Our Lady of the Assumption News

Food orders close tomorrow (Monday) at 12. Don’t miss out- £1.50 subscription for £5 worth of food, £2.50 subscription for £10 worth of food and £3.50 subscription for £15. Please use the following link to place an order https://form.jotform.com/201336437145349?...

If you’d like to join the shared prayer from St Beuno’s on Sunday evening please email chas37free@gmail.com ,St Mary’s parish office , and detail on how to access will be sent to you.

St Mary’s Church and 4thecommunity. (May 2020) The Welsh Parliament are looking to scrutinize Covid-19 and its impact on children and young people. Terms of Reference are to consider the impact of the outbreak and how it is being managed on children and young people’s...

A parish team meeting was held last week through Zoom software, just to catch up with our buildings progress and also to review how feeding the hungry is going locally (thanks to several parishioners who are helping deliver food at Good News Mission’s marvellous...

It’s the fifth anniversary of Laudato Si. Pope Francis invites us to celebrate Laudato Si’ Week from May 16-24, a nine-day global campaign celebrating the theme: “Everything is Connected.” There are many ways you can participate from home on your own, with your...

Please check in to Fr Peter Morgan’s Liverpool parish for beautiful homilies/ reflections, at……………. https://sites.google.com/view/st-anne-and-st-bernard/home For an uplift through amazing music and dance to chase away the lock-down blues…. https://youtu.be/rqzkn-jX-JU...

CAFOD has launched a coronavirus emergency appeal. The effects of coronavirus on developing countries where CAFOD works are likely to be devastating. Families without enough to eat and without access to clean water and healthcare are particularly vulnerable. The...

If you are in immediate danger call 999 and ask for the police. If you are in danger and unable to talk on the phone, call 999 and listen to the questions from the operator and if possible, respond by coughing or tapping the head set. If prompted, press 55 to Make...

Ways you can make offertory donations: 1. Create a Banker’s Standing Order. Simply fill in a Banker’s Order form and return it to your bank. (Some banks let you download these forms.) On this form you simply enter: The Banks’ name eg Nat West. Name of Account : eg...

The Knights of St Columba among other things raise lots of money for good causes. Currently they have looked at the challenges facing Catholic Care Homes across the country and have decided to set-up a “Charity Appeal “campaign for the catholic orders running these...

We’re Catholics, we’re not only local, we’re global. We can all connect, even in a small way, with some missionary or justice issues round the world, as with Red boxes or CAFOD. After my 10 day visit to Palestine and Israel 10 years ago, a great way for me to stay...

Parishioner Chris Ruane, obviously “seeking God in all things”, found this excellent website with lots of good News. He has agreed to share it. …….. “I found this excellent news site which covers positive news stories from around the world- a back to work programmes...

Do remember to pray for staff at Christ the Word Catholic School, also working front-line at the moment, educating vulnerable children and others. They’ve just asked me to judge a baking competition !! Are they mad ? The Head, very kindly, as I’m locked in, says: “We...

We’ve restored our raised vegetable beds in the parish house backyard and also beside the church. All of these have now been planted with potatoes, carrots, broad beans, onions, broccoli and other vegetables. Parishioners (THANKS) have so f far donated seeds,...

Remember we challenged MP James Davies on the issue of School Hunger ? Pressure resulted when last February Welsh Government rolled out better school breakfast provision and a holiday food scheme for the coming summer, to all Welsh councils. After the pilot scheme,...

Please visit the Finances page  for ways to contribute to Parish finances.

You’re invited to explore this huge worldwide response to Pope Francis’ document LAUDATO SI. It comes highly recommended. From their website:: 16-23 May: Online trainings and workshops will provide an opportunity for us to pray and reflect together as we prepare to...

The requirements regarding attendance at a funeral have been relaxed. In Wales from April 7 onwards attendance at a funeral will not be restricted to defined close family. Instead, the person/authority responsible for the place where the funeral is held will indicate...