Newsletter: 1st March 2026

Newsletter: Second Sunday of Lent

1st March 2026

Second Sunday of Lent

1st March 2026

Saturday 28th February
5.30pm Mass at St. Osmund.

Sunday 1st March
9.30am Mass at St. Teresa. 11am Mass at St. Osmund
Stations of the Cross/Benediction – 3pm (St. Osmund)

Monday 2nd March
No Mass

Tuesday 3rd March
11.40pm Rosary, 12pm Mass at St. Osmund6pm: RCIA at St. Osmund Presbytery.

Wednesday 4th March 10am Mass at St. Teresa.
6pm: Group Baptism Meeting St Osmund Presbytery
7pm: Confirmation Class St Osmund Parish Hall

Thursday 5th March 11:30am Stations of the Cross, 12pm Mass at St. Teresa

Friday 6th March 9.30am Mass at St. Osmund

ConfessionsSt. Osmund – after 5.30pm Mass on Saturday
St. Teresa – after Thursday Mass at 12pm,

MASS INTENTIONS

ANNIVERSARIES

Thomas Kilmartin, Kathleen Kilmartin, Laureen Kilmartin, Denis Bratherton.

SICK

Margaret O’ Connor, Dave Roberts.

LATELY DEAD

Bernadette McDermot.

BAPTISMS

Please speak first to Father Emmanuel after Sunday Mass, who will give you a form to fill in and submit back to him.

Parents must attend Mass before a date can be agreed for baptism. Baptism preparation meetings take place once a month on a Wednesday at 7pm.

LITURGY COMMITTEE

The Liturgy committee will take place on Wednesday, the 11th of March, at 7 pm at the Parish Hall.

All those who are involved in the different liturgical ministries (Music, Readers, extraordinary Eucharistic ministers, Ushers, Sacristans, and Children’s Liturgy) are to attend the meeting. Those who wish to join any of these groups are also to attend the meeting.

The Liturgy committee meeting will take place on Wednesday, the 11th of March at 6:00 pm.

Parish Homily

Second Sunday of Lent 2026

The sermon will be available in full from
5.30 pm on Saturday, 28th February 2026

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA) Please help us to invite any adult who is willing to convert to the Catholic faith, to be baptised, confirmed or to receive First Holy Communion during this Easter. Classes will be on every Tuesday at 6:00 pm.

Anyone who is willing to be one of the Instructors for the RCIA classes should also identify with Fr. Emmanuel.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS for 2026 to be decided by St. Osmund social committee. Flatcappers concert. Irish dancing display, with (maybe) an Irish dance night. Fish and chips some Friday lunch time. Coach trip which will be going to Lancaster on Friday 3rd July more details to follow.

HALL is available for hire (as long as you don’t make too much noise and make the neighbours complain! ! )

CAFOD/CARITAS ENVELOPE – There are Cafod and Caritas envelopes at the back of the Church, please pick them and return them next week on

STATIONS OF THE CROSS This has been changed to 3pm on a Sunday due to pastoral reasons.

ST. TERESA SALE OF LAND: They have done a survey: mining, health and safety, gas monitoring, chemical soil testing, asbestos quantification, on the land at back of church and found a few issues. There was a pond there, and the builders doing the racecourse estate dumped all their waste materials in it instead of disposing of it properly. Asbestos has been found, so it will devalue the land a bit.

RETIRING COLLECTION There will be a retiring collection for Jimmy Burke starting from Sunday 8th March following his 55 years of service and dedication to the Church