Twenty Ninth Sunday of the Year

 

Twenty Ninth Sunday of Year A

18th October

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

CHILDRENS CLOTHES SWAP.

Saturday 24th of October 2026, 

10:00-12:00. In the Social Centre.

Bring a bag of your baby's/kid's washed old/outgrown clothes sorted by size and leave with clothes that fit!

If you are looking for newborn clothes, please just come without any donations to take some things for your new arrival!

Tea, coffee, squash and cakes available to buy with proceeds

going to hall hire.

If you have clothes that you would like to drop before the

event or would be willing to help, please contact Andy

at lunn.andrew@gmail.com.

 Monday No public Mass today

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass

Thursday 9.30am Mass

Friday 7pm

Novena & Benediction

Saturday 11.30am

Baptism

Esme Tierney

Thirtieth Sunday of Year A

25th October

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Celebrated by Bishop Tom Neylon

No Refreshments after the early Mass but there is buffet lunch in the Social Centre following the 10.30am Mass, celebrating the bestowal of the Papal Medal "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice"

On Michael Thompson, our long-standing Parish Assistant.

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Twenty Eight Sunday of the Year

 

THE PARABLE OF TJHE WEDDING FEAST.

St Gregory the Dialogist writes that the King is God Himself, and the marriage is symbolic of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, the union of Christ’s divine and human natures into one Person. The feast is symbolic of Christ’s Church, which exists, we remember, in heaven and on earth. St. John Chrysostom's’ commentary is similar to this interpretation. He adds that, at first, Christ invites the people of the Old Covenant, the Jews, to join this great marriage feast, which is the Church. But they fail to respond. He invites them a second time, and they are too busy with earthly concerns, to which St. John Chrysostom's states that “when spiritual things call us, there is no press of business that has the power of necessity to call us away.” So it is then that the ordinary people of the ”highways,“ the Gentiles, are invited.  

Now, Christ has summoned us to His feast, that is to His Church, so that here we may partake of His sacred foods, those that are filled with Grace—the Holy Mass—and that prepare us spiritually for eternal life with Him, for life in that eternal aspect of the Church. But, for this feast we must prepare, or we shall be cast, like the man in the parable, into the outer darkness. Without this, being part of the Church here on earth, we are no better—NO BETTER—than those who rejected and crucified Christ, since failure to prepare ourselves is a form of rejection—it is a gross insult to the King—and therefore our ultimate fate too, in the life to come, will be no better. 

We are blest by God to be members of His Church. We have been invited to partake of the feast and we have accepted the invitation. When we attend Holy Mass, we share in the feast that the King, Christ Jesus, has readied for us and doing this we prepare ourselves for an eternal feast in the life to come.   

 

Twenty Eighth Sunday of Year A

11th October

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

 Monday 9.30am Mass

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass

Twenty Ninth Sunday of Year A

11th October

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

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Twenty Seventh Sunday of the year

 
Feast of St John Henry Newman on Friday

Twenty Seventh Sunday of Year A

4th October

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

 Monday No public Mass today

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass

Thursday 9.30am Mass

Friday 7pm Novena & Benediction

Confessions following at 7.30pm

Twenty Eighth Sunday of Year A

11th October

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

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Twenty Sixth Sunday of the Year

Feast of the Archangels on Tuesday

Note for parents with children in Year 4 of Primary School.

Preparation for Confession and First Holy Communion.

For those who have enrolled, the sessions will begin THIS Wednesday 30th September 6.30pm—7.30pm.

Please note, parents must contact the parish and enroll the children before this date.

Twenty Sixth Sunday of the Year A

27th September

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

 Monday 9.30am Mass

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass

Thursday 9.30am Mass

Friday 7pm Novena & Benediction

Confessions following at 7.30pm

Twenty Seventh Sunday of Year A

4th October

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

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Twenty Fifth Sunday of the Year

 

Thursday is the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham

Twenty Fifth Sunday of Year A

20th September

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

 Monday 9.30am Mass

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass

Thursday 9.30am Mass

Friday 7pm Novena & Benediction

Confessions following at 7.30pm

Twenty Sixth Sunday of Year A

27th September

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

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22nd Sunday of the Year

These two photos have been framed up and are now at the back of the church. There are surprisingly few photos of the church from the past, so it seemed sensible to preserve these two by framing them.

Photograph possibly dated to 1910. Certainly pre-1925 as the stained glass windows are not in evidence. The High Altar reredos seen here was installed in 1887/8 and removed presumably in the post WWII renovations.

The wall stenciling seen here remained until 1942, when it was replaced by the paintings of the Marriage Feast at Canaan and the multiplication of the loaves.

The ceiling seen here was lowered in Fr Ames’ time, so after 1959.

The altar rails were replaced after WWII (donated by USA servicemen, based in Euxton during the war (we have the remains of them today as the kneelers). Those seen here went to St Catherine’s. Sadly they disappeared at the big re-ordering there.

 

 The Priest is Fr Thomas Keeley. Photograph taken in 1910. Rector from 1895 and then from 18th November 1918, Parish Priest until 1939.

“Parishes” did not exist in England until a change in Canon Law in the 1916 no longer designated England as a missionary territory.

The statue of Our Lady can just about be made out above the clock face. Thought to be the same one as is now on mounted on the front elevation of the church.

Having restored the ringing of the bell, we are awaiting confirmation form Chorley Heritage bodies to go ahead with restoring the clock face to it's original look - a black face with gold numerals. And re-instating a working weather vane. The £20,000 to pay for this work has now mostly been raised but donations are still welcome! 
 

Twenty Second Sunday of Year A

30th August

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

 Monday 9.30am Mass

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass

Thursday 9.30am Mass

Friday 7pm Novena & Benediction

Confessions following at 7.30pm

Twenty Second Sunday of Year A

30th August

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

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Twenty First Sunday of the Year and Saint Monica

 

Twenty First Sunday of Year A

23rd August

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

 Monday 9.30am Mass

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass

Thursday 9.30am Mass

Friday 7pm Novena & Benediction

Confessions following at 7.30pm

Twenty Second Sunday of Year A

30th August

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre

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The August edition of the Catholic Pic is available to view here.