Castleford Team Parish Parish Magazine - June 2016 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 rector@castlefordteamparish.org.uk Team Vicar: Fr. Mark Watkins, vicar@castlefordteamparish.org.uk
01977 511659
Asst. Curate: Fr. Kevin Greaves, 01977 512404 The Vicarage, Churchfield Lane, Glasshoughton WF10 4BP curate@castlefordteamparish.org.uk Polish Priest: Fr. Gregory Ruszczynski, revgreg@email.com
07548 707664
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, No one, including me, could have foreseen the events of this last month. To announce one departure is unsettling enough but to announce two departures within a couple of weeks of each other is little short of devastating. It may well be that the words of Henry Lyte are not far from people’s thoughts, “change and decay in all around I see” and I can understand why that should be the case but I would want you to think about other words in the same hymn, “O thou who changest not abide with me.” We believe in a God who does not desert or abandon people especially in their time of need or at least when the Rector announces suddenly that he is leaving and the curate comes to the end of his time in the parish. In a little while the task will begin to draw up a parish profile and believe me that profile will be good because the parish is in a good place, so do have confidence. The end of June is when ordinations take place and new deacons and priests through God’s grace are created. As you know I hold the ministers of the church in high regard but we must never lose site of the fact that the most effective ministers of the church are not the ones who wear the dog-collars. You, the people of God are His most effective ministers or priests. Yes, you need the clergy for some things but the work of the church continues with or without us. One of the phrases which crops up in church before Pentecost is the prayer of Jesus which says, “Leave us not comfortless.” You will not be left comfortless, the Holy Spirit will continue to be active in Castleford and what the Holy Spirit might not be able to achieve then Fr Mark most certainly will be able to.
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June 2016 Having been to the cathedral for the Confirmation Service in April and been again on the afternoon of Pentecost wearing red some of us were there again the following week for the Archdeacon’s Visitation when the Wardens were sworn into office for the coming year. The Visitation is always an interesting service though this was certainly the first time I have known it be held in the cathedral. If you are in Wakefield do call in and have a look at the place now that all of the renovations are completed and the east end of the church has been opened up, it is certainly worth a look. As with all projects there are those who think it is wonderful and those who aren’t quite so sure. Like the new look or not, it is good that the cathedral is now being seen as a resource to be used rather than a place which is distant and remote. I will see you in the coming weeks but do keep an eye out for the parish diner at the Magnet Hotel and for the final service on July 3rd, 6.30pm at Castleford, it will be wonderful to see you at either or both. With my love and prayers
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The Rev Canon David Winter considers the Queen’s life…
The Way I See It: Our SERVANT QUEEN The whole country will this month be celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday. She has splendidly fulfilled the promise made on the day when her father, King George VI, died and she came to the throne at the age of 27. On that day she dedicated ‘the rest of my life, whether it be long or short’ to the service of the nation and the Commonwealth. She has certainly proved that she meant what she said. Hers is already the longest reign of any British monarch. Those years have seen huge changes in the world: the end of apartheid in South Africa, the transition of scores of countries to independence within the Commonwealth, the advent of space exploration and men on the moon, the arrival of the computer and the internet, social media, Twitter and so on. Through it all she has remained a calm, reassuring figure, head of state to 12 different prime ministers and leader of a resilient and growing Commonwealth of Nations. The Queen has quietly moved with the times. Her rather tortured ‘royal’ accent of the forties and fifties has broadened into a quietly spoken Received English. Uneasy about it at first, she has made herself an effective performer on television. And through it all she has openly acknowledged that her own Christian faith is the bedrock of all that she is and has done. In recent years she has been more willing to talk about that faith, notably in her Christmas messages. To mark her 90th birthday, the Bible Society has published an attractive illustrated book The Servant Queen, setting out largely in her own words the essential heart of that faith. The Queen herself has (continued on page 7) 6
June 2016 (continued from page 6) written a Foreword. The aim of the publishers is that the book should be widely distributed, so that people up and down her kingdom can share her evident enjoyment of a committed Christian faith. It’s subtitle is ‘And the King she serves ‘. As advertisers say, ‘every home should have one’. The Servant Queen is available from the Bible Society in packs of ten for £10, or singly. Go to: https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/landing/ servantqueen/
