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.
From Missio National Director: On World Mission Sunday (19th October 2025), the whole Church unites in prayer and generosity to support Catholic communities across the world facing poverty, conflict, and hardship. The Late Pope Francis chose ‘Missionaries of Hope Among All Peoples’ as this year’s theme, reminding us of our call to be messengers and builders of hope in this Jubilee Year. Rooted in Christ’s resurrection, this hope has the power to transform lives and heal our world. Prayers and donations on this day directly sustain young and struggling faith communities, support vocations, and enable missionaries to bring the Gospel to remote and often dangerous places. Together, we help communities grow in faith, dignity, and self-reliance. This day of prayer and giving unites Catholics worldwide to share the Good News of God’s love for all peoples. Thank you for your continued support of Missio. For more information, please visit missio.org.uk/wms.
Join us at 7pm on Wednesday 5th November in St Edmund Campion church, where we will remember those dear to us who we have lost. If you would like the name(s) of your deceased family and friends (who have died in the past 12 months) recorded in the Book of Remembrance, you can either use the signup sheet in the church porch, or send an email to swilliams30034@gmail.com if you prefer. Please print names clearly. Closing date for registering names is Sunday 2nd November.
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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 | 9:30am | No |
| 11:15am | YouTube | |
| 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.
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 Holy Family Parish in Maidenhead and Twyford welcomes you to our Catholic community. St Edmund Campion Church serves the West Maidenhead area and welcomes everyone. Hopefully you will find all the information you are looking for either here or on the main Parish Website - 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.
The latest letter (May 2025 - Fourth Sunday of Easter) is available to read here .
My dear People,
Habemus papam! We have a pope! On behalf of the whole Diocese of Portsmouth, I am delighted to welcome our new holy father: Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost. He has been elected as 276th Successor of St. Peter and has taken the name, Pope Leo XIV. He is first for many things: the first North American and Peruvian, the first Augustinian, and the first pope from an English-speaking country since Pope Adrian IV. …
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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