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Caritas Food Collective – Advent Giving Calendar
Thank you to all who donated food and personal hygiene products during advent. Your generosity has helped to feed 12 people for one week. We will continue to collect and deliver over the festive season, so if you have not had an opportunity to donate and wish to do so, please leave your donations in the church porch.
Christmas Eve Raffle Prize Winners Congratulations to:
1st prize Orange Ticket no.570 AD564634 Rittel
2nd prize Orange Ticket no.655 AD564634 M Camille
3rd prize Orange Ticket no.723 AD564634 Chari
Thank you to all who bought raffle tickets. All proceeds raised will help to fund future parish and community social events.
Donations of Unwanted Gifts for Future Social Events at St Briget’s
We would be grateful if you could consider recycling your unwanted Christmas gifts by donating them towards our future social events in the new year. We would love to receive all types of new gifts inc. toiletries, bottles of alcohol, chocolates and new toys. Donations can be left in the church porch or presbytery office. Thank you in advance for your kind and generous support.
Our Lady of Sorrows and St Bridget of Sweden RC Church Isleworth
ST BRIDGET’S & CARITAS FOOD COLLECTIVE
ADVENT GIVING CALENDAR
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR DONATIONS SO FAR. WE'LL BE DELIVERING TO ALL SOULS TODAY AND TOMORROW SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE TOWARDS THE COLLECTION PLEASE LEAVE YOUR GIFTS EITHER IN THE CHURCH PORCH (DURING MASS TIMES) OR IN THE PRESBYTERY OFFICE. MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR KINDESS AND GENORISTY.
Advent is a special time of the year when we prepare to celebrate the coming of Christ. However, for many people facing food poverty, Christmas is a desperately difficult time. Currently, 8.4 million people in the UK do not get enough to eat.
The Caritas Food Collective is a new initiative working to tackle food poverty in the Diocese of Westminster. It has created an ‘Advent Giving Calendar’ to help us use this season as a time when we think of those who might be struggling and to encourage us to do our bit to help them in the run up to Christmas.
As a parish St Bridget’s will be working in collaboration with the Ivybridge Foodbank, a satellite operation of Richmond Foodbank, run by volunteers from All Souls Church at the Bridgelink Centre on the Ivybridge Estate.
We are asking our parishioners and local community to donate the following foodstuffs and hygiene products over the course of Advent. Collection will run until Tuesday 24 December and donations can be left in the boxes marked ‘Caritas Food Collective’ in the Church Porch or in the Presbytery Office during office hours:
1. Cereal
2. Tinned Fruit
3. Rice
4. Shampoo
5. UHT Milk
6. Pasta Sauce
7. Dried Pasta
8. Tea and Coffee
9. Bag of Sugar
10. Shower Gel
11. Tinned Meat/Fish
12. Washing-up Liquid
13. Peanut Butter
14. Deodorant
15. Biscuits
16. Tin of Soup
17. Lentils/Beans
18. Tinned Vegetables
19. Nappies
20. Tinned Pudding
21. Detergent
22. Cooking Oil
23. Sanitary Products
24. Chocolate
Please help us to ease the struggle some of our close neighbours in the local community endure during this time of the year. Thank you all in advance for your kind and generous support.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED PLEASE
Wednesday 27 November at 8.45am – Parish Hall
We would be grateful for volunteers to help collect donations for our numerous tombolas from parents and carers of St Mary’s Catholic Primary School please. This was a wonderful get-together last year, with volunteers bonding over a cuppa and doughnuts whilst ticketing prizes!
DONATIONS NEEDED PLEASE
We would be grateful for the following:
Children's new toys and games
Chocolate boxes, sweets and bottles
Toiletries and gift sets
International Food
Home-made and shop-bought cakes
RAFFLE TICKETS ON SALE NOW from the Presbytery Office
Individual tickets £1.00 each and £5.00 for a booklet of 5
1st Prize Sony PS4 1TB Console + Fifa 20 worth £320
2nd Prize Serenity Family Photo Session worth £250 sponsored by Serenity Film & Photography
3rd Prize Bubbly Lunch for Four at The Royal Oak worth sponsored by The Royal Oak worth
4th Prize Todhunter Luxury Christmas Hamper worth £120
5th Prize Hasbro Family Games Bundle sponsored by Hasbro
6th Prize Afternoon Tea for Two at The Ivy Café, Richmond sponsored by The Ivy Café
SILENT AUCTION
We already have a few fabulous donations for our Silent Auction. We are still looking for donations such as gardening services, babysitting, haircuts, beauty treatments, memorabilia, heirlooms and collectibles, holiday homes etc. Please PM if you'd like to donate
Christmas Meeting on Wednesday 13th Novemberr at 7pm postponed. Details of new date for meeting to follow shortly. Preparations well underway Behind the scenes. Please sign up on the volunteers sheet if you can spare a few hours of your time. Volunteers also needed please for leaflet drops next week - if you can help please PM. Many thanks in advance for your help ❤️
2018-2019 attendance card
From the end of July all attendance cards that have been issued can be dropped through the presbytery letter box and a certificate of attendance will be issued according to the amount of stickers collected. Please keep an eye out in the newsletter for when they are ready to be collected. This is all that will be needed for the signing of the Catholic practice certificate (only if applying for catholic schools this year). This certificate of attendance will be issued every year.
More information on Mass Attendance Cards
Monthly Maintenance Fund Appeal- Notice from the Finance Committee
Please see our appeal page for information about raising funds to help make improvements to the building and its surroundings.
ABOUT US
Our parish
We are a Roman Catholic church based in Isleworth. Isleworth has been a settlement since Saxon times. In the Middle Ages, it was the site of a magnificent Abbey of the Bridgettine Order. After the Reformation, Shrewsbury House was the location for one of the earliest Catholic missions in the south of England.
Sacraments
We believe that the Church is the main channel through which the knowledge and the love of God are made known and accessible to all people. Sacraments are an integral part of the life of every Catholic.
