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Gifting at St Clements Gift Aid Envelopes This is a well established way of gifting at the parish. We provide you with a box of special envelopes in which you put your donation each week. To receive your box of envelopes, please complete the Gift Aid Declaration Form (see button below) and send it to the parish gift-aid co-ordinator. Click HERE for contact details. So that the parish can receive the tax refund from your donations, you will be asked to provide the following information. Tax Payer's: Title Name Surname Address Start date Please add ‘Please Gift Aid my donations’. We do the rest! You collect your numbered Box of envelopes at the back of the Church. Gift Aid declaration form

A&B Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes Travelling to Lourdes Travelling to Lourdes, in whatever capacity, is a wonderful experience full of fun, companionship, friendship and laughter. Each person on our pilgrimage brings distinctive gifts and graces with them, benefitting those they meet during the week. https://www.abdiocese.org.uk/lourdes/about What do we do during our week? We have a daily programme of events which includes: ‍A number of Masses and liturgies in different settings, with different themes. Bishop Richard celebrates a Mass of welcome for everyone, we also celebrate Mass at the Grotto, a Mass with Anointing for those who wish to receive this Sacrament, a Mass where we remember friends and family members who have died and a Mass of farewell shortly before we leave Lourdes and depart home. There is a Holy Hour during the week, a time for Lectio Divina , and many other opportunities for private and group prayer at the Grotto and in the Sanctuary. We participate in two processions in honour of Our Lady’s wish for us to travel to Lourdes on pilgrimage; the Blessed Sacrament Procession and the Torchlight Procession. Both these processions occur daily and attract hundreds of pilgrims. How to Apply We are continuing to monitor the options for a safe pilgrimage in 2021 and we hope to make an announcement mid-February on our plans for this year. In the meantime, you can visit the Grotto of Lourdes online every day via their TV Lourdes service with the Rosary prayed each day in English at 2pm UK time. ‍ Everyone is welcome, we encourage people of all ages to complete an application form and join us. We travel to Lourdes by plane, coach and jumbulance . Our Pilgrimage Office team looks carefully at the needs of all our pilgrims, allocating the most appropriate transport on the basis of need. On arrival in Lourdes we stay at a number of hotels, each ‘hotel group’ includes up to sixty pilgrims who form tight bonds throughout our week together. Our family groups stay together, as do our Redshirts. Further information Click HERE .

Parish Database Please join the parish database. It means we can update you more promptly about events and situations that affect the life of our parish. If you'd like to join - there is no obligation to do so - please complete the simple form below. ​ NOTE . For people who are new to the parish or who wish their child to prepare for one of the sacraments, please register with the parish priest directly. Be reassured that we will take care of your data appropriately (see Terms of Use below). Parish Database I agree to the terms & conditions View terms of use > Thanks for submitting!

Parish Team Who does what? It takes lots of people to cover all the activities happening in a parish. To find out who does what in our parish click on the link below. ​ List of parish supporters

Synodality at St Clements LATEST SYNOD NEWS FROM ROME Having passed through the local, national and continental phases, the Synod process now moves to Rome. The world's bishops are meeting there now and they begin with a retreat led by English Dominican priest, Timothy Radcliffe. ​ Read the latest from the Vatican news website HERE. ​ Watch Fr Timothy Radcliffe's short talk about how synodality makes us dare to listen to others. Watch it HERE . PARISH MEETING MINUTES - October 24th Minutes of meeting PARISH MEETING -October 7th Details & agenda ​ PARISHIONER SYNOD DISCUSSIONS Responses of the face-to-face group Responses of the online (ZOOM) group Results of the poll (both groups) ​ SUMMARY OF PARISHIONER DISCUSSIONS The responses generated during the discussion groups are summarised below. Summary of all responses ​ PARISH OPEN MEETING The open parish meeting in May, considered the issues raised by the parish Synod discussions. You can read the minutes of the meeting HERE . ​ SYNOD DISCUSSION PAPER Following the open parish meeting, an action plan has now been drawn up to help chart the way head for the parish. You can read it HERE . ​ NEXT OPEN PARISH MEETING The next Open Parish Meeting is proposed for: Sunday 7pm, 9th October. NB This is the rescheduled date from September. ​ ​ ​ ​

