Our Lady of the Assumption News

Parishioners who help with fundraising for the parish, for example, the Summer and Christmas Fayres have been discussing a change of direction over a long period. Contributions of sales items for the Fayres, and participation, have dropped significantly over recent...

Father Charles and the Parish Team are overseeing work to build a stronger church community and Parish renewal. This involves: PARISH LISTENING bringing the church community together. establishing dialogue between Parishioners. building stronger parishioner...

Friday, 1st November, is the Feast of All Saints, and a Holy Day of Obligation. Mass is at 9.30 am as normal, and there is a Vigil Mass at 6.30 pm on Thursday. Mass for the Feast of All Souls will be on Sunday, 3rd. See the list of Deceased Members of the Parish which...

We run a boys group on Wednesdays from 4.30 – 6.30pm in St Marys presbytery. There are discussions on a range of different topics. We provide deep listening for the boys in a space where they feel safe to express themselves. We look to encourage and help boys aged...

We will be starting a Parish Listening process shortly. There will be lots of conversations taking place in small groups and one to one. We will be looking to explore parishioners ideas, thoughts, issues and feelings on how we might become stronger as a parish...

A film called #forSama will be broadcast on channel 4in the UK on Sat 26th October at 9.00 pm. Please tune in. Intimately personal and powerfully universal, this brutal, honest documentaryis a painful but important to watch account of life during the Syrian war....

The Archdiocese of Liverpool and the Diocese of Salford offer a diploma in Pastoral Ministry and Leadership in partnership with Loyola University Chicago Institute of Pastoral Studiesand in association with Liverpool hope University. See our noticeboard for details of...

Through the parish team, helped by Rob Walsh who is engaged by us to help facilitate the renewal process, we met last week with a Denbighshire county councillor and a Rhyl town councillor with planning experience to talk about the parish building program. They were...

The next meeting is on Sun 27th Octobe rat 3.00 pm in the presbytery.

The Foryd Centre food bank is very low and hungry people are being turned away. If lots of us could remember, on Sundays, to bring in a small item or twofrom our shopping it would really help. Many thanks to all who already do this.

On Thursday the Knights of St Columba presented a chque for £1000 to Christ the Word School for a defibrillator. We would like to thank all who contributedthrough personal donation or through the KSC raffles after mass.

Today Pope Francis will declare Blessed John Henry Newman a saint of the Church. Cardinal Newman was a great scholar but also a great pastor. He brought his many and varied gifts to the service of the Church in this country – first to the Church of England, and then...

Please keep in your prayers all our retired Clergy especially Fr Tony Jones, Fr Frank Gormley OMI, Mgr James Fealey and Fr Paschal Dormer, also Fr Ian Dalgleish, Fr Edward Sopala and Paul Booth, and all those and their families who are ill at this time or recovering...

The annual mass count starts this week and will continue throughout the month.

For anyone currently wishing to have their child baptised, October preparation sessions are about to begin. Please contact Sheila Johnson on 354311 to arrange.

On Saturday 26th Oct at 2.00 pm Tickets £8 at the back of the church after Mass and from Maria Howes or Ellen Aspinall. Proceedings for church building fund

The U.C.M. will be saying the Rosary on Thursday evenings, 7.30 pm throughout the month as follows: Thursday, 3rd Jean Taggart’s house Thursday, 10th UCM meeting Thursday, 17th Ellen Aspinall’s Thursday, 24th Sandra Hughes’ Thursday, 30th Christine...

October 2019 is the month designated by the Holy Father with “the aim of fostering an increased awareness of the Missio ad gentes and taking up again with renewed fervour the missionary transformation of the Church’s life and pastoral activity, and helping communities...