The Immaculate Conception, Charlesworth

The Immaculate Conception, Charlesworth Welcome to our Parish page! Sunday Mass: 9.15am
Friday Mass: 9.30am
Friday Quiet Time To Destress: 5pm-6pm

Are you stressed and need a downtime
28/05/2026

Are you stressed and need a downtime

25/05/2026

This comment was left by one of our parishioners. I think it encapsulates us, at Immaculate Conception:-

'Everyone shares their talents so freely, we support each other in times of need and have many a laugh together. We've all found each other. God moves in mysterious ways. X'

We are all there for each other, and are a very happy and friendly community. All welcome! ### 🥰🥰❤❤❤

What a beautiful May Procession this Pentecost Sunday! 🌺
24/05/2026

What a beautiful May Procession this Pentecost Sunday! 🌺

24/05/2026

May procession 🌺

24/05/2026

May Procession 🌺

23/05/2026

Saturday 23 May · Vigil of Pentecost

For our Bishop, and for the renewal of our diocese.

For Bishop Patrick, and the work the Holy Spirit is doing among us.

SCRIPTURE

Acts 2:1–4
"When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting… And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit."

REFLECTION

Tonight is the vigil. Our novena finishes. This evening and tomorrow, the readings of Pentecost will be proclaimed and we will hear, once more, the great story of Pentecost.

On this last day we pray for our Bishop. Bishop Patrick is the shepherd the Lord has given our diocese for this moment and time. The Bishop has set before us a five-year Mission Plan that is quietly confident about what God is asking of us: that we would not manage decline but reshape ourselves and our institutions for renewal, growth and mission; that encounter, discipleship and mission would become the living foundations of every parish, school and chaplaincy; and that all of it would be inspired by the Holy Spirit and nourished by the Eucharist.

Pray for Bishop Patrick by name today: for his health, his prayer life, his courage; for the burdens he carries and the joy he is given; for the words he will need to say in the years ahead, and the silences he will need to keep. He has asked us to pray for him. Today let us do so.

And we pray for the diocese he serves. Not only for the diocese as it is in this moment, but for the diocese God is calling it to become. A Church that is more outward-looking, more missionary, more confident in speaking humbly of Christ. A Church where the Holy Spirit is at work and on the move. A Church where, by the grace of God and the cooperation of every baptised heart, the wind has filled the sails.

Tomorrow morning, we recall how the Spirit descended in the Upper Room, and we implore Him to descend, once more, upon our Diocese. Tonight, we wait - together, in one place, with one accord, with Mary and the apostles in the Upper Room of our diocese - and we pray.

TODAY, WE PRAY

For Bishop Patrick: for his health, his prayer, his ministry, and the courage God will continue to ask of him.

For the renewal of our diocese: that we would become a Church visibly alive in the Spirit; faith-filled, joyful, outward-looking, missionary disciples.

And for an openness, in each of us tomorrow morning and every day, to the wind that will fill our sails.

CLOSING PRAYER

Come, Holy Spirit. Unfurl our sails.
Make us faith-filled, joyful and outward-looking missionary disciples for the renewal of our diocese, and the life of the world.
Amen.

22/05/2026

Friday 22 May · Easter Feria

For our families and marriages.

For the domestic church, for every family where faith is first met or first lost.

SCRIPTURE

Joshua 24:15
"And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve… but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

REFLECTION

Long before a child meets Christ in a school assembly or a parish, they meet Him - or they don't - at their home. In the way a parent argues, forgives, prays, says grace before supper, sits up with a teenager at midnight, gets out of bed for Mass on a wet Sunday morning. The home is where most of us either learn that faith is real and foundational or learn that it is decorative or an add-on.

Our Mission Plan recognises the family as the first place of encounter, discipleship and mission: the domestic church where the three themes are first lived. Marriage and family life is both a joy and challenge, for everyone, at every age. There are tired marriages, marriages under strain, families estranged from one another, single parents carrying alone what was meant for two, adult children watching elderly parents fade. None of this disqualifies a household from the call to holiness. The ups and the downs are all the raw material for growth in holiness, and the Holy Spirit is the one who turns it into grace.

Today we pray for the families of our diocese: the ones flourishing, the ones struggling, the ones in pieces, and the new ones just starting out. We pray for engaged couples, newlyweds, those celebrating fifty years. We pray for parents whose children have stopped coming to Mass, and for grandparents quietly handing on the faith their own children did not.

TODAY, WE PRAY

For every family and household in our diocese, that they would be true domestic churches of encounter, discipleship and mission.

For marriages: those flourishing, those tired, those struggling, and for those preparing to marry: that their hope would be met with grace.

And for parents, godparents and grandparents: that their love would be a window onto the love of God.

CLOSING PRAYER

Come, Holy Spirit. Unfurl our sails.
Make us faith-filled, joyful and outward-looking missionary disciples for the renewal of our diocese, and the life of the world.
Amen.

