Castleford Team Parish Parish Magazine - March 2015 The churches of: All Saints, Church Street, Castleford, All Saints, Lumley Street, Hightown; St Michael & All Angels, St Michaels Close, Smawthorne and St Paul the Apostle, Pontefract Road, Glasshoughton.
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CLERGY Rector: Fr. Michael Wood, 01977 518127 The Rectory, 15 Barnes Road, Castleford WF10 5AA team.rector@castlefordteamparish.org.uk Team Vicar: Fr. Mark Watkins, 01977 511659 The Vicarage, St Michaels Close, Castleford WF10 4EY team.vicar@castlefordteamparish.org.uk Asst. Curate: Fr. Kevin Greaves, 01977 512404 The Vicarage, Churchfield Lane, Glasshoughton WF10 4BP curate@castlefordteamparish.org.uk Polish Priest: Fr. Gregory Ruszczynski,
07842 883648
Lay Pastoral Minister: Mrs Lynda Maw
01977 518078
Parish Office: (Enquiries for Baptisms) Saturdays at 10.00-10.30am at All Saint’s Church, Castleford. Editor, Magazine & Pew Sheets (including Diary Dates): Andrew Goyns,
01924 898593 magazine@castlefordteamparish.org.uk
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THE RECTOR’S LETTER Dear Friends, There is a pub chain (sorry, can’t remember which one) but the pub chain has on the menu “A pie in two halves” well I had to didn’t I, just for the sake of research of course. A pie in two halves is exactly what it says. A rather large pie with short-crust pastry, half of it is steak and vegetable and the other half is chicken and mushroom. The idea is good but the finished product was not quite what it might have been, but I’ve had it and so I now know what it is about. Lent is upon us and that is a season in two halves and like the pie, there is a little bit of seepage between the two. The first theme of Lent is repentance. We look back at ourselves which is not always easy and certainly isn’t always pleasant. We confess those things which ought to have done and haven’t and we confess those things which we have done and shouldn’t have. For some of us the list might be long on both sides, for some it might be longer on one side than the other but for all of us there most certainly will be a list. The second part of Lent is the preparation for Easter. It has long been the tradition that Lent is a season of preparation. In the early days of the church Lent was the time when families were prepared for Baptism and later it became the time when the Baptized were prepared for Confirmation. We also are challenged to look forward to Easter (continued on page 4)
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March 2015 (continued from page 3) that we might understand more fully the wonder of what has happened in the past and what will continue to happen in the future. I know I bang on about the same thing each year but it is so important to keep a good Lent because it is that which will enable us to keep a good Easter. Do have a go at giving something up, no prizes for guessing what I will be giving up again, but also take something on. Come to an extra service during the week, join in out Lenten study course, more details can be found in this magazine, spend some time reading or a little more time in prayer. God give you grace to grow in holiness. With my love and prayers
DIARY DATES FOR MARCH Tuesday 10th
Standing Committee 2pm at The Rectory
Wednesday 25th FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION Mass with Stations of the Cross at Hightown followed by PCC Meeting Sunday 29th
Parish Mass 10am at Hightown LENT COURSES CONTINUE
Mondays (except 30th) 2pm at St Paul’s Vicarage Thursdays 7pm at St Michael’s Vicarage
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March 2015 A feature courtesy of Parish Pump Youth Ministry expert Martin Saunders write passionately about the need for churches to re-embrace work with young people.
