PARISH NEWSLETTER

St Mary’s SVP, Small Electrical Items - Many thanks for your generous response to St Mary’s SVP request for small electrical items. Further donations are still welcome and can be left in the SVP box in ST Mary’s Narthex.

The week commences on Sunday 11th October at 4pm in St Aelred’s hall. Please remember to pray for all our retreatants and our prayer guides. We are in need of 2 people to host 2 female prayer guides for Bed and Breakfast – if you can help please see Fr Gerard.

Orders are being taken at the Piety shops in both churches. If you would like to buy your cards from church, please pop in to place your order.

The winning numbers for the August draw are:- £40 - 86, £25 - 26, £20 - 159, £15 - 155.  Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who supports the 200 Club. The winning cheques can be collected from the notice board.

As part of the auction on Sunday 13th at St Mary's, we have a lot which could be purchased individually or by the parishioners in a group to keep for the Church. Pictures of the Não by Lladro nativity scene are attached to this email. At the auction there will be a reserve of £400 as each porcelain figurine purchased as new can cost between £150 and £350. Similar 8 piece sets are retailling for around £1160. Many of you have seen the Nativity scene on display at Mass today. Should you wish to pledge towards buying the Nativity scene for the Parish. Please can you email Fr Gerard the amount you wish to pledge by Saturday 12th September. This allows us to know any starting bid. All money raised for the Nativity Scene will go directly to the building fund.

Harrogate Hospital - has withdrawn the part-time chaplaincy role that Canon Gerard Kearney held due to funding cuts within the Trust. Meetings and written complaints have been entered into with so far, no movement from the Trust. If you require a Catholic Priest to visit whilst you, or a relative, are in hospital please ask the ward staff to facilitate this. In the meantime, please write to Eillen Watson at Harrogate hospital to register your dissatisfaction with the new arrangements. Her email address is eileen.watson3@nhs.net

CAFOD's local Caritas partner, Caritas Nepal, is assessing and coordinating its response with local authorities. The immediate priorities are search and rescue, evacuation, emergency health care, aid distribution and restoring critical services. They have already dispatched food to provide meals for 300 families for 15 days. This response will be expanded as assessment continues and more areas become accessible. If you wish to support this work go online to: cafod.org.uk Please join us at CAFOD in praying for all who have been affected.

St Mary's SVP - Would like to say a big thank you to all those who supported us for this year's fund raising walk, both by sponsorship and those who joined us on the walk. Thanks to you we raised a total of £260.

If you have any blooms you would like to share, please place them at the back of either St Aelred’s or St Mary’s church, for our flower teams to arrange them. Thank you.