Here you'll find information on our regular Sunday and weekday services as well as times of liturgical significance such as
Christmas,
Easter and other significant feast days and opportunities for
confession.
Sunday Masses
9am: Traditional sung Mass with choir & organ.
11am: Family / Children's Mass.
The First Sunday of each month is aimed at involving the children of the parish as much as possible with Reading Scripture, Offertory Procession, Prayers of Intercession and helping with the Money Collection.
If you would like your child to be involved please turn up a little bit early and speak to one of the Catechists who normally orgainse who does what.
This mass is followed by a bring-and-share lunch in the hall.
6pm: Mass (music & singing sometimes)
Weekdays
Monday to Thursday at 10am.
Friday at 6pm.
Saturday at 10am.
Christmas Eve
6pm: Children's Mass.
11.30pm: Carol Service followed by Midnight Mass at 12mn.
Christmas Day
9am & 11am Mass (No evening Mass)
Palm Sunday 1st April 2012
8.45am Blessing of the Palms in Parish Hall.
Sunday Masses as usual.
Holy Week Week Commencing Monday 2nd April
Weekday Masses as usual.
Monday
8pm: Service of Reconciliation with Confessions (there will be visiting priest in attendance)
Maundy Thursday
11am/ 3pm: Children's Cedar Meal. (time to be decided nearer the date and will be published in our weely Newsletter available on the Web and at the back of the church.
This is a prayerful reenactment of the meal Jesus would have celebrated with his disciples the night before his death - what we now call the Last Supper.
8pm: Mass of the Last Supper with Washing of Feet.
Good Friday
9am: Christians Across Watford Walk of Witness (details tbc.)
12 Noon: Children's Stations of the Cross.
3pm: Veneration of the Cross & Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
8pm: Stations of the Cross with Slides.
Easter Saturday
8pm / 8.30: Easter Vigil. (time to be confirmed nearer the date and will be published in the weekly Newsletter and on the Web.
Easter Sunday
9am: Early Mass.
11am: Family Mass.
NO EVENING MASS.
Feast of St Helen
The feast of St Helen is celebrated by the Catholic Church on 18th August.
St Helen (also known as St Helena, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople was the consort of Emperor Constantius, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I. Even though she was married to the Emperor she never denounced her Christian faith.
Many attribute her motherly influence on Emperor Constantine I as a significant factor in him choosing Christianity as the official religion of the whole Roman Empire. Some traditions suggest that she found the relics of the True Cross of Christ with which she is often pictured with in Christian art.
In reflection of her virtues and life experiences, she has been chosen as the patron of converts, difficult marriages, and divorced people.
Saturday 11.30am to 12.30pm.
After Masses the two Sundays before Christmas & Easter.
At special Advent & Lenten Reconciliation services (see above).
St Helen's Church, The Harebreaks, Watford, Herts WD24 6NJ. MAPParish Priest Fr Pat Foley
Tel: 01923 223175. Email: watfordnorth@rcdow.org.uk