YOUTH WORK FROM SCRATCH – HOW TO RUN A SIMPLE YOUTH SESSION Planning a term’s worth of activities for a youth group can be a daunting prospect. It is one thing to produce a list of topics or Bible passages which you’d like to cover (the young people themselves can help you with this) but it’s quite another to decide what you’re actually going to do in those meetings. Youth groups tend to run for an hour and a half to two hours, so the following formula may be helpful as you seek to fill in the blank sheet of paper. A typical session might include most or all of the following elements: Game/ice-breaker: Games are always a great way ‘in’ to any gathering of young people, especially if they don’t know each other well. Ten minutes of play might feel like wasted time, but it’s actually vital for socialisation, for helping everyone to relax and – if you pick a relevant game – introducing your subject matter. Bible study/discussion: Good youth ministry doesn’t shy away from exposing young people to Scripture directly. However, they also need plenty of opportunities to talk about what they’ve read or heard in the Bible, and help from leaders to see how it applies to their everyday lives. Making the Bible relevant to the culture is one of the most important tasks for any youth worker. Experiential activity: While it’s important to engage with the Bible when we look at any theme from a Christian perspective, it’s good to remember that experiences make the spiritual stuff stick. A creative activity, whether it’s artistic, physical or intellectual, enables you to make the theme and content of the meeting more memorable. (continued on page 9) 8
March 2015 (continued from page 8) Reflective activity: Our role in Christian youth work isn’t just to tell young people about God, but also to introduce them to him directly. That’s why it’s always good to include time for a prayer or reflection activity, perhaps at the end of the session. Again, the key is to make this as creative as possible. These are simple building blocks; they won’t all work for every kind of youth work or group. The key principle, whatever you do, is to get the balance between making your sessions fun and memorable, and giving them some spiritual depth. The Christian life involves all of these elements, after all.
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1 The earth is one (6) 4 ‘On a hill far away stood an old — cross’ (6) 7 ‘I am the — vine and my Father is the gardener’ (John 15:1) (4) 8 The Caesar who was Roman Emperor at the time of Jesus’ birth(Luke 2:1) (8) 9 ‘Your — should be the same as that of Christ Jesus’(Philippians 2:5) (8) 13 Jesus said that no one would put a lighted lamp under this(Luke 8:16) (3) 16 Involvement (1 Corinthians 10:16) (13) 17 Armed conflict (2 Chronicles 5:19) (3) 19 Where the Gaderene pigs were feeding (Mark 5:11) (8) 24 What jeering youths called Elisha on the road to Bethel (2 Kings 2:23) (8) 25 The Venerable — , eighth-century Jarrow ecclesiastical scholar (4) 26 8 Across issued a decree that this should take place (Luke 2:1) (6) 27 Come into prominence (Deuteronomy 13:13) (6)
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1 Where some of the seed scattered by the sower fell (Matthew 13:4) (4) 2 Sexually immoral person whom God will judge (Hebrews 13:4) (9) 3 Gospel leaflet (5) 4 Physical state of the boy brought to Jesus for healing (Mark 9:18) 5 Tugs (anag.) (4) 6 To put forth (5) 10 Nationality associated with St Patrick (5) 11 Leader of the descendants of Kohath (1 Chronicles 15:5) (5) 12 ‘After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping — heel’ (Genesis 25:26) (5) 13 At Dothan the Lord struck the Arameans with — at Elisha’srequest (2 Kings 6:18) (9) 14 ‘Peter, before the cock crows today, you will — three times that you know me’ (Luke22:34) (4) 15 Spit out (Psalm 59:7) (4) 18 ‘When I — , I am still with you’ (Psalm 139:18) (5) 20 Concepts (Acts 17:20) (5) 21 Thyatira’s dealer in purple cloth (Acts 16:14) (5) 22 Does (anag.) (4) 23 The second set of seven cows in Pharaoh’s dream were this (Genesis 41:19) (4)
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PUZZLES WORDSEARCH
Wordsearch Clues for March 2015 Lent lasts for 40 days. Sundays in Lent are ‘oases’; as Sunday is never a day of fasting, but a weekly celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Christians have used Lent as their ‘40 days in the wilderness’, when they set aside the indulgences of life and instead look inward, seeking spiritual renewal and growth. Lent looks towards the Cross and the Empty Tomb, with the assurance of redemption and new life in Christ. The daffodils in our gardens are golden trumpets to proclaim the wonderful message of Easter! The English word for Lent is not at all religious; it is an abbreviation of the Old English word ‘lencten’, or ‘lengthen’. At last winter is over, and the days are getting longer… Lent, Forty, Days, Sundays, Fasting, Weekly, Celebration, Resurrection, Jesus, Wilderness, Indulgences, Inward, Spiritual, Renewal, Growth, Cross, Empty, Tomb, Redemption, Daffodils & Lencten.
