Blessing and Procession of Candles and Sung Mass at 7.30pm. 

This feast celebrates that Christ is for all the peoples of the world.  Our carrying of lighted candles symbolises the light of Christ illuminating the Jewish Temple and shining forth for all people on earth.

Priests of the Parish Canon Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948 email: stephenjones17@hotmail.com

Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760 email: wilfridcgh@hotmail.com

Hon. Assistant Priests Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048 Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

29th  January 2012

FOURTH ORDINARY SUNDAY

Today, we celebrate Christ, who teaches with authority.  May we seek to recognise his voice and heed his message.

• Toilets are to the left out of the main door. • Please let young children explore. • Collection during the second hymn. • Large print hymn books available on request.

MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS

Monday 7.00pm  The bereaved

Tuesday 12noon Christian youth work           St John Bosco

Wednesday 9.15am    The lapsed

Thursday* 7.30pm Effective witness             PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (Candlemas)

Friday  9.15am               Local surgeries

Saturday 9.15am  Health visitors  Of Our Lady 

DIVINE OFFICE (The Prayer of the Church)

Morning Prayer: Sun 7.30am; Mon – Sat 8.55am

Evening Prayer: Sun 5.30pm; Mon, Wed – Fri 5.00pm

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION By appointment only this week.

TODAY’S ORGAN MUSIC Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (Dearest Jesu, we are here) (BWV 731)

Prelude in G major (BWV 541)

J.S. Bach

NO PUBLIC EVENING PRAYER on Tuesday.  Fr Chris and Fr Stephen are on a diocesan study day.  We are grateful to Fr Brian (P) for agreeing to cover the 12noon Mass.

THE NORTH WEST EARLY MUSIC FORUM is to visit us again on Saturday.  After the usual day of preparation and study, there will be an act of worship at 6.00pm.  The theme this time is music in the German Lutheran liturgy.  Do come.

EPIPHANY GIFTS  – an opportunity to donate towards the costs of the consumables we use during the year (e.g. candles, wine, altar bread etc. etc.).  Please see the display on the south wall of the church, and follow the instructions there.  This is going very well again this year, but the opportunity remains to contribute if you wish!

READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you. THERE ARE TWO VACANCIES for school foundation governors.  Please see Fr Stephen for details.  There’s no denying that it can be a trial at times, but it is important work. DRAFT PARISH MISSION STATEMENT: The love of the Risen Christ draws us to discipleship, so that all may have life. This has appeared in the Parish Magazine already.  Please let Fr Stephen have any thoughts on this.  Thank you to those who have already responded. FINANCIAL GIVING If you are in a position to be able to increase your giving, please do so, making sure that you use GIFT AID.  Thank you. PATÉ AND PUDDINGS Shrove Tuesday 21st February.  Tickets from Fr Chris.

*THURSDAY IS THE  FEAST OF CANDLEMAS – THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD Blessing and Procession of Candles and Sung Mass at 7.30pm.  This feast celebrates that Christ is for all the peoples of the world.  Our carrying of lighted candles symbolises the light of Christ illuminating the Jewish Temple and shining forth for all people on earth.

FOOTSTEPS resumes next Sunday at 9.45pm.  There is a meeting for all interested parties after the 10.00am Mass next Sunday

Please stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass. Please take this bulletin home with you.

Feb to May 2012

26/02/2012 Lent 1  Martin Woods

04/03/2012 Lent 2  Pauline Sterritt

11/03/2012 Lent 3  Elizabeth Battersby-Hill

18/03/2012 Lent 4  Ann Bond

25/03/2012 Lent 5  Paul Threlfall

01/04/2012 Palm Sunday  Kathryn Hutchins

05/04/2012 Maundy Thursday  Martin Woods

06/04/2012 Good Friday  Clergy

07/04/2012 Holy Saturday  Pauline Sterritt

08/04/2012 Easter Day  Elizabeth Battersby-Hill

15/04/2012 Easter 2  Ann Bond

22/04/2012 Easter 3  Paul Threlfall

29/04/2012 Easter 4  Kathryn Hutchins

06/05/2012 Easter 5  Martin Woods

13/05/2012 Easter 6  Pauline Sterritt

17/05/2012 Ascension of The Lord  Ann Bond

20/05/2012 Easter 7  Elizabeth Battersby-Hill

If you are unable to do your rostered service, please arrange a swap and amend the rota on the wall in the sacristy         

The Epiphany of the Lord – Sunday 8th January

8am      Said Mass

10am    Solemn Mass

Baptism of the Lord – Monday 9th January

7pm     Said Mass

Priests of the Parish Canon Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948 email: stephenjones17@hotmail.com

Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760 email: wilfridcgh@hotmail.com

Hon. Assistant Priests Canon Brian Oddy   Tel. 732048

Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

1st January 2012 MARY, MOTHER OF GOD A Happy New Year to everyone!

Today, the Octave Day, we continue our celebration of Christmas by thanking God for Mary, who bore for us the Child she named Jesus, the Saviour.  Like Mary, we are called to bear Christ to the world.

• Toilets are to the left out of the main door. • Please let young children explore. • Collection during the second hymn. • Large print hymn books available on request.

MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS

Monday 7.00pm              God’s blessing on 2012    SS. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen

Tuesday 12noon              Home Communicants      of Christmastide

Wednesday 9.15am         Thanks for blessings of 2011     of Christmastide

Thursday 7.15pm             Newly-confirmed                         of  Christmastide

Friday  9.15am               Parliament                                     of Christmastide             *2.45pm Funeral Mass (Lesley Benson RIP)

Saturday 9.15am                Dominicans                                St Raymund of Penyafort

DIVINE OFFICE (The Prayer of the Church) Morning Prayer: Sun 7.30am; Mon – Sat 8.55am Evening Prayer: Sun 5.30pm; Mon – Fri 5.00pm

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION By appointment only this week.

ROSARY tomorrow at 7.30pm.  Please make any requests for prayer on the prayer board.  All welcome.

*LESLEY BENSON RIP Lesley’s Funeral Mass is on Friday at 2.45pm, before cremation at 4.15pm.  Please keep Richard and the family in your prayers.

CHRISTMAS CONTINUES throughout the coming week, right up to and including Monday 9th January.  Accordingly, the Christmas Crib remains, so do please make use of it as a focus for prayer.  Next Sunday, we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord.

HELP NEEDED next Sunday, after the 10.00am Mass, to take down the Christmas tree, to vacuum and to saw the tree into smaller pieces.  Thank you in anticipation.

PLEASE PRAY for all our regular home communicants, including those in our local residential and nursing homes, who will receive the Sacrament this week.

READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.

WOULD YOU LIKE 2 sets of garden furniture (one green, one white)?  Also available are a fully-working gas barbecue and a rabbit hutch.  All free to anyone who can use them.  Please contact Rebecca Riley.

THERE IS A VACANCY for a school foundation governor.  Please see Fr Stephen for details.

FORWARD!plus, the free paper of Forward in Faith, is available in church today.  Please take a copy.

FINANCIAL GIVING If you are in a position to be able to increase your giving, please do so.  We were way short on the Parish Share again last year, and it’s important that we address this for the sake of the future independence of the parish.  Thank you.

Please stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass.

Crib Service

Music and Readings for  Children and their Families gathered around the Crib   4pm

• Masses for the Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord

24th   Solemn Midnight Mass 11.30pm

25th   Said Mass                          8am

Sung Mass                        10 am

Masses During the Octave

26th 7pm, 27th 12noon, 28th 9.15am,

29th 7.15pm, 30th 9.15am, 31st 9.15am

• Solemnity of Mary Mother of God (Octave Day)

Masses at 8am and 1oam

Wishing you a Happy and Blessed Christmas

from Fr Stephen, Fr Chris and all at Christ Church

Priests of the Parish
Canon Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948
email: stephenjones17@hotmail.com
Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760
email: wilfridcgh@hotmail.com

Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

11th December 2011
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT (Year B)

John the Baptist points away from himself towards Christ the Saviour.  We are called to do the same.  At this mid-Advent time, we look forward with joy and expectancy to the coming festival.  May our preparations be thorough and faithful.

• Toilets are to the left out of the main door.
• Please let young children explore.
• Collection during the second hymn.
• Large print hymn books available on request.

MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS
Monday   7.00pm              St John’s Hospice
Tuesday 12 noon             Greater courage
St Lucy
Wednesday   9.15am  Growth in prayer
St John of the Cross
Thursday           7.15pm    Health visitors
Friday  9.15am            Shopworkers
Saturday         9.15am                Penitents

DIVINE OFFICE (The Prayer of the Church)
Morning Prayer: Sun 7.30am; Mon – Sat 8.55am
Evening Prayer: Sun 5.30pm; Mon – Fri 5.00pm

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturday 5.15pm (Fr Chris) or by appointment.

NEXT SUNDAY: MASSES at 8.00 & 10.00am.

TODAY’S ORGAN MUSIC
Nun komm, den Heiden Heiland
(Come, Saviour of the nations)

Ciacona in E minor
D. Buxtehude

BUY A STAR is available today.  Suggested donation is £5.00 per star, and stars are available from Anne Plevey.
THANK YOU to all who contributed to the cost of the new altar missal for your great generosity.  The cost has been covered already!  We have even had an additional donation which has enabled us to purchase a small copy for use at the legillium for the first part of the Mass on weekdays.

ADVENT EXTRA (‘Your Journey to Christmas’) is available today, price £2.00.  If you haven’t got the money with you today, just take a copy and pay later.
2012 FLOWER LIST This is now in a folder at the back of church.  Money for flowers should be given to Brenda Trewhitt two weeks before your flowers are due to be done (GIFT AID, if you can).
LITURGICAL CALENDAR for 2011/12 is available in church today, prepared by Fr Chris.
CHRISTMAS Children’s Crib Service 4.00pm Christmas Eve; Midnight Mass 11.30pm; Christmas Morning Masses at 8.00 & 10.00am.
PRE-CHRISTMAS CONFESSIONS
Fr Chris: Sat 17th, 5.15 – 5.45pm; Mon 19th, 6.15 -6.45pm;
Fr Stephen: Fri 23rd, 6.00 – 6.30pm; Christmas Eve, 5.15 – 6.00pm.
PLEASE CAN WE HAVE a group of men to put up the Christmas tree next Sunday after the 10.00am Mass?  Thank you in anticipation.
READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.
Do stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass.
Please take this bulletin home with you.