21/05/2026

Thursday 21 May · Easter Feria

For those who have drifted from the Church, and those who have never known Christ.

For the missionary edge of our diocese, for every person Christ longs to reach through us.

SCRIPTURE

Luke 15:4–6
"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it?… And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost."

REFLECTION

Most of us know someone who has drifted from the Church or has never known Christ. A sibling who used to come to Mass and stopped. A child who grew up and grew away. A friend who was baptised and confirmed and would now describe themselves, gently, as having no faith. Or someone we work with, live next to, see every week, who has never had any real reason to think about Christ at all.

Our Mission Plan is honest about how hard this is. Most of us, it acknowledges, do not find it easy to speak of our faith. We do not like to stand out. We feel a little unsure of what to say. So, we say nothing, and the door stays closed. The Plan's answer is not to manufacture confidence by willpower, but to ask the Holy Spirit to make us faith-filled, joyful and outward-looking missionary disciples whose lives bear witness before our words do, and whose words come, when they come, from a place of love rather than performance.

Today, we ask the Spirit to do what we cannot. We pray for every person we have stopped praying for. We pray for the people whose names we know and the people whose names only God knows.

And we ask, quietly, for the courage to be ready when the door opens.

TODAY, WE PRAY

For everyone, by name, who we know has drifted from the Church.

For those who have never been told, in language they could hear, that God loves them.

And for the courage to invite, to listen, to speak humbly of Christ and to be the kind of welcoming, invitational parishes where someone who walks back through the door knows they are home.

CLOSING PRAYER

Come, Holy Spirit. Unfurl our sails.
Make us faith-filled, joyful and outward-looking missionary disciples for the renewal of our diocese, and the life of the world.
Amen.
Open the Pentecost Novena app
justninedays.com — opens straight in your browser, then tap "Add to Home Screen"

Please forward this email on to your parish, your priest, your family WhatsApp group, or one person you've been praying for.

Prefer a different way to pray with us?

Whichever way suits you best, the prayers are the same, and we are praying them together.

MAY PROCESSION - Sunday 24th May - All WelcomeWe hope to enjoy good weather for a May Procession atImmaculate Conception...
21/05/2026

MAY PROCESSION - Sunday 24th May - All Welcome

We hope to enjoy good weather for a May Procession at
Immaculate Conception.

20/05/2026

Continuation of the Novena

Wednesday 20 May · Easter Feria

For the housebound, the sick, our retired clergy and Religious.

For those whose prayers carry our diocese.

SCRIPTURE

Colossians 1:24
"Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church."

REFLECTION

Our Mission Plan says something we should not overlook: the renewal of our diocese depends on the active participation of all the baptised and it is supported by the prayers of the Religious, the housebound and the retired clergy.

Supported by. Held up by. Made possible by.

If you are praying this novena from a hospital bed, from a care home room, from your own front room because you can no longer get to the church you have loved your whole life, please know that you are at the very heart of the Diocesan Mission Plan. The Church here in the East Midlands, the Diocese of Nottingham, is leaning on your prayer in these nine days and, indeed, in every day of your life. The Plan's three themes - encounter, discipleship and mission - are enabled by the Holy Spirit and nourished by the Eucharist, and your prayer is part of how that enabling actually happens. Saint Paul's words to the Colossians belong to you in a particular way.

And to our Religious communities, scattered through the diocese in your monasteries and convents and houses: your daily office, your adoration, your Masses, are part of the engine of what God is doing here. We see you. We thank God for you. We need you.

TODAY, WE PRAY

For every housebound and sick person in our diocese: that they would know themselves loved and indispensable to the Church's mission.

For our Religious communities and our retired clergy: that the Holy Spirit would continue to make their prayer fruitful far beyond their seeing.

And for those who carry illness, grief, anxiety or loneliness today, that the Spirit would comfort and console them.

CLOSING PRAYER

Come, Holy Spirit. Unfurl our sails.
Make us faith-filled, joyful and outward-looking missionary disciples for the renewal of our diocese, and the life of the world.
Amen.
Open the Pentecost Novena app
justninedays.com — opens straight in your browser, then tap "Add to Home Screen"

Please forward this email on to your parish, your priest, your family WhatsApp group, or one person you've been praying for.

Prefer a different way to pray with us?

Whichever way suits you best, the prayers are the same, and we are praying them together.

Sign up for the daily mail.

Everyone welcome at our Christmas Fair 🎄 Saturday 25th November 11-3 🎅 hope to see you there!
22/10/2023

Everyone welcome at our Christmas Fair 🎄 Saturday 25th November 11-3 🎅 hope to see you there!

Address

Long Lane
Charlesworth
SK135ES

Telephone

01457 852 351

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Immaculate Conception, Charlesworth posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Place Of Worship

Send a message to The Immaculate Conception, Charlesworth:

Shortcuts

Share

Category