Parish newsletter · 8 March 2026

This is a historical edition. Dates, notices, service times and contact details are reproduced as published at the time. Please consult the latest newsletter for current information.

Page 1

The Catholic Churches

in Corby

✝ Our Lady of Walsingham
Occupation Road, Corby, NN17 1EE

✝ St Brendan & St Patrick
Beanfield Ave, Corby NN18 0AZ

✝ St John Ogilvie
1 Copenhagen Road, Danesholme,
Corby, NN18 9BX

THE THIRD SUNDAY

OF LENT

Yr A

th

8 MARCH 2026

Masses & Devotions Celebrated this Week

7th MARCH SATURDAY VIGIL MASSES

THE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

Our Lady’s 5:00pm Angela (Sheils) Blaney RIP; Charlie Lynn RIP;
Bridie Norton RIP

St Brendan’s 6:00pm Jimmy Carr RIP; John Parman RIP

8th MARCH SUNDAY MASSES

THE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

St Brendan’s 8:45am Sr Cecilia Monahan INT; Brian Holton RIP

Our Lady’s 10:00am Pat Aitken; Winnie Godfrey RIP; Mary Mack RIP

St Brendan’s 11:30am Theresa O’Driscoll RIP; Christopher Long RIP

St John Ogilvie’s 5:00pm People of the Parish; Grace Crawley RIP

WEEKDAY MASSES & DEVOTIONS - IN THE 3rd WEEK OF LENT

MONDAY - Lent Feria

Our Lady’s Catholic Truth Society Missal Page: 159 Parish Missal Page: 164 Our Lady’s Sunday Psalm Response: St Brendan’s St Brendan’s O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’ TUESDAY - March is the Month of the St Joseph St John Ogilvie’s Our Lady’s

The Holy Father’s Intentions for March 2026:

For disarmament and peace.

Let us pray that nations move toward effective dis- Our Lady’s
armament, particularly nuclear disarmament, and that

Our Lady’s

world leaders choose the path of dialogue and diplo-
macy instead of violence.

https://www.popesprayer.va/praywiththepope/ St Bren dan’s

St Brendan’s PARISH DIRECTORY

Parish Priest: Fr Mark Floody

St John Ogilvie’s

Parish Deacon: Deacon Chris Colaćo

Our Lady’s

Parish Office Hours: Tel: 01536 203121
At Our Lady’s: Monday & Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm
At St Brendan’s: Tuesday & Thursday 10:00am – 12:00noon

Our Lady’s

At Our Lady’s: Tuesday & Thursday 12.30pm – 4.00pm

Websites: ourladyofwalsinghamcorby.org
Email: parish.ourladyofwalsingham@northamptondiocese.org
stbrendanscorby.org.uk

TH

Email: parish.stbrendan@northamptondiocese.org

Safeguarding: Our Lady’s

Diocesan Safeguarding: Danielle Dixon 07833050628
At Our Lady of Walsingham: 07947485935 St Brendan’s
At St Brendan’s: see Catherine MacLellan
At St John Ogilvie’s: 07956363869

PARISH CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: TH

St Brendan’s Primary School: Beanfield Avenue, NN18 0AZ
Tel: 01536 202491 office@sb.cor.olicatschools.org St Brendan’s

St Patrick’s Primary School: Patrick Road, NN18 9NT Our Lady’s
Tel: 01536 744447 www.stpatricksprimaryschool.com

St Brendan’s

Our Lady of Walsingham Primary School: Occupation Rd,
Corby NN17 1EE Tel: 01536 203805
office@olw.cor.olicatschools.org

St John Ogilvie’s

9:30am Mass Sean Fitzpatrick RIP; Gene Larkin RIP;
Nora O’Leary RIP
10:00am Confessions
6:00pm Holy Hour + Confessions
7:00pm Mass Bill Davies RIP; Seamus Quaid RIP

St JOHN OGILVIE, CORBY: PATRONAL SOLEMNITY

9:30am MASS Jack Kane RIP; Helen Byrne RIP
5:30pm Adoration + 6:30pm Holy Rosary

WEDNESDAY - Lent Feria

9:30am Mass Members of the Confraternity of the Holy
House; Shay O’Connor RIP
10:00am Holy Rosary

THURSDAY - Lent Feria

9:30am Mass Charlie Kearney RIP; Sarah Kearney RIP
10:00am Stations of the Cross

FRIDAY - Lent Feria

9:30am NO MASS
7:00pm Stations of the Cross

SATURDAY - Lent Feria

9:30am Service of the Word & Communion
Followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

14th MARCH SATURDAY VIGIL MASSES HE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - LAETARE

5:00pm Sally (Shiels) Gallagher RIP; Patrick McDaid RIP

6:00pm Lizzie Doran RIP; Sean Hogan RIP

15th MARCH SUNDAY MASSES HE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - LAETARE

8:45am Pauline & John O’Keefe INT; Sophie O’Beirne INT

10:00am Bridie Norton RIP; Joe Mulvenna INT

11:30am Laine McShannon RIP ; Marie Kennedy RIP;
Private Intention

5:00pm People of the Parish; Michael & Muriel Crealey RIP

Page 2

Seven Day Candles Burn for:

Our Lady of Walsingham: Etta McArthur INT

Our Lady of Grace: Christian James Severn RIP

St Joseph: Peaw Charoeram RIP

Sacred Heart Statue: Dominik Keenaghan RIP

Sacred Heart Lamp: Mary Kitson INT

St Martin: Eamon McGrenaghan RIP

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

Maureen Fyfe RIP - Requiem Mass at Our Lady’s on Thursday 12th March at
11.00am.
Rosaleen Davies RIP - Requiem Mass at Our Lady’s on Wednesday 18th March
at 11:00am
Grace Crawley RIP - Requiem Mass at Our Lady’s on Thursday 19th March at
10.00am.
Mary McCabe RIP - Received into church on Wednesday 25th March at 4.30pm.
Requiem Mass at Our Lady’s on Thursday 26th March at 10.00am.
Janice Grimley RIP - Funeral service at Our Lady’s on Friday 27th March
at 10.30am.
Sarah (Sadie) Ann Carmichael - RIP Funeral at St Brendan’s on Wednesday 25th
March at 12:30pm at St Brendan’s.