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March 2015 The Rev Dr Gary Bowness continues his tongue-in-cheek letters from ‘Uncle Eustace’…
ON THE PERILS OF PARKING NEAR CHURCH The Rectory St. James the Least My dear Nephew Darren I cannot be wholly sympathetic because your church car park is now inadequate, only having space for 100 cars. Your solution of advising members of the congregation to park in the adjoining supermarket car park may not have been wise. The maximum time people can stop there is 90 minutes, and as your sermons alone often reach that length, returning to find their cars clamped may not make you universally popular – although it may give your congregation the opportunity of practising Christian forgiveness. Since the medieval architect who built St. James the Least was not overly concerned with car parking, the only space we have is along the road by the church. Inevitably, it gets blocked, which causes us all immense satisfaction when those not attending church but intending to have a morning shopping, find themselves unable to get out of the village until Mattins is over. I did once encourage people to walk to church across the fields, but when the present Earl of Stowe started to get his staff to lay waterproof sheeting along the paths so he could avoid getting mud on his shoes, I decided the idea was best dropped.
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March 2015 (Continued from page 14) For most, the inconvenience of parking only makes attending church more of a pleasurable challenge; we so enjoy having something to complain about. Major Hastings, however, who has complained endlessly about parking problems, made a point last Christmas by leaving his car in the middle of the vicarage lawn. I was so pleased he happened to park just where I had had a garden pond filled in only the previous week. He returned to find that the car had sunk up the windscreen and needed a crane to remove it. And it would have made a charming garden feature; I could even picture it with garden gnomes on its roof. For weddings, a farmer allows us to use the field adjoining the church. While he rarely attends church on Sundays, he is always there the week before – I suspect praying for heavy rain, so he can make a fortune charging to tow out with his tractor those who have got stuck. Perhaps the greatest act of witness your church could perform would be to get everyone attending church to park on the ring road, bringing the entire town to a halt until your three hour Sunday morning service is over. Your loving uncle, Eustace
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READINGS FOR MARCH 1st March
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The Second Sunday of Lent (P) Genesis: 17: 1-7, 15-16 Psalm : 22: 23-end Romans: 4: 13-end Mark: 8: 31-end; The Third Sunday of Lent (P) Exodus: 20: 1-17 Psalm: 19: 1 Corinthians: 1: 18-25 John: 2: 13-22;
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READINGS FOR FEBRUARY (CONTINUED) 29th March
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ADVANCE DATES (HOLY WEEK 2015) Sunday 29th
PALM SUNDAY - Morning Services at usual times. 6.30pm Evensong at Castleford
Monday 30th
7pm Mass with Stations of the Cross at St Paul’s
Tuesday 31st
7pm Mass with Stations of the Cross at Castleford
APRIL Wednesday 1st 7pm Mass with Stations of the Cross at Hightown Thursday 2nd
7.30pm Mass of the Last Supper with washing of feet, stripping of the altar and vigil until 10pm.