FormationAnchor1 Group Study Opportunities Sycamore online course 10-November - 15 December What do you believe? Sycamore is an informal course about the Christian faith and its relevance for life today. It gives you space to meet other people, share ideas, explore your beliefs, and think about questions that really matter. Each session involves a short film and time for discussion. Everyone is welcome. ​ What people are saying! “Sycamore made me feel at home. It was the highlight of my week!” “I like the sharing, how everyone is really open – there is no judging happening here” “I enjoyed hearing what other people had to say – it gave me new perspectives on questions I had always wondered about” “It’s a great programme!” Lent 2023 Join your fellow parishioners in a Zoom course that explores aspects of our Catholic tradition. Contact John Lodge at johnlodge47@gmail.com if you'd like to take part. Or if you prefer a face-to-face Lent course, contact Pauline Groves at pauline12@waitrose.com . Online Course Links Interim selection Thinking Faith Jesuits Christian Art Torch Dominicans Homilies Divine Renovation FormationAnchor2 FormationAnchor3 Moving to Mission and Pastoral Care Material Coming Soon Retreat Forward Nearby Venues House of Prayer, Molesey Worth Abbey Retreats Chemin Neuf, Storrington More distant venues St Beunos, Wales Buckfast Abbey, Devon Minsteracres, Co Durham You can explore a wide range of locations via this link FormationAnchor4

The Live Simply steering group is currently not meeting . The members of the steering group as as follows; ​​ Joe Cook John Farrell Robin Hannan Tim Worth Catherine Phillips Nigel Phillips Estelle Ryder ​ Read our archive of quarterly newsletters: Issue #5 Issue #3 Issue #4 Issue #2 Issue #1 Launch The parish launched Live Simply on the 22 May - our exciting news was featured in the Arundel and Brighton CAFOD Blog The livesimply award is an opportunity for Catholic communities – parishes, schools, religious orders and chaplaincies – to respond to Pope Francis’ invitation in Laudato Si’ to “work with generosity and tenderness in protecting this world which God has entrusted to us”. ​ What is the livesimply award? It is awarded to communities who can show how they have been living: • simply • in solidarity with people in poverty • sustainably with creation. ​ St Clements Parish Church became the third Parish in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton to receive the live simply award on the 6 April 2019. The parish started to work towards achieving the award in 2017. They were inspired by reflecting on Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si. They contemplated how they could best respond to the Pope’s prophetic words. They decided that they wanted to do something practical and the Live Simply Steering Group was born. Working towards the award has brought the whole parish together. Both young and old have taken part and all of the Parish has been able to share in the achievement of receiving the award. The process has raised awareness of green issues and highlighted the benefit of living simply so that others can simply live. The Parish has planted a vegetable garden, established a walking club, implemented a recycling scheme and developed a tree planting scheme for newly baptized children. ​ ​ The parish continues to develop new ways of developing as a live simply parish. Jonathan would encourage other parishes to get involved . He explained that it has been a very rewarding faith, affirming process. ​ ​ Download original action plan along with full evidence index of how we got the award along with up to date details of all recent events. action plan chronology of events Tree Dedication Tree Dedication Scheme Live Simply dedicate a tree scheme: to mark sacramental occasions such as Baptism, Communion, Confirmation, Reception into the Church and Marriage. Options: 1. Woodland Trust (suggested donation £20 which includes a certificate, map and wood information sheet) can specify planting location and the nearest wood is Marden Park, Woldingham register location, add a personal message (6 lines of text, up to 35 characters) which will generate a certificate website 2. EForests (from £6.99 which includes a certificate and information on the location) register in order to identify where to plant a tree many locations including the South East website 3. World Land Trust (£5 (no certificate) or £25 for 5 (with certificate) WLT specialise in conservation of threatened habitats worldwide website Prices are current as of April 2019 We now have a decorative tree in the Church to mark this, which will have wooden leaves with the Christian name and date of sacrament written on them "see picture at top of page". ​ ​ ​ A Prayer For Our Earth By Pope Francis ​ All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one. O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this Earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction. Touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the Earth. Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey towards your infinite light. We thank you for being with us each day. Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle for justice, love and peace.

