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Castleford Team Parish
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CLERGY Rector:
Fr. Michael Wood, 01977 518127 The Rectory, 15 Barnes Road, Castleford WF10 5AA [email protected]
Team Vicar:
Fr. Mark Watkins, 01977 511659 The Vicarage, St Michaels Close, Castleford WF10 4EY [email protected]
Asst. Curate:
Fr Paul Atkinson, 01977 512404 The Vicarage, Churchfield Lane, Glasshoughton WF10 4BP [email protected]
Polish Priest: Fr. Greg Ruszczynski, 07842 883648
Parish Reader: Phillip Godfrey 01924 267698
Lay Pastoral Minister: Mrs Lynda Maw 01977 518078
Editor, Magazine & Pew Sheets (including Diary Dates): Andrew Goyns, [email protected] 01924 898593
Parish Office: (Enquiries for Baptisms) Saturdays at 10.00-10.30am at All Saint’s Church, Castleford.
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THE RECTOR’S LETTER
Dear Friends,
Here is a parish, in another Diocese, not very far away from here, where the vicar had thirteen letters which he used more or less in rotation each month as his contribution to the parish magazine. He had thirteen letters, not twelve, because of the position of Lent and the way Easter moves about each year. He justified this bad habit by saying that most people didn’t read the letter and the ones who did couldn’t remember what was written from one year to the next. His justification is probably true but it does not excuse what he did. It feels like sending the same Christmas card each year, an odd thing to do.
Each year we keep the same festivals and feasts along with the same fasts as well, just like any calendar, but each year there has to be something new to discover.
It can be unwise to use items in the news in a monthly letter because what was fresh at the time of writing might well be old and stale by the time of reading. One story which has certainly grown legs and broken out into a gallop recently is the horsemeat scandal. With each news bul-letin it seemed unfolding even more traces of horse D.N.A. in our food, it would almost seem as though we are virtually living on the stuff. I have no objection to eating horse, on holidays in France I have done so many times. What I object to is the deception which has been taking place. It is wrong to deceive.
Lent is the time for uncovering deception, for being true to ones-self and for being true to God and for putting relationships right. As we move towards Holy week at the End of the month we focus upon what is probably the greatest deception of all time, that which led to
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Jesus being killed as a common criminal but also that through the death of Jesus the cost of the deceit has been wiped out.
“The tree of shame was made the tree of glory and where life was lost, there life has been restored” are words from the special preface we some-times use at the start of the Eucharistic prayer at the end of Lent. During this special time of year may we ponder upon those words, that the shame of the cross is taken away and relationship with God is put right again.
With my love and prayers
SONGS OF PRAISE
The BBC programme SONGS OF PRAISE is being recorded at Wakefield Cathedral for Broadcast in August. The programme will be introduced by Bill Turnbull the main presenter of Breakfast on the BBC.
The recording is on Saturday 13th April between 10.30 and 1.30 and be-tween 3pm and 6pm. Tickets are free but must be applied for by Friday 22nd March. Even the general tickets are allocated according to voice range so that everyone isn’t singing soprano or bass and that there is a nice range of voices. If you would like to go, decide what your voice is and then have a word with Fr. Michael as soon as possible so that the application form can be sent away in good time or alternatively you can email [email protected] to apply for tickets.
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ST DAVID (DEWI SANT) On March 1st Wales celebrates its patron saint, David - or, in Welsh, Dewi or Dafydd. He is indisputably British, and is revered wherever Welsh people have settled. As with most figures from the so-called ’Dark Ages’ (he lived in the sixth century), reliable details about his life are scarce, but there are enough for us to form a picture of a formidably austere, disciplined and char-ismatic leader, who led the Church in Wales through turbulent years and fought tenaciously for the faith. It’s likely that he was strengthened in his min-istry by time spent in Ireland, where the Church was stronger and more con-fident. Early records tell of a meeting of Irish church leaders with three ‘Britons’, as they were described, among them ‘bishop David’. His mother, Non, is also celebrated as a saint in Wales, where a number of churches are dedicated in her name.