Good Friday (Friday 3rd April) 9.30am 11am 11am 2pm 7.30pm
Children’s Activity Session at St Paul’s Stations of the Cross at St Paul’s Churches Together Service at Castleford Parish Church Good Friday Solemn Liturgy at St Michael’s Compline & Address at Hightown
Holy Saturday (Saturday 4th April) 8pm
Easter Ceremonies and First Mass of Easter at Castleford
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A series of 5 studies for Lent based around the Lord’s Prayer. Starting on Mondays at 2.00pm in St. Pauls Vicarage and / or on Thursdays at 7.00pm in St. Michaels Vicarage and then every Monday or Thursday for the until Holy Week We all know this prayer off by heart and it is used at almost every service we attend, but when was the last time you really thought about the words. It is so easy when something is so familiar for us to take it for granted, so this Lent as part of our preparation before Holy Week and Easter we will take a walk through this wonderful prayer, with a part of it each week forming the centre of our thoughts and meditation. As usual there will two opportunities each week to take part, one in the Afternoon on Mondays and one in the Evening on Thursday each week. Please do make time to come along and join us on this journey. Fr. Mark
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THE QUEEN BRINGS MAUNDY MONEY TO SOUTH YORKSHIRE - FOR FIRST TIME IN 900 YEARS The Queen will distribute the Royal Maundy money at Sheffield Cathedral in April. This is the first time in over 900 years that this State Occasion has taken place in South Yorkshire. She will be welcomed to the city’s Church of England cathedral by a congregation of over 1,000 representatives from churches in South Yorkshire and organisations from the whole County. The Queen will then personally distribute a gift of Maundy Money to 178 individuals over the age of 70, in recognition of their service to the church and community. According to ancient tradition, the number of recipients and the amount of money are directly related to the Sovereign’s age. Therefore, as Her Majesty is 89 years old, 89 men and 89 women will receive 89 pence in specially minted Maundy Money, together with a further gift, in two specially made leather purses. The money is specially struck by the Royal Mint for this service, and includes 3 pence pieces—which apparently are legal tender!
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DEMENTIA FRIENDLY CHURCH UPDATE Dear Friends, As I write this update to you on the 16th February (in time for the deadline for this issue), we have two events to raise awareness about dementia. The first of these is a Dementia Friends Session delivered by the Alzheimer’s Society in the Parish Rooms on the 25th February followed by a talk from Anita Ruckledge, Lead Dementia Nurse for the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust. A number of flyers have been given out to organisations in Castleford to promote this event. I will be able to give you more details on how the event went in the next magazine. Also as a Parish we are hosting a Dementia UK fundraising event on Saturday the 7th March 10 am – 12 noon. Please come along to support this event and please tell everyone you know to come along as well. For more details on this please see the advert on page 21. Lastly I attended the first Partnership Meeting of the Wakefield Dementia Action Alliance (WDAA) on the 3rd February. It was good to see so many partnership organisations ranging from the emergency services and various charities to local government departments. All of these partners have two key objectives, to train their staff on dementia and also to raise awareness with members of the public. In this meeting it was also announced by The Alzheimer’s Society that I had accepted their offer to become the Chair of WDAA. This is in recognition to the work that we as a Parish have already done and also how we are attempting to raise awareness on dementia to the community in which we serve. For those of you who have a computer you may want to visit the Parish website which will give updates on dementia as and when it happens. Until next time. God Bless Fr Kevin 20
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A MILLION SOLD AND VOTED THE UKS FAVOURITE FAIRTRADE EGG! Introduced in 2010, The Real Easter Egg was initially turned down by supermarkets as they were unsure that a ‘faith egg’ would sell. How wrong they were. Last year, in a national poll, the Real Easter Egg was voted the UK’s favourite Fairtrade egg and now more than a million Real Easter Eggs have been sold! The Real Easter Egg is still the only Fairtrade egg with a copy of the Easter story in each box. There is also a charitable donation for every 150g egg sold. More than £140,000 has been donated from sales. It also supports farmers and producers in the developing world by using Fairtrade chocolate. David Marshall, who heads up the Meaningful Chocolate Company, said; “The Real Easter Egg campaign aims to establish giving a Real Easter Egg as a tradition. We can be found in Tesco, Waitrose and Morrison’s. However, we make very little from supermarket sales, so we do rely on direct sales from churches and schools. Last year we sent more than 400,000 eggs through the post. This is a very positive example of putting our faith into practice so I hope churches will support this year’s Real Easter Egg campaign by visiting www.realeasteregg.co.uk and ordering. Each year the content of the Real Easter Egg changes. This year blue egg has a unique 3ft storybook/banner, the Premium Peace Edition contains an olive wood key ring made in Bethlehem and there is a dairy free dark chocolate egg
