St James' home page

St James is the Catholic Church serving the whole of the Petts Wood area. We are a vibrant, open and growing community and a warm welcome is offered to all!

Welcome to the home page of the church of St James the Great, Petts Wood, Kent

St James' online fund-raising

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Total so far £1,559

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2 Rainbow Leaders needed

Please contact Suzanne Horner if you can help run the Rainbow group from Jan 2015. Full trainng for anyone ready to take this role.

Recent updates

including photos of the Fun Run

and Garden Party

Read this week's Briefly

Fr Tom Cooper

Our new Parish Priest will be in residence from Friday 1st August. There is no Saturday morning Mass this week but Fr Tom will say Mass at 6pm. He has a parish email address but responses will not be possible until he has settled in to the Presbytery.

Another report by CAFOD about our LiveSimply award

Catholic Herald item about St James' winning the award

Sunday 13th July 2014

The 11.00am Mass was celebrated by The Most Revd Peter Smith, Archbishop of Southwark, to mark the 75th anniversary of the parish of St James the Great. It was a wonderful occasion and a short report and pictures are now available.

Sheila Simon

The Requiem Mass for Sheila will be held on Monday 11th August at 11.00am in St James' church.

We are situated at the corner of Lakeswood Road and Crescent Drive. Click here for a map.

The heart of our life is the worship of God and

our weekend Masses are:

Saturday 6.00pm

Sunday 9.15am (with Children's Liturgy Group)

Sunday 11.00am

Our weekend congregations total about 650 people.

Confessions are heard on Saturdays from 10.00-10.30am and 5.30-6.00pm, and by appointment or at call.

Weekday Masses and those for Holy Days of Obligation will be found by clicking here.

Please see our other pages for full details of our many varied activities. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact our priest Father Bryan Wells (contact details at the top of this page).