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LETTER FROM ST JAMES THE LEAST OF ALL Happily, the Church of England still retains some singular parish clergy. Take the parish of St James-the-Least in the rural county of C- for example. Here the elderly Anglo-Catholic vicar, Eustace, continues his correspondence to Darren, his nephew, a low-church curate recently ordained…
ON THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE IN A RECTORY The Rectory St. James the Least of All My dear Nephew Darren Ah, the joys of June! At last I can return to the Rectory without putting on my overcoat before going inside. For the next four months, all windows and doors are left open in order to let the heat in. If anyone else tells me how lucky I am to live in a 12-bedroom Queen Anne house, I shall have them excommunicated. You will soon stop complaining about your one bedroom flat should you ever have to live in a rural rectory; the days of wandering about the house in shirtsleeves will become a distant memory. In my first winter here, I had the central heating on full blast 24 hours a day. The house was almost warm, even if the boilers sounded like the Queen Mary coming into port. But that quarter’s gas bill needed a substantial grant from the International Monetary Fund to cover it, so ever since, for six months of the year, I live in the kitchen. Parishioners find it either touching or sad that I sleep with my Labrador. It never occurs (continued on page 9) 8
June 2016 (continued from page 8) to them that I need her for extra heat. It does mean that evening meetings at the rectory on winter evenings can be un-Christianly satisfying. Watching committee members fighting – with infinite politeness - to get nearest to the one-bar electric fire is highly entertaining. They hold on to their coffee cups less for refreshment, more for a little extra warmth. At least it means that meetings are short. My predecessor was a model railway enthusiast and so several bedrooms were taken up with a system of such complexity that it made Crewe Junction seem trivial. He also found it helpful to put his teenage son in the turret bedroom, where he could play his drums without anyone else in the house being able to hear a thing. Nowadays, all these extra rooms are filled with cribs and nativity play costumes, Easter gardens and spare choir cassocks. It is remarkable how all these things used to be stored quite satisfactorily in the church vestry until the parish acquired a single priest; now the empty rooms in the rectory have become vital storage space. I so hope my successor has a plethora of children, so that parishioners have to find alternative accommodation for all the detritus vital to church life. No, dear boy, cherish your centrally heated, dry, draft proof, mice-free, bat-less, modern-plumbed accommodation. It will not be ever thus. Your loving uncle, Eustace
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June 2016 CROSSWORD
Across 1 Military tac c used by Joshua to a ack and destroy the city of Ai (Joshua 8:2) (6) 4 Place of learning (6) 8 ‘When Moses’ hands grew — , they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it’ (Exodus 17:12) (5) 9 Unpleasant auguries of the end of the age, as forecast by Jesus (Ma hew 24:7) (7) 10 Stronghold to which girls in King Xerxes’ harem (including Esther) were taken (Esther 2:8) (7) 11 Where Saul went to consult a medium before figh ng the Philis nes (1 Samuel 28:7) (5) 12 Propi a on (Hebrews 2:17) (9) 17 Turn away (Jeremiah 11:15) (5) 19 So clear (anag.) (7) 21 ‘I have just got — , so I can’t come’: one excuse to be absent from the great banquet (Luke 14:20) (7) 22 Long weapon with a pointed head used by horsemen (Job 39:23) (5) 23 Musical beat (6) 24 What the Israelites were told to use to daub blood on their door-frames at the first Passover (Exodus 12:22) (6) Down 1 Fasten (Exodus 28:37) (6) 2 Art bite (anag.) (7) 3 ‘The people of the city were divided; some — with the Jews, others with the apostles’ (Acts 14:4) (5) 5 Contend (Jeremiah 12:5) (7) 6 Possessed (Job 1:3) (5) 7 Sheen (Lamenta ons 4:1) (6) 9 ‘You love evil rather than good, — rather than speaking the truth’ (Psalm 52:3) (9) 13 Large flightless bird (Job 39:13) (7) 14 They were worth several hundred pounds each (Ma hew 25:15) (7) 15 ‘A — went out to sow his seed’ (Ma hew 13:3) (6) 16 How Jesus described Jairus’s daughter when he went into the room where she lay (Mark 5:39) (6) 18 The part of the day when the women went to the tomb on the first Easter morning (John 20:1) (5) 20 Narrow passageway between buildings (Luke 14:21) (5)
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June 2016 PUZZLES WORDSEARCH
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In honour of the Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations, this month we are basing the Wordsearch on words found in the national anthem of the United Kingdom: ‘God Save the Queen’. The anthem dates back to London in September 1745, and irst appeared as ‘God Save the King’ during a time of political tension. Both the words and tune are anonymous, but about 140 composers, including Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms, have used the tune in their compositions. God save our gracious Queen! Long live our noble Queen! God save the Queen! Send her victorious, Happy & glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the Queen. Thy choicest gi s in store On her be pleased to pour, Long may she reign. May she defend our laws, And ever give us cause, To sing with heart and voice, God save the Queen.
