Home Our Patron Saint Parish Office Parish News Parish Map Parish History SycamOre Mass Schedule Baptism Children's Liturgy Reconciliation Holy Communion Confirmation Marriage Adult Initiation (R.C.I.A.) Child Protection Organisations Schools R. Challoner Boys School Links Contact Us   St. Matthias, Cheam Common Road, Worcester Park, KT4 8SX. Bus routes: 151, 213, 613, 627, 668, K10, N213 Hello Everyone, You are very much in my prayers at Mass each day. Thank you  for your continued  financial support of our Parish. If you would like our Bank details  please contact me  on 0208 337 1782 or email worcesterpark@rcaos.org.uk You can also make a donation online at: www.justgiving.com/campaign/parishsupport Just remember to add: “I would like my donation to go to St. Matthias, Worcester Park” Mass intentions and Events 11th ~ 16th May 2025 Sat 10th May 06.30pm Confessions 05.30pm until 06.00pm People of the Parish First Mass of Sunday Sun 11th May 09.30am Olive Haynan RIP Teas and Coffees in the Hall. Fourth Sunday of Easter Second collection for Priest Training Fund 11.15am Josie Adams RIP Noel Leo Pereira RIP 5.30pm Thomas Searle RIP Wed 14th May 10.00am Eileen Aherne RIP St. Matthias Apostle Thur 15th May 10.00pm Ronald Hancock (FM) Teas and Coffees in the Hall. St. John Stone Priest and Martyr Fri 16th May 10.00pm Deceased relatives and friends of mother’s and father’s families St Simon Stock Priest Mass intentions and Events 18th May 2025 Sat 17th May 06.30pm Confessions 05.30pm until 06.00pm People of the Parish First Mass of Sunday Sun 18th May 09.30am Edward and Jennie McCarthy RIP Teas and Coffees in the Hall. Fifth Sunday of Easter 11.15am Maria Garcia Estevez RIP Bernadette Joseph RIP 5.30pm Wellbeing of Mary Walsh THE RAPHAEL PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES Founded by Leonard Cheshire in 1954, this friendly group takes frail and disabled people to Lourdes and cares for them. Friday 22nd to Friday 29th August, flights from/to Stansted. Cost £1097 full board including insurance, single supplement £245. Assistance with funding can be available. Helpers of all disciplines always welcome. Please contact Angela on 07753 614735 / SearleAM@aol.com  for more information or visit: www.raphaelpilgrimage.org.uk BAPTISMS Contact Fr. Sean. MARRIAGES The Diocese requests couples to give Fr. Sean at least 6 months notice, especially if they intend to be married outside the Parish. CELEBRATING A SIGNIFICANT WEDDING ANNIVERSARY? The Mass in Celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage will be on July 12th 2025, at St George’s Cathedral. If you are celebrating your 1st/10th/25th/40th/50th/60th+ wedding anniversary this year, please let us know by mid May, providing the following details: names in the format John and Mary Smith, home address and the anniversary you are celebrating. You will receive an invitation f rom the Archbishop for the  renewal of vows during Mass. Spaces are limited. Please Email worcesterpark@rcaos.org.uk JUBILEE CELEBRATON at AYLESFORD PRIORY Archbishop John is inviting all of us to the Southwark Archdiocesan  Jubilee Celebration at The Friars,  Aylesford on Saturday 7 June 2025. It promises to be a great day. Find out more by visiting https://aec.rcaos.org.uk/ jubileecelebration THIS WEEK SECOND COLLECTION FOR PRIEST TRAINING FUND Priest Training Fund (Ecclesiastical Education): this collection helps to meet the cost of training students for the priesthood and the permanent diaconate. It also supports certain forms of ongoing formation of the clergy. INAUGRAL MESSAGE OF POPE LEO XIV Peace be with you all! Dearest brothers and sisters, this is the first greeting of the risen Christ, the good shepherd who laid down his life for the flock of God. I too would like this greeting of peace to enter your hearts, to reach your families, to all people, wherever they may be, to all nations, to the whole earth. Peace be with you! This is the peace of the risen Christ —a disarmed peace and a disarming peace, humble and persevering. It comes from God, God who loves  us all, unconditionally. We still keep in our ears that weak, but always courageous voice of Pope Francis, who blessed Rome. The Pope who blessed Rome gave his blessing to the world, to the whole world, that morning of Easter Sunday. Allow me to continue that same blessing. God loves us. God loves you all. And evil will not prevail. We are all in the hands of God. Therefore, without fear, united, hand in hand with God and among ourselves, let us go forward. We are disciples of Christ. Christ precedes us. The world needs his light. Humanity needs him as the bridge to be reached by God and his love. Help us too, then, each other, to build  bridges—with dialogue, with encounter— uniting all of us to be one people, always in peace. Thank you to Pope Francis. I also want to thank all my brother cardinals who have chosen me to be the successor of Peter and to walk together with you as a  united Church, always seeking peace, justice,  always trying to work as men and women  faithful to Jesus Christ, without fear, to  proclaim the Gospel, to be missionaries. I am a son of Saint Augustine, an Augustinian, who said: With you I am a Christian, and for you a bishop. In this sense, we can all walk  together toward that homeland which God has prepared for us. Our Mother Mary always wants to walk with us, to be close, to help us with her intercession and her love. So I would like to pray together with you. Let us pray together for this new mission, for the whole Church, for peace in the world, and let us ask for this special grace from Mary, our Mother. Welcome to the Web Site for the Catholic Parish of St. Matthias, Worcester Park, in the Archdiocese of Southwark. Our Parish is a lively Catholic community situated on the borders of three Boroughs, Sutton, Kingston, and Epsom & Ewell. It stretches from the A3 in the north to the A24 in the south and includes Worcester Park, Malden Manor, Old Malden, Malden Green, and areas of New Malden, Motspur Park and North Cheam. That area of the Parish in the Borough of Epsom and Ewell is in the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton but served from St. Matthias. Schools in the Parish and local area St. Cecilia's Primary School, London Road, SM3 9HY - 020 8337 4566 Corpus Christi Primary, Chestnut Grove, KT3 3JU - 020 8942 2645 St. Clement's Primary, Fennell's Mead, KT17 1TX - 020 8393 8789 Richard Challoner Secondary Boy's, Manor Drive North, KT3 5PE - 020 8330 5947 The Holy Cross Secondary Girl's, Sandal Road, KT3 5AR - 020 8395 4225