St Francis Christmas Bazaar
This year’s Christmas Bazaar will take place on Saturday 26th November 2011.
click here to see a slideshow of last year’s Christmas Bazaar
Welcome from Fr. Michael Johnston
As the Parish Priest of St. Francis of Assisi Church may I welcome you to our parish website and thank you for your interest. We are a large parish of over 1100 regular worshippers situated in the Notting Hill part of London. Our congregation is made up of young and old represented by about 60 different nationalities.
This makes for a lively, diverse and enriched community. In 2010 we celebrate 150 years of our parish with its beautiful Church and cloister dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi.We are always open and ready to welcome newcomers to our Church, to the varied Liturgies; to the various groups and organisations or to just quietly drop in for quiet prayer as you pass by.
This website will I hope tell you something about the life of our parish, but we would be even more pleased to welcome you to our Community and to walk with us in your journey of faith. As a parish we never forget that we exist in order to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.
As He said:- “Come and See”. You are most welcome.
God Bless You.
Fr. Michael
5th Sunday of the Year - 05th February 2012
Fr. Michael writes: Most of us live very busy lives. We devote very little time to prayer and reflection in our lives. The result is that many of us live very restless and spiritually impoverished lives. Today’s Gospel shows us how in the midst of his most pressing work Jesus took time out to pray and to restore his energies. It also provided him with a breathing space and a chance to recover mentally and spiritually as well as physically. Whatever our role in life we too need to find that “lonely place” in our lives. There we can reflect, meditate on the past and the future, draw up the balance sheet and examine the world and ourselves. At the same time we seek out God and lay before him the totality of our lives. This kind of prayer will transform and fortify us. We should all find a place and time for it.5th Sunday of the Year