God, Save, Gracious, Queen, Long, Live, Noble, Send, Victorious, Happy, Glorious, , Reign, Choicest, Gifts, Store, Pleased, Defend, Laws, Cause, Heart, Voice SUDOKU EASY MEDIUM
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DEMENTIA UPDATE - MAY 2016 Dear Friends, Since my last update there has been a number of visitors to the Parish with regard to our mission with dementia and vulnerable people. On the 20th April Lisa Stone from The SAFER Project Team (part of West Yorkshire Trading Standards) came to the Parish Rooms to give information on scams and frauds which are received through the post and also by telephone. The session was attended by 8 people and the feedback from all of them was very positive. Lisa will be visiting us again on the 15th June to raise awareness on doorstep scams and frauds this time, which is sadly on the increase. Posters will be available nearer the time giving you details of the session. Please spread the word and bring family and friends with you. The more we are all aware of these crimes the less chance we will fall victim to them. As part of Dementia Awareness Week (15th -21st May) the Parish held a Coffee Morning on the Saturday to raise funds for The Alzheimer’s Society. I have to say that attendance was down compared to The Time for a Cuppa event last year, but we raised £211.75 (total at the time of going to press), and every bit helps. A BIG thank you for all of you who baked, gave their time to help on the day and for those who came along, it is greatly appreciated. Bishop Tony briefly attended the coffee morning and passed comment on all the homemade buns and cakes. I even spied him tucking into the odd bun or two! There are a number of unclaimed raffle prizes from the morning. All our churches have been given the raffle numbers, so please check your tickets before throwing them away. (continued on page 15) 14
June 2016 (continued from page 14) Also you may remember that we have Wakefield Careers who use the Parish Rooms on the second Wednesday of every month. The sessions which are for dementia carers is going from strength to strength and they are pleased with the overall attendance. However, if you know anyone who is living with dementia and their carer please tell them about the sessions as they offer vital support and fellowship for all who are affected by the disease. You may recall that I wrote in the last magazine that we had submitted a bid to The Dementia Innovation Fund and that we had been successful and we were just waiting on the delivery of the dementia friendly signs and clocks. Well last week we received the toilet signs for all our churches. These have now been given to Fr Mark and over the next few weeks these will be replacing are old signs. There has been a delay with respect to the dementia friendly clocks as a hospital trust bought several hundred of them clearing out the entire stock with the supplier. I have been advised that they should be with us in a couple of months as they are manufactured overseas. So please keep reading these updates for more information on their arrival or alternatively just keep looking at the clock on the wall and see when it suddenly changes. Outside of the Parish I was involved in organising a Dementia Friends Session at Church House. There was a limited number of places and it was open to anyone in the Episcopal area who would like to know more about dementia. The session was delivered on the 17th May in Dementia Awareness Week and 14 people attended including Bishop Tony. All of whom have now become Dementia Friends. It is hoped another session will be organised in the near future possibly on an evening so that those who are working have the opportunity to attend. 15
June 2016 So thank you for your continued support and until next time. God Bless . Fr Kevin.
The new group of Dementia Friends who attended the training session at Church House in Wakefield pictured with their certificates.
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The High Altar at Castleford prepared for the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Solemn Benediction on Thursday 12th May.
