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Parish Charity Breakfast

Congratulations and thank you to the Breakfast team, with lovely Richard cooking, and all those who supported the breakfast last weekend and helped raise £202 to add to the £23 raised by the poppy sales earlier in Nov for the Royal British Legion.  

Next Breakfast 28th January after St G’s 9am mass – fundraising for Children’s Respite Trust.  All Welcome invite friends and family, they are welcome just to attend breakfast or join for mass also.

Nine Lessons & Carols

Sat 16th Dec, 3pm at St Wilfrid’s.  Please fill the church, raise the roof in song and pray with us in the season of Advent.  And don’t forget to invite friends and family, this service is a perfect way to bring those who don’t attend our weekly mass through our doors. Next year this Parish service will be at St George’s Church.  Mulled wine & mince pies in the hall afterwards.  We shall have a “surprise bag” table, a prize every time for just £1.   There is a box in the porch to receive any gifts you may like to contribute please.  We are asking for   donations of mince pies that can be left in the church porch on Sun 10th Dec and on the following Wed/Fri morning as long as they are in date on the 16th if you are buying, or if making brought to the church on the 16th before the service at 3pm. Thank you.

Las Posadas

Las Posadas – A Journey towards Christmas:  If you have not signed up yet to be part of our travelling nativity during Advent please do, the list is at the back of St W’s Church, or speak to one of the youth team (Teresa, Angela, Annette, Sandra or Mary) to find out more.  All you would need to do is welcome one family with the travelling nativity figures on your allocated date, then the following day you will deliver the nativity to the next family on the list. 

Bambinelli Sunday

Gaudete Sun 17th Dec the 3rd Sunday of Advent. Gaudete means “rejoice” and on this Feast Day we rejoice because we are almost at Christmas, the day where we celebrate the coming Jesus into the world, the greatest gift we have ever been given. To mark the Feast, our parish will join with parishes around the world, in celebrating the tradition of Bambinelli Sunday. We invite each family in the parish and their friends/families to bring the figurine of Jesus from their family crib to either mass, where they will be blessed and returned to you for wrapping and placing under your tree until Christmas Eve/Day.

INVITED

The Diocese has prepared four thoughtful online streamed presentations to help us all prepare for Christmas called “invited”.  Each week the presentation comprises a film, discussion, reflection, music and prayer.  The first online presentation was launched yesterday and can be accessed via the Diocesan website at www.abdiocese.org.uk/invited.

Fr Rory Writes

This new year of Our Lord is now underway as we light the first candle “The Candle of Hope”.  We can accompany it with the thought “hope springs eternally”.  It’s on the foundations that we build; the value of life and the hope we have is dependant on the material that we build on.  A report which I read on the Synod has restored some real confidence in my heart ….. The Synod is a call for Catholics to become a new kind of church; a communion of baptised people walking together.

This has been at the heart of our work since we began to focus on our parish council.  So it is very appropriate following on the focus that Bob Waters has given us, that we put our best efforts into building up the ministries that will serve in the life of our church.  As we light the first candle, we begin with establishing the ministry of hospitality, as we will go on to grow a team of welcomers with again Bob’s experience as a Knight of St Columba, will be of benefit to help with its structure and service.