Parish newsletter · 22 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 FIFTH SUNDAY

OF LENT

Yr A

nd

22 MARCH 2026

Masses & Devotions Celebrated this Week

21st MARCH SATURDAY VIGIL MASSES
THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT (Passiontide begins today)

Our Lady’s 5:00pm Betty Docherty RIP; Jimmy & Barbara Levins RIP

St Brendan’s 6:00pm Betty McIvor RIP; Margaret Crawford RIP

22nd MARCH SUNDAY MASSES
THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT (Passiontide begins today)

St Brendan’s 8:45am Manie Whelan RIP; Margaret McAleese RIP

Our Lady’s 10:00am Gordon Allan RIP; Frank Swales RIP

St Brendan’s 11:30am Maria Hastings RIP; James Sweeney Snr &
James Sweeney Jnr RIP

St John Ogilvie’s 5:00pm People of the Parish

WEEKDAY MASSES & DEVOTIONS - IN THE 5th WEEK OF LENT

MONDAY - Lent Feria
Our Lady’s 9:30am Mass Mary Barron-Edgley RIP; Aiojz Osti RIP

Our Lady’s Catholic Truth Society Missal Page: 177 Our Lady’s Parish Missal Page: 170 St Brendan’s St Brendan’s Sunday Psalm Response: With the LORD there is mercy, in him is plentiful redemption. St Brendan’s Our Lady’s March is the Month of the St Joseph

The Holy Father’s Intentions for March 2026: WEDNESDAY

Our Lady’s For disarmament and peace. Our Lady’s

Let us pray that nations move toward effective dis-

St Brendan’s

armament, particularly nuclear disarmament, and that
world leaders choose the path of dialogue and diplo-
macy instead of violence.

Our Lady’s

https://www.popesprayer.va/praywiththepope/ St Brendan’s

PARISH DIRECTORY

Parish Priest: Fr Mark Floody St John Ogilvie’s

Our Lady’s

Parish Deacon: Deacon Chris Colaćo

Parish Office Hours: Tel: 01536 203121
At Our Lady’s: Monday & Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm

Our Lady’s

At St Brendan’s: Tuesday & Thursday 10:00am – 12:00noon
At Our Lady’s: Tuesday & Thursday 12.30pm – 4.00pm

Websites: ourladyofwalsinghamcorby.org
Email: parish.ourladyofwalsingham@northamptondiocese.org PAL
stbrendanscorby.org.uk
Email: parish.stbrendan@northamptondiocese.org Our Lady’s

Safeguarding:

Diocesan Safeguarding: Danielle Dixon 07833050628

St Brendan’s

At Our Lady of Walsingham: 07947485935
At St Brendan’s: see Catherine MacLellan
At St John Ogilvie’s: 07956363869

PARISH CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: PAL

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
Tel: 01536 744447 www.stpatricksprimaryschool.com

Our Lady’s

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

St John Ogilvie’s

9:30am Mass Mary Barron-Edgley RIP; Aiojz Osti RIP
10:00am Confessions
6:00pm Holy Hour + Confessions
7:00pm Mass Susannah Christi RIP; Ian Garvey RIP

TUESDAY - Lent Feria

9:30am MASS Jim & Susan Bennett RIP; Mary Hurst RIP
5:30pm Adoration + 6:30pm Holy Rosary

- SOLEMNITY OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD

9:30am Mass Charlie Lynn RIP; Hannah Conaghan RIP
10:00am Holy Rosary
12:30pm Requiem Mass Sadie Carmichael RIP

THURSDAY - Lent Feria

10:00am Requiem Mass Mary McCabe 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

28th MARCH SATURDAY VIGIL MASSES LM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

5:00pm Charlie Lynn RIP; Martyn & Ian Garvey RIP
Awakening Convention

6:00pm Shay O’Connor RIP; Maria Hastings RIP;
Tomulty Family RIP

29th MARCH SUNDAY MASSES LM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

8:45am Dave McArthur RIP & Etta McArthur INT
John Gibb RIP

10:00am March Family RIP; Thanksgiving; Grace Crawley RIP

11:30am Margaret Owens RIP; Terry McGrath RIP

5:00pm People of the Parish

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Seven Day Candles Burn for:

Our Lady of Walsingham:

Anne Hogan INT

Our Lady of Grace:

Mary Kitson INT

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

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

PENITENTIAL SERVICE: We will have a Penitential Service on
Tuesday 31st March at 7.00pm at Our Lady’s. In addition we
will have the usual Confessions on Monday evenings at 6.00pm.
We also have confessions on a Monday morning at our Lady’s
after morning Mass. We are encouraged to go to Confession
before the start of the Easter Triduum which is Holy Thursday
(The Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Good Friday Passion Service
and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday evening).

NEW WINESKINS DISCERNMENT - THE NEXT STEPS:

We have now come to the end of the formal discernment pro-
cess. The transition phase over the next 6 months will see a
number of changes, including our three parishes in Corby be-
coming one single parish. We will soon be distributing a parish
census to understand better the make up of our whole parish
community. Through the discernment process we identified key
development areas for our new parish including mission, litur-
gy; music, finance, property, young people, schools; families,
catechesis; and adult formation. There will be opportunities
over the next few months for everyone to say how they might
want to get involved in the things that interest them. This is an
exciting time as we work together to make the new parish in
Corby a thriving and growing community, reaching out to evan-
gelise with a message of hope, joy and life in Christ. The ap-
proaching Easter season when we celebrate the Lord’s death
and rising in glory is the basis for our hope and missionary out-
reach - and we all have a part to play in it.

WHY DO WE COVER STATUES? The practice of veiling images
alerts us that something is different, but the last two weeks of
Lent are a time of immediate preparation for the celebration of
the Sacred Triduum and this period is called Passiontide. The
veils remind us in a powerful way to get ourselves ready for the
celebration of Easter. When images are unveiled before the
Easter Vigil, we are reminded that we live by faith, following
the Lord who calls us. But we are preparing for a time when
everything will be revealed, if you like unveiled and we will see
the glory of risen and glorified Christ who invites us to follow
him to his Father’s house. Christ lifts the veil through His Res-
urrection which has overcome the darkness of death.

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.

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

PARISH OFFICE: Please note that the Parish office is closed on
Wednesdays, Saturday’s and Sunday’s.

NOTICES

MAJOR HOLY WEEK SERVICES

CHRISM MASS at the Cathedral o n Wednesday 1st April at 12:00

EASTER TRIDUUM

HOLY THURSDAY: Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7.00pm at Our
Lady’s and St Brendan’s.
GOOD FRIDAY: Celebration of the Lord’s Passion at 3.00pm at
Our Lady’s and St Brendan’s.

HOLY SATURDAY:

EASTER VIGIL 8.00pm at Our Lady’s and St Brendan’s

EASTER SUNDAY MASSES:

Normal Sunday Mass times at the 3 Churches.

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 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 cate-
chists for making such a huge commitment to help prepare the
children to celebrate the sacraments.

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.

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.