Enrolment for First Holy Communion 2023

There will be an information and enrolment meeting for parents only who, in June 2023, wish their children to receive First Holy Communion. Children should be at least 7 years old by 31st January 2023. This meeting will be held at St. Mary’s Church on Monday 23rd January, from 7.00pm – 8.00pm. It is most important that all interested parents from both our Worthing and Lancing churches attend. The first session for children and parents is on Saturday 4th February from 1.15pm – 2.45pm in St. Mary’s Church. Enrolment forms and copies of your child’s Baptismal Certificate should be handed in at this session.

Please note, following strict guidance from the Diocese, only those children who live in the parish or who regularly attend Mass in one of our churches, may enrol on the programme.

Any queries should be addressed to Mary Murphy on 07827 774810.

Ministry of the Word Formation Course – Saturday 1st October

Everybody who proclaims the word of God in the liturgy needs to reflect on the importance of what they are doing and to practise their proclamation. To assist with this, there will be a further deanery Ministers of the Word Course on Saturday 1st October from 11.00am – 1.00pm at St Mary of the Angels (in the church). Numbers are limited.

To book please contact Deacon Mark Woods preferably by email mark.woods@abdiocese.org.uk or telephone 01903 877801 and leave a message. A further session, if needed, will be arranged later in the autumn.

Parish Autumn Social Saturday 8th October

There will be an evening of entertainment at Holy Family on Saturday 8th October at 4.00pm, celebrating the past 70 years with words and music. If you have an item to perform, please contact Margaret Burns at mburnsviolin@hotmail.com by Sunday 18th September.

We would also love to put together a display of groups taking place within the parish. Please contact Margaret if you run a group which could be included in the display.

Welcome to Our New Look Parish Website

Our new website has been created to serve our co-joined Parish of Worthing and Lancing. We are gradually migrating content from the old website and creating new content for this, so please have patience as the content on this website grows.

However we hope that you like the new site and find the simplified content and layout easier to use.

Please comment on this post if you have any suggestions, or even if something you’d expect to work doesn’t.