Newsletter: 1st February 2026

Newsletter: First Sunday of Lent

22nd February 2026

First Sunday of Lent

22nd February 2026

Saturday 21st February
5.30pm Mass at St. Osmund.

Sunday 22nd February
9.30am Mass at St. Teresa. 11am Mass at St. Osmund
Stations of the Cross/Benediction – 4pm (St. Osmund)

Monday 23rd February
No Mass

Tuesday 24th February
11.40pm Rosary, 12pm Mass at St. Osmund
2pm at St. Teresa. Requiem service for Winefride Margaret Barlow
6pm: RCIA at St. Osmund Presbytery.

Wednesday 25th February 10am Mass at St. Teresa.

Thursday 26th February 11:30am Stations of the Cross, 12pm Mass at St. Teresa

Friday 20th February9.30am Mass at St. Osmund

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

MASS INTENTIONS

ANNIVERSARIES

Sheila Gething, Geoffrey Gething, Margaret Hilton, George Hilton.

SICK

Jane Rose, Teresa Ikeanyionwu.

LATELY DEAD

Jim Feeney.

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 7 pm. The next meeting will be in the new year.

LITURGY COMMITTEE

Those who are willing to join the liturgy committee should identify with Fr. Emmanuel.

Their role is to help the Priest in planning and overseeing the Parish liturgical life, and to coordinate liturgical ministries.

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

Pastoral Letter

SOCIAL COMMITTEE: They will have their meeting with Fr. Emmanuel on Wednesday, the 25th of February at 6 pm in the Presbytery.

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-maybe to Skipton market which is open on Fridays.

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

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.