LATELY DEAD
Marlene Pollitt.
ANNIVERSARIES
Joan Cafferky, Michael & Angeline Van Den Honet
We still have tickets available for the Christmas Party at Thornleigh on December 11th.
It is from 2.30pm to 5.30pm.
There will be a Caritas Collection for Cornestone at St. Teresa on the 7th of December 2025
Vigil Mass
4:00pm at St Teresa
5:30pm St Osmunds
Christmas Day
9:30am St Teresa
11:00am St Osmunds
CHURCH CLEANING at St. Osmund is now changed from Tuesday, December 9th to Tuesday 16th of December at 10am.
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.
SERIOUS PROBLEM: For a long time there were no buildings next to the hall since they demolished the school. Then they built new houses and they are very close to the hall. The first time we played music there, they rang up and asked us to turn the volume down. This has happened again, so I don’t know what the answer is . The walls of the hall are thin – no insulation to deaden the sound.
PARISH FOLK GROUP will play the guitars at 5.30 mass on Saturday December 13th.
CHRISTMAS SOCIAL EVENT: The Christmas social at St. Osmund will be on Sunday, Dec. 7th. From 2-4, can you donate mince pies and cakes, please? Christmas social at St. Teresa on Sunday, Dec. 14th. In the school hall.
RAFFLE PRIZES wanted for Christmas draw on Sunday, December 7th, in St. Osmund’s and on December 14th at St. Teresa’s hall at the Christmas get-together celebration. £100 for first prize has already been donated at St. Osmund’s to the donor. TICKETS ON SALE
S.V.P. MEETING Will have their meeting on the 18th December at 7 pm in the Parish House
SOCIAL COMNIITTEE Next meeting is to be arranged 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. Bolton Hospice fundraising night. Fish and chips some Friday lunch time. Coach trip-maybe to Skipton market which is open on Fridays.
HALL FOR HIRE: Hall is available for hire (as long as you don’t make too much noise and make the neighbours complain! ! )
DIOCESAN ALMANACS £5 only a few!
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.
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