St. Clements Church LIVE STREAMED MASS I am the Good Shepherd. REGULAR MASS TIMES S ATURDAY 6:00 PM SUNDAY 8:30AM & 10:30AM WEDNESDAY 10:00AM ​ FRIDAY 10:00AM ​ Please check Parish Newsletter for any changes. HOW CAN I HELP MY PARISH? With significant changes to our parish on the horizon, we shall be needing more volunteers to help run the different areas of activity at St Clements. We invite you to consider whether you could consider putting yourself forward to help. Do please read the document HERE which gives you an idea of the range of activities where assistance is welcome. NEW GIFT AID YEAR The new gift aid year begins on April 6th. Envelopes will be available to collect from the back of the Church from 20th March 2024. JULIAN HALL will be available after each Mass to sign up any new Gift Aid donors. BISHOP RICHARD'S VIDEO PODCAST Bishop Richard gives a weekly podcast. You can watch it HERE . Food Bank UPDATE Thank you for your donations. Click HERE to see how much the parish has donated to date. ​ To find out which items are urgently needed, click HE RE . RECONCILIATION The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available, once again, on Saturday, 10.30am – 11.00 am, or by appointment. PARISH DATABASE In these rapidly changing times of the COVID pandemic we'd like to be able to notify you promptly of any changes to our parish life. Please join the parish database so that you can be alerted directly. Join HE RE . Join the Parish Database We will send you relevant information based on the information you give us as well as highlight upcoming events so you don't miss a thing! Join Today

Priest Rev Graham Bamford Fr Graham has been the parish priest for over 30 years in the Parish of St. Clements. He is very welcoming and is happy to answer any questions you may have about the parish ewell@abdiocese.org.uk | Tel: 020 8393 5572

Scripture for Lent? Why scripture? The bible is of course the word of God and what better time to listen to what God is saying to us than the season of Lent? We are fortunate in our parish - and elsewhere - that we have plenty of help with this. In the narthex of the church you will find booklets designed to help you read the Bible during Lent. What a wonderful Lenten resolution is that! PS If we run out of booklets, contact Fr Graham. Lent 2022 My Day by Day Follow the daily Lenten liturgy with this handy guide; fits in your pocket or handbag a treat! Lent 2022 My Day by Day Designed for primary school children, the booklets are designed to encourage children's interest and enjoyment of the liturgical seasons of Advent, Lent and Easter. The narrative of the books is supported by prayers, puzzles and activities appropriate to the season. These 36 page (6" x 4") full colour booklets are suitable for use in the classroom, church or home. Lent 2022 My Day by Day The essence of Bible Alive are the daily reflections. They are written in an accessible and warm style inviting the reader to penetrate and plumb the depths of the scripture reading of the day. The lead features cover a wide array of subjects, topics, profiles and interviews on matters relating to living the Christian faith today. The essays and teaching are drawn from the rich teaching of Vatican II, the Cathechism of the Catholic Church, and the teachings of Pope John Paul II, Pope Emeritus Benedict and Pope Francis; our profile and features explore in depth and detail the life witness of either a beati, a canonized saint or a hero of faith. BIBLE IN A YEAR PODCAST / YOUTUBE CHANNEL One of our parishioners has followed this Catholic course all last year and speaks very highly of it. He writes: "I started listening to The Bible in a Year podcast at the start of 2021. I have found it incredibly useful in enhancing my knowledge of the Word of God and of his plan of salvation for us. The podcasts are generally twenty to twenty five minutes long, and consist of Father Mike Schmitz reading from three different books of the Bible followed by a commentary explaining the text. The text is read in a historical timeline as opposed to the order of the books in the bible, which make the text flow and comprehend more easily. After each 'period' there is a more in-depth commentary by Bible scholar Jeff Cavins. I have enjoyed it so much I have started to listen to the Bible once again." Try a free taster for yourself HERE .

Person to Person Fancy a Chat ? Missing your friends at St Clement's? Fed up with reading or the latest TV programmes? Would you like the opportunity to chat to someone who shares your values and maybe some of your interests? ​ Fiona Perks is setting up parishioner to parishioner online (& telephone) informal conversations for those who would enjoy this. ​ So if you would like to chat over Zoom - or indeed by telephone - why not contact Fiona who is organising this initiative. You can contact her at: Fionap580@gmail.com or telephone the church presbytery on 0208 393 55721 and leave a message

Synod Participant Packs These documents help you prepare for each session and include the questions up for reflection and discussion. Session 1 Participant Pack View it HERE . Session 2 Participant Pack View it HERE . Session 3 Participant Pack View it HERE .