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Readers, Ministers, linen washers, altar servers, please note!

If you are on the rota to read, minister the Eucharist, serve Mass or wash the altar linen and can’t make a particular Sunday, please could you ensure that you arrange a substitute or make sure you let the appropriate … Continue reading

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Important Ministries

We would like to recruit more readers and ministers of the Eucharist for Sunday Masses.  Please consider carefully whether you could take on one of these very important ministries. Please also consider the important ministries of assisting with the Liturgy … Continue reading

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Altar Servers

We are hoping to recruit some new altar servers for the 9.30a.m. Mass on Sunday mornings.  If you would like to give it a try, please see Jo Finley or Laura Finley at Mass.

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Diocese Mission Review

CLICK HERE for access to downloadable (pdf) documents, particularly the final proposals.

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The old church

We have published Anne Foley’s dramatic and poignant photographs of the demolition of the church building in 2004. Click here for the full set. From The Buildings of England: North Lancashire by Nikolaus Pevsner (first published 1969): “St Augustine (R.C.), … Continue reading

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Volunteers needed

Volunteers welcome! If you have an hour or two to spare during the week, could you help out in school? Could you help by listening to children reading or helping the teacher in the classroom with general duties. If so, … Continue reading

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Chorley Hospital

If you are likely at any time to be an in-patient at Chorley hospital and would like to be visited by a Catholic chaplain, we have been advised that you should follow the following procedure: When you arrive at the … Continue reading

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