This can be for visits to those in hospital, sick at home or dying.

Also for those who just need to talk.

And for Catholics who would like to keep in touch and maybe return to their church.

Priest Emergency phone:
023 8061 2430

Hospital Chaplains:
Southampton: 023 8079 8517
Winchester: 01962 8528

If going into hospital? > click here

The PPC is responsible to enable our parish communities
to understand and serve the mission of the Church
in conformity with the Gospel.

A Pastoral Council seeks to:

- enrich the quality of parish life  - - provide opportunities for parishioners

a) to grow in holiness

b) to discover and live out their personal and community call to mission

c) to live as Catholics who effectively transform society.

St. Swithun Wells and Holy Cross Parish are divided into 5
Neighbourhood Groups.

Bishops Waltham is treated as one area

Romsey and North Baddesley are treated as one area.

There are three State Catholic Schools that serve the 3 Rivers Pastoral Area:

• St. Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School

Hillcrest Avenue
Chandler's Ford
Eastleigh SO53 2JP

 

• St George Secondary(Boys)
• Leaside Way,
  Swaythling,
  Southampton,
  SO16 3DQ

• St Anne's Secondary (Girls)
• Carlton Road
  Southampton
  SO15 2WZ

Also there is St Mary's College (fee paying)

• Incorporating Nursery, Prep and Senior School
• 57, Midanbury Lane
  Bitterne Park
  Southampton  SO18 4DJ

more information...
 
Please click here > If you are interested in joining our Ministry of Welcome.
 

Both boys and girls wishing to serve at Mass may start from the age of 8 years after a period of training.
 
more about Guild of St. Stephen.....

 
Please click here > If you are interested in becoming an Altar server or contact the coordinators list here >
 

First Holy Communion is normally celebrated in the late Spring.
Please click here > if you would like to register for the next First Holy Communion course.

Come, Holy Ghost,
and fill the hearts of the faithful,
And kindle in them,
The fires of Thy Divine Love

Confirmation is sometimes seen as a "rite of passage" into adulthood, but it is much more than that. Confirmation is the Sacrament of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit:

• It brings an increase in the grace given at Baptism.
• It gives an indelible spiritual mark, which is characterized by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
• It strengthens the Christian to profess the faith in an open manner.

Confirmation is normally celebrated in the late Spring.
Please click here > if you would like to register for the next First Holy Confirmation course.

The Liturgy groups work to ensure that the rites and services are conducted in a correct but also engaging manner.

Click here > if you would like to help with children's liturgy.

For enquirers and existing parishioners
who wish to learn more about the Catholic Faith.

Click here > for more about RCIA

Please click here > if you would like to join the programme.

Community - Creating and nourishing small groups where people can share and grow together.

Evangelisation - Empowering Catholics to make more of a difference in the world around them.  www.faithcafe.org  

Please click here > if you would like to find out more.

Click > for more about our welcome

 

This group meets on the fourth Saturday of the month in the Cloister of St. Edward the Confessor Church at 2.30pm for prayers, music, tea and occasional outings.

For pregnancy worries and problems.

The Life FertilityCare programme promotes and supports reproductive health and fertility. FertilityCare helps couples to understand their fertility potential before they try to conceive and offers evaluation and treatment for infertility. There are many benefits and it can be learned at any time by a woman during her childbearing years.

Originally started 20 years ago as a coffee morning by a parishioner, Alice Terry [RIP] and now run by Pauline Wilson.

Catholics and non-Catholics are welcome.

We meet at Keats Restaurant, SO51 9BQ, normally at 1230 on Tuesdays. Transport can be arranged if needed. Click here > for a map

Please contact Pauline Wilson

The Mums and Toddler/Babies Group runs from 10am to 12noon on Tuesdays, in the Cloister of St. Edward the Confessor Church, during the school term.

If you need transport or can provide transport, please contact the coordinator in your parish.

Friends & Neighbours is the welfare group based at St.Edward, Chandlers Ford who visit the sick, the housebound and those who live alone. We keep in touch with all involved in this work, even if they are members of another parish organisation such as the Parish Pastoral Areas, so as to make sure that no one in need slips through the net.

If you would like to help in this work, or you are aware of someone in need of a visit, please contact Tony Wilson.

For Children and vulnerable

 

Church Flowers
A team of parishioners arrange flowers for the decoration of the churches.
New helpers are always welcome. For special occasions, such as
weddings, before making any arrangements please contact the volunteers listed.
 

Church Cleaning

Cleaning Rota:
Steve Holmes   02380693669

Our activities include – assistance with parish work and events as requested, Community Service, help with our youth, Charitable Service, organising social events, fundraising for the Priests Training Fund and selected local and national charities, lobbying MPS on moral and social issues.

We are family focused so our wives and families join us in many activities, and we support each others families in times of need.

Members meet monthly – with spiritual discussion led by our Chaplin. We pledge to follow the Church’s teaching in matters of Faith & Morals.

The Winchester branch is bounded on one side by Basingstoke Circle (meets third Monday) and on the other by Southampton Circle.

It was founded in Lyons, France, in 1822 by a young French woman, Pauline Jaricot. A century later, when the organisation was established in almost every country of the world, Pope Pius XI made it the official mission-funding society for the Catholic Church.

The APF works in England and Wales with the Mill Hill Missionary Society.

In England and Wales funds for the Missions are collected through the famous Red collection Boxes. These can be found in 200,000 homes and they have helped raise millions of pounds for the missions.

The APF enables its supporters to live out their own missionary vocation and to take an active part in the universal mission of the Church of Christ.

CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development) is the official overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and part of the Caritas International Federation.

Click here > to order Christmas cards from St Joseph's

NEWSLETTERS

Please note that we place extra notices on our web site  PARISH NOTICE BOARDS because we have limited space on the paper copies of our newsletters

Please Click here > if you wish to place information on the main NEWSLETTER or your parish notice board.

Click to request Newsletter by Email

Notice Boards in the welcoming areas of our churches Posters for all churches may be left with the Parish Co-ordinator at Chandler's Ford Parish Office for distribution. Please include name and phone number of originator. 

Weekly Newsletters These are available in the welcoming area. When possible, could all items for the newsletter please be notified to the Parish Office at St. Edward the Confessor Church, Chandler's Ford, by Monday morning of each week.

To book a room please contact the coordinators or click hear > to see what rooms are available for booking

click here > to  request a room  reservation

Email Updates and corrections - or contact parish web site coordinators >

In Romsey we are members of ARC, the Association of Romsey Churches