St Aidan's Catholic Church - Coulsdon

Wednesday31 Dec6:30pm

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession)
Wednesday	17 Dec	7:00pm (after evening Mass)
Saturday	20 Dec	12 noon to 12:30pm and 7:00pm (after evening Mass)
Monday	22 Dec	10:30am (after Mass)
Wednesday	24 Dec	12 noon to 12:30pm
Confession can also be by appointment with Fr Peter.
Christmas and New Year Masses
Wednesday	24 Dec	6:00pm	Vigil Mass of Christmas
		11:00pm	Carols and readings
		11:30pm	Mass begins
Thursday	25 Dec	10:00am	Christmas morning Mass
Friday	26 Dec	11:00am	Mass of St Stephen
Saturday	27 Dec	6:00pm	The Holy Family
Sunday	28 Dec	9:00am
		11:00am
Monday	29 Dec	10:00am
Tuesday	30 Dec	10:00am
Thursday	1 Jan	11:00am	New Year's Day Mass
Friday	2 Jan	10:00am

The times of weekend Masses are shown below. See newsletter (above) for times of weekday Masses.

Saturday	6:00pm	Vigil Mass of Sunday
Sunday	9:00am
	11:00am

All Masses are streamed on our YouTube channel (click here).

You can access the daily Mass readings by following this link: https://www.universalis.com/europe.england.southwark/mass.htm. In addition, each week from Wednesday you can find the upcoming Sunday readings with commentaries on the Wednesday Word website: http://www.wednesdayword.org/sunday-gospel.htm.

There are many other spiritual resources available. For information about some of them click here.

We have a parish mailing list which we are using to send to parishioners a weekly email including a direct link to the newsletter. Joining the mailing list is straightforward - just follow this link and fill in the short sign-up form: http://eepurl.com/gXMief. Please pass this link on to anyone else who might be interested.

If you or a member of your family are admitted to one of the local hospitals, do please let the hospital’s Catholic chaplain know. You should ask the ward staff to contact the Catholic chaplain. You can also phone chaplains directly -- see the list of contacts below.

Data protection laws prohibit hospital staff from taking the initiative of letting a chaplain know your religion. The request to ward staff MUST come explicitly from the patient, a family member or a friend.

There is always a priest on call for emergencies -- it is best to ask the ward staff because the hospital switchboard will have an emergency contact number for the duty priest. Your local parish will not have that number as it changes depending on the duty priest. Sometimes the priest will be on site in the hospital, at other times he will come from his parish.

Hospital	Chaplain	Contact
Croydon University	Sr Sheila with support of local clergy and laity	020 8401 3105 (the chaplaincy)
St Helier and Epsom	Fr Philip Pak	020 8296 2000
East Surrey	Fr Alban Aguezeala	01293 431703 (Horley parish)
St George's	Fr Peter Littleton	020 8725 3069 or 020 8672 1255

We have a "meal train" service in the parish, where parishioners have the opportunity to sign up to bring a meal to someone going through a difficult time or needing a short-term helping hand.

If you would like to request a meal train because you are struggling for any reason, are grieving a loved one, are about to have treatment or surgery, or have just welcomed a new baby, please email Katie Stockermans (katharine.stockermans@gmail.com) or speak to Fr Peter. Katie will discuss some details and timings with you and take it from there.

If you are interested in offering to cook a meal, keep an eye out for a newsletter notice about an active meal train: a MealTrain.com link will allow you to put your name on a calendar to commit to
cooking on a certain date and will tell you all the details you need for delivering the meal.