Bulletin - 12/13 September 2026
Parish Details
Parish of Saint Joseph, Malvern, Worcestershire
Archdiocese of Birmingham, Registered Charity 234216
Address: 125 Newtown Road, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 1PF
Parish Priest: Fr. Nazarius Mgungwe fr.nazarius.mgungwe@rcaob.org.uk 01684 574250
Parish Administrator: Nazzarena Wood stjoseph.malvern@rcaob.org.uk 01684 574250
PAC Chairperson: Mary Taylor
Parish Safeguarding Rep: Kevin Douglas 01886 832468
Health & Safety, Room Bookings: Sue Stubbings 07857 650206
St Joseph's School
Headteacher: Nicola Tippen 01684 573016 School Secretary: Suzanne Munday Tel: 01684 573016
Co-Chairs of Governors: Maggie Griffiths 01684 573016
Safeguarding
The Parish operates in accordance with Statutory Safeguarding Guidance and the National and Archdioceses policies & procedures at all times. Our Parish Safeguarding Representative is Kevin Douglas. He can be contacted at sg.stjoseph.malvern@rcaob.org.uk or alternatively the Diocesan Safeguarding team can be contacted on 0121 230 6240 safeguarding@rcaob.org.uk if you have any concerns.
Confessions
Fr Naz hears confession in the Confessional from 10:30am until 11 am on Saturdays or by appointment.
Mass Times
Sat 12th, FERIA IN ORDINARY TIME, 10.00am Holy Mass, Bill York ✟
Sat 12th, EVE OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, 6.00pm, Holy Mass, Intention of Tom & Bincy Jennymon
Sun 13th, TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, 11.00am, Holy Mass - Livestreamed, Burger & Rees - families living and dead (Chris & Liz Burger)
Sun 13th, MASS ON THE HILL 1.00pm Holy Mass
Mon 14th, FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS 12noon, Holy Mass - Livestreamed, Mira & John Nichols (Wedding Ann.)
Tue 15th, MEMORIAL OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS 7.45am, Holy Mass, The Holy Souls – Isabel Vaughan Spruce
Wed 16th, MEMORIAL OF SS CORNELIUS, POPE, AND CYPRIAN, BISHOP, MARTYRS., Private Mass
Thur 17th, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 10.00am-6.45pm
Thur 17th, FERIA IN ORDINARY TIME 7.00pm, Holy Mass - Livestreamed, For the Soul of George (Deepa Uthup)
Fri 18th, FERIA IN ORDINARY TIME, 9.15am, Holy Mass - Una O’Malley RIP – Recent (Dee Burger)
Sat 19th, FERIA IN ORDINARY TIME, 10.00am Holy Mass, Pro Populo
Sat 20th, EVE OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, 6.00pm, Holy Mass, Richard Bohowicz (father of Anne Lewis) ✟ (Anne & Paul Lewis)
Sun 21st, TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, 11.00am, Holy Mass - Livestreamed, Vincent Rooney ✟ (Marion Haley)
Holy Mass at St Joseph's is livestreamed on some days via YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@stjosephs.rcparish.malvernuk
About This Week's Mass
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
12TH – 13TH SEPTEMBER 2026 – PARISH MASS BOOK YEAR A VOLUME 2 – P.128
Pope’s Prayer Intention for September
The care of water. Let us pray for a just and sustainable management of water, a vital resource, so that everyone may have equal access to it.
Please Pray
For the Sick and Housebound of St Joseph’s Parish: Clare Gray, Anne Wiseman, Anne-Marie Elder, John Eckersley and Irene Davis. We include all those in hospitals, nursing homes & their own homes. Our Lady, health of the sick, pray for them. Amen.
For those celebrating their Wedding Anniversaries: Sophia & Anoop Abraham
Recent Dead
Please pray for Una O’Malley who died on 23rd August 2026 (Colette Phelp’s Mother).
SECOND COLLECTION
is for the Catholic Education Service. Next Sunday 20th September is for Catholic Evangelisation.
