BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH

(www.connahsquaycatholicchurch.org.uk)

Connah’s Quay – Canon Eccleshare: tel 01244 830358/830071.

The SVP will be having their Annual Collection to help the needy after all Masses next Weekend

Sunday Bidding Prayers Rota

29th Nov – Jess   6th Dec – Rita   13th Dec - School

1st Sunday of Advent (C) 28th/29th November 2009

Christmas Fayre – thanks for all your help & support, the total raised will be advised next week.

Christmas Cleaning – please try your best to spare some time on 30th November, 9am onwards.

Journey in Faith – Sunday 29th November, 7.30 pm at the Convent, Beaconsfield Road, Shotton

Confirmation – there is a meeting for those wishing to be confirmed, and their parents, at 2.30pm, Sunday 6th December at the Convent, Beaconsfield Road. Adults willing to be involved in the Confirmation programme please speak to Sr. Gwyn or phone 830692

Ecumenical Advent Prayer Service – Sunday 6th December, 6pm at Blessed Trinity Church, Q/ferry.  Please support this if you can, as Canon Eccleshare & the Catholics of both Parishes are responsible this year for hosting the Service.  Refreshments afterwards in the Institute across the road; offers of practical help welcomed.

Traffic Congestion - Cllr David Evans will present the facts to date on various possibilities for improvements.  He will make his presentation at Rivertown URC church rooms at 7pm on Monday 30th November.  Please inform interested family & friends.

Copenhagen Summit – why not come to London on Saturday 5th December and support the witness for Climate Change.  Coach list is in the porch.  There is also a Vigil at Sacred Heart Church, Hawarden on Thursday 3rd December from 5-6pm.

Pantasaph J & P group – invite you to Parish Room above the Friary Repository, 7.30-9pm Thurs 3rd Dec.  Sr Ann Farr from Pax Christi will share what Christmas in Bethlehem will be like this year.

Theatre Trips – 2 trips have been organised for next year at the Liverpool Empire Theatre.  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Thurs 15th July – front stalls £37.50, rear circle £24.50 – and Hairspray on Thurs 2nd September – front circle £34, rear circle £24 (these prices include coach).  A deposit of £5 will secure your booking.  Full payment needed by 14th February.  Please make cheques payable to St Richard Gwyn Theatre Club.  Contact Rose Martin – 01244 815382 or 07809 890905.

Year for Priests – pray this week for Canon James F Webb, born 1935, ordained 1963.  He has been Chaplain at St Richard Gwyn School, Parish Priest of Prestatyn and currently Mold.

Father in Heaven, you have given us all a mind to know you, a will to serve you and a heart to love you.

Be with your priests each day in all that they do, so that your light may shine out in their life; through Christ our Lord. Amen

SVP Christmas Gifts

Once again, the SVP are appealing to your generosity.  There is a Christmas tree in the porch with labels showing different children’s ages, please take one of these labels and buy an appropriate present, wrap it and then return to the box, (also in the porch) complete with label, no later than the weekend of 12/13th December.  The presents should cost no more than £10.

Items for the bulletin – please forward to Carmel Smith before noon on Thursdays. Tel 01244 830985 or e-mail [email-masked]