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READINGS FOR JUNE 5th June
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The Second Sunday after Trinity (G) 1 Kings: Psalm : Galatians: Luke:
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The Third Sunday after Trinity (G) 2 Samuel: Psalm: Galatians: Luke:
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The Fourth Sunday after Trinity (G) Isaiah: Psalm: Galatians: Luke:
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The Fifth Sunday after Trinity (G) 1 Kings Psalm: Galatians: Luke:
19: 15-16, 19-21 16: 5: 1, 13-25 9: 51-62.
ADVANCE NOTICE Sunday 3rd July at 6.30 at Castleford - Fr Michael’s final service.
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CALENDAR FOR JUNE Saturday 11th
“A Bit of a Do” - The Queen’s 90th Birthday celebration in the grounds at St Michael’s
Tuesday 14 th
7.00pm Castleford PCC Meeting
Thursday 16th
7.00pm Film Night at Hightown “The Lady in the Van”
Friday 17th
7.15pm at Hightown Castleford Male Voice Choir Concert
Saturday 18th
2-4pm Hightown Knickerbocker Glory afternoon
Thursday 23rd 7 f7.30pm Dinner at The Magnet Hotel. Cost £20 per person. If you would like to be with us please put your name on the list in church
Licensing of Fr Michael at St Bartholomew, Armley Leeds on Thursday 21st July 2016 at 7.30pm We have arranged for a coach to go from the Parish to St Bartholomew's for the service on this evening. The cost is £6 per person. The coach will pick up at St Paul’s, Castleford & Hightown at the following times: St Paul 6.00pm, Castleford 6.15pm, Hightown 6.30pm If you would like a seat on the coach will you please see your churchwarden with payment to be added to the list. The coach will return after the service at around 9.30pm. Drop off will be in the reverse order of pick-ups at the three churches. If you have any queries please talk to Arnold Randall who is organising this coach trip. He can be contacted on 01977 278611. 19
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Dementia Awareness Week Coffee Morning held in the Parish Rooms at Castleford on Saturday 21st May 2016. £211.75 has so far been raised for Alzheimer’s UK.
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June 2016 THE STORY BEHIND THE HYMN: LORD, FOR THE YEARS Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided, urged and inspired us, cheered us on our way, sought us and saved us, pardoned and provided: Lord for the years, we bring our thanks today. Lord, for that word, the word of life which fires us, speaks to our hearts and sets our souls ablaze, teaches and trains, rebukes us and inspires us: Lord of the word, receive your people's praise. Lord, for our land in this our generation, spirits oppressed by pleasure, wealth and care: for young and old, for commonwealth and nation, Lord of our land, be pleased to hear our prayer. Lord, for our world where men disown and doubt you, loveless in strength, and comfortless in pain, hungry and helpless, lost indeed without you: Lord of the world, we pray that Christ may reign. Lord for ourselves; in living power remake usself on the cross, and Christ upon the throne, past put behind us, for the future take us: Lord of our lives, to live for Christ alone By Timothy Dudley Smith This well-loved hymn was written in 1967 by the Rev Timothy Dudley Smith, who later became Bishop of Thetford. He later confessed: “I wrote it on a train when I was very pressed for time. I’m thankful if something I write gets picked up, but I suspect anyone (continued on page 23) 22
June 2016 (continued from page 22) who does something in a rush later regrets that they didn’t find time to apply the sandpaper a bit more!” Dudley Smith had been asked to write a hymn for the centenary service of the Children’s Special Service Mission, now Scripture Union, in St Paul’s Cathedral. His commission was to write words that could be fitted to Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia, as it was to be accompanied by an orchestra with this tune in their repertoire. And so – ‘Lord for the years’ was written. Dudley Smith need not have worried about lack of time – his lyrics were a ‘hit’ in the cathedral on the day, and went on to become so well-loved that George Carey chose the hymn to be sung at his consecration as Bishop of Bath and Wells, and then again later, in 1991, for his consecration as Archbishop in Canterbury Cathedral. The hymn continued to be widely sung and loved, until in 2002 Timothy Dudley Smith was asked to write an extra verse for it so that it could even be sung around the time of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Many of the words in the hymn are true for the Queen herself, as she celebrates her 90th birthday this month. She does indeed thank God ‘for the years your love has kept and guided, urged and inspired us, cheered us on our way’… And so indeed the ‘extra’ verse added for the Queen has also held true: Lord for our hopes, the dreams of all our living, Christ and his kingdom one united aim, Rulers and peoples bound in high thanksgiving, Lord of our hopes, our trust is in your Name. 23
