PARISH ECOLOGY GROUP (PEG) MEETING Friday 28th November, 7-9.30pm Sacred Heart Hall Please join us for our annual pre-Advent mulled wine and mince pies. We will be collecting Christmas gifts and warm clothing for the Seafarers charity Stella Maris on this evening. We will also be running a raffle and would be grateful for any donations of raffle prizes – please give directly to John Vivian or drop off at the parish office.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales and Birmingham Newman University are conducting research into Neurodiversity and our Faith experience. In this Participatory Research we want to understand what helps and what gets in the way for neurodivergent Catholics in England and Wales. Your insights can help us to become more inclusive and responsive. The online surveys are anonymous and will only take around 10-20 minutes to complete. If you are: 1. Catholic (practising or not) You are Neurodivergent You are 18+ years old You live in England or Wales. Link: https://forms.office.com/e/CBQWtarVMP 2. A caregiver of a Neurodivergent Catholic. A caregiver of a Catholic care recipient (who is either practising or not) Your care recipient is neurodivergent (2+ yrs old) Your care recipient lives in England or Wales. Link: https://forms.office.com/e/BCQq71W1w9 Deadline is: Sun. 11th Jan ’26. For more information please contact: either Fleur Dorrell: fleur.dorrell@cbcew.org.uk or Dr Magdalena: smusz@staff.newman.ac.uk

This Advent we will be supporting Mary’s Meals UK a charity organisation that provides nutritious school meals to over 3 million children every day in 16 countries around the world.  Mary’s Meals aims to combat hunger and poverty, enabling children to gain an education. It costs just 10p to provide a single school meal. The charity’s mission is to ensure that every child receives a meal in school, which helps to bring them into the classroom and improve their future.

Saturday 20th Dec, 10am, St Philip Howard Come and help us put up the crib and prepare decorations for the church. Please contact the parish office if you can help.

OFS SOUTHERN REGIONAL MEETING Sat 15th Nov, 12pm - 4pm at St Philip Howard Church Mass at 12pm. All are welcome to attend. For info please contact John and Esme Vivian at: Solentofs@outlook.com

We are looking for some extra volunteers to help keep the grounds welcoming, trimmed and tidy. This is an important yet often unnoticed task. If you have some spare time and strength for this then please let us know!

Please visit www.catholicchurchfareham.org.uk/baptism Please visit the parish website for details and to register online. Why not take part while “still expecting”? Next Preparation Pathway dates: Meet & Greet - in person Saturday 14th Feb, 10am Online Session 1 Tuesday 17th Feb, from 8pm Online Session 2 Tuesday 24th Feb, from 8pm Welcome & Anointing Sunday 1st March Closing date for this Preparation Pathway - Fri. 30th January

First Eucharist. Our urgent need is for 4 people to join the established First Holy Communion team, who will be leading our children through their preparation in the New Year, hosted at St Margaret Mary’s, Park Gate. If you could consider this, we have time to arrange the required DBS for Safeguarding if you could let us know asap. We are always on the lookout for new Confirmation and RCIA catechists too – as many hands, spread the load. Please speak with Cn John if you can help

THANK YOU TO THE PARISH HEALTH & SAFETY TEAM We have been blessed with a wonderful team response to the WorkNest Health & Safety Audit calling our proper􀆟es & procedures to account on behalf of the Diocese. A huge thank you to Bruce and the Health and Safety Core Team who have spent many hours over the past year, working with parish groups and signing off the items of the audit reports, seeking to make sure we are compliant. Hopefully this will be complete just before Christmas.