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ON ROCK OR SAND? THE COFE LOOKS TO THE FUTURE The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has edited a new book, ‘On Rock or Sand?’, which features contributions from experts in economic, political, social and religious disciplines, including Lord Adonis, Sir Philip Mawer, Oliver O’Donovan, Andrew Sentence and Archbishop Justin Welby. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu explains: “The book addresses crucial questions about the moral principles that undergird the way Britain is governed. It is about building firm foundations for Britain’s future and setting out the essential values we need to build a just, sustainable and compassionate society in which we can all participate and flourish. We need to rediscover the true meaning of the word economy – it means a household, a community whose members share responsibility for each other. The giant that must be slayed is income inequality - where some few have far too much and the many have too little.” For further information about the book, including a video interview with the Archbishop of York: bit.ly/onrockorsand
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PERPETUA AND FELICITAS – JOYFUL MARTYRS OF AFRICA This story could come straight out of modern Africa. Perpetua was a young married woman of 22 who had recently become a Christian. But the authorities had forbidden any new conversions, and soon she and some other catechumens were arrested and sentenced to death. This was not under Islamic State, nor Boko Haram, but under the emperor Septimius Severus in Carthage, in the year 203. Imprisoned with Perpetua was a pregnant slave, Felicitas, and seven men. Perpetua’s family were frantic with worry for her, so she sent a message to reassure them: “My prison became a palace for me, and I would rather have been there than anywhere else.” As the days passed Perpetua devoted herself to prayer, and experienced various visions depicting the spiritual battle storming around her. Soon Felicitas gave birth to a girl in the prison, and she and Perpetua enjoyed a last agape meal together. On the day of the Games they left the prison for the amphitheatre ‘joyfully as though they were on their way to heaven’. Perpetua sang a hymn of praise as animals were prepared for killing the prisoners: leopards and bears for the men, and a maddened heifer for the women. The heifer did not succeed in killing them, and after the young women exchanged one final kiss of peace, Perpetua herself guided the gladiator’s knife to her throat: “It was as though so great a woman…could not be despatched unless she herself were willing.” Perpetua and Felicitas’s joyful witness and unflinching courage went on to inspire many other early Christian martyrs. Down the centuries, the feast day of Perpetua and Felicitas became widely observed. In 1907 an inscription in their honour was discovered at Carthage in the Basilica Majorum, where they had been buried centuries before. Their memory still lives on: eight episodes of Perpetua’s life are represented on a 14th century altar frontal at Barcelona.
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March 2015 FEATURE - Notes provided by David Field: THE POCKET BOOK OF FRED PINCHER 1917-1918 Extracts from a pocket book kept by David Field’s maternal Grandfather Fred Pincher. PART ELEVEN Friday 26th April. Once more we are on the march. This time we travel 21 kilometers to Nielles les Blequin. A right bonny place, for how long we are here I don’t know, the place reminds me very much of Forge Valley near Scarborough back home. At this moment with hills all around and water flowing through one can hardly realize that there is a war on everything is so peaceful and quiet. Thursday 2nd May and Friday 3rd May. We set off on our wanderings once more. We are marched twelve miles to the railhead at Despaes and then have about a five hour train ride to a place called Noyelles where we have to unload all of the trains as they arrive, about half a dozen altogether. Working all that night and the next day we finally leave about 6.00pm. (continued on page 27)
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March 2015 (continued from page 26) We have another hour’s ride in a motor lorry before we reach our final destination of Friville where we have a good night’s rest and await further orders. Monday 6th May. Every indication of a good long stop at this place, which I hope will be correct, as we are just about fed up with our wanderings. At the same time it has been a great opportunity to see France and something to look back upon in the days to come. Wednesday 8th May. I go to Escarbotin to the Officers Club but only stay there for three days. Saturday 11th May. I proceed to En to take up duties at the American Camp. We generally get three batches of Americans into the camp each day. They stay for about two hours, have one meal and move on. My job is to attend to the Officers, I serve them with coffee, bread and butter, marmalade and cheese. If by chance there is a day when no troops arrive we take the car to Le Treport which is two miles away. Le Treport is a very fashionable French watering place and it is very beautiful. Just above our camp on the top of a very steep hill stands a little Church and every day people are continually going up to offer prayers, apparently people visit there from long distances. Just outside the Church stands a cross where hundreds of years ago it is said that St. Lawrence stopped a pestilence that had spread here. Everyone who comes to pray at the cross places their foot into the place where he stood, there is now depression about three inches deep in the stone. The people first place one foot and then the other into the stone they then offer up a prayer and kiss the cross. I was given this information by an English woman who lives at Le Treport, she has been over here for twenty two years and has two sons in the English Army.
