Easter Volunteer Rota Now Out

Could all Readers, Welcomers, Eucharistic Ministers, Collectors and Fire Marshalls please sign up asap? And Readers, please note: there is a compulsory meeting to go through everything on Wednesday 9^th April, 7.00 pm.

 

150^th Celebrations: Easter Wreath Workshop

Thursday 3^rd April 6.30 pm, Catholic High School. 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. 

 

Second Collection This Weekend for Easter Flowers

 

150^th Anniversary Bookmark: Bought Yours Yet?

£1 min, from the Repository, all proceeds to Hospice

 

Porch Carpet Now Cleaned: Notice the Difference?

 

Easter Chicks and Bunnies: Breeding Fast!

Stuffed with Cadbury Crème Eggs, on sale for the Hospice 6^th and 13^th April, part of our 150^th bash.

 

Old Library Bookcases

All need a good home: if interested in any of them please see FP and make a donation towards our Hospice Appeal. Remember, we’re raising £15,000!

 

On the Free Table: Our Great War Books

Because the printers made an error, the whole batch had to be reprinted – so, we have a number now left, free to anyone who would like a copy. Plus some books from our disbanded Library. Just help yourselves!

 

Chester International Photography Festival

Look out for the Exhibits around the Church soon.

 

CathSoc & ISoc Joint Bake Sale for Mary’s Meals

Thank you for your wonderful support: they raised a magnificent £412 – and see the Photo of the Week. They are also doing a Sponsored Fast, if you can help them.

 

150^th Celebrations – Planning Meeting Last Thursday

Another excellent meeting, twenty-three of you turning up to fine-tune the proposals that have come in so far and start looking at the brand-new ones. So, do keep those ideas coming in, all part of our wonderful commitment to raise £15,000 for our great Hospice. Next weekend, there’ll be a Newsletter Extra, telling you about all the plans to date, and how you can get on board. Next Planning Meeting- everyone welcome – Thursday 24^th April, 7.30 pm. Do come along!

 

Holy Week and Easter Times

• Palm Sunday: Sat 6.00 pm Rowton, 9.00, 10.45, 6.00 pm
• Maundy Thursday: 12.15 and 7.30 pm
• Good Friday: 3.00 pm
• Holy Saturday: 8.30 pm
• Easter Sunday: 9.00, 10.45, 6.00 pm.

 

Day Chapel Booking System

If you would like to use the Day Chapel, please email admin@stwerburghchester.co.uk to check availability. Please note that Wednesday mornings are block booked for Welcome Wednesdays.

 

Divine Mercy Retreat Carmelite Monastery Birkenhead

Grosvenor Place. Friday 2^nd May 2.00-3.30 pm.

 

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

Looking forward to seeing you all 6.00 pm. All welcome.

  

SVP Lent Reconciliation Service

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

 

Young Adults Gathering – April 25^th

Over 18 and looking to meet fellow parishioners? Join us 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 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 8.00 pm. 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. 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 FP 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.

 

If It’s Wednesday, it’s surely “Welcome Wednesday”

Another active morning last week with competitive domino games, lots of chat and completion of still more Easter bunnies and chick cream eggs. These are now ready for sale. All proceeds will go to our local Hospice so please be your usual generous selves as the Hospice certainly needs our financial support. This coming Wednesday we look forward to our own Quiz Master Extraordinaire, FP, who is compiling and leading us in a Team Quiz. (“With FP, whatever the question, the answer’s always ‘Charles Dickens’” –© Matthew Black, 2019.)

 

Lent Stations of the Cross: Fridays at 7.00 pm

On Friday, 28^th March, we welcomed many students from our High School for their amazing Living Stations. It was a wonderful dramatic presentation in words and music of the Passion, and we can’t thank our students and teachers enough for coming along and sharing it with us.  Friday 4^th April Liz leads us in the Lampedusa Stations, and our final Lent Friday for this year, 11^th April, will be Tom and the Choir. See you all there!

 

Photo of the Week: CathSoc and ISoc Together

Our Catholic Students standing shoulder to shoulder with our Islamic Students to support a charity feeding some the of the poorest children in the world. A heart-warming picture: how things ought to be in our world?