Lichfield Catholic News

January/February/March 2007

Welcome to the this issue of our parish news sheet. We hope you will find in it lots of useful details about your parish and our two primary schools. From the Flower Ladies to the Bible Study group and every activity in between, we want to tell you what is going on and how you can join in if you wish.

You may be new to Lichfield or have lived here all your lifetime, be active in the churches or involved with one of our primary schools. Whatever it is, this news sheet is for you. So read it through and let us know what you think. We’d like to hear your news and share it with the parish.

Judith Henshaw 01543-254460

Rita Thompson 01543-253822

Kathryn Wilcox

Parish Concert Success

13 parish groups took part in the concert held in November in the parish hall. All contributed to a wonderful parish evening of family entertainment. By the time the concert started the hall was full with 150 seated and 20 standing. A big thank you to Simon Dilkes who compered the evening, and the ever dependable Joe Cooper on the piano.

£165 was raised from tickets sales and this

was used to buy books for Year 6 leavers and

the Bukumbi nursing school.

Lichfield Catholic Ladies & Friends

We meet once a month, on the 3^rd Tuesday, in the Community Room at Holy Cross. Our gathering usually starts at 8pm. All ladies of the parish are welcome to come along. The evening is simply a gathering of friends, old and new.

Our programme for the next three months is :

20 March - History evening - Mary Queen

of Scots

17 April - Country Pub Skittles

15^th May - Morris Dancing

The group welcomes all ladies associated with the parish, this includes non-catholic friends too.

If you would like to know more contact

Mavis Thompson 01543-264648

Marie Smith 01543-255242

Parish Statistics for Christmas

Numbers attending Christmas masses

Christmas Eve 6.00 Vigil 551 SSPP

Midnight Mass 244 SSPP

Dawn Mass 8.30 110 HX

Day Mass 10.00 257 SSPP

Total mass-goers 1162

Parish Website

Did you know that we have a parish website? It contains useful information and news about our community.

To know more about it contact John Adams at the parish office : 01543-257930 or go to

www.romancatholiclichfield.co.uk

Guild of St. Stephen

Congratulations to the ten youngsters enrolled into the Guild recently. They have completed one year of training as altar servers.

Katie Bryant

Lindsay McKeown

Alice Nettleship

Christina Rowe

Katie Sammons

Joshua Thatcher

Sophie Thompson

Thomas Whittaker

Thomas Willoughby

Bethany Wright

Breakfast for Sudan

Over £600 has been raised from the refreshments served in the Community Room after the Sunday 8.30 mass.

The money supports an orphanage in the Sudan through links with the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

You will regularly find Wendy, John and Claire serving refreshments every Sunday. Not only does this raise a considerable amount, but also provides the opportunity for friendly conversation.

Fr Michael can be contacted by phoning

01543-263234

Or by calling at the Presbytery,

Upper St John Street, Lichfield. (attached to Holy Cross)

Are you new to the Parish?

Please introduce yourself to Fr Michael

or one of the parish Welcoming Team (on the doors at Sunday masses)

More Welcomers needed – especially for the 8.30am Sunday mass

Our Catholic Primary