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MOTHERING SUNDAY – AND MOTHER CHURCH (LAETARE SUNDAY) The Fourth Sunday in Lent was called ‘Mid-Lent’ or ‘Refreshment Sunday’, when the rigors of Lent were relaxed more than was normal for a feast day. It is called Mothering Sunday as a reference to the Epistle reading for the Day (Galatians 4:21-31). The Lenten Epistles follow from each other with teaching about our life as Christians and how we are to follow Christ. On Midlent Sunday the Epistle talks of bondage and freedom; the bondage of the Law and the Old covenant as compared to the freedom in Christ, "the promised one", and the New Covenant. Verse 26 reads "But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." We gain our freedom from Christ and, as it was seen before the Reformation, the Church. Thus Mothering Sunday is about the freedom that we gain through the promise of Jesus Christ delivered through our Mother the Church. People were encouraged to go to their ‘Mother Church’ (their home church or their home Cathedral) to worship and give thanks. Hence apprentices, and others, went home for the weekend and often brought gifts (or accumulated pay) home to their family. On the other hand, Mother's Day is a secular festival invented in 1904 and is celebrated on the 2nd Sunday in May in most countries in the world. The British Isles seem to be the exception. In recent years Mothering Sunday has been hijacked to take the place of a special, secular day to give thanks for our mothers.
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PUZZLE SOLUTIONS CROSSWORD
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HIGHDAYS & HOLY DAYS IN MARCH 2
Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672
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Perpetua, Felicity and their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203
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Patrick, Bishop, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460
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Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, Teacher 386
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Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Reformation Martyr, 1556
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Walter Hilton of Thurgarton, Augustinian Canon, Mystic, 1396: Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980
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Harriet Monsell, Founder of the Community of St John the Baptist, Clewer, 1883
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March 2015 PARISH OFFICERS PCC Secretary: Mrs Mavis Whitehead PCC Treasurer: Mr Andrew Goyns Stewardship & Gift Aid Secretary: Mr Arnold Randall Family & Children’s Worker Mrs Karen Richardson CHURCHWARDENS David Field, Castleford: 01977 707120 Mavis Whitehead, St Paul’s 01977 550529 Pauline Morris, St Michaels 01977 668790 Ian Fletcher, Hightown 01977 550139
01977 550529 01924 898593 01977 278611 01977 552524
DEPUTY CHURCHWARDENS
Hilary Wilkes, Castleford: 01977 733554 Colin Maw, St Paul’s: 01977 518078 Emma J Lisle, St Michael’s Vacant, Hightown
Our Churches in Castleford Team Parish All Saints, Church Street, Castleford All Saints, Lumley Street, Castleford (Hightown) St Michael & All Angels, St Michaels Close, Castleford St Paul the Apostle, Pontefract Road, Glasshoughton 34
SERVICES All Saints’ Castleford SUNDAY Mass (Said)
8.00am
Sung Mass (except last in month)
9.30am
Tuesday Mass (Said)
7.00pm
Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9.30am
All Saints’ Hightown SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass
10.45am
Wednesday Mass (Said)
7.00pm
Saint Michael and All Angels SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass
10.45am
Thursday Mass (Said)
10.00am
Saint Paul’s, Glasshoughton SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass
9.30am
Wednesday Mass (Said)
10.00am
LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH: Combined Parish Mass at 10.00am - ( see diary section for venue ) FOR MAJOR SAINTS’ DAYS IN ALL CHURCHES