How to Contact Our Lady of Peace & Blessed Dominic Barberi Parish or Arrange an Appointment with Fr Stan

The parish website (olop.org.uk) is the starting point for contact details, but the published material does not list a phone number, email address, or office opening hours. What it does confirm is that the Sacrament of Reconciliation is available by private appointment with Fr Stan, in addition to the scheduled confession times on Mass days. To arrange that appointment, or to reach the parish office, you will need the current contact details from the latest newsletter or the website itself, and you should check both before travelling, because the weekly timetable and office availability change.

What the published schedule tells you

The parish's own notices give these regular times:

Two things follow from this. First, the scheduled confession window is tied to days when Mass is celebrated, so it disappears on days without Mass. Second, the private appointment route with Fr Stan is the only option the parish publishes for arranging Reconciliation outside those windows — there is no separate booking system described.

Why you should check before you go

The parish explicitly asks people to always check the latest newsletter due to changes in the weekly timetable for Mass. The published notices show how often this matters:

• On Friday 18th September, morning Mass moved to 8.15 am, there was no Adoration because of a wedding, and no evening Mass because of a Centenary Mass at English Martyrs Church.
• During a parish pilgrimage, there was no weekday Mass from Tuesday 22nd to Thursday 24th September, with different priests covering the Friday, Sunday, and Monday Masses.
• The parish office was closed from Tuesday 22nd to Tuesday 29th September.
• Adoration paused for a summer break and was due to resume on Friday 25th September 2026, with a temporary invitation to Adoration on Mondays and Fridays, 5.00 pm – 6.00 pm, followed by the Rosary and Mass.

If you turn up on the strength of the regular timetable alone, any of these could leave you standing outside a locked door. The same applies to reaching Fr Stan: if the office is closed or the clergy are away on pilgrimage, an appointment request will not be picked up.

How to actually make contact

1. Go to olop.org.uk and look for the current newsletter or notices section. This is where the parish says timetable changes are published.
2. Check the most recent newsletter date before relying on any time or contact detail. A notice from several weeks ago may already be superseded.
3. For Reconciliation with Fr Stan, ask in person after a scheduled Mass, or use whatever contact route the current newsletter gives for the parish office. The published material does not specify a preferred method, so follow the newsletter rather than assuming.
4. Confirm the office is open before visiting in person. The September closure shows the office can shut for a full week, and closures are announced rather than fixed to a published pattern.

Common pitfalls

• Assuming the office has standard opening hours. No opening hours are published in the available material, and a week-long closure is documented. Treat office access as something to verify, not assume.
• Using the scheduled confession time on a non-Mass day. The 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm window applies on Mondays, Fridays, and Holy Days of Obligation — days that already have Mass.
• Missing the Lent and Advent shifts. Wednesday Mass moves from 8.00 am to 6.30 am, and Friday Adoration ends an hour earlier with Stations of the Cross at 6.00 pm. If you are arranging an appointment around those seasons, the surrounding schedule is different.
• Relying on a third-party listing. Mass times aggregator sites and old directories are frequently out of date for this parish, given how often the timetable changes.

If your reason for contacting the parish is to arrange Reconciliation with Fr Stan, the practical answer is: check the latest newsletter first for contact details and any closures, then request the appointment — and if you can, ask in person after a Mass on a Monday, Friday, or Holy Day, when the clergy are already present.