Please support them if you can and invite friends and family along with you

CHRISTMAS FAIR –

Saturday 10th, 11 – 2

Sandwich/soup
lunches, stalls, Big Prize Draw (£100 cash to be won).

Don’t forget to buy and sell raffle tickets.

SUNDAY 11th at
6.30pm

A CEREMONY OF CAROLS

by
Benjamin Britten

sung by
the RSCM Lancashire Area Choir

Refreshments

Tickets from Elizabeth Battersby-Hill @ £5.00 (children free)

All proceeds to church

8th  P Roberts (Epiphany)

15th  E Battersby – Hill

22nd    Jean Holland

29th  R Jephcote

Sidespersons
JAN 2012

1st  8.00am P G Dunn
10.00am D Hutchins & M Western

8th  8.00am S Garth
10.00am K Coe & L Simon (Epiphany)

15th  8.00am D Shipperd
10.00am J & J Holland

22nd   8.00am E Battersby-Hill
10.00am P G Dunn & B Trewhitt

29th   8.00am M Wheatherill
10.00am P G Dunn & B Trewhitt

Priests of the Parish
Canon Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948
email: stephenjones17@hotmail.com
Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760
email: wilfridcgh@hotmail.com

Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

4th December 2011
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT (Year B)

Today, we celebrate that God’s Good News is a Saviour who wills to bring us to everlasting life.  As we celebrate what has traditionally been called ‘Bible Sunday’, let us pray for a real openness to God’s Word, so that it may have an effect in our lives.

A special welcome to Kayla-Mai Hendry, who is to be baptised, and to her family and friends.

• Toilets are to the left out of the main door.
• Please let young children explore.
• Collection during the second hymn.
• Large print hymn books available on request.

MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS
Monday   7.00pm              Private Intention
Tuesday 12 noon            St Nicholas, Fleetwood
Wednesday   9.15am  Theologians
St Ambrose
Thursday           7.15pm   Jack Kirkwood (priest) RIP
Immaculate Conception of the BVM
Friday  9.15am            Cancer Research
Saturday         9.15am                Missionaries

DIVINE OFFICE (The Prayer of the Church)
Morning Prayer: Sun 7.30am; Mon – Sat 8.55am
Evening Prayer: Sun 5.30pm; Mon – Fri 5.00pm

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturday 5.15pm (Fr Stephen) or by appointment.

NEXT SUNDAY: MASSES at 8.00 & 10.00am.

TODAY’S ORGAN MUSIC
Gottes Sohn ist kommen (BWV 600)
J.S. Bach

Sonata no 4, first movement
J. Rheinberger
THANK YOU to Ann Bond and the choir, and to the readers, for last Sunday’s Advent Carol Service.  It was a wonderful beginning to our Advent celebrations.  Those who missed it missed a treat.
THE OFFICE OF CHURCHWARDEN Jean Holland has kindly agreed to take over this responsibility, to serve with Michael Western, until the Annual Parochial Church Meeting in the spring.  Please pray for Jean and give her your full support.
ROSARY tomorrow, straight after the 7.00pm Mass.  All welcome.
BUY A STAR is available today.  Suggested donation is £5.00 per star, and stars are available from Anne Plevey.

EXTRA FOR ADVENT
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Thursdays 8th 15th 22nd December
6.45 – 7.10pm
An opportunity to spend a time of silence with Jesus in his holy Sacrament at a busy time of year, prior to the 7.15pm Mass.

ADVENT EXTRA (‘Your Journey to Christmas’) is available today, price £2.00.  If you haven’t got the money with you today, just take a copy and pay later.

CHRISTMAS FAIR – Saturday, 11 – 2
Please come and bring others.  Sandwich/soup lunches, stalls, Big Prize Draw (£100 cash to be won).
Don’t forget to buy and sell raffle tickets.

NEXT SUNDAY at 6.30pm
A CEREMONY OF CAROLS
by Benjamin Britten
sung by the RSCM Lancashire Area Choir

Refreshments
Tickets from Elizabeth Battersby-Hill @ £5.00 (children free)
All proceeds to church

SCHOOL/PARISH CHRISTINGLE SERVICE in aid of The Children’s Society – Tuesday 13th at 6.30pm.
2012 FLOWER LIST This is now in a folder at the back of church.  Money for flowers should be given to Brenda Trewhitt two weeks before your flowers are due to be done (GIFT AID, if you can).
LITURGICAL CALENDAR for 2011/12 is available in church today, prepared by Fr Chris.

NEW ALTAR MISSAL Thank you to those who have given so generously so far. The cost of this book is £235.  If you would like to make a one-off contribution to help defray the cost, please use a GIFT AID envelope and let Fr Stephen have it.
READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.
Do stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass.
Please take this bulletin home with you.