Parish Newsletter

150^th Celebrations – Where are we up to?

• Next 150^th Planning Meeting: Thursday 27^th March, 7.30 pm. All welcome. Keep those ideas coming in!
• 150^th Easter Wreath Workshop Thursday 3^rd April 6.30 pm, Catholic High School. Come and enjoy an evening of flowers, fun and fizz and go home with a Easter wreath for your door. Proceeds to the Hospice. Phone Marie 07503-172-111 or sign at back of church.  *** Next Sunday is the closing date for recipe book entries, email Liturgy@stwerburghchester.co.uk  or drop them in the box at the back of Church.
• Repository’s 150^th Anniversary Bookmark Available on the Repository from this weekend, with a suggested £1 donation. All proceeds to the Hospice of The Good Shepherd. Please support!
• Easter Table Coming Soon: Chicks and Bunnies Stuffed with Cadbury eggs on sale April 6^th and 13^th. Preview today at back of Church.
• We are looking to have devotions illustrated on a board for The Virgin Mary from all the nations in our Parish. The plan is to build a mural, or board in church, with information and illustration from devotions of different countries, as our present to St Werburgh’s church in Chester, that is home now for lots of us! If you’d like to join us on this very special project please send an email to Liturgy@stwerburghchester.co.uk
• 150^th Anniversary – Shared Table Supper
• Jane H and Ana G would like to form a working group to plan the social event for the 150^th Anniversary celebration. If you would like to be part of the planning committee, please email Ana to gasparini.ana@gmail.com. Thank you.

 

Saturday Afternoon Lenten Reflection

Please join the Choir and Musicians of St Werburgh's for a musical Lenten Reflection: Rend & Mend: The Passion reflected in song through the eyes of the women there. 3.00 pm, Saturday 29^th March, St Werburgh's, Chester.

 

New Pulpit Microphone

A new more powerful microphone has been installed. If anyone still mutters, they will be shot at dawn!!

 

Divine Mercy Retreat – Carmelite Monastery

Grosvenor Place Birkenhead CH43 1UA.

Friday 2^nd May 2.00-3.30 pm.

 

Youth Mass on March 30^th Laetare (Mothering) Sunday

Please join. Sign up at the back of Church. All welcome.

 

SVP Lent Reconciliation Service

Saturday 5^th April, 10.30 in St. Werburgh's Church followed by refreshments. Everyone is warmly welcome.

 

Leaving Church Tidy after Mass

Please help us prepare for the next Mass by putting your newsletter , hymn sheet and prayer card in the appropriate tray as you leave.

 

Young Adults Gathering – April 25^th

Are you over 18 and looking to meet fellow parishioners? Join us for our Young Adults Gathering on Friday, April 25th at St Werburgh’s at 6:00 pm for an evening of connection, conversation, and community! All are welcome – bring a friend!

 

Bereavement Group - Come and Join Us?

Day Chapel every 2^nd Wednesday of each month, 1.15 to 2.45 pm from now until July, resuming in September.

 

SVP Glove Sale

With the nice weather, it's time to get in the garden, and the SVP is holding its yearly garden glove sale to help you, Sunday 6^th April after every Mass! All the money collected will support the activities of the SVP.

 

Shrewsbury Lourdes Hospitality Wed 9^th April

7.00 pm, in St Columba’s, to reflect on the role and purpose of the Hospitality and develop a more unified vision. All members welcome. Please email secretary @teamshrewsbury.co.uk if you would like to attend.

 

Chester Rosary Group

We meet online on Thursdays at 20:00. So, if you’d like to join us you are more than welcome. Please send us an email and we can send you the link for the meeting. We aim to reach people from all nationalities that are part of Chester catholic community. The rosary is also prayed in different languages, if required. Email: danielapereira358@gmail.com

 

Countess of Chester Hospital Chaplaincy

Mass is celebrated on the first Thursday of each month in the hospital chapel. April’s mass will be celebrated by Fr Paul Shaw on Thursday 3^rd April 2025 at 12:15 pm. This mass is for all the staff, patients, patient families, volunteers and parishioners of our area

Also during Lent the Stations of the Cross will be prayed in the chapel at 12:15 pm each Thursday.

 

It’s Those Welcome Wednesdayers Again!!

As well as preparing for our Easter Table we were treated to an interesting and amusing Talk given by David Huxley. David shared his boyhood memories of his family life in the countryside and also entertained us with his football anecdotes. This coming Wednesday there will be more knitting, natter and sewing as we charge ahead with our bunnies and chicks.  Not forgetting GOM dominoes and Joe’s football up-date!

 

Lourdes by Jumbulance: May and August 2025

Thursday 15^th - Saturday 14^th May and Thursday 14^th - Saturday 23^rd August. There are vacancies for a Doctor (in May), a nurse on each Group and helpers, and for sick and disabled pilgrims. The cost is £1,360 which includes Travel Insurance. Nurses and those under 25 in FTE are asked to pay £660. Contact Tony Murphy on 07881-656-974 or  tonymurphyefc2002@yahoo.co.uk

 

CathSoc/ISoc Bake Sale for Mary's Meals

Come along to the Catholic-Islamic Bake Sale after each Mass on Sunday March 23^rd to nab yourself a pastry or two! All proceeds will go directly to Mary's Meals, and there will be allergen-free goods available so all can enjoy! Cash preferred, card accepted.

 

St Werburgh's Annual Christian Aid Lenten Lunch

17th March: they lurved my Guinness & Daffodil Soup!

 

Lent Stations of the Cross: Fridays at 7.00 pm

Week Three were the Thomas Burke Stations. Next Friday, 28^th March, we welcome many students from our High School for their amazing Living Stations. Do come along, everyone, and give them a great welcome and our full support.  4^th April – Lampedusa Stations.

 

Photo of the Week: Youth Mass in Full Swing

Just look at all those young musician – fabulous! Do come and join us next Sunday evening.