Certificates of Catholic Practice can be downloaded from this link here. Once you have completed it and the accompanying request form, downloaded from this link here, they should be posted through the letterbox at 186 St Johns Road. If everything is fine with your application it will be signed. Please collect your certificate 5 days after you have submitted it from the Hemel West parish office. The parish office is behind the Parish Centre, Boxmoor. Just follow the signs outside the Presbytery to the Parish Office. You’ll see the opening times below.
VERY IMPORTANT: There is one simple criterion for the issue of a CCP and it relates to Catholic practice. Catholic practice equates to weekly attendance at Sunday Mass. This is a fair and good test and means there is a level playing field for every applicant. Therefore certificates will only be issued to practising Catholics, that is, families who are known to the parish priest and regularly attend weekly Sunday Mass. Occasional absence for sickness or other emergencies, such as extreme bad weather etc are understandable and acceptable, however prolonged absence that has not been notified to our parish priest in advance of a request, means that it is unlikely that he will issue a CCP.
Please ensure that you make your application and it is received in good time to meet the schools and church deadlines as we cannot be responsible for any late applications.
Please do not include any covering notes, baptismal certificates or birth certificates etc with your request as they will be returned unread.
If you are relatively new to the parish and despite making your self known to our parish priest, then you will need to apply to the parish priest of your previous parish. The same criterion will apply, as the policy comes from the bishops of England and Wales and applies in all parish churches in those countries.
All the best with getting your child into one of our excellent Catholic schools!
| Hemel West Parish : Parish Administrator Office Hours | ||
| Monday | 3pm-6pm | |
| Tuesday | Closed | |
| Wednesday | 9.30-3.30pm | |
| Thursday | 9.30am-12.30pm | |
| Friday | 9.30am-12.30pm | |