That he founded a monastery at Menevia, in Pembrokeshire, seems beyond doubt. It later became the site of St David’s cathedral and the settlement which is now the smallest city in the United Kingdom. From Menevia David embarked on preaching and teaching missions across Wales, and probably beyond. His eloquence was legendary. At a famous Synod of the Church, held at a Carmarthenshire village called Brefi, he preached passionately against the Arian heresy - indeed, so passionately that he was (according to some accounts) immediately named as archbishop of Wales. The village is now known as Llandewi Brefi - brefi in Welsh is a hillock, and legend claims that it appeared miraculously in order to provide the eloquent bishop with a pulpit.
His monks avoided wine and beer, drinking only water. Indeed, he and they lived lives of rigorous austerity and constant prayer, in the manner of the Desert Fathers of the Eastern Church . The date of David’s death is disputed - either 589 or 601. It wasn’t until the twelfth century that he was generally accepted as the patron saint of Wales, and pilgrimages to St David’s were highly regarded in the following centuries - including two made by English kings, William I and Henry II. It’s traditional for Welsh people to wear daffodils on St David’s Day (Gwyl Dewi Sant in Welsh) - but there seems no particular reason for it, beyond the fact that they tend to make their early Spring appearance round about his day - oh, and they look nice!
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A PRAYER AFTER MASS
I give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, everlasting God. In your great mercy, and not because of my own merits, you have fed me, a sinner and your unworthy servant, with the precious Body and Blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that this holy communion may not serve as my judgement and condemnation, but as my forgiveness and salvation. May it be my armour of faith and shield of good purpose. May it root out in me all vice and evil desires, increase my love and patience, humility and obedience, and every virtue. Make it a firm defence against the wiles of all my enemies, seen and unseen, while restraining all evil impulses of flesh and spirit. May it help me to cleave to you, the one true God, and bring me a blessed death when you call. I beseech you to bring me, a sinner, to that great feast where, with your Son and the Holy Spirit, you are the true light of your holy ones, their flawless blessedness, everlasting joy, and perfect happiness. Through Christ our Lord.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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A SAINT FOR MARCH - ST JOSEPH THE CARPENTER
Many people know that Joseph was the father of probably the most famous man who ever lived, but beyond that we know very little about him. The Gospels name him as the ‘father’ of Jesus, while also asserting that the child was born of a virgin. Even if he wasn’t what we call the ‘biological’ father, it was important to them that he was a distant descendant of the great king David - a necessary qualification for the messiah. It’s obvious that Joseph (usually described as a ‘carpenter’) was poor, because he was allowed to of-fer the poor man’s sacrifice of two pigeons or turtle doves at the presenta-tion of his infant son. No one expected eloquence or wisdom from this man’s son. Jesus was born into a poor family, with a doubtless hard-working artisan as his father. There would have been few luxuries in that little home at Nazareth.
Matthew begins his birth narrative with the bald statement that Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together she became pregnant ‘with child from the Holy Spirit’. Joseph was not apparently privy to the divine in-tervention in her life, and drew the obvious conclusion: it was another man’s child. However, he was not the sort of man who wished to disgrace her pub-licly, so he resolved to ‘dismiss her quietly’ - end their engagement without fuss, we might say.
However, at that point Joseph had a dream in which he was told by ‘an angel of the Lord’ not to hesitate to take Mary as his wife, because the child con-ceived in her was ‘from the Holy Spirit’, and that the baby was to be named ‘Jesus’ (‘saviour’) because he will ‘save his people from their sins’. On waking, Joseph did as he had been instructed and took Mary as his wife.
So far as Joseph himself is concerned we can be pretty sure of a few things. In human legal terms he was the father of Jesus, he was a carpenter and he had probably died before Jesus began his public ministry. The little we are told suggests a devout, decent and sensitive man, one who shared Mary’s anxiety when the twelve year old Jesus went missing in Jerusalem and who presumably taught his son the trade of a carpenter.
