It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the website for St Anne’s and St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Parish. As you look around the site you will find a snapshot of parish life—what we do and who we are. Here you will find our weekly newsletters, Mass times, news, events and much more.
St Anne’s and St Joseph’s is an active and welcoming parish in Accrington, Lancashire. We are served by our Parish Priest, Father Francis Wadsworth, and retired priest Father Robert Livesey.
The present church of St Anne was begun in the 1920s, the foundation stone was laid 11 October 1924 by Bishop John Vaughan and it was opened by him 24 May 1925 at a cost of £10,000.
The parish of St Joseph was established in 1949 after the Second World War. Construction of the church began in June 1950 and was opened for worship in 1954. The parish of St Joseph was merged with St Anne’s in 2017.
Mass is celebrated daily at one or both of our beautiful churches details of which can be found in the weekly newsletter or the Mass Schedule panel above.
If you find yourself lingering on our website, don’t just bookmark it. Come along and join us in person to pray, serve and strengthen the bonds of real community! We look forward to seeing you soon.
Fr Francis Wadsworth
Our Parish Priest
6pm – Vigil Mass at St Anne’s
Midnight – Mass at St Anne’s
10am – Mass at St Joseph’s
11am – Mass at St Anne’s
The Jubilee hymn, Pilgrims of Hope, signed by Fr Francis. The blog post The Jubilee Year of Hope (2025) delves a little into the purpose and theme of this jubilee year.
The traditional weekly offertory collection is one way in which you can support the parish financially. An easier modern alternative is to use a standing order, which allows you to make regular donations directly from your bank account, and has the advantage that you will not have to worry about having the right amount of cash every week. If you have online banking you can set this up online, or you can download and complete this standing order form and post it to your bank or hand it in at the parish.
You can also make donations using the Dona card machine located near the collection baskets in St Anne’s church. This digital collection plate supports both contactless and Chip & PIN payments and you can opt to Gift Aid your donation. You can also make a contribution online by using our Dona webpage. Please use the button below.
Fr Francis will be in Lourdes for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8th December.
This means there will be no weekday Masses from Wednesday, 3rd December to Wednesday, 10th December at St Anne’s. On Saturday, 6th December, as well as no midday Mass, there will also be no Adoration or morning confessions.
Weekday Mass will resume on Thursday, 11th December. Sunday and vigil Masses will continue as normal.
Please see the schedule for all Masses this week.
On Friday, 12th December, Mass at St Anne’s will be at the later time of 9:30am as we welcome the staff and students from our primary school, St Anne’s & St Joseph’s.
All parishioners are also welcome to attend.
Please see the schedule for all Masses this week.
Please pray for Br Fabian of the Manchester Oratory who will be ordained to the Sacred Priesthood on Friday, 12th December, at The Oratory, St Chad’s Church, Cheetham Hill.
We wish him well as he begins his priestly ministry among us.
There will be two retiring collections in both churches to help defray the cost of the flowers for Christmas.
The first colletion will be the weekend of 13th/14th December. The second collection will be the following weekend, 20th/21st December.
Please do give generously so we can make the churches look wonderful for our celebrations.
There will be a Festival of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, 14th December at 6:30pm in St Joseph’s Church followed by seasonal refreshments.
Our next meeting will be on Monday, 15th December.
We will be going for our Christmas lunch at The Owd Stables.
Saturdays: 11am-11:45am & 4:45pm-5:15pm
No morning confessions on Saturday 6th December
Saturdays: 10.30am-11.30am
Saturdays: 11am-11.45am
No Exposition on Saturday 6th December
| 10am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| 10:30am | Confessions at St Joseph's |
| 4:45am | Confessions at St Anne's |
| 5:30pm | Vigil Mass at St Anne's |
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No Exposition, morning confessions or midday Mass at St Anne's. |
| 9am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| 11am | Mass at St Anne's |
| 9:30am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| No Mass at St Anne's |
| 9:30am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| No Mass at St Anne's |
| 9:30am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| No Mass at St Anne's |
| 6:30pm | Mass at St Anne's |
| No Mass at St Joseph's |
| 9:30am | Mass at St Anne's (with school) |
| 9:30am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| 10am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| 10:30am | Confessions at St Joseph's |
| 11am | Exposition & Confessions at St Anne's |
| 12 noon | Mass at St Anne's |
| 4:45am | Confessions at St Anne's |
| 5:30pm | Vigil Mass at St Anne's |
| 9am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| 11am | Mass at St Anne's |
Churches
St Anne’s, Cobham Road,
Accrington, BB5 2AD.
Tel: 01254 232 920
St Joseph’s, Belgarth Road,
Accrington, BB5 6AH.
Priests
Rev Fr Francis Wadsworth (parish priest)
Rev Fr Robert Livesey (retired)
Parish Administrator
Mrs Siobhan Wood
Tel: 01254 232 920
Office Hours
Mon: 8:30am to 12:30pm
Tues, Thurs: 8:30am to 1:30pm
