St Catharine of Alexandria Frome & St Dominic's Chapel Mells

31/10/2025

Please go to our website www.stcatharines.co.uk to read our latest parish newsletter!

St Catharine of Alexandria, Frome and St Dominic's Chapel, MellsOur ParishThank you for visiting our parish website; we hope you find it helpful. Our parish of St. Catharine of Alexandria is in the beautiful county of SomersetFind out about us!NewslettersLatest newsletterMass TimesSaturday 5.30pmSun...

31/10/2025

A Celebration of Marriage and Family Life

Bishop Bosco is to celebrate Mass in the Cathedral on Saturday 14 February (12 noon) and is inviting all families to join him to acknowledge the joys & challenges of family life. In addition, we will celebrate those couples with significant anniversaries in 2026. You are all very welcome to join our diocesan family for this Mass.

If you are, or know of a couple, celebrating a special anniversary during 2026, or indeed getting married in 2026, please do let us know. You just need to send names to: [email protected] with an address so that a personal invitation can be sent out from the bishop. Please include the number of years celebrating. It is always a wonderful Mass at the Cathedral, we look forward to seeing you there.

24/10/2025

Our latest parish newsletter is now on our website www.stcatharines.co.uk, please take a look!

St Catharine of Alexandria, Frome and St Dominic's Chapel, MellsOur ParishThank you for visiting our parish website; we hope you find it helpful. Our parish of St. Catharine of Alexandria is in the beautiful county of SomersetFind out about us!NewslettersLatest newsletterMass TimesSaturday 5.30pmSun...

24/10/2025

Celebration of Marriage & Family Life Mass

Bishop Bosco is to celebrate Mass in the Cathedral on Saturday 14 February (12 noon) and is inviting all families to join him to acknowledge the joys & challenges of family life. In addition, we will celebrate those couples with significant anniversaries in 2026. You are all very welcome to join our diocesan family for this Mass.

If you are, or know of a couple, celebrating a special anniversary during 2026 please do let us know. You just need to send names to: [email protected] with an address so that a personal invitation can be sent out from the bishop. Please include the number of years celebrating. It is always a wonderful Mass at the Cathedral, we look forward to seeing you there.

10/10/2025

Diocesan Annual Formation Day

Our Annual Formation Day will take place on 11 October at St. Brendan’s College, Brislington, with Mgr John Armitage as our keynote speaker. He will be reflecting on the theme of ‘Being an Evangelist Today: the tools required to be a joyful witness of Jesus’.

The Timetable for the day:
9.30am - Arrivals and Refreshments
10am - Welcome and Opening Prayer (Theatre)
10.20am - Opening Talk: Mgr. John Armitage (Theatre)
11am - Refreshments
11.25am - Workshop 1 (Classroom)
12.10pm - Move to Mass
12.15pm - Mass (Theatre)
1pm - Lunch (Café) – please bring a packed lunch for the day
1.55pm - Move to Workshop
2pm - Workshop 2 (Classroom)
2.45pm - Move to Plenary
3pm - Plenary and Closing Prayer (Theatre)
3.30pm - Departures

In addition, there will be several workshop options for people to attend. Choose a workshop for the morning and another workshop for the afternoon when booking your tickets.

The Workshop options are:
Make Level Paths: Catechesis for People with Additional Needs - Sr Carino Hodder OP
Act Justly: Formation for Mission - Raymond Friel
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd - Melinda Whitehead
Youth Ministry – engaging young people in catechesis - Nohil D’Souza
Diaconate – Formation for service - Deacon John Andrews
Helping Parents to help their children grow in faith - Sr Lucy Cahil OP
Accompanying Couples to live their Vocation to Marriage when Life is a Struggle - James & Sharon Westby, Retrouvaille Co-ordinators England and Wales
Engaging Parents in Catechesis for Baptism -Debbie Hartstone

To register for the Annual Diocesan Formation Day, please follow the Eventbrite link here: https://diocesanformationday.eventbrite.co.uk

26/09/2025

Our latest parish newsletter is now on our website www.stcatharines.co.uk please take a look!

St Catharine of Alexandria, Frome and St Dominic's Chapel, MellsOur ParishThank you for visiting our parish website; we hope you find it helpful. Our parish of St. Catharine of Alexandria is in the beautiful county of SomersetFind out about us!NewslettersLatest newsletterMass TimesSaturday 5.30pmSun...

26/09/2025

The Clifton Evangelist Volume 15 has been published! You can find it on our website at: http://cliftondiocese.com/clifton-evangelist/