Year of St Paul    

   "I want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord"

Phil 4:4

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MISSION PLANNING MEETING  The next planning session for our Parish Mission will be held on Monday 1st December @ 7:30pm in the Parish Centre. This will be a most significant meeting as Fr. Tim Buckley CSSR (who will lead the visiting missioners) will be in attendance. The style of the proposed mission is one where the Parish have a significant and crucial input so we will be discussing what we hope to include in the mission (Liturgy, Service and other meetings), as well as the more practical aspects of how to prepare for those activities and make them fruitful. Once more, everyone is Invited.

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 ADVENT PRAYER MEETINGS

There will be a series of three Advent prayer meetings to be held in church on the 4^th, 11^th and 18^th of December at 7.30pm. All are invited. These meetings will lead to the Advent Reconciliation Service (with Confession) on Monday 22^nd December also at 7.30pm. Details of these will be available at the end of November.   In anticipation of our Advent Prayer Meetings, Several thousand invitations cards will be distributed at the end of November to as may households as possible in the Parish. We will have envelopes and Invitation cards at the back of the Church at the end of the month and volunteers are required to post them in letter boxes before the beginning of December. This is part of our mission out reach by which we encourage people to reflect on their relationship with Jesus especially in preparation for Christmas. Further details will be available nearer the time.

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Fr. Tom Lavin writes:

Welcome to the parish of SS. Peter & Paul's, Ilford.   We are a worshipping community of nearly one thousand people, from many different countries.  At SS. Peter & Paul's, because of our Catholic faith, we are dedicated to:

• Worshipping God and celebrating the Sacraments
• Growing in knowledge of  Jesus Christ and sharing him with others
• Supporting each other and anyone in need
• Supporting the wider community via the Cardinal Heenan Centre

The Church is open

8.00 am – 10.00pm, Monday - Friday

8.00am – 12.00 noon Saturday.

On Sundays the Church is open 8.00 am - 1 pm

with Rosary and Benediction at 4.00pm

The church then remains open until after 6.00pm Mass. 

For full details of our additional Parish Liturgy and Devotions (Morning Prayer, Daily Rosary and Novenas) please see the Sacraments and / or Newsletters page.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 

 Mon to Fri from 8 am till 10 pm

SS. PETER & PAUL'S

History

1896 - The church a corrugated iron structure near Ilford Hill was given parochial status and Rev. Bede Wrigley hands over to Fr. Patrick Palmer.

1898 - Cardinal Vaughan lays foundation stone of present church.

1899 – Church opened by Cardinal Vaughan.

1900 – Work starts on SS.P.P. High Road School.

1906 – Tower added to the church.

1925 – Lord Mayor of London opens The Guildhall.

1927 – St. Vincent's Becontree becomes a parish

1928 – St. Augustine's Church opens

1930 – Fr. John Carmel Heenan ordained at SS.P.P. (In 1965 he became Cardinal)

1948 – Canon Palmer died. Bishop Beck acts as parish priest.

1951 – Work starts on St. Theresa's at Newbury Park on land bought by Canon Palmer.

1956 – Fr. Martin Hancock takes over the parish.

1961 – Canon Palmer's School opens.

1966 - St. Cedds opens and takes over part of parish

1967 – Canon John Walsh takes charge

1967 – St. John the Baptist Church opens

1973 – Fr. Kieran Dodd becomes P. P

1985 – SS.P.P. New School opens in Gordon Road

1988 – Fr. Pat Cavanagh becomes P.P

1993 – Adoration Chapel opened

1994 – Ilford Catholic Club 75^th Anniversary

1996 – Parish Celebrates Centenary

2001 – Fr. Cavanagh dies

2001 – Fr Tom Lavin becomes P.P.

2001 - Church Tower Bell installed Click for details

2006 – Parish Celebrates 110 years

Historical detail taken from
"The First Hundred and Ten Years"
by Peter Foley 

 "Without God we cannot, without us God will not"

St. Augustine