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THE GREATEST POSTER EVER? Hundreds of thousands of young men saw it. Indeed, they could hardly miss it. The poster was everywhere – a stern-faced distinguished figure and, most prominently, a finger pointing straight at them. Below it were the words, ‘YOU - Join your country’s army!’ The year was 1914 and Britain was at war. Our army needed recruits of southern Belgium and France. Lord Kitchener, who died a hundred years ago this month, was a hero from the Boer War and now the Secretary of State for War, in huge numbers, to be trained and then sent across the English Channel to the battle-fields The idea of the poster had developed from a newspaper advertisement which read ‘Your King and Country Needs You’ by way of hand-bills to a full-size poster. It was Kitchener himself who proposed making it a personal appeal to ‘Britons’ to ‘join the country’s Army’. They did, and it was not until 1916, following massive casualties in France, that conscription had to be introduced. The poster has subsequently had many imitators, but no equals in emotional impact.
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HIGH DAYS & HOLY DAYS IN JUNE 1
Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165
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The Martyrs of Uganda, 1885-87 and 1977
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Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th Century
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Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945
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Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Nonjuror, Hymn Writer, 1711
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Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597
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BARNABAS THE APOSTLE
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Richard Baxter, Puritan Divine, 1691
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Evelyn Underhill, Spiritual Writer, 1941
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Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 1253
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Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 and 1936
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Bernard Mizeki, Apostle of the MaShona, Martyr, 1896
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Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.250
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Ethelreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678
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THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Cyril, Bishop OF Alexandria, Teacher, 444
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Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, c.200
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PETER AND PAUL, APOSTLES
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A SAINT FOR JUNE 24
JOHN THE BAPTIST
– PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE MESSIAH John the Baptist is famous for baptising Jesus, and for losing his head to a woman. He was born to Zechariah, a Temple priest, and Elizabeth, who was a cousin of Mary, the mother of Jesus. John was born when his mother was advanced in years, and after the foretelling of his birth and the choice of his name by an angel, we hear nothing more of him until he began his mission of preaching and baptising in the river Jordan c27. John was a lot like an Old Testament prophet: he lived simply on locusts and honey in the wilderness, and his message was one of repentance and preparation for the coming of the Messiah and his Kingdom. He went on to baptise Jesus, at Jesus’ firm request. When John went on to denounce the incestuous union of Herod Antipas with his niece and brother’s wife, Herodias, he was imprisoned and eventually beheaded at the demand of Salome, Herodias’ daughter. John is the only saint to be remembered three times in the Christian calendar, in commemoration of his conception, his birth (June 24), and his martyrdom. When John saw Jesus he said that Jesus was the “Lamb of God”, and he is the only person to use this expression of Jesus. In art John is often depicted carrying a lamb, or with a lamb near him.
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PUZZLE SOLUTIONS CROSSWORD
WORDSEARCH
SUDOKU SOLUTIONS EASY
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June 2016 PARISH OFFICERS PCC Secretary & Gift Day Secretary: Mrs Dawn Heyworth 01977 514515 PCC Treasurer, Stewardship & Gift Aid Secretary: Mr Andrew Goyns 01924 898593 Safeguarding Officer: Mr Arnold Randall 01977 278611 Family & Children’s Worker Mrs Karen Richardson 01977 552524 CHURCHWARDENS David Field, Castleford: 01977 707120 Mavis Whitehead, St Paul’s 01977 550529 Pauline Morris, St Michaels 01977 668790 Ian Fletcher, Hightown 01977 550139
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DEPUTY CHURCHWARDENS
Hilary Wilkes, Castleford: Karen Ferrier, St Paul’s: Emma J Lisle, St Michael’s Susan Fletcher, Hightown
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