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Welcome to the English Martyrs Didcot and St John Wallingford parish website. We are two neighbouring churches within the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. We currently have about five hundred regular parishioners and many activities.

English Martyrs Church Didcot is open daily for private prayers between 8am and 5pm.

St John the Evangelist Church Wallingford is open daily for private prayers between 8am and 6pm.

Announcement:

The Parish Area Confession Day will be on Thursday 12th December 7:00pm at English Martyrs Church Didcot. For more information, please refer to our newsletter.

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The Immaculate Conception

Monday, 9th December, is the great Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (transferred this year from 8th December which is the Second Sunday of Advent). Mary Immaculate is the Patron of our Diocese and so Monday is definitely a day on which to attend Mass to pray for us all. This feast was celebrated in the East from the eight century and in the ninth century was kept in many places in the West. Pope Pius IX extended the celebration to the universal Church when he proclaimed the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception on 8th December 1854. In that definition he expressed its precise meaning, affirming the constant faith of the Church: that Our Lady was conceived free from the stain of the original sin from the moment of her conception. It was a privilege unique to Mary, and a fitting one, for she would one day carry in her womb the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. St. John Henry Newman wrote that “there is no difference in kind between her and us, though an inconceivable difference of degree. She and we are both simply saved by the grace of Christ.” The Immaculate Conception marks the beginning of human redemption. Mary is the first redeemed human being, the first of a new creation in Christ.(Portsmouth Diocese e-News)

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Second Sunday of Advent

This Sunday, 8th December, is the Second Sunday of Advent. (The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is transferred to Monday 9th this year.) Click on the link to read more about this Sunday's reading. (Portsmouth Diocese e-News)

Prayer for Our Pastoral Area

O LORD, graciously look down upon us
your servants and upon our work to build
Your Holy Church here in this place.

 

Enlighten our minds and lead us into all
truth as we seek to do Your will.

 

Abundantly bless our labours that Your
Holy Church may serve You ever more
faithfully to the glory of Your Holy name.

Through Christ our Lord, Amen.

News Update

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Christmas concert 15 December at English Martyrs Church

Didcot Community Gospel Choir and Didcot Girls Chamber Choir are co-organising a Christmas concert for the first time at English Martyrs Church Didcot. The Program includes traditional gospel songs as well as some Christmas music. The proceeds from this concert will be donated to The Cornermen, the charity that support men's mental health. Please

come and support this meaningful and festive activity

to proclaim the message of love and peace during the

Advent period.

Date: 15th December 2024

Time: 5:00pm

Venue: English Martyrs Church Didcot

Ticket price: £10 (Please scan the QR code on

the poster or contact didcotgospel@gmail.com

for ticket selling information.)

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Past events

Where to find us

English Martyrs Church,
15 Manor Crescent, Didcot, Oxon  OX11 7AJ

Telephone: 01235 812338

didcot@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk

St John the Evangelist Church
Market Place, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 0EG

(All correspondence to English Martyrs Church Didcot)

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