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
The story of a boy at a non-Catholic primary school who hears about the apparitions of Our Lady in 1858 in Lourdes. He maintains an interest that is boosted in high school by the opportunity to go to Lourdes himself. His first trip there continues his journey—a journey of faith that leads him to becoming a Catholic and culminates with his ordination to the sacred priesthood. This is the story of Fr Francis Wadsworth, our parish priest.
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.
There will be no weekday Masses at St Anne’s from Wednesday 29th July to Wednesday 12th August. Saturday Vigil and Sunday Masses will be as usual. Also, there will no morning confessions or Exposition on Saturday 1st and 8th August.
There will be no Masses at St Joseph’s from Monday 27th July to Saturday 1st August and no confessions on the Saturday.
Please see the schedule for all Masses for the week.
Fr Francis will be away from Tuesday, 28th July to Wednesday, 12th August. He will be in Lourdes with the diocesan pilgrimage and then take a few days leave.
Therefore, there will be no weekday Masses at St Anne’s during this time.
The Sunday Masses and Saturday Vigils at St Anne’s will be covered by the priests from St John Paul II in Padiham. Please do give them a warm welcome.
Fr Robert Pytel, the chaplain to our Polish community, will be celebrating Mass on Sunday, 2nd August at 1pm in St Anne’s Church.
Confessions will be heard before Mass.
Our next meeting will be on Monday, 10th August. We will be going to The Park.
Meet on the church car park at 12:30pm for lunch at 1pm.
There will be a meeting of the Knights on Tuesday, 28th August at 7:30pm in the Marian Room at St Anne’s.
All men of the parish are warmly invited to attend.
Tickets are available at the back of both churches for our Summer Raffle. Please take some and sell them far and wide!
The raffle is one of our main fundraising events so please do support it. Many thanks.
Saturdays: 11am-11:45am & 4:45pm-5:15pm
No morning confessions on Saturday 1st and 8th August
Saturdays: 10.30am-11.30am
No confessions Saturday 1st August
Saturdays: 11am-11.45am
No Exposition on Saturday 1st and 8th August
| 4:45pm | Confessions at St Anne's |
| 5:30pm | Vigil Mass at St Anne's |
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No morning Masses, Confessions or Exposition at both St Anne's and St Joseph'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 |
| No Masses |
| 9:30am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| No Mass at St Anne's |
| 10am | Mass at St Joseph's |
| 10:30am | Confessions at St Joseph's |
| 4:45pm | 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 |
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