MASS ON THE HILLS PRAYING FOR THE CARE OF CREATION
Theme: 'Living Water'. Focus: Environmental stewardship, gratitude for water as a life-giving divine gift, and renewing our call to protect Earth’s sacred resources. Our annual open-air Mass on the Malvern Hills will take place at 1pm on Sunday 13th September. At the usual place, please bring a meal to share. The location for Mass will be the same as previous years: WTW winner.arise.pickle. It is about 300m up the main path from Blackmore car park. In case of bad weather, we shall have the Mass in St Joseph’s.
OUR PARISH BIG CLEAN
takes place from Monday 14th September to Saturday 19th September. The maintenance team has organised a special vacuum cleaner for dealing with high level areas. Some areas of the church are to be painted. All of the church and rooms are due to be cleaned. There is a long list of light and heavy jobs to do and they will be allocated on arrival. Thank you to everyone who has offered to help. You may still join in by signing up on the sheet in the narthex or just turn up. On Monday 14th September we aim to start at 9.30am when the main tasks are is to remove furniture from the main church, then set up the Aldwyn Room for use as a chapel for masses during the cleaning week.
HELP NEEDED FOR THE FIRST HOLY COMMUNION PROGRAMME
Working with children and leading them to a deeper understanding of the wonderful sacraments, especially Reconciliation and the Eucharist, is a real joy and a privilege. Carol Ann is looking for more team members. The Children's sessions are on one Tuesday and one Sunday (before Mass) a month starting in October. If you can help with any of these (not necessarily all of them) please let her or Fr Naz know. Many thanks in anticipation.
ORGAN AND VIOLIN RECITAL – HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
Saturday 19th September 2.30pm. An informal afternoon concert - Music ranging from baroque to film. Free Entry – Refreshments Retiring Collection for Holy Trinity’s Pews to People Project.
PREPARATION FOR FIRST CONFESSIONS AND FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
It's a wonderful delight to bring your child(ren) to receive the Lord in Holy Communion. Registration is now open for children in school year 3 or above. Forms are available in the Narthex or online. Please return completed application forms to Susan Van Ling c/o the parish office as soon as possible and by 20th September at the latest.
EXPLORATION OF OUR CATHOLIC FAITH
For those who are considering becoming Catholics but also all parishioners are welcome to this DVD series by Bishop Robert Barron. All sessions are all on Tuesdays from 7.00pm till 8.30. Refreshments (teas a, coffee cake etc. served from 6.45pm.
6th October: Who is Jesus (1a)
3rd November: Jesus is Lord (1b)
1st December: The Mystery of God in Himself (3)
5th January: The Teachings of Jesus (2)
2nd February: Mary, the Mother of God (4)
2nd March: Prayer – Lifting the min d and heart to God (9)
13th April: The Mystery of the liturgy and the Eucharist (7)
4th May: What is the Church? (6)
8th June: The Indispensable men, St Peter & St Paul (5)
6th July: World without end – the Last Things (10)
YOUTH CLUB DATES
18th September - Bingo
2nd October - Pizza Challenge
16th October - Tabletop Games
13th November - Making cakes for Youth Fundraising
15th November - Cake Sale Youth Fundraiser after Mass,
27th November - Christmas Cards and Chocolate Game and
11th December – Quiz.
FROM THE MAINTENANCE COMMITTEE
As members of the committee, we are continually busy organising, managing, and carrying out jobs needed to maintain the church and presbytery premises. This includes improvements, routine maintenance work and responding to problems or failures as they arise. To save the Parish the cost of employing outside agencies, we try to undertake as many of these jobs as possible ourselves. To relieve the load and enable further savings, each month in the bulletin we will be appealing for volunteers to come forward on a ‘one-off’ basis to help with certain specific tasks. This month we would be grateful for any help with the following ‘DIY’ type jobs:
Preparing and repainting the main car park gates
Preparing and repainting the metal railings and side gate adjoining the car park gates.
Assisting in the fixing of an ethernet cable to run between the office and McEnnis Room entrance foyer.
Please contact Fr. Naz or Paul Lewis pxl.surveyor@btinternet.com or on 07831 243769) if you can help.
