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James Leslie Westcar RIP: 17th Anniversary on Fri 13th Dec.
 

Sunday 15th December 2024 at 3pm.  You are all invited to our Service.  Refreshments will be serviced in the Church Hall     afterwards.  Donations of mince pies gratefully received – please bring to the Hall this week or the 15th.  Many thanks.
 

Bambinelli Sunday – 15th Dec – St G’s 9am & St W’s 10.30am:

Everyone invited, especially children, to bring their baby Jesus crib figure to either of our parish masses on the Third Sunday of Advent.  A traditional blessing of the Bambinelli (baby Jesus) will be given.  Then they go home to be wrapped up and placed   under the tree.  The blessed Bambinelli are then unwrapped by you as the first present on Christmas morning.

Please could I ask that all future correspondence be sent through to our new diocesan email address as follows:- [email protected]   Thank you.
 

Elizabeth Robinson’s requiem mass took place on Thursday 28th November at St Mary Magdelene’s.  Thank you to all who were able to attend, it was such a lovely service.
 

Service of Reconciliation will take place at St Wilfrid’s at 5pm on Saturday 7th December. Please come along and support our First Holy Communion children as they undertake this important sacrament.
 

Epiphany Party at St Wilfrid’s for all parishioners at 3pm on 4th January 2025 followed by Vigil Mass at 5pm. More details to follow next week.
 

Parishioners at St Wilfrid’s have decided not to send each other Christmas cards this year but instead will donate the money to a local charity, “Warming Up The Homeless”. There will be a collection of these donations on Sunday 15th December toward their Golden Ticket Christmas Appeal, which asks for      donations of £10 to take a child living in temporary accommodation to a pantomime and to give them some festive treats. 
 

Carol Service at St Wilfrid’s will take place at 3pm on 15th December followed my mince pies and mulled wine in the hall.

Following last years successful “Choose a Bag” £1 Children, £2 Adults, after our Carol Service on Saturday 14th December at 3pm, we shall have mulled wine, tea, coffee and refreshments in our hall plus our popular “Choose a Bag”.  For this we shall need lots of bags please, either empty or filled.  There will be a box in the church porch to receive these please.  Thank you in advance.