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Nov 2024
The Reverse Advent Calendar is our way to give to those in need in our local community, by donating food and goods. We hope that, at this busy time of year, it will prompt us to reflect on the real meaning of the season by considering the needs of others. Please pick up an information leaflet and calendar as you leave church today. Click here for the St Antony’s Reverse Advent Calendar 2024 Click here for the Explanation of the Reverse Advent Calendar...
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Jun 2025
Click here for our latest newsletter St. Antony’s Community Workshop: Share Your Story St. Antony’s is more than a historic Church – it is a space of prayer, memory, and community. We invite you to a Community Workshop to reflect on what this sacred space means to you. Your stories will support a research project on sacred heritage and the Church Conservation Project. The workshop will take place in St Francis Hall on Sunday 22nd June 2025 from 1:30pm – 14:30pm (after the noon Mass) and Tuesday 24th June 10:45am – 11:45am......
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Jun 2025
Click here for our latest newsletter God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Rom 5 THANK YOU Beloved Parishioners ! … … for the overwhelming generosity and support you have shown in preparation for the Feast of St. Antony. Your contributions – whether through your time, talents, food donation – have been a true testament to the faith and love that unite us as a parish family. We can truly say with St Paul “God’s love has been poured into our......
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Jun 2025
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Jun 2025
Click here for our latest newsletter At our baptism and confirmation, we receive the same Holy Spirit who came in power upon the disciples at Pentecost. And we can renew his grace in us every day just by spending time with him in prayer and calling on his help. Someone asked a Christian living in Africa in the 6th century why he didn’t speak in tongues like the apostles had done. His reply was “I do indeed speak in the tongues of all people, because I belong to the body of Christ,......
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Jun 2025
We are pleased to announce that St. Antony’s will be coordinating a YouthGroup (SAYG) on Thursday 12th June 2025 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. We wouldlike to welcome 15 – 17-year-olds to join us in getting to know others in thecommunity, Adoration, Praise & Worship, Food, Games, and workshops. Please contact Kim- 07939315 956 or email klbmeloney@gmail.com for more details....
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Jun 2025
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May 2025
Click here for our latest newsletter “I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.” Jn 17 This is the prayer of Jesus for his followers through the ages. Jesus prays for each of us. Can we imagine him at prayer, as he names his apostles, his friends and all......
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May 2025
Click here for our latest newsletter The Advocate, the Holy Spirit,whom the Father will send in my name,will teach you everythingand remind you of all that I told you. – Jn 14 This portion of John’s Gospel comes near the end of the first of four chapters that makes up Jesus’ long farewell discourse at the Last Supper. This section of chapter 14 actually sums up the themes of the opening of the discourse: the Christian’s life is not shaped by Jesus’ absence but by God’s abiding presence; God’s presence overcomes anxiety......
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May 2025
Click here for our latest newsletter “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.” Jn 13 Today’s Gospel comes from John, featuring Jesus’ words before his death and Resurrection at the Last Supper. Rather than instituting the Eucharist, John’s Gospel depicts Jesus washing his disciples’ feet. He then predicts Judas’ betrayal, and today’s passage follows that prediction, explaining Jesus’ act of service. It begins with Jesus announcing that the Son of Man will be glorified—a theme central to John’s Passion. Jesus is glorified through his death and......
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May 2025
The Church Council at Nicaea, celebrates seventeen-hundred years, whichdrew up a statement of faith on the basis of the Nicene Creed – we recite atMass. Dr Ken Carleton, Deacon of the Brentwood diocese, will have a Studyday on Saturday 7th June 2025 from 11:00am until 2:00pm at Christ theEternal High Priest Parish, Gidea Park, RM2 6DH. Please bring your ownlunch. In-person attendance is encouraged but you can also watch onwww.whatgoodnews.org No prior booking necessary for this free event....