St Anne's & St Joseph's RC Parish

——  Accrington • Diocese of Salford  ——

St Anne's & St Joseph's
RC Parish

—  Accrington • Diocese of Salford  —

Celebration of Human Dignity

You are warmly invited to join us on 16 September 2023, from 10.30 am for a unique celebration. Caritas Diocese of Salford is proud to build on the work of the Catholic Fellowship to celebrate and value all people in a day recognising human dignity. We hope that you will join us for all four […]

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Departure Mass

Sunday 23rd July 5:30pm We invite you to join us for our Pre-Departure Mass, led by Bishop John, at St Bernadette’s Church, Whitefield, M45 7SX. All Welcome!

Support Our School

Closeup of a Pile of Tesco Blue Tokens

Our Primary School has been very fortunate that we’ve been selected to receive some funding from Tesco’s community grant scheme in order to continue to develop our fantastic forest school and buy a polytunnel. Please support us by adding the blue token that you receive at Tesco into our school’s project. Tokens are being collected […]

Congratulations

Bishop John Arnold

We offer our prayers and best wishes to Bishop John as he celebrates the Ruby Jubilee of his ordination as a priest. To mark this event Bishop John will celebrate Mass at Salford Cathedral at 3pm on 16th July. Light refreshments will be available after the Mass in the Cathedral Cloisters. All are welcome to […]

A Big Thank You

Summer Fair Banner

Many, many thanks for all who have worked so hard in the days leading up to the Summer Fair today. Grateful thanks to all who have worked their socks off today to make it such a great success. The total of £1,432.06 was raised. And thanks be to God we were blessed with glorious weather!

SUMMER FAIR

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St Anne’s Church9th July After the 11am Mass BBQ · Cakes · TombolaIce Cream · Café · BarGlitter Tattoos · Grand RaffleChildren’s GamesPlant Stall · Book Stall

Summer Fair Planning Meeting

Tuesday 4th July 7:00pm Our next Planning Meeting for the Summer Fair will be held in the Marian Room at St Anne’s. All volunteers of help from both churches will be greatly appreciated. Look forward to seeing you there.

All Saints & All Souls

This year the Solemnity of All Saints falls on Sunday 2nd November with Masses at their usual times. Masses for All Souls will be on Monday 3rd November at the usual times.

Blessing of Graves

On Sunday 2nd November Fr O’Brien from St Mary’s, Oswaldtwistle will be blessing graves at Dill Hall Cemetry beginning at 2pm. On Sunday 9th November Fr Francis will be blessing graves at Accrington Cemetery also beginning at 2pm.

Masses at St Anne’s

There is no 9am Mass at St Anne’s on Monday, 13th April. Fr Francis will be offering a Requiem Mass at St Joseph’s at 10am. Please see the schedule for all Masses this week.

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