The Diocese of Westminster has announced the sad news of the death of Fr John Michael Warnaby, Parish Priest of St Joseph, Carpenders Park and South Oxhey.
Born in November 1960, Fr John died peacefully yesterday afternoon, Saturday 13th April 2024, at the Birmingham Hospice in Erdington, Birmingham where he had been admitted on Wednesday. The following day he was visited by the Cardinal and was given the Sacrament of the Sick and Holy Communion.
Condolences are extended to Fr John’s family, including his mother and three sisters, friends and colleagues, and to his former parishioners in parishes where he served as a priest of the Diocese of Westminster since his ordination in June 2017: Palmers Green, Sudbury and, finally, Carpenders Park.
Information about funeral arrangements will be circulated, as will an obituary, in due course.
Fr John was a member of the Deceased Clergy Association.
We pray for the peaceful repose of Fr John’s soul:
Hear with favour our prayers,
which we humbly offer, O Lord,
for the salvation of the soul of Fr John your servant and priest,
that he, who devoted a faithful ministry to your name,
may rejoice in the perpetual company of your saints.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
The Communion Antiphon at Mass yesterday, the day of Fr John’s death (Saturday, Second Week of Easter), the words of Jesus (John 17:24):
Father, I wish that, where I am,
those you gave me may also be with me,
that they may see the glory you gave me, alleluia.
May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.
