage

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION will be offered at St Mary’s church every Friday, starting on Friday, November 7th at 9:15am. In Lancing the Adoration takes place every Wednesday starting at 9:30 am.
Though we participate in Adoration with others, it is nevertheless a time for us to be alone, in the silence, with the Lord, present in the blessed sacrament exposed in the Monstrance.