St. Martin’s Vicarage

Upper Wellington Road

Brighton

BN2 3AN

November 2023

My dear friends,

The clocks having gone back on the Sunday this issue is published will see me looking forward to Spring. However with the days shortening the timetables need adjusting. While the Wagner Group gathers at S Barnabas’ Hove to celebrate the great Feast of All Saints, there will be a said Mass here at the regular time of 12.30. The next day, All Souls Day, the Solemn Mass will be sung at 12noon with a further said Mass as the later time of 7pm to enable as many people as possible to attend on the day.

To the contrary, this year S Martin’s Day falls on a Saturday and therefore the Mass will be at 12noon and this ensures that as a Parish Family we can worship together on our patron’s festival. A Parish Family it will be, as I am grateful to Mrs Joshi for encouraging the school choir to be present with us. We also look forward to

welcoming the Archdeacon of Chichester (the Venerable Luke Irvine-Capel) as our preacher and also our great friend Deacon Rebecca Swyer.

Having written of the Parish Family I am reminded that the 2024 Diary was published a couple of weeks ago, if you have not picked up your copy please remember to do so and also to transfer the events into your personal diaries. This was finalised after the Fund Raising Group met to finalise the plans for the Winter Wonderland to take place at the beginning of next month: with some exciting innovations and tweaks, it thus promises to be an enjoyable (and hopeful rewarding) day, please everyone

support us at this event.

With my love and prayers,

Fr. Trevor