Holy Innocents' Catholic Church

Welcome

Thank you for visiting Holy Innocents’ website today. I hope you enjoy finding out about our vibrant, welcoming and outward-looking parish community; and I look forward to meeting you in person.

Fr Victor Vella, Parish Priest

About our parish

Learn more about our parish, past and present. Check out pages devoted to our Parish Vision and our leadership.

And read a short history of Holy Innocents'.

Parish contacts

Find contact details for our Parish Office, our clergy and others in some key parish ministries.

Mass Times & Parish Calendar

Check on our Mass times and our forthcoming parish events.
Parish Pilgrimage to Oxford Thursday 10th October 2019
Our Facebook page also has details of parish events.

News and events

Current newsletter

Catch up on what's happening in the parish, including a complete diary of what's happening this week.

Older newsletters can be seen here

Recent events

Reports and pictures of some recent events.
See report from Kathryn Murrell on
The Journey of a Parish

Prayer intentions

Bishop John Wilson Archbishop of Southwark*
(*See link to pdf on
the page)
Our prayer intentions page is updated each week. On it you can find parishioner's prayer intentions and how to submit them; our weekend bidding prayers, alongside the Pope's monthly prayer intentions and the Church's cycle of prayer intentions and Churches Together in Orpington (CTO)
monthly prayers.

Our parish life

Our families and youth

Get to know how we nurture and engage with children, young people and young families.

And discover some great parish and deanery youth activities.

Our prayer and formation

Learn more about how we try to stay rooted in prayer and to grow as missionary disciples.

Group list

We have many groups and activities at Holy Innocents'. Here's a list of all of them.

Our mission

We are a mission-focused parish.

Read about the ways in which we seek to build God’s Kingdom through evangelisation and social action.

Our liturgy

Discover the importance of the liturgy in our parish life; and the people involved in preparing and celebrating Masses and the other times we come together for worship.

Our fellowship

We cherish our strong, welcoming and supportive parish fellowship.

Learn about the practical and social and support activities that help to maintain it.

Our sacramental life

The sacraments are at the heart of our life as Catholics. Read about the seven sacraments and how we prepare for them and celebrate them at Holy Innocents'.

Special features

Alpha and Youth Alpha at Holy Innocents'

The Alpha experience is for anyone who wants to explore the meaning of life and the Christian faith. Learn more about our Youth Alpha and Alpha for adults courses.

Parish Evangelisation Cell System

Read about the Parish Evangelisation Cell System that we have adopted as our parish model for missionary outreach.

A parishioner's Gospel reflection

Each week, we ask a parishioner to reflect on Sunday's Gospel.

You can read their thoughts here.

Getting involved

Get involved

Everyone, young or old, is welcome to become involved in what we do here at Holy Innocents’.

Parish database

We are trying to update our parish database and ask all parishioners to enter their contact details.

The database is used by our team at Holy Innocents' in order to support you and your family as best we can.

Data protection

View our parish data protection policy.

Holy Innocents' School

We are very proud of our parish school, “a good school with outstanding behaviour” (Ofsted October 2017)