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Joseph has become an icon of the working man - there are many churches nowa-days dedicated to ‘Joseph the Worker’. He can stand in the calendar of saints for the ’ordinary’ person, a straight-forward craftsman who never expected or chose to be in the spotlight of history. He did what he could, and he was obedient to everything that he believed God required of him. To do the ‘ordinary’ thing well, to be kind, caring and open to guidance: these are great gifts, and Joseph seems to have had them in abundance.
CHURCH ‘REJOICING’ OVER CHRISTMAS TWITTER CAMPAIGN
The Church of England has recently released figures for its Christmas Twitter campaign #ChristmasStartsWithChrist. Launched in November 2012, congrega-tions and clergy in the 12,500 parishes of the Church of England were encouraged to get out their smartphones and live tweet the joy and meaning of Christmas in a series of 140 character messages to the 10 million people who make up the UK's 'Twitterati'. Churches from across the country took part in the campaign, tweeting their ser-mons using the hashtag "#ChristmasStartsWithChrist" to share their Christmas messages. Figures revealed today show almost 9,000 tweets sent using the hashtags:- "#ChristmasStartsWithChrist" and "#CSWC" with peak traffic occurring on Christmas Day at around 11am (GMT) and a smaller peak on Christmas Eve at 11pm (GMT). This was the first time the Church of England had adopted Twitter for a Christmas initiative.
DON’T FORGET
BRITISH SUMMER TIME
This year British Summer time starts on Sunday 31st March which is Easter Day. Remember to put your clocks forward otherwise you will be an hour late for Mass on Easter Sunday.
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CROSSWORD Across 1 Arouse (Song of Songs 2:7) (6) 4 Extinguish (Isaiah 1:31) (6) 8 ‘“They — — ,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt!”’ (Proverbs 23:35) (3,2) 9 Unhappiness (Nehemiah 2:2) (7) 10 Jewish (7) 11 Dirge (anag.) (5) 12 ‘A truthful witness gives honest — , but a false witness tells lies’ (Proverbs 12:17) (9) 17 Paul quoted from the second one in his address in the synagogue at Pisidian Antioch (Acts 13:33) (5)
19 ‘Do not use your freedom to — the sinful nature’ (Galatians 5:13) (7) 21 ‘As you can see, he has done nothing to — death’ (Luke 23:15) (7) 22 Name applied by Isaiah to Jerusalem (Isaiah 29:1) (5) 23 ‘All the people — — one man, saying, “None of us will go home”’ (Judges 20:8) (4,2) 24 Lazarus, who was carried by angels to Abraham’s side when he died, was one (Luke 16:20) (6) Down 1 Appalled (Job 26:11) (6) 2 ‘In an — to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea’ (Acts 27:30) (7) 3 Expel (Acts 18:16) (5) 5 ‘But I have a baptism to — , and how distressed I am until it is complet-ed!’ (Luke 12:50) (7) 6 ‘Of the increase of his government and peace there will be — — ’ (Isaiah 9:7) (2,3) 7 Hurry (Psalm 119:60) (6) 9 ‘For I desire mercy, not — , and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings’ (Hosea 6:6) (9) 13 One of its towns was Sychar, where Jesus met a woman at Jacob’s well (John 4:5) (7) 14 Shouting (Acts 7:57) (7) 15 Arachnid (Isaiah 59:5) (6) 16 One of Paul’s first converts in Philippi was Lydia, a — in purple cloth (Acts 16:14) (6) 18 Donkeys (5) 20 Raked (anag.) (5)
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Y F S O J E R I C H O R Y L O Y U A R E S U O H S E E W C T I T S O L P U D T T R A N S F O R M E D E E A E M W H E U M A O C M R I S O E E Y R H S P I O O D P R R O T C E L L O C T E O E T S C E A T E O L S M N U U A K F R M N R E E M D S Z H O U S E E I W R I E O D S A L V A T I O N J D L O F R U O F A A A N D Y N O U R S T A F M X F
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PLANNING AHEAD - ADVANCE NOTICE
The ANNUAL PAROCHIAL MEETING will be held on Wednesday 24th April 2013 with Mass at 7pm followed by the meeting at 7.30pm. The meeting will be at Hightown.
