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Preparation Programme for First Communion

After today’s ‘’Do this is Memory Mass’’ Sunday, 2nd April, with First Communion children and parents, we hope that during holidays from school, the exercises in Thumb will continue at home on pages 24 and 25 ( for parents to share) and that children mark Holy week by completing exercises on pages 60 and 61. The Palm Sunday colour-in may yet need to be completed too. With only one more special Mass to be celebrated before First Communion Day, it’s a good time to review all that was shared and done up to now in your Thumb book. Grapevine 7 offers further encouragement in our preparation. Our next, and final, ‘Do this in memory Mass’’ will be on Sunday, April 23rd, at 10.30am. Our next celebration with children and parents preparing for First Communion will be next Sunday at 10.30am.

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Registration for Sacramental Preparation

Parents are now required to complete a form to register their child for Sacramental Preparation for First Holy Communion and/or Confirmation.  The below forms can now be downloaded and sent to the Parish Office.  Please see links below to choose the appropriate form for your child.  ​
First Holy Communion 2023
First Holy Communion 2024
Confirmation 2023
Confirmation 2024

Enrolment of Children for First Communion and Confirmation​

​We invited parents of children attending
non-Catholic Schools to enrol children with the
parish on Thurs or Friday Sept 8th/9th last, if they
wished that they prepare to receive the sacraments.
There may be families, living in the parish
who wish that their child, attending a non-faith school,
might be helped to prepare to receive the sacraments.
They, too, were invited to register on Sept 8th or 9th.
We are  still accepting a late application.  
If living outside the parish we refer you to your own
parish when a child is attending a non-faith school.