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Mass Times and Intentions

Mass Times and Intentions

Please remember in prayer our sick or housebound parishioners, and all who have died recently, or whose anniversary of death is about this time

Reconciliation (Confession): Wednesdays, after 7.00pm Mass.  Or ring 862437 for a better day or time.

THANK YOU Parish collection: £371.50 incl. £60 St. Orders; Catholic Youth Service  a further £6.(total £65);                Poor Missions fund £77.45.    Attendance  102.  

Our parish CARE GROUP asks that if we know anyone who is housebound (and if they agree) you would please inform the Group. And the Group would welcome more members.

MARRIAGE COURSE at St. Clare’s, starts January.21 You need to enrol soon and attend, if you are to marry in 2020 or 2021.  Details from Fr. Bob  

Considering training to teach? The Catholic Teaching Alliance in Preston offers bespoke PGCE training Over 60 schools in Alliance.    01772 326931 or cta@olchs.lancs.sch.uk

YOUR CANDLE-POWER.  Calling all girls/boys, mums/ dads, aunties/uncles, grannies/grandads. Decorate the benches for Christmas by making a “candle” to hang on bench-end. Cardboard tubes for 3D effect, but flat card fine, too. Each with a “flame” on top. Attach a loop long enough to hang round bench-end. See SAMPLE in basket in church. Your “candle” to be ready in church, please, by 22 Dec, latest. Can google “clip art” “Christmas candle”.  ‘Thank you’ from Pauline.

Advent talks “The God who speaks”. See noticeboard.   

LANCASHIRE SINGS CHRISTMAS. Join Radio Lancs at The Grapes Inn, Goosnargh, 7.00-8.00pm on Thursday 19 Dec., to sing carols with others around Lancs.   

Advent Rosary at Our Lady and St. Edward’s today, 8th Dec., at 3.00pm.  The Joyful Mysteries. Next Sunday (15th) here at St. Mary’s, 3.00pm And after the Rosary, the opportunity for Advent Reconciliation  (Confession) on both Sundays.

CHRISTMAS MASS TIMES here at St. Mary’s are:      Christmas Eve, 6.00pm,  and Christmas Day  10.00am.

 (and, at Our Lady & St. Edward’s,, Eve  6.00pm, 11.30pm  Midnight Mass, and Christmas Day 10.00am.)  

BAMBINELLI SUNDAY next Sunday, 15th December. Bring your Bambino Jesu to Mass that day and take him home, newly blessed, to put in your domestic Bethlehem.  

CHRISTMAS FLOWER-ARRANGING,  on Saturday 21st, starting 1l.00am. Please will you come and help ? 

And …..

……When you come on Sunday 22nd, please bring GREENERY for window swags.  A suggestion is that families make their own and bring them to church on that Sunday. Just in case, may we have volunteers making swags after Mass on 22nd ?

“The God Who Speaks”  The Year of the Word. At Mass, Readers convey the word of God to us. They are key to our hearing it, but we have to be attentive, keen to understand. Equally with the Gospel.

HUSTINGS - election candidates answer questions, at Goosnargh Village Hall, Tuesday 10th Dec, 7.30pm. Opportunity to promote Christian values, incl. pro-life.

LOURDES 2020. 23 July to 01 August, with Lancaster Diocese. Change of tour operator to Joe Walsh Tours info@joewalshtours.co.uk . Prices down on last year. From £779 general pilgrims. Fr. Bob has booking forms.   £595 for Youth Section (apply to Castlerigg,)

See noticeboard posters.. 

Feastday, Monday: Catholic Faith is that, in the instant she began to exist (the moment of conception) Mary was preserved from the stain of Original Sin. We praise God for his creation of Immaculate Mary.       “Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.” The Immaculate Conception.