Our Lady of the Assumption News

(From project leaders Natasha and Catherine) Just an update on the food hamper project. We delivered our 14th week hamper today and all our families were really pleased and appreciated the delivery. An update on the gentleman who lost his wife to Covid and left 8...

Donations to CAFOD’s Coronavirus Appeal will help Caritas India distribute PPE kits to frontline health workers, promote CovId and vaccine awareness campaigns, and set up safely run isolation and quarantine centres. You can donate online at cafod.org.uk/give or in...

“Come and See” (Jn 1:46) The theme for the 2021 World Day of Social Communications, chosen by Pope Francis, echoes the words of the Apostle Philip, recognising that authentic communication leads to “encountering people as and where they are”. Taken from the Bible,...

Parishioner Paul Toal kindly suggested he make a short film, so that I might share with you a bit of what being in St Mary’s and in Rhyl has meant to me over the twenty years (24 years if you include my time as an assistant priest). Since we can't gather, this may be...

Pentecost, the culmination of the Easter Season, the Feast of the coming of the Holy Spirit. Pray for those gifts to be deepened in your heart……….. This year, for the nine days between Ascension and Pentecost, the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is inviting...

Any old Mobile phones lying around ?? “Spread the love” will take them. They can be recycled instead of dumping more poisonous waste in the earth .

As we all know, India is facing a devastating second wave of Coronavirus, with more than 16 million cases and 200,000 deaths confirmed. Father Paul Moonjely. Executive Director of our partner agency, Caritas India, tells us, “The Church in India has lost many of its...

Thursday, 13th May is the Feast of the Ascension and a Holy Day of Obligation. There will be Vigil Mass at 7.00 pm on Wednesday (when officers of the Knights of St. Columba will be installed) and Mass on Thursday at 11.00 am.

Many thanks to parishioners and others who‘ve wished me well over the last week, in regard to moving from Rhyl. After 20 years here it’s a real sadness, a grief, to leave, especially where I’ve worked closely with people. We often underestimate the depth of...

St Mary’s new PP, came to visit on Friday. I asked if I could share with you something of our chat and he said ‘yes’. Fr Anthony was educated in the seminary of the first missionary order in the continent of Africa, the Missionaries of St Paul. He served as a...

'The pandemic and my community –what needs to happen next' workshop for TCC members Tuesday 4th May 7.30pm - 8.30pm online. Share your and your community's experiences of the past year, and to share ideas about what needs to happen to ensure that we all recover well...

The group of 16 children who would have celebrated First communion last May 2020, after a long covid-break, have have completed their preparations on Zoom. They’ll at last be able to celebrate, with their families. Managing this at Sunday Mass or even Saturday evening...

Please check out the Parish Bulletin for this week (4th Sunday of Easter, 25th April 2021) for an important announcement from Fr Charles Link: http://catholicchurchrhyl.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4th-Sunday-of-Easter-25th-April-2021.pdf

Remember Bernie and May (the charity founder) spoke to us about the clothes, toys, and other goods they send to children in poverty in the Philippines? You can bring in goods you want to contribute and place them in the big box you see as you come into church. Thanks...

Tuesday 27th April, is the 53rd anniversary of the abortion act coming in to effect. Since then, over 9 million babies have been aborted in the United Kingdom. Please join us that day in praying and fasting for the end of abortion in this Country. As we are in the...

Next week we begin Our Lady’s month, the month of May, this year on the 5th Sunday of Easter when we will celebrate Our Lady specially at this Mass. The rosary as always will be prayed before each daily mass.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on care work like never before. Care workers and other key workers, and we have many in the parish, have been applauded and celebrated, yet there is a looming crisis facing the care sector. British and migrant care workers...

Thank you for your generous donations to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day during Lent. We featured Marian and her son Svondo in Zimbabwe in Lent 2018. The community vegetable garden that your donations helped provide is growing well and during the pandemic the family has...