COPY FOR APRIL ISSUE
Contributions for the magazine are always welcome and articles/photos intended for the next issue of the Parish Magazine should be handed in by:-
MONDAY 18TH MARCH
Please send ‘Dates for the Diary’ by the same date, or as soon as they are arranged, to:- Andrew Goyns: e-mail: [email protected] Tel: 01924 898593
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MARCH CALENDAR
Saturday 2nd Coffee Morning at Hightown 10.00am-noon Tuesday 19th Mass at Castleford 7.00pm Followed by PCC Meeting
Please note that there will be no Joint Parish Mass on the last Sun-day in March. Normal times of services at all churches.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE COMMUNION AT HOME?
IF YOU ARE HOUSEBOUND OR UNABLE TO COME TO CHURCH, PLEASE CONTACT ONE OF THE CLERGY AND THEY WILL MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR YOU TO TAKE COMMUNION AT HOME. OUR MINISTRY TEAM RECOGNISES THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF MINISTRY AND IS KEEN TO HELP.
LENT GROUPS & EVENSONG CONTINUE IN MARCH
Sundays 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th Evensong with Address at Castleford at 6.30pm
Evening Lent Group meets on Mondays 4th, 11th & 18th March at the Rectory at 7.00pm
Afternoon Lent Group meets on Thursdays 7th, 14th & 21st March at St Michael’s Vicarage at 2.00pm
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READINGS FOR MARCH
3rd March - The Third Sunday of Lent (P) Isaiah 55: 1-9 1 Corinthians 10: 1-13 Luke: 13: 1-9
10th March - The Fourth Sunday of Lent (P) (Mothering Sunday) Exodus 2: 1-10 2 Corinthians 1: 3-7 Luke 2: 33-35
17th March - The Fifth Sunday of Lent (P) Isaiah 43: 16-21 Philippians 3: 4b-14 John 12: 1-8
24th March - PALM SUNDAY (R) Isaiah: 50: 4-9 Philippians: 2: 5-11 Luke: 22: 14-23.end
28th March - MAUNDY THURSDAY (W) Exodus 12: 1-4, [5-10] 11-14 1Corinthians 11: 23-26 John 13: 1-17, 31b-35
29th March - GOOD FRIDAY Isaiah 52: 13-53.end Hebrews 4: 14-16; 5: 7-9 John 18: 1-19.end
31st March - EASTER DAY (W)
Job 14: 1-14 1 Peter 4: 1-8 Matthew 27: 57-end
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HOLY WEEK 2013
March 24th PALM SUNDAY—HOLY WEEK begins Services as usual at all churches Evensong and Address at Castleford 6.30pm
March 25th Monday in Holy Week Mass with Stations of the Cross at St Paul’s 7.00pm
March 26th Tuesday in Holy Week Mass with Stations of the Cross at Castleford 7.00pm
March 27th Wednesday in Holy Week Note: No morning Mass at St Paul’s Mass with Stations of the Cross at Hightown 7.00pm
March 28th MAUNDY THURSDAY CHRISM MASS AT WAKEFIELD CATHEDRAL Bishop Stephen 10.30am Note: No morning Mass at St Michael’s MASS OF THE LAST SUPPER AND WATCH UNTIL 10PM AT ST PAUL’S 7.30pm
March 29th GOOD FRIDAY Children’s Activities at St Paul’s 9.30am With Stations of the Cross at 11.00am Churches Together Ecumenical Service 11.00am The Good Friday Liturgy at St Michael’s 2.00pm COMPLINE & MEDITATION AT HIGHTOWN 7.30pm
March 30th HOLY SATURDAY EASTER CEREMONIES AND FIRST MASS OF EASTER AT CASTLEFORD 8.00pm
March 31st EASTER DAY (Sunday) Said Mass at Castleford 8.00am Solemn Mass at Castleford 9.30am Solemn Mass at St Paul’s 9.30am Solemn Mass at Hightown 10.45am Solemn Mass at St Michael’s 10.45am
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NEWS FROM OUR FAMILY & CHILDREN’S WORKER
PARENT & TODDLER GROUP &
HOLIDAY CLUB
On the 4th February we opened a Parent and Toddler Group at St Michaels Church Hall Smawthorne Lane Castleford. The group is open to children from Birth to 4 years and runs Monday and Wednesday 9:15 – 11:15 am. We charge £1.50 per family and Parent/Carers are offered a free drink. In addi-tion to maybe extend the provision of the Parent and Toddler Group, I am working to develop a holiday club provision for children from Birth to 10 years (parents to stay with children).
