Father Rory’s Golden Jubilee Celebration – Sunday 14th July: All Parishioners will receive an invite to Father Rory’s Jubilee celebration at mass today. Please ensure you RSVP via the sheets at the back of church to help us with planning and catering arrangements. If you can help with the days events please let us know, we especially need some physical help with set up and clear up as this will be heavier work. Contact Sandra on 07791627368 for more information.
We are looking for some extra volunteers to help maintain our beautiful gardens here at St Wilfrid’s. Various tasks; mowing, pruning back brushes, weeding, tiding up the car park areas. This is especially important this year, so we look spick and span for our jubilee celebrations in July. Speak to Jackie on 841504
Please keep all our deanery First Holy Communion candidates and Confirmands in your prayers as they finalise their preparations during May/June to then receive the sacraments in June.
The young people’s walk on May 25th has been postponed till September/October, due to no one informing the organiser that they are coming.
A fun packed day with celebration masses at both St Wilfrid’s and St George’s, sponsored walk, delicious afternoon tea. More details to follows.
The Parish Rosary Group meets every Monday at 2pm in St George’s Hall (not bank holidays). Everyone is welcome to join as a regular or occasional member to Pray the Rosary a most wonderful devotion together. May is the Month of Our Lady so a good time to start.
Crowning our lady is part of all our parish tradition and children’s liturgy focus in May. Last week at St Wilfrid’s the children had a Godly play session focusing on the wonders of Our Mother Mary and then crowned her during mass. This week at St George’s our children will make the flower crown for our lady’s statue in the remembrance garden and we invite everyone to join them in song while they crown her.
(The Parish big help out) Sat June 1st, 10-4pm. Both St Wilfrid’s and St George’s desperately need your help to garden, clean, tidy etc. There are also several maintenance tasks for those who are good with tools and paint brushes. We are currently creating a list of jobs: some small, some a little
bigger, but enough for us all to have something to volunteer for on the day. More details to follow but please save the date and ask your family to join us if they can- even if only for half an hour. Many hands make light work – don’t assume others will do it. Refreshments will be provided.
All Gift Aid statements for the tax year 2023/24 will be sent out by the end of May. In order to reduce the costs of stationery and postage we are requesting that all donors (envelope and standing order) opt to have their letter issued by email. In order to do this could you please send your email details through to the Parish Secretary so that our records can be updated. Please state in the title of the email “Gift Aid Donor Contact Details” for either St George’s or St Wilfrid’s and send to [email protected]
For health and safety reasons no donations for St George’s table sale should be left outside the hall or church. Donations need to be new or nearly new and suitable to sit on a table for sale. They should be left inside the back of the church or on the hall stage. Thank you to everyone for your support of our sales table both donating and purchasing, all money raised is split between our monthly charity and our youth activities.