PARISH

PARISH SCHEDULE: Fr Mark will be the only priest in Corby until
at least June. As a result, we will have to keep the scaled back
schedule until the summer when new appointments will be
considered. Fr Mark would like to thank everyone for their un-
derstanding and support.

ST JOHN OGILVIE: This coming Tuesday is the Feast of St John
Ogilvie and since this will be a particularly poignant day consid-
ering the plans for Corby Fr Mark is moving Tuesday morning
Mass from St Brendan’s to St John’s as it is their Patronal So-
lemnity. It would be good if we could come together to cele-
brate this Mass and we will have refreshments there instead of
at St Brendan’s this week.

EASTER SERVICES: we will now have the full Triduum (Holy
Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil) at both Our Lady’s
and St Brendan’s. More details to follow.

CONFESSIONS: There will be more opportunities to go to Con-
fession in the weeks leading up to Easter. More information
will follow.

St PATRICK’S SCHOOL 60th ANNIVERSARY MASS: Our parish
community is warmly invited to join us in celebrating the 60th
Anniversary of St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School and Nurse-
ry with a special Thanksgiving Mass on St Patrick’s Day, Tuesday
17th March 2026 at 2pm. The Mass will be held in the school
hall. This joyful celebration will give thanks for sixty years of
faith, learning and service, and will honour all those who have
contributed to the life of the school - past and present staff,
pupils, families, and parishioners. All parishioners, past staff
members, past pupils, families and friends of the school are
most welcome to attend and celebrate this important mile-
stone together. We look forward to sharing this special occa-
sion with you.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION CLOTHING: This Monday and Tues-
day there will be some Holy communion dresses, shirts, ties etc
that people have kindly donated for any children that are mak-
ing their communion this year. There is no cost and the items
will be displayed at the following times: St Brendan’s Church on
Monday 9th March from 3.30pm to 4.30pm and Our Lady’s
Church on Tuesday 10th March from 3.30pm to 4.30pm. If any-
one has any Holy communion clothing that they would like to
donate then please bring them along on these two days. Or
they can be left with stewards after Mass or please contact the
office to arrange to drop them off.

MISSION NORTHAMPTON CONFERENCE: Mission Northamp-
ton invites all those from across the diocese who have a heart
for sharing the Gospel with others to come along to this day
from 10.30am until 4pm on Saturday 14th March 2026 in Leigh-
ton Buzzard. Refreshments will be provided but please bring a
packed lunch. The event is free but we ask that attendees

NOTICES

please register their details to confirm their place: https://
northamptondiocese.org/courses/mission-conference-2026/

THE GREAT AWAKENING: Healing and Evangelisation Conven-
tion day led by Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries invites you to
Bethel Convention Centre (West Bromwich B70 7JW) on 21st
March 2026 9.00am to 4.00pm. All welcome. See flyers at the
back of church. Please contact Jophy on 07932 026017 for fur-
ther information.

CONFIRMATION AND HOLY COMMUNION PROGRAMMES: It is
important that the children attend the classes at St Patrick’s
school. Confirmation from 11.30am - 1:00pm: Saturday 21st
March, Saturday 28th March and on Saturday 18th April. The
First Holy Communion children’s classes will be on the same
dates, at the same venue from 9.30am - 11:00am. Fr Mark
would like to thank the catechists for making such a huge com-
mitment to help prepare the children to celebrate the sacra-
ments.

SVP: The SVP run a foodbank as sadly those who are in need
grows all year round. All our food parcels are distributed to
those who need them in our Catholic Schools and parishes,
here is a list of items in most need: soup, tinned spaghetti,
tinned tomatoes, pasta sauce, dried pasta, rice, tinned vegeta-
bles, tinned meat, tinned fish, tinned fruit, tinned custard and
rice pudding, breakfast cereals, biscuits, tea, coffee, long life
juice, UHT milk, disposable razors, shampoo, deodorant, show-
er gel, toilet rolls, toothpaste. If you can donate, please leave
your items with a steward at the back of the church.

PARISH OFFICE: Please note that the Parish office is closed on
Wednesdays.

VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD: Are you a man who is won-
dering whether God may be calling you to the priesthood? The
Diocese warmly invites you to ‘Come and See’ - a day of prayer,
reflection, and questions for men who are thinking about or
discerning a vocation to the priesthood.
Date: Saturday 28th March, 2026. Programme: A day including
prayer, reflection, input on priestly vocation, and an open Q&A.
Who is it for? Men who are exploring, questioning, or discern-
ing a call to the priesthood. Where? Our Lady of Christian and
St Lawrence, Olney. This day offers a relaxed and supportive
opportunity to reflect on God’s call, to learn more about priest-
ly life, and to ask honest questions in a prayerful setting. To
register your interest or for more information, please contact:
Fr Pius vocationsdirector@northamptondiocese.org 01753
523147

REFRESHMENTS are served after Sunday’s 11:30am Mass &
Tuesday’s Mass at St Brendan’s, at St John Ogilvie’s after Sun-
day’s 5:00pm Mass, and after Wednesday’s recitation of the
Holy Rosary at Our Lady of Walsingham.