On the Feast of Pentecost, 8th June 2025, we launched our new Parish – ‘The Holy Family Parish of Maidenhead and Twyford’. We’re made up of St. Josephs, St. Elizabeths, St. Edmund Campion, St. Thomas More, Our Lady of Peace, as well as Culham Chapel and St. John’s Convent, which also reside in our Parish and who we work with, to spread and celebrate the word of God and the Sacraments of the Church.
Our new Parish Website has also launched! We are moving over to this new, easy site - it's full of information about our wonderful parish and how to join us. So make sure to use https://holyfamilyparish.org.uk from now on.
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Mass will be available online via YouTube from about 15 minutes before Mass starts (see below). Just click on the YouTube icon to connect.
| Mass | Online | |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 11am | No |
| Monday | 9:30am | YouTube |
| Tuesday | 9:30am | YouTube |
| Wednesday | 9:30am | YouTube |
| Thursday | 9:30am | No |
| Friday | 10am | YouTube |
| Saturday | 6:15pm | No |
Check the new Parish Website for Mass times at the other churches in our Holy Family Parish.
Widows and Orphans in Rural Kenya is a registered “Not-for-Profit” charity (Reg. No. 1119959).
W.O.R.K. is dedicated to helping people to become self-sufficient by supporting education, training and healthcare for widows and orphans.
Mary-Jane Butler, founder of W.O.R.K. gave an update to the parish over the weekend of 25th and 26th January 2025. You can read what she had to say and see the pictures here.
Please donate online here if you can:
We are in need of adult and children bicycles for the asylum seekers. If you upgraded any bikes over Christmas, please consider donating your old bike to us. For more information, please contact the Parish Office. We are still collecting clothes, toys and toiletries. Please check the SVP noticeboard for meeting dates and other updates.
We are also always looking for hosts for homeless refugees. If you would like to talk about what might be involved in hosting please contact us on 07749 917134.
St Vincent de Paul (SVP) Maidenhead Treasurer and Secretary voluntary roles. SVP Maidenhead is looking to fill two important voluntary roles as soon as possible. Both the Treasurer and Secretary roles make a real difference in enabling SVP to run smoothly, including our monthly meetings on the first Monday of every month. Neither role is particularly demanding in terms of time commitment and a full handover from the current post holders will be arranged. Furthermore, individuals who may be interested are not required to become full members of SVP - associate membership can be arranged if preferred. If any parishioners are interested in either role, please contact Hilda on 07749 917134 or Peter on 07976 625813. Please also feel free to pass on this request to anyone you feel may be interested. The members of SVP Maidenhead would greatly appreciate any support in helping to fill these important role.
We are a collection point for Foodshare. Our collection area is just inside the porch doors, but if you leave food outside, out of hours (in a bag or other covering) the building is regularly checked. Foodshare are currently really in need of tinned vegetables and tinned meat, amongst all the regular donations.
We are currently helping over 120 families a week through food parcels and the Foodshare shop. We are running our "Holiday Hunger" program during the summer holidays. We provide breakfast food to schools and free lunches twice a week. There is more information on our website foodshare.charity. We are currently in need of financial donations. Donations can be made via the Foodshare website.
Everyone at St Edmund Campion Parish in Maidenhead welcomes you to our Catholic community. Hopefully you will find all the information you are looking for - if not, please contact us and we will answer any questions you may have.
If you would like to know more about us and what we do, take a look at our Welcome Brochure. We look forward to meeting you soon.
The address of the Church and office is: 40a Altwood Road, Maidenhead. Berks. SL6 4PY. Details of how to find us are here.
Fr Liam has written another letter providing details of the launch of our new Parish at Pentecost – 8th June 2025:
I’m delighted to share with you that we are ready to launch our new Parish – The Holy Family, made up of St. Josephs, St. Elizabeths, St. Edmund Campion and St. Thomas More, Our Lady of Peace, as well as Culham Chapel and St. John’s convent, which also reside in our Parish and who we work with, to spread the word of God. Our new expanded Parish formation, is part of the 10-year mission plan: 'You will be my Witnesses' and we are on track to now focus our attention on Evangelisation and Formation across our Parish. More about this in future updates from me!
