Our Lady of the Assumption News

We can’t gather for our Advent Family Day this year, but you can still join us in Celebrating Family and the start of Advent at home. To help families in our Diocese to start to look towards Christmas and celebrate the Advent season, we are providing free packs of...

Over a few months a few of parishioners have explored the many and serious housing issues in this area. In West and south West Rhyl more intensive: poor accommodation, some neglectful or irresponsible landlords, lack of housing for younger people, etc. These issues...

The parish, working with partners from outside the parish, has given a Christmas Day party for people on their own or homeless over the past four years. Currently people have started calling us to offer volunteering time for the coming Christmas Day. A team has been...

The Marriage and Family Life Commission invites you to our Advent Family Day at Home on the<strong> First Sunday of Advent, 29th November 2020</strong> We can’t gather for our Advent Family Day this year, but you can still join us in Celebrating Family and the...

We remember the communion of the Saints, those who have died. We remember especially those who died over the last year, but also all our relatives, friends and those who have nobody to pray for them. We are all connected through God’s love.

It takes hundreds of years for plastics to break down. Why not start by just saying NO to single use plastics: We buy a drink in a plastic bottle and a plastic wrapped sandwich then put them in a plastic bag and then leave the shop The worst are the bottles you cant...

A new global digital campaign promoted by the Global Catholic climate Movement and open to all who wish to support Catholics to mobilise behind the Pope’s prayer intention in support of a just response to the COVID pandemic and the climate emergency. Based on the...

There will be a Remembrance Day service next Wednesday at 11am in the church grounds Memorial Garden. Wreaths to be laid by the UCM and the KSC. We ask attendees to practice social distance rules please.

We remember the communion of the Saints, those who have died. We remember especially the following who died over the last year, but also all our relatives, friends and those who have nobody to pray for them. We are all connected through God’s love.

a Youtube Video with Mary McAleese - Former President of Ireland, from last June’s Scottish Laity Conference. (Yes, lay people can actually have a voice in the Catholic church !!) Canon law - its true purpose and limitations. Human rights -what are they and how does...

1 Parishioner Tony Murphy has completed the specifications for building our new smaller presbytery (priest’s house). (Big thanks) Complicated games are causing delay in agreeing our flood risk assessment, though, and therefore planning permission. Despite it costing...

Alas, we’re locked down again. For many this means absence of hugs, touch, even cut-offs from family and friends, the loss of activities, work or relaxations we’d normally have. This can make us feel strange, in their absence, a kind of mourning. This is a death, a...

RCIA for a group including two people preparing for the sacraments of the church starts this Sunday at 6 pm on zoom with some sessions on different types of prayer. If you’d like to join in please email Fr Charles chas37free@gmail.com and he’ll send the Zoom link.

(Fr Charles) Maybe, but the advice is to be gradual, don’t try it all at once !! It’s ingrained in us. This is about breaking old habits and making greener ones. They say not to throw plastics out in a big purge. The real move is to commit to not buying any more...

MESSAGE FROM FR ANTHONY CHANTRY, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF MISSIO This year, World Mission Sunday falls on 18th October. On this day the whole Church unites in prayer for its missionary activity, and in collecting funds to support Catholic communities across the world...

I’m just emailing to say a big ‘THANK YOU’. We appreciate that these are extremely challenging times for everyone at the moment and we are so touched by the kindness and generosity of everybody for CAFOD’s work. So many families around the world face an uncertain...

...in Marsh Rd with the good News Mission. If you recall, last July we sought help from the Albert Gubay Foundation to help fund food provision for what has been about 70 to 80 families locally. They gave us £20,000. A detailed report has been compiled from the weekly...

Thank you to all who came on Zoom to discuss Facebook and provided such a rich knowledgeable discussion. “The biggest debating point was whether a Facebok page with a strong public facing on-line presence or group should be developed initially. Everyone agrees both...