Sunday 23rd November
Christ the Universal King– Year C
NOTICES
CHRISTMAS FAIR: Our annual Christmas fair takes place at 7pm on Friday evening. Tokens are on sale at 50p each and raffle tickets for the hamper at 20p each.
It is still not too late to bring in saleable items, including jams, chutneys, plants and of course bottles; and cakes will be welcome on Friday after mass.
Set up of stalls will take place on Wednesday after Mass and the church will also be open on Thursday for workers. This is the parish’s main fundraiser each year and your support is essential to its success. Please spread the word and invite friends and family.
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Children's activity day Sunday 7th December after Mass ( approx 2 hours including refreshments ). No charge
As we need to know numbers for this event can you please sign up on the list at the back of church or via whatapp
It can only go ahead with sufficient numbers.
Children should be accompanied by a parent /carer
Thank you.
OFFERTORY ENVELOPES: The latest sets of envelopes will be available for the first week in Advent. If anyone no longer needs a set, or needs a set for the first time, please contact John Whatmough either at church or on 061 336 4841. Alternatively, please give your details to Fr. Peter.
STANDING ORDERS AND GIFT AID: If anyone wishes to change to a Standing Order for their contributions or wishes to join the Gift Aid scheme, please contact either John Whatmough or Fr. Peter to be given the appropriate form. Only tax-payers can join the Gift Aid scheme.
GOSPEL JOY DISCUSSION GROUP: Monday, 2pm. ‘Today you will be with me in Paradise.’
CLEANING Tuesday and GARDENING GROUP: Tuesday & Saturday, after Mass. All welcome.
CAFOD COFFEE MORNING: Friday, after Mass.
CARITAS COFFEE MORNING: Sunday 30th November, after Mass. The November development fund draw will also take place here.
CARITAS COLLECTIONS: These collections continue to at the back of church. Food and toiletries especially welcome. Many thanks for your continued generosity.
FUTURE EDITIONS
Any notices to: alex.rowen@live.com
SRCDT Reg. Charity no. 25003 www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk
Hymns: 321 325 607 367 320
THE WORLD THIS WEEK
If the United Kingdom is to have an asylum system that complies with the core beliefs of a civilised society – the stated aim of the proposals announced by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood this week – there is still a long way to go.
These proposals need scrutiny and, in many cases, considerable clarification and modification. But it will be worth the effort. The government is right about one thing. The present system is not working. It has become a political football, but with no goal posts. Sir Keir Starmer asserts in his introduction to the statement on the government’s new asylum and returns policy: “The UK is a decent, compassionate, tolerant country that celebrates diversity and wants those values reflected in its institutions” – that has not changed. But demonstrating control at our borders is not just an essential task of government. Decency, compassion and tolerance are precisely the qualities that should dictate how Britain controls its borders. Trying to do so without reference to those values would undermine confidence in them. For instance, an acid test of its morality will be how the government deals with families with children who, under the proposed new rules, could lose the right to settle in Britain. They must not be used to symbolise the government’s toughness. Inhumanity is never a British value.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Friday: 9.20- 9.45am
Saturday: 6pm to 6.20pm and at call
COLLECTIONS
15/16November: £345.23
Thank you as always for your generosity.
This week, Team A.
STEWARDS (22/23NOV)
Saturday: J Sweeney, J Whatmough, B Whatmough
Sunday: D Hibbert, C Timoney, B Rogers
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