October 2026

October is the month of the Holy Rosary, a month in which the Church takes up each year the earnest cry of St John Paul II to “confidently take up the Rosary once again” (St John Paul II, Rosarium Virginis Mariae 43). Among the spiritual treasures associated with the Holy Rosary is that of a

“Carlo Acutis is the first saint of the millennial generation”. So pilgrims attending St Carlo’s Canonisation in Rome on 7th September 2025 were told as they gathered in devotion to this contemporary model for Christian sanctity who has become a powerful sign of God’s presence and action in our world today. Born and baptised in

From 2020, the Holy See has requested a change be made to the wording used in Masses celebrated in the vernacular in English-speaking countries and dioceses. The change concerns the “Collect” prayer (formerly called the “opening prayer”) that is used in the first part of the Mass on both Sundays and weekdays, prayed by the

The Port Elizabeth Oratory and St Bernadette’s Parish invite you to participate in the annual Forty Hours Devotion which takes place at our church in 8th Avenue, Walmer, from this Friday 23 October until Sunday 25 October. During this time, the Blessed Sacrament will be continuously and solemnly exposed upon the altar (except during Masses