On Friday, 12^th 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, 12^th 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 13^th/14^th December. The second collection will be the following weekend, 20^th/21^st 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, 14^th December at 6:30pm in St Joseph’s Church followed by seasonal refreshments.

Our next meeting will be on Monday, 15^th December.

We will be going for our Christmas lunch at The Owd Stables.

There will be a meeting of the Knights on Tuesday, 16^th December at 7:30pm in the Marian Room at St Anne’s.

All men of the parish are warmly invited to attend.