Welcome to our Parish

SICK AND HOUSEBOUND Please pray for them. Damian Ainscough, Anna Barszc, Christopher Brown, Patience Dare, Carol Dent, Anne Hayward, Eileen Hodgson, Dorothy Kershaw, Anthony Margrave, Jean McAndrew, Mirry Redman, Bernard Rook, Ken Rumney, Timmy Ryan, Kevin and Catherine Thornton, Alison Urquhart and all those who are ill and would like to remain anonymous.

 

HOLY COMMUNION FOR THE, SICK AND HOUSEBOUND The letter of St Jamest, Chapter 5, verse 14: “Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.” If you or anyone you know is ill, either in hospital or at home, and would like to receive the Church’s ministry in anointing and Holy Communion, please let Fr Nigel know and he will come and visit you/your family and friends He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

 

SUNDAY OFFERINGS BY STANDING ORDER. Those of you who wish to give offerings to the parish by Standing Order (if you are not already doing) will need these details: HSBC: 40-27-15 ACCOUNT NO. 31017373 ACCOUNT NAME: DIOCESE OF LEEDS 

 

WELCOME HOUSE OUTREACH AT ST JOSEPH’S

We are collecting toiletry and similar items for Christmas gifts. Your help would be appreciated. Please drop in any Wednesday morning from 10.30-12.30 for a tea/coffee and see for yourselves our work with conversational English etc.
Thanks to those who assembled the lovely out door cribs at Sacred Heart and St Josephs Churches.

 

ROUGH SLEEPERS IN GOOLE Please provide details to the Emmaus Rough Sleepers team, so that contact can be made. The parish has details of the service.  

 

ROSARY CIRCLE Please join us for our Advent Preparation the second joyful mystery, The Visitation please read Luke- After 10AM on Tues December 16th

 

ST JOSEPH’S CHRISTMAS RAFFLE Tickets will be on sale from Sunday November 9th with the Draw taking place this Sun. 14th December. We will be very grateful for any donations. Thank you. Eileen and helpers. 

 

SACRED HEART CHURCH CHRISTMAS HAMPER RAFFLE. The draw will have taken place on Saturday 13th December and winners’ list published at the back of the church on Sunday 14th December for you to collect your winning hamper. Thanks. Pat and Andrea.

 

YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED that Sacred Heart has lost a ridge tile. We need to have a bespoke replacement made, and for this we need to determine the angle of the roof ridge. To help with this could anyone who has access to a roof slope measuring device, to Photoshop computer software or a laser length-measuring device please make themselves known to Ian Parkinson. Thanks 

 

WE MADE £610.15 with sale of tickets and money left over from donations. We would like to thank all who donated items or cash for prizes and for buying tickets. As usual everyone was very generous. 

 

CAKE STALL THIS SUNDAY (21st December.) Any cakes will be gratefully accepted. Thank you to all parishioners over the year who have helped us whenever we have asked. God bless. Pat and Andrea. MANY THANKS to Pat, Andea and Dave and all helpers. 

 

ST JOSEPH’S CHRISTMAS RAFFLE. Total - £278.20. Many thanks to Eileen and Yvonne and Marcia and Nicola and all helpers.  

 

I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for your support. With all of your help I raised a total of £350 for Bowel Cancer UK. Thank you. Alisha. 

 

SPREADING LOVE, PEACE AND JOY Michaela Kenning invites her ‘church family’ to cheer patients, staff and themselves, at Ward 3, Goole Hospital. We will sing carols from our church booklets for 30 minutes, on Mon Dec 22nd at 1:30pm. Please ask for further details if necessary.