If any church member would like to offer a small amount of their time to vol-unteer I would be very grateful.
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MONDAY – 5.30pm & 7.00pm – The Glasshoughton Centre, Leeds Road, Glasshoughton, Castleford. Your Consultant’s name is Jean – Tel: 0113 286 4255
TUESDAY – 6.30pm – St Joseph’s Catholic Church Hall, Pontefract Road, Castleford Your Consultant’s name is Vanessa – Tel: 01977 557843
THURSDAY – 9.30am, 5.30pm & 7.30pm – Trinity Methodist Church Hall, Powell Street, Castleford Your Consultant’s name is Caroline – Tel: 01977 793096
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Editor: The Rev Dr Gary Bowness continues his tongue-in-cheek letters from ‘Uncle Eustace’… Courtesy: Parish Pump
ON THE PERILS OF MOVING FROM CITY TO COUNTRY
The Rectory St. James the Least My dear Nephew Darren Those parishioners of yours who won millions on the Lottery and moved into this parish have created quite a stir. It was perhaps a little unwise of them to tell everyone the reason why they had become so wealthy. While most of our parishioners also do the Lottery, few would ever admit it in public. (Since your friends arrived, the entire PCC is buying ever more lottery tick-ets, but from the shop in the NEXT village, to try and keep it secret.) However, your family still have much to learn about our country ways. Buying the old Dower House was impressive; and spending a small fortune re-stocking the gardens was certainly commendable. But someone should have told them about cattle grids. It must have been quite a shock for them to wake up one morning and find the thirty sheep from the neighbouring field had wandered in for breakfast. Their brand new purple Ferrari has certainly brightened up the country lanes around here. The noise it makes as it roars up behind you quite quickens the pulse. Mrs Beamish had been suffering with low blood pressure for months; she says she is quite cured now. The Colonel, who is all for the community supporting the church, then asked if the new-comers would drive the bishop around on the day he came to do his tour of the parish. The Colonel thought that an open-topped purple Ferrari would make a great bishop-mobile; and the newcomers were so kind to agree. What a shame that they decided to accomplish the several miles of parish lanes in record time: the bishop barely even saw the several farmers that they nearly ran down. His new nickname in this parish is: The Purple Peril.
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(Continued from page 22) The newcomers have installed security lighting, which is understandable. But now I wonder how much sleep they are getting, as the rabbits, foxes, and badgers who live in their grounds keep it flood-lit for much of the night. Meanwhile, the Colonel is grumbling about the effect of light pollution on his young pheasants in the woods nearby. But these little inconveniences apart, I am sure they will soon feel at home. I feel confident that by the third generation, they will be properly settled in. Your loving uncle, Eustace
WORSHIPWORKSHOP
WorshipWorkshop is a Church of England website designed to help schools create their own patterns of worship around their own themes. It offers prayers, songs, Bible readings and other useful words and ideas taken from the Church’s liturgy.
The resources are arranged according to a special ‘map of worship’. Each ele-ment is downloadable on its own from the resources section.
“While hundreds of schools are already using the site for Collective Worship, churches are also discovering its usefulness in planning a Service of the Word,” says Mary Hawes, the National Going for Growth Adviser. “Because it follows the rhythm of the church year, it’s always topical and the song bank has a terrific range of songs and hymns which can be downloaded, so if you don’t have a musician you can still sing together.”
http://www.worshipworkshop.org.uk/ (Ed: A new information service for parishes is available on the Church of England website and this information has been taken from the material for March publica-tions.)
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BISHOP URGES CHRISTIAN GENEROSITY 'TO GIVE THE BLOOD THAT FLOWS THROUGH YOUR VEINS'
The Bishop of Carlisle, lead bishop on healthcare for the Church of England , has recently urged Christians to consider giving more than money in a new campaign launched jointly with the NHS and Churches.
