Parish newsletter · 15 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.

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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 FOURTH SUNDAY

OF LENT (LAETARE)

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Masses & Devotions Celebrated this Week

14th MARCH SATURDAY VIGIL MASSES

THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT (LAETARE)

Our Lady’s 5:00pm Sally (Shiels) Gallagher RIP; Patrick McDaid RIP

St Brendan’s 6:00pm Lizzie Doran RIP; Sean Hogan RIP

15th MARCH SUNDAY MASSES

THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT (LAETARE)

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

Our Lady’s 10:00am Bridie Norton RIP; Joe Mulvenna INT;
Tony Godfrey RIP

St Brendan’s 11:30am Laine McShannon RIP ; Marie Kennedy RIP;
Duncan Potter INT

St John Ogilvie’s 5:00pm People of the Parish; Michael & Muriel Crealey RIP

WEEKDAY MASSES & DEVOTIONS - IN THE 4th WEEK OF LENT

MONDAY - Lent Feria

Catholic Truth Society Missal Page: 171 Our Lady’s Parish Missal Page: 164 Our Lady’s Sunday Psalm Response: St Brendan’s The LORD is my shepherd; St Brendan’s there is nothing I shall want. TUESDA March is the Month of the St Joseph St Brendan’s

The Holy Father’s Intentions for March 2026:

Our Lady’s For disarmament and peace.

Let us pray that nations move toward effective dis-
armament, particularly nuclear disarmament, and that Our Lady’s
world leaders choose the path of dialogue and diplo- Our Lady’s
macy instead of violence.

THURSDAY -

https://www.popesprayer.va/praywiththepope/

Our Lady’s St Brendan’s PARISH DIRECTORY

Parish Priest: Fr Mark Floody
Parish Deacon: Deacon Chris Colaćo St John Ogilvie’s

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

THE FIFT

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: THE FIFT

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

St John Ogilvie’s

MONDAY - Lent Feria

9:30am Mass Neil Gallagher RIP; Harry Connelly RIP;
Patrick & Eileen McKeown RIP; Charlie Lynn RIP
10:00am Confessions
6:00pm Holy Hour + Confessions
7:00pm Mass Mary Burke RIP; Peggy Toplin

AY - St PATRICK. BISHOP, PATRON OF IRELAND

9:30am MASS Charlie Kearney RIP; Derek O’Connell RIP;
Charlie Lynn RIP; Sandra McGrory RIP
5:30pm Adoration + 6:30pm Holy Rosary

WEDNESDAY - Lent Feria

9:30am Holy Rosary
11:00am Requiem Mass Rosaleen Davies RIP

ST JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

10:00am Requiem Mass Grace Crawley 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

21st MARCH SATURDAY VIGIL MASSES

TH SUNDAY OF LENT (Passiontide begins today)

5:00pm Betty Docherty RIP; Jimmy & Barbara Levins RIP

6:00pm Betty McIvor RIP; Margaret Crawford RIP

22nd MARCH SUNDAY MASSES

TH SUNDAY OF LENT (Passiontide begins today)

8:45am Manie Whelan RIP; Margaret McAleese RIP

10:00am Gordon Allan RIP; Frank Swales RIP

11:30am Maria Hastings RIP; Janes Sweeney Snr &
James Sweeney Jnr RIP

5:00pm People of the Parish

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Seven Day Candles Burn for:

Our Lady of Walsingham: Janet Creek INT

Our Lady of Grace: Mary Kitson INT

Sacred Heart Lamp: Mike Garnham INT

St Martin: Keane & O’Leary Family RIP

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

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.
Sarah (Sadie) Ann Carmichael - RIP Funeral at St Brendan’s on Wednesday 25th
March at 12:30pm at St Brendan’s.
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.
Please pray for their families at this sad time.

PARISH

HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY: We pray that all our mums enjoy their
special day. For those who’s mums have gone to the Lord we
pray that they may be granted eternal happiness.

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.

HOLY WEEK: It is hard to believe that we will start Holy Week in
just 2 weeks’ time. On Palm Sunday we will have the long Pas-
sion Gospel reading at the 10.00am Mass at Our Lady’s and at
the 11.30am Mass at St Brendan’s. There will the blessing of
palms at all the Masses.

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: We will have Mass for St Patrick on Tuesday morn-
ing at 9:30am at St Brendan’s which is currently the parish of St
Brendan and St Patrick. We will also have Mass at St Patrick’s
Primary School on Tuesday afternoon, which will also mark
their 60th anniversary since they opened. We wish you all a
very happy St Patrick’s Day on Tuesday.

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.

ST JOHN OGILVIE: It was good to see so many parishioners last
Tuesday as we celebrated the Solemnity of St John Ogilvie at St
John’s. The church was full and it was a powerful witness of
how the parishes in Corby come together to give support and
reassurance that we are truly becoming one community. Fr
Mark would like to thank the community at St John’s for wel-
coming everyone and putting on refreshments after the Mass.

CASPER: Please be aware we are having technical issues regard-
ing CASPER, please bear with us.

NOTICES

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, Saturday’s and Sunday’s.

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.