One of kind! a great church for serving an ever growing congregation. Confessions every day before and after each Mass, and during each Mass on a Sunday (which is super rare to find! so make the most of it).
Rochelle Tawio oluwadabira
Great church, Fr Paul is a great priest and i always love attending mass when he is saying it, he has the best homilys also out of all the priest! Im also disappointed when i miss fr. Paul mass that how much i love to attend his mass in particular ! Try you best to get to mass when Fr. Paul is conducting it you wont be disappointed! Just very spiritually uplifted.
Michelle A
In general the priests at the parish are very good holy priests and mean well.
The homilies are often encouraging full of Catholic doctrine. The Masses keep to the liturgical guidelines and there are no women altar servers or extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion and there is a Communion rail to receive our Lord kneeling.
That being said sometimes there can be a lot of talking in the church particularly after Mass when one is trying to prayerfully contemplate after receiving our Lord in Communion. Also there is a lot of over emphasis on obedience to the low level pastoral documents and pastoral guidance from the diocese, sometimes these can come across as very sanctimonious or even ultramontanist.
It is very sad during this Chinese Wuhan Virus (Covid) crisis that the priests were unable to realise that a sizeable number parishioners do not want to ever receive Holy Communion in the hand and they didn't manage to secure any provision from the diocese so that the we could receive Communion after Mass on the tongue as they did at Brompton Oratory. Sadly now some parishioners no longer attend and have resorted to attending Mass elsewhere. That being said this is still one of the better parishes in the diocese and the priests as mentioned previously always do things with the best of intentions.
Christopher J Keeffe230 days ago
After several attempts to visit the Church. My patience was rewarded. St Thomas More is the Catholic Church for Swiss Cottage. It is essentially semi circular in design do of the post VCII era. But that notwithstanding, it is consecrated and one can see the relevant consecration marks by the station's of the cross. Their is a fine chapel to Sts Thomas More and John Fisher. The former shown with his chain of office in his hand sitting at a table with his wife. The later with his cardinals hat before him. The church is clean of clutter and has clear architectural lines. It is worth a visit.
Andrés Bello de Haro1 year ago
A beautiful little church in the middle of a residential neighbourhood.
Alexandra Luzinschi2 years ago
A blessing to have a church like this one in the heart of Swiss Cottage. A very easy accessible church from many areas around NW post code too. Their mass is at 6 pm on a Sunday which makes it very convenient for us to attend with 2 kids. It’s also (sadly) quite empty as well so plenty of room for new people to attend. The helping hands there are very very nice and kind. It’s so nice to have such a beautiful community near our home!🙏😊
James Mc laughlin2 years ago
I have been tuning in to the daily mass over the last couple of months during lockdown, enjoy the simplicity of the service and natural approach from the parish priest, will continue to attend throughout with social media, thanks again, Jim St Augustines parish Ml5 1dh
Magnus Nielsen2 years ago
It is encouraging to see how many children and young people make up the congregation of this church. It is 'diverse' and 'inclusive' long before these terms became buzzwords. It is catholic, after all.
The homilies are often encouraging full of Catholic doctrine. The Masses keep to the liturgical guidelines and there are no women altar servers or extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion and there is a Communion rail to receive our Lord kneeling.
That being said sometimes there can be a lot of talking in the church particularly after Mass when one is trying to prayerfully contemplate after receiving our Lord in Communion. Also there is a lot of over emphasis on obedience to the low level pastoral documents and pastoral guidance from the diocese, sometimes these can come across as very sanctimonious or even ultramontanist.
It is very sad during this Chinese Wuhan Virus (Covid) crisis that the priests were unable to realise that a sizeable number parishioners do not want to ever receive Holy Communion in the hand and they didn't manage to secure any provision from the diocese so that the we could receive Communion after Mass on the tongue as they did at Brompton Oratory. Sadly now some parishioners no longer attend and have resorted to attending Mass elsewhere. That being said this is still one of the better parishes in the diocese and the priests as mentioned previously always do things with the best of intentions.
It is essentially semi circular in design do of the post VCII era. But that notwithstanding, it is consecrated and one can see the relevant consecration marks by the station's of the cross.
Their is a fine chapel to Sts Thomas More and John Fisher. The former shown with his chain of office in his hand sitting at a table with his wife. The later with his cardinals hat before him.
The church is clean of clutter and has clear architectural lines.
It is worth a visit.
St Augustines parish
Ml5 1dh