The ‘fleshandblood’ campaign aims to profile the need for more blood and organ donors and encourage donation as another way of personal giving within churches. Sponsored by Give.net and in association with denomina-tions, organisations and festivals including the Church of England, Salvation Army, Methodist Church, United Reformed Church and Baptist Union, the ‘fleshandblood’ campaign marks the first time the NHS has worked alongside the Church on a national initiative of this kind.
The Rt Revd. James Newcome says: " ‘fleshandblood’ is an exciting oppor-tunity for the Church. Christians have a mandate to heal, motivated by com-passion, mercy, knowledge and ability. Extending our understanding of the central Christian themes of generosity and stewardship to include blood and organ donation has the potential to tangibly transform the giver and the re-ceiver.
"I would encourage individual Christians and local churches to engage with the campaign as we help address an important social issue ... Being willing to give ... applies just as much to the blood that flows in our veins; and the or-gans that are such an intrinsic part of our bodies.”
Visit (www.fleshandblood.org/) for more details.
CAN YOU HELP TO SUPPORT CLIMATE WEEK ?
Shrinking the Footprint, the Church of England’s national environmental cam-paign, is supporting Climate Week, the UK’s biggest climate change campaign (4-10 March 2013). This year congregations across the country are being asked to get involved, in whatever way they can. This could involve individu-al members of the church considering:
Walk, bike, or car-share to worship - could you use alternative transport to get to Sunday Mass?
Bubble & Squeak - why not download the recipe on the Climate Week web-site (www.climateweek.com) for a low carbon Sunday meal?
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MARCH PUZZLE SOLUTIONS
Wordsearch: Bible Phrase
For you are with me your rod and your staff ...
(Psalm 23)
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HIGH DAYS & HOLY DAYS IN MARCH
1 David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601
2 Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672
7 Perpetua, Felicity and their Companions, Martyrs at Car-thage, 203
8 Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln 1910
18 Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, Teacher, 386
19 JOSEPH OF NAZARETH
20 Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687
21 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Refor-mation Martyr, 1556
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS IN
WAKEFIELD DIOCESE
A series of Anniversary Celebrations are planned throughout the year across the diocese starting in April, with a main service in Wake-field Cathedral on 18 May 2013.
SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013:
Party in the Precinct at Wakefield Cathedral
This year our diocese and cathedral celebrate their 125th anniversary. As part of the celebrations there is to be a party in the precinct at Wake-field in front of the Cathedral on Sunday 30th June from 3pm to 7pm. Do put this date into your diary so that we can have a good turn out from our parish at this celebration.
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CHURCHWARDENS
Mr David Field, Castleford: 01977 707120
Mrs Mavis Whitehead, Gl’houghton: 01977 550529
Miss Pauline Morris, St Michaels 01977 668790
DEPUTY CHURCHWARDENS
Mrs Hilary Wilkes, Castleford: 01977 733554
Mr Colin Maw, Glasshoughton: 01977 518078
Mr Ian Fletcher, Hightown: 01977 550139
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
PARISH OFFICERS
PCC Secretary: Mrs Mavis Whitehead 01977 550529
PCC Treasurer: Mr Colin Maw 01977 518078
Stewardship & Gift Aid Secretary:
Mr Arnold Randall 01977 278611
Family & Children’s Worker
Mrs Karen Richardson 01977 552524
Front Cover Photo: Stained Glass window at All Saints’ Castleford taken by Fr Gregory.
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SERVICES
All Saints’ Castleford
SUNDAY Holy Communion 8.00am Sung Mass (except last in month) 9.30am Tuesday Holy Communion 7.00pm Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary 9.30am
All Saints’ Hightown SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass 10.45am Wednesday Holy Communion 7.00pm
Saint Michael and All Angels SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass 10.45am Thursday Holy Communion 10.00am
Saint Paul’s, Glasshoughton SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass 9.30am Wednesday Holy Communion 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
See diary section and weekly pew sheets
For all the latest News & Information from around the Parish go to:
www.castlefordteamparish.org.uk