Welcome To Our Weekly Bulletin

The rota for the children's liturgy is in the cupboard in the presbytery or here

Please contact Christine if there are any problems.

Please would at least one person consider joining the Children's Liturgy group. No experience is needed, just a wish to help our younger children take part in a meaningful liturgy. We have all the books necessary and help would be given. If you feel you could help, please contact Christine on 722922

Fairly traded goods are on sale on a regular basis on the first Sunday of every month following the 9-30 Mass. In addition, on every alternate month, ie March, May, July, September and November, they will also be sold after the other two weekend Masses

For more information you can link to following web sites:

Traidcraft, Fair Trade on-line, Make Trade Fair

Fair Trade
The Fylde Fair Trade group has been working towards Fair Trade status for Fylde Borough. There are now sufficient shops, hotels, churches, schools etc. providing or using fairly traded products to meet the required standards of the Fair Trade Federation.

The only shortfall is in cafes and restaurants. Do you own or have influence in a catering establishment? When eating out do you ask if they are serving fairly traded tea or coffee? We need eleven places where food is served to commit themselves to at least the choice of fairly traded foods then Fair Trade status could be achieved. If you can help by letting us know of such places then please ring Sylvia on 720212.

Face to face youth work in the heart of Blackpool, the Streetlife Trust (Registered charity no 515669) helps homeless young people aged 16 - 25. It is a joint Churches project. URGENT HELP is needed with donations of food and toiletries for the emergency shelter, including canned or packet soup, pot noodles, baked beans, tinned meats, canned vegetables, toothpaste and brushes, deodorants, razors, shampoo, and shaving foam.

Details from 155, Church Street, Blackpool FY1 3NX. Tel: 01253 294477

Our Cleaners List has shrunk again!
Where can we find some more?
The hours are easy and the work is light.
Please just walk through the door!
Whether male or female, please contact Pat Metcalfe or email this web site.

To facilitate Father Harry having to come down the altar steps to administer the Blessed Sacraments, would all ministers go to their respective sides of the altar (immediately after the Our Father), to await the sign of Peace. The minister at the right side of the altar please go to the Tabernacle and bring the Ciborium to Father (returning it after Father has administered communion), and then purify their chalice.

ANY MINISTER UNABLE TO OFFICIATE PLEASE ARRANGE YOUR OWN REPLACEMENT.
A list of special ministers telephone numbers are available on the reverse side of the current rota.

The ministers' rota is available here

Please remember to inform the Ward staff if you or a relative enter the hospital as an in-patient. They will then let the RC Chaplaincy Team know who are now unable to visit as a matter of course under the Data Protection Act.

Specific requests for a visit, other than an emergency can be made during the Eucharistic ministers' rounds or the ward staff can forward the relevant chapel telephone extension number. Thank you.

Please note that if you send information for the weekly bulletin via e-mail kindly ensure that it arrives by Wednesday night for inclusion in the in the bulletin which will be distributed at Holy Mass on Saturday and Sunday. Paper notices can still be left in the Presbytery up to 12 noon on the Thursday.
November 2007: Liz Kelly, Chair has written a letter in respect of bulletin notices; if you would like one please ask. Briefly, for notices that are to be left in the bulletin tray, please use the new yellow pro-forma that have been introduced. These can be found either at the back of church or next to the bulletin tray. Please do not contact the bulletin editors. If there is a limited amount of space notices may have to be abbreviated but wherever possible the notice is published in full but some notices will only be included for a maximum of 3 weeks.

In descending order of priority, hall bookings will be accepted as follows:

• For Parish led activities

• To allow individual members of our Parish community to hold private functions

• For community outreach: providing facilities for an agreed activity that reaches out to the wider community e.g. play groups, coffee mornings, young parents, social services/learning disabled

• To grow revenue from the lease of the facilities

If you wish to make a booking, please contact Cath Kelly on 01253 725742 or e-mail to:

hallbookings@st-josephsansdell.net

Anyone wishing to arrange events or meetings that involve the church or presbytery, there is a booking sheet on the table in the presbytery. Please discuss any of these with Fr Holden, and use the sheet to ensure you don't clash with a regular or previously booked activity.

Would you like to help others, make new friends and share interests? LCC Social Services are seeking volunteers to befriend elderly and disabled people in the Fylde area.

No previous experience required; training offered. Tel 01257-248118

We need a team of welcomers for the Sunday, 5.05pm Mass. If you wish to volunteer, please give your name to one of the priests or contact Bernard Cooper (Tel 734924)

The rota for Sunday 9.30am Mass is available here

Catholic Blind Services is pleased to inform you that the Missal in large print is now available. Printed on cream paper, this leaflet format has proved very popular with those already using it. Individuals can take out a subscription for just £20.00 per year. It serves a variety of uses. Obviously it is beneficial to the partially sighted but also to people who are dyslexic and the elderly. It enables people to experience the Word of God. Samples are available at the back of church. Contact – Catholic Blind Services, PO Box 10333, Birmingham B13 8XX or telephone 0121 441 5577.

The readers' rota for weekend Masses is in the drawer in the sacristy. Click here to view it.

WILLS BEQUESTS

Through the dedication and generosity of our predecessors the Church is alive in the Diocese of Lancaster. Our churches and our schools are their loving heritage to us.

A legacy is one way of supporting the Church. It can be made to the Bishop for works of evangelisation or for particular projects – the Sick and Retired Priests’ Fund, the poor…..

They may be made to the Parish for a specific purpose or for general needs. Please think of the Church when making your will.

If anyone is interested or knows someone who would like to know about the Catholic faith, please contact Fr Harry or Ann Wormleighton.

The Catholic Care Home and Convent in the Parish is at 16, Clifton Drive, Ansdell, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. FY8 5RQ

Men’s, ladies and children’s clothes and shoes are urgently needed for their shop. Items can be left at the Parish Office, Lake Road (Mon, Wed and Thurs 9.00-3.00pm and Fri 1.00-4.00pm) or can be collected. Telephone 01253 732939.

Prayer Breakfast
All men are invited to a prayer breakfast on the first Saturday of each month at The Friends of St Paul's in Woodlands Road. Each start at 8.15am.

Volunteers, both young and not-so-young, are required for serving Mass. All necessary guidance will be given. Names, please to Fred Dronsfield or to Fr. Harry.

Tae Kwon-Do classes are held in the church hall on Wednesdays.

• Children (Ages 6 to 13) 6pm till 7pm

• Adults (Ages 14 onwards) 7.15pm till 8.15pm

Tae Kwon-Do is a fantastic way to keep fit, gain self confidence and have fun in a structured and enjoyable way. Classes will be trained by a qualified TAGB instructor who is CRB approved.

For more information call Anthony Brocklehurst on 07740 942792. Visit their website or contact them by email

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