Events
Sacramental Preparation
Confirmation
The Sacrament of Confirmation is celebrated by the Bishop in the Parish every few years and the preparation for the Sacrament normally about 12 weeks. Young people wishing to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation must be sufficiently mature to undertake the commitment required for this Sacrament.
Sacramental Preparation
Sacraments are God's great gifts to the Church and if great importance in the life of the individual and the parish. They are never lightly undertaken and the Parish clergy, in liaison with the Catechists should normally be approached for preparation for sacraments.
A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is given to us. Full and active participation in the sacramental life of the Church requires a period of preparation of both mind and heart to be receptive to the grace of new life in Christ.
Please contact the Parish Priest for further information.
First Confession and First Holy Communion
Each year children are prepared for the Sacraments of Penance and First Holy Communion. These are great celebrations of the whole parish, when the community celebrates God's gifts to the Church given through its young children.
Baptism
Baptism is the foundation of all the Sacraments. Together with Holy Communion and Confirmation, it forms part of the three Sacraments of initiation into the Church, the family of God. Baptism is therefore the beginning of a Christian life.
About the Parish
Historical background
The foundation stone of a small Catholic church in Mill Street was laid by the Earl of Gainsborough in 1882 and his sister Lady Edith Noel provided a small endowment. This church was described by Kelly’s Directory (Rutland) as : ‘The Roman Catholic church, in Mill Street, built in 1883, under the direction of Fr E Van Dale, served the Oakham mission and dedicated to SS. Joseph and Edith is a small and plain structure of brick with freestone facings and has a turret containing one bell’. Read article in the Tablet 20th January 1883 - Mission in Oakham - 'Souls are Perishing' 
In 1975 an entirely new church was built on a new site in Station Road, with an integral hall and a presbytery. The site was secured for the parish by the fifth Earl of Gainsborough.
In 1979 the old church in Mill Street, which had been retained by the parish, was converted to serve as a parish centre, but is now in secular use.
The church is a simple rectangular structure, faced in buff-coloured brick, with a shallow monopitch roof across the whole building and a clerestorey strip on both long sides. The end wall facing the street has three simple vertical windows, with a glazed entrance to one side. The (liturgical) north wall facing the car park has four widely- spaced segment-headed windows beneath the long clerestorey. Against the (liturgical) south wall is the flat-roofed hall building and rising from its roof is an openwork metal bell tower. The presbytery is located behind the (liturgical) east end of the church making best use of the tapering site.
The interior is simply finished, with bare brick walls and exposed roof timbers. The altar is set against the flat windowless east wall. A glazed partition runs the full length of the south wall, dividing the church from the hall. The furnishings are all contemporary with the buildings and include Stations of the Cross designed and made by John Walton