It is a great opportunity to celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and the birth of the Church - and a great day to come together as a new Parish too.
Pentecost morning mass - The Sunday Pentecost masses at our 3 church communities, St. Josephs at 11am, St. Edmund Campion at 11:15am and St. Thomas More at 10:30am, will also be a celebration of our new Holy Family Parish, with parishioners coming from the various churches to say hello and start to get to know each other. To this end, everyone will be given a name badge on arrival and encouraged to stay for coffee and a chat after mass.
Please look out for local announcements for any other plans in your church.
Pentecost afternoon mass and celebration - Then at 3pm in St. Josephs, the largest church in our Parish, there will be a special con-celebrated Holy Family Parish mass for everyone, followed by a multicultural tea. Please come along if you can?
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Read all the details in the latest letter here (May 2025).
You can read the previous letter here (March 2025) and the earlier letters are here (December 2024), here (October 2024), here (May 2024), here (February 2024), and here (November 2023).
Take a look at Parish plan presented to the Bishop here (August 2024).
I am Liam Cummins and I come from Ireland. I'm the eldest of four children (three boys and one girl).
As a Mill Hill Missionary (millhillmissionaries.com), I have spent a good period of my adult life ministering in Africa, namely Cameroon and Kenya.
I was appointed to England to do Mission Animation (Missio and Mill Hill) for a number of Dioceses in 2012. I really enjoyed this work and it involved a good amount of travelling and meeting lots of people. Read more.
If you want to be added to the Parish Register, please see the priest.
Download, print and complete the Parish Registration Form.
If your details change, or you have an addition to the family, please contact the Parish Secretary to make sure that your entry is up to date and includes all your children.
"I have no more to say but to recommend your case and mine to Almighty God, the Searcher of Hearts, who sends us His grace, and sets us at accord before the day of payment, to the end we may at last be friends in heaven, when all injuries shall be forgotten." Read more.
With hearts full of joy and gratitude, we celebrate the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV.
In his first words as pontiff, he greeted the world with a simple but powerful message: "We have to look together how [sic] to be a missionary Church, building bridges, dialogue, always open to receiving with open arms for everyone, like this square, open to all." We receive this moment with hope and expectation. As Pope Leo XIV begins his papacy, we entrust his leadership to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and look forward to how the Lord will work through him in the mission of the Church.
As we mark this historic moment — welcoming the first American pope in the history of the Church — we invite you to join us in prayer:
Lord Jesus, Good Shepherd, Guide Pope Leo XIV with wisdom, courage, and love. May the Holy Spirit strengthen him as he leads your Church in mission. Through his ministry, may the joy of the Gospel reach every human heart. Amen.
You can read the inaugural homily of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV here.
The latest letter (April 2025 - Divine Mercy Sunday) is available to read here .
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
It is with enormous sadness that we bid farewell to Pope Francis, commending his soul to the mercy of the Lord. The Holy Father passed away on the morning of Easter Monday 21st April 2025, after a battle with pneumonia and other problems. May he rest in the peace of the Risen Lord.
The Holy Father, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, came from Buenos Aires. The eldest of five children, he was born to an Italian immigrant father and an Argentinian mother on 17th December 1936. In his early years, he worked in a bar, as a janitor and as a chemical technician, but at the age of twenty, decided to become a priest. He entered the seminary but left a year later to join the Society of Jesus. His Jesuit formation extended across a period of great change in the Church during Vatican II and he was ordained to the priesthood in December 1967. …
All the Pastoral Letters from Bishop Philip are available on the Portsmouth Diocese website.
The Closer to Christ Campaign is a two-year initiative that will be delivered across the whole Diocese, with the am of raising £13.5million. Our vision for the Diocese is ‘bringing people close to Jesus Christ through his church’ and this project will help us realise our vision. This important endeavour has two key aims...
Upon admission, please state clearly that you are a Catholic Christian. If you want the Chaplain to visit you, you either need to complete the form in the Chapel, or speak to the Ward Sister in Charge.
The local Roman Catholic Church near Wexham Park Hospital is the Church of the Holy Redeemer, contact 01753 578328. In cases of emergency, call St Joseph’s Maidenhead on 01628 783988.
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