Corpus Christi Catholic Church Tonbridge

08/09/2026

08/09/2026

8th September - The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
There will be an extra Mass today at 7.30pm Corpus Christi in honour of Our Lady's birthday.
Impart to your servants, we pray, O Lord,
the gift of heavenly grace,
that the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
may bring deeper peace
to those for whom the birth of her Son
was the dawning of salvation.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

(from The Roman Missal)

07/09/2026

There will be an additional Mass tomorrow 7.30 pm at Corpus Christi in honour of Our Lady's birthday.

07/09/2026

Devotion for September:
The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1. The prophecy of Simeon
2. The Flight to Egypt
3. Loss of Child Jesus for 3 days
4. Meeting Jesus carrying His Cross
5. The Crucifixion of Jesus
6. The Pieta – receiving Jesus’ Body
7. The Burial of Jesus

TO OUR LADY OF SORROWS O most holy Virgin, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ: by the overwhelming grief you experienced when you witnessed the martyrdom, the crucifixion, and the death of your divine Son, look upon me with eyes of compassion, and awaken in my heart a tender commiseration for those sufferings, as well as a sincere detestation of my sins, in order that, being disengaged from all undue affection for the passing joys of this earth, I may sigh after the eternal Jerusalem, and that henceforward all my thoughts and all my actions may be directed towards this one most desirable object. Honor, glory, and love to our divine Lord Jesus, and to the holy and immaculate Mother of God. Amen. --Saint Bonaventure

06/09/2026

"if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them." Matt 18:20 What amazing words and how powerful our prayers must be during Mass where so many are gathered in our Lord's name. Dear Lord Jesus, give us a gentle heart like yours, that we may listen to your voice and love others as you love them.

05/09/2026

5th September - St Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the first Saturday of the month
For a diminutive person, St Mother Teresa of Calcutta made up for her smallness with the great love she shared with the poor, vulnerable and rejected people she met in Calcutta. Mother Teresa responded to Christ's call from the cross "I thirst" with an all giving love and found her source of strength in the love of God in the Eucharist. Mother Teresa experienced a 50-year-long spiritual darkness, referred to as her "dark night of the soul" but never lost faith - "In my heart there is blind TRUST in the Sacred Heart"
"The Heart of Jesus is an open heart. Spend your time there... It is not an ordinary school... It is a school of Jesus where you come to learn. What have we to learn? To be meek and humble; if we are meek and humble we will learn to pray. If we learn to pray we will belong to Jesus. If we belong to Jesus we will learn to believe and if we believe we will learn to love and if we love we will learn to serve." St Teresa of Calcutta

04/09/2026

Tomorrow is the 1st Saturday of the month.

04/09/2026

1st Friday Devotion (all night vigil tonight starting with Mass at 10pm)
Devotion to the Sacred Heart, as we know it, began about the year 1672. On repeated occasions, Jesus appeared to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun, in France, and during these apparitions He explained to her the devotion to His Sacred Heart as He wanted people to practice it. He asked:
• to be honoured in the symbol of His Heart of flesh,
• for acts of reparation,
• for frequent Communion,
• for Communion on the First Friday of the month,
• for the keeping of the Holy Hour.

My God, I offer You all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for the intentions for which He pleads and offers Himself in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in thanksgiving for Your favours, in reparation for my sins, and in humble supplication for my temporal and eternal welfare, for the needs of our holy Mother the Church, for the conversion of sinners, and for the relief of the poor souls in purgatory.

03/09/2026

All night vigils start back again this coming Friday 4th September at 10pm.