St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Bath

Easter week 2019

Easter Message from Canon David Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! I greet you with the joyful victory song of Easter, the greatest of all Christian...

Perpetual adoration

Perpetual Adoration has begun in Bath. The Devotion was begun by the Missionaries of the Most Holy Eucharist in France and it is hoped that every...

Eucharistic Mission in Bath

Weekend 27-28 April 2019 with Fr Gary Holmes & Fr James Sheridan Missionaries of the Most Holy Eucharist Saturday 27 April 17:45 Mass at St John´s 18:30...

2019 Festival Choir programme

Download for our 2019 Festival Choir...

Message from Imam Mohammad, Bath Mosque

Dear all, Thank you so much for your letters, emails and flowers of condolences on the New Zealand terrorist attack in the Christchurch city....

Good Friday Cross Walks

The 2019 Bath Cross walk routes have now been published and can be downloaded...

SPICMA Famine Aid

The Karamoja region in northeast Uganda has struggled with drought conditions periodically for many years. The rural population is especially poor...

Divine Mercy Sunday 2019

Sunday 28th April 2019 St John’s Church South Parade Bath BA2 4AF Order of Service 12.30pm Mass (in Polish) 2.00pm Eucharistic Adoration Meditations Silent...

Amazonia: New Paths for the Church

Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology October 6th to 27th 2019 On the afternoon of the 24th February from 3.30 pm-6pm a...

PPC minutes 20th February

The minutes from the Parish Pastoral Council meeting held on 20th February 2019 are available...

Lent 2019

Lent message from his Holiness Pope Francis for Lent 2019 “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God” (Rm 8:...

St. John's Garden Archive

Overview Donations Marian Devotion Archive 15.07.2018 An excellent start to our Live Carving in the Garden as the stone began to take shape and the...

St. John's Garden

Overview Donations Marian Devotion Archive We have been working to restore our beautiful Riverside Garden for the enjoyment of the local community,...

Marian Devotion

Overview Donations Marian Devotion Archive At St Johns we are recognised for having a rich heritage in Marian devotion. We honour Our Lady to draw...

St. John's Garden Donations

Overview Donations Marian Devotion Archive For any Donations please contact the Parish Office. There are also envelopes at the back of the Church which...

Holy Land pilgrimage

The idea of a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land has been approved by St John's Council and Canon Ryan dependent on flight costs. The dates 3rd to 13th...

St John’s Riverside Garden Opening Ceremony

History was made on Saturday 27th October as a large crowd gathered in arctic like conditions to celebrate the Blessing of Our Lady of Bath, Queen of...

SPICMA Famine Report

Please read the latest report from the priests dealing with the famine in the Loyoro and Panyangara parishes, Karamoja, Uganda. If you would like to...

First holy communion

We are delighted to inform you that First Holy Communion Lessons will begin on Sunday 13th January 2019 with an Introduction and Registration Session...

New water plant

A new mineral water plant was installed on 1st May 2018 in Tenali, India sponsored by the missionary children who adore Jesus from 5 to 6 pm every...

Live Simply: Live in Solidarity with the Poor

In many parts of the developing world, technology has made tremendous improvements to the lives of the poor, many remote from the nearest towns. The...

St. John's Garden - BBC Radio Bristol

On Sunday 21st October, Caroline Taylor, our Parish Fabric & Finance Chair, was interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol about the opening of our garden....

St John's Garden - Opening Ceremony

You are warmly invited to the St John's Garden opening ceremony and blessing of the statue Our Lady of Bath – Queen of Peace at 1pm on Saturday 27th...

CAFOD livesimply

St Johns has registered to become a CAFOD livesimply parish. We are on a journey.... The livesimply challenge is an opportunity for Catholic...

St. John's garden September update

You can see some photos of our progress and other work in the garden ...

Canon Michael English's Diamond Jubilee

On 15th June 2018 a great gathering took place of clergy and people to celebrate 60 years of priesthood for Canon Michael English. Born in...

Falcon webcam

Live Bath St John’s Church Peregrine webcam The Hawk and Owl Trust has a single feed running from the St John’s church spire nest box. This video is...

Lectio Divina course at St. Mary's

Lectio Divina (sacred reading) is a wonderful way to allow scripture to speak into our lives from our hearts. It is a way of reading the Scriptures...

Roadmap ministries

A Future Full of Hope - Reflections on activities At the beginning of 2017 Bishop Declan wrote a pastoral letter asking all the people of the...

Urgent Famine Appeal

"St Joseph’s Catholic Parish covers two government sub- counties of Panyangara and Nakapelimoru with a total population of 67,392 people. These...

We are All Called... How are we to Respond?

On Saturday 21st April over 250 people came to the Apex Hotel for the day to hear Michelle Moran speak; including members of Bath Catholic Deanery...

CAFOD: Northern Uganda agricultural challenges

A report of a recent talk by guest speaker Alex Abaca, who gives a first hand account of the positive interventions by the local Catholic Church and...

A Future Full of Hope

Bishop Declan has published his document 'A Future Full of Hope' which is available to download...

SPICMA update and appeal

Click here for the latest SPICMA Pakistan and Uganda update and appeals.

Raising funds for the East African drought

A team from the Bath-based energy efficiency consultancy B:SSEC Ltd has completed a 70km hike across the Lake District to raise funds to tackle the...

Accessing the Parish archives

Our parish archive: waiting to be used A parish’s sense of its own history is at the heart of what it is and how it comes across to the wider world....

A SPICMA message

50 Years of Helping the Missionary Church and the People of the Developing World Back in 1967 a young man from North London named Bernard Phelan was...

Famine - Xavier appeal

The shadow of famine has returned to Karamoja, Uganda. Fr Mitema MHM has asked for your help in feeding the people of his parish of Loyoro and the...

Cornerstone Mission update March 18th

Cornerstone @ St Johns would like to thank the Adoration Team, St Johns Runners, Young Adult Group, Fabric & Finance Committee and all parishioners...

St Johns Young Adult Group

Our Young Adult Group (18+) has been growing in faith at St Johns since 2015. We started with helping with the clean up of our Adoration Chapel,...

Calling Young Adults

CAFOD Gap Year volunteer vacancies are open for 18-30 year olds. Last year, a student from Trowbridge went on a CAFOD Gap year. More information can...

Falcons

Our spire has been the home for peregrin falcons for many years now. They have featured on BBC Springwatch and can be seen through the nest webcam....

Karamoja Drought

Again Karamoja is once again facing a dry spell at a very critical time. The people were very glad to welcome the rains at the beginning of April....

Famine Situation in Karamoja

In the last few days we have been blessed by rain and we hope that this is the beginning of rainy season which will eventually bring food. However,...

Adoration Chapel

Adoration Night chapel inaguration The new Night-time Adoration Chapel based in the lower rooms of the sacristy of St John's Church was opened on...

A Festival of Carols and Readings

A Festival of Carols and Readings in preparation for Christmas Sunday 20 December at 7.45pm St John’s Festival Choir will once again be leading the...

Laudato Sí Parliamentary debate

The motion was intended to set the scene for a parliamentary session in which backbenchers could give their views to the government on the...

Parish Archive soon to go live

The core of the parish archive has now been brought together and securely shelved upstairs at the presbytery. It mainly consists of sacramental...

Young People Group Adoration

St John's Young People Group will attend Adoration on Friday 27th of November from 8 to 9 pm to say the rosary together and share moments of silent...

Contemporary Music Group

We are pleased to announce the successful first meeting of the Contemporary Music Group. Around twenty people of varying ages and from many nations...

Jubilee year CD of music from St John's now on sale

Jubilee year CD of music from St John's To celebrate the great variety of music which is heard at St John's, a special CD was produced for the...


Bidding prayers	Bidding prayers	Bidding prayers
7th April	31st March	24th March

Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord's supper	18 Apr	19:30
Good Friday Office of readings and morning prayer	19 Apr	09:30
Good Friday Cross walk service	19 Apr	10:35
Good Friday Solemn celebration of the Passion of the Lord	19 Apr	15:00
Good Friday Stations of the Cross	19 Apr	19:00
Easter Vigil	20 Apr	20:00
Easter Sunday	21 Apr	10:00
Easter Sunday Polish Mass	21 Apr	12:30
Sunday Evening	21 Apr	18:30

Saturday Vigil Mass	-	5.45pm
Sunday Morning	-	10.00am
Polish Mass	-	12:30pm
Sunday Evening	-	6.30pm
Monday	-	9.30am
Tuesday - Friday	-	10.00am

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Easter week 2019

Perpetual adoration

Eucharistic Mission in Bath

2019 Festival Choir programme

Message from Imam Mohammad, Bath Mosque

Good Friday Cross Walks

SPICMA Famine Aid

Divine Mercy Sunday 2019

Amazonia: New Paths for the Church

PPC minutes 20th February

Lent 2019

St. John's Garden Archive

St. John's Garden

Marian Devotion

St. John's Garden Donations

Holy Land pilgrimage

St John’s Riverside Garden Opening Ceremony

SPICMA Famine Report

First holy communion

New water plant

Live Simply: Live in Solidarity with the Poor

St. John's Garden - BBC Radio Bristol

St John's Garden - Opening Ceremony

CAFOD livesimply

St. John's garden September update

Canon Michael English's Diamond Jubilee

Falcon webcam

Lectio Divina course at St. Mary's

Roadmap ministries

Urgent Famine Appeal

We are All Called... How are we to Respond?

CAFOD: Northern Uganda agricultural challenges

A Future Full of Hope

SPICMA update and appeal

Raising funds for the East African drought

Accessing the Parish archives

A SPICMA message

Famine - Xavier appeal

Cornerstone Mission update March 18th

St Johns Young Adult Group

Calling Young Adults

Falcons

Karamoja Drought

Famine Situation in Karamoja

Adoration Chapel

A Festival of Carols and Readings

Laudato Sí Parliamentary debate

Parish Archive soon to go live

Young People Group Adoration

Contemporary Music Group

Jubilee year CD of music from St John's now on sale

Easter Mass times

Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord's supper

18 Apr

19:30

Good Friday Office of readings and morning prayer

19 Apr

09:30

Good Friday Cross walk service

19 Apr

10:35

Good Friday Solemn celebration of the Passion of the Lord

19 Apr

15:00

Good Friday Stations of the Cross

19 Apr

19:00

Easter Vigil

20 Apr

20:00

Easter Sunday

21 Apr

10:00

Easter Sunday

Polish Mass

Maundy Thursday
Mass of the Lord's supper

Good Friday
Office of readings and morning prayer

Good Friday
Cross walk service

Good Friday
Solemn celebration of the Passion of the Lord

Good Friday
Stations of the Cross