Welcome to St George’s Catholic Church in the heart of NR3 Norwich
We are a friendly Catholic community that welcomes everyone to take part in our services to worship Jesus Christ who is our life.
If you require any assistance or further information please do reach out to us using the Contact Us page.
To use the live streaming service, please click on the red button above.
We live stream the 10.30 am Sunday Mass and other services from St George’s.
These live streams are also recorded for watching at your convenience.
Sunday Mass Timetable
Saturdays:
5.30 pm Vigil Mass at Our Lady’s Church (St William's Way, Thorpe St. Andrew, NR7 0AP)
Sundays:
8.00 am Mass at St Boniface’s Church (Brabazon Road, Hellesdon, NR6 6SY)
10.30 am Mass at St George’s Church (Sprowston Road, Norwich, NR3 4HZ)
For weekday services please see the newsletter
Enrolment for First Holy Communion 2026 now open
The First Holy Communion programme for 2026 is now open.
To register, please click the button below to fill in the online registration form:
Opportunity for Catholics in Healthcare and Life Sciences to Support Ethics Project
The Diocese invites doctors, nurses, pharmacists, researchers, and other professionals to contribute to an ongoing project applying the Church’s recent teaching on human dignity to the increasing challenges of living the Catholic faith in these professions.
Following the success of recent workshops at the Catholic Chaplaincies of the Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia, participation is now possible by completing a short online form.
Your reflections will assist a forthcoming panel of ethicists and theologians in considering these lived experiences and how to support those facing them. Beginning in spring 2026, the panel’s insights will be shared through additional workshops and accompanying published materials.
To contribute, please visit https://forms.office.com/e/CfJ6sM4m5L or scan the QR code.
QR Code for the “Human Dignity and the Moral Decision-making in the Life Sciences” Online Form
KNIGHTS OF ST. COLUMBA:
SERVE GOD BY SERVING OTHERS
Enter our 2025/2026 Nativity Scene Painting Competition
Link to Original poster
The 2025/26 competitionis open to two separate age groups:
Primary Level - School Year Group KS1
Primary Level – School Year Group KS2
Please note, the school year grouping classification will be the prime age factor.
Two Theme Guides to be undertaken:
Scene from the biblical Nativity Story of Our Lord Jesus.
Write Bible Chapter+Verse relating to the scene on the painting or on the back.
Entries will be their own free hand drawing and colouring productions - no tracings!
Entries may be submitted on sized A4 or A3 paper and on your choice of quality and colour of paper.
The following detail should be shown legibly in full on the reverse of each entry:
Name of entrant
Age of entrant
School Year Group
Name and full address of School/Parish/Group attended; e.g. Brownie/Cub Group.
Entries will, in the first instance, be judged at Local or Provincial Council level. We would prefer a maximum of three entries per category to be entered.
Entries must be posted before the end of term in December 2025 to me: Chris. Brooks
356 London Road South, Lowestoft, NR33 0BQ
Tel. 01502 563208
It would assist planning if you can make contact by 1st December 2025 to indicate your participation.
The awards after Charter Council judging will be:
Copy of Entries and Certificates signed by the Grand Knight with Cash Prizes of £10, £5 & £3 for the best 3 entries in each group.
The awards after Provincial Council judging will be:
Copy of Entries and Certificates signed by the Provincial Grand Knight with Cash Prizes of £20, £15 & £10 for the best 3 entries in each group.
The three best Provincial entries in each group will be submitted to the National Round where awards are:
National certificates signed by the Supreme Knight, A trophy and £30 for the National Winner, £20 & £15 for 2nd and 3rd, and £150 to the winning school.
Winning schools/parishes will be notified and arrangements made for presentations.
C. J. Brooks, Provincial Youth Officer, East Anglia & Brentwood Province 10, Knights of St. Columba.
Sharing Time and Talents
If you did not have a chance to sign up to share your time and talents during our appeal, you can download the form and hand it in to Fr Walter or the office.
Each of us is blessed with a unique portion of time, treasure and talents that God wants us to use and share with others for His glory. Whenever we give, we grow each time we joyfully recall that all we have comes from God and take one step forward in our personal faith in journey. However you decide to help, we are grateful.
Please click here to open and download the form.
Mass in Spanish
Bishop Peter would like to celebrate Mass in Spanish with you.
This mass will be held at 3pm on November 8th at:
St Laurence's Roman Catholic Church,
91 Milton Road,
Cambridge,
CB4 1XB.
Afterwards there will be a reception with the Bishop
For more information please call: 07799 603169
The Season of Creation at St George’s
This year is the 10th anniversary of the encyclical Laudato Si by Pope Francis and the 800th anniversary of the composition of the Canticle of the Creatures (Laudato Si, O mi Signore) by St Francis of Assisi.
The Norwich Secular Franciscans invite you to join our Day of Recollection on Saturday, September 20th from 11.00am – 4.00pm at St George’s. Please bring food for a shared lunch.
The Season of Creation, which runs from September 1 to October 4, is an annual celebration uniting Christians in prayer and action for the protection of our common home.
The Prayer for Creation
Father, Lord of all creation,
we praise you with all your creatures
and the whole universe that comes forth from the work of Your hands.
We acknowledge the privilege and responsibility
that You give us as stewards of Your creation.
In our ignorance we have done damage to our common home
and our brothers and sisters are suffering.
Through faithfully following your Son
guide and direct us to prepare for a better future.
Teach us to contemplate You in the beauty of the universe,
for all things speak of You.
Give us the grace to recognise, respect and protect all You have created,
using wisely all that you have entrusted to us.
Holy Spirit,
who first hovered over the dawn of creation and drew order out of the chaos
help us to build your kingdom of justice, love, peace and beauty where the poor of the earth are crying out.
You, who live and reign, world without end, Amen.
St George’s Confirmation Mass 2025
Our Confirmation programme for 2024-25 concluded on Thursday, 17 July 2025 with a special Confirmation Mass at St George’s that saw 11 young people receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Bishop Peter was present to confer this important Sacrament on Anastacia, Benjamin (X2), Catherine, John, Joshua, Naomi, Kinawa, Otis, Tiago and Rayan. Please continue to keep them in your prayers that they may be receptive to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and discern God’s will for their lives.
A special thanks goes to Michela and David for their dedication and time in preparing this group in learning more about the Church and about our Lord Jesus Christ.
Resources for Prayer & Reflection:
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come Holy Spirit,
Replace the tension within us with a holy relaxation.
Replace the turbulence within us with a quiet confidence.
Replace the fear within us with a strong faith.
Replace the bitterness within us
with the sweetness of grace.
Replace the darkness within us with a gentle light.
Replace the coldness within us with a living warmth.
Replace the night within us with Your light
Replace the winter within us with Your spring.
Straighten our crookedness, fill our emptiness.
Blunt the edge of our pride,
sharpen the edge of our humility.
Light the fires of our love,
quench the flames of our lust.
Let us see ourselves as You see us,
that we may see You as You have promised
and be fortunate according to Your word:
“Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.”
