Our Parish
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Fr. Roberto Ciardo SDV
The Presbytery
Blue Lane East
Walsall
WS2 8HN
Telephone: 01922 623823
Email: stpatrick.walsall@rcaob.org.uk
The school and parish are one community. We are blessed to be well supported in school by Fr. Roberto, a Vocationist priest. Mass is celebrated weekly in Church with either the whole school or individual classes.
Mass Times
Saturday Vigil Mass – 6.30 pm at St. Patrick's Church
Sunday Mass: 10.00am and 7.00pm
Daily Mass 9.15am
Confessions on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 9.45am - 10.15am.
School Mass Thursday 10.30am
Any non-Catholic families who want to know more about the Catholic faith should contact Fr Roberto.
We are proud to be part of the Parish of Patrick's which is linked very closely to the Vocationist Fathers. Their founder is Saint Justin M. Russolillo, S.D.V.
Saint Justin Russolillo was born on January 18, 1891 and baptised in Pianura(Naples) on the next day. After completing Grammar School in his home town, he entered the Seminary of Pozzuoli.
On September 20, 1913, Justin was ordained a Priest. While kneeling before the Bishop for the ordination, he vowed to the Lord to found a religious Congregation to cultivate vocations to faith, priesthood and holiness.
As a priest, he intensified the work that he had already begun as a Seminary student. When he was appointed Pastor of Pianura on September 20, 1920, he soon started working for the realization of his mission.
On October 18 of the same year, the first community of Vocationist Fathers came into being at the Rectory of St. George's Parish. One year later the Vocationist Sisters Community was formed with the same aims and goals of the Fathers.
The Vocationist Fathers and Sisters rapidly spread throughout Italy, France, Brazil, Argentina and U.S.A. and lately, they reached Nigeria, India, Philippines, Madagascar, Columbia and Ecuador.
The two religious congregations of the Vocationist Fathers and Sisters became congregation of Pontifical Right respectively on January 3, 1948 and on May 24, 1947. Saint Justin completed his earthly mission on August 2, 1955, comforted by the Sacraments of the Church. Said petition was readily granted on April 3, 1978, and on December 18, 1997 Pope John Paul the Second officially declared that Fr. Justin had practiced the Christian Virtues in a heroic manner and therefore he was being raised to the dignity of VENERABLE, and now on May 7th, 2011 Saint Justin was raised again to the honour of BLESSED by His Holiness Benedict XVI and was recognised as a saint in May 2022
This is the link to the vocations Office: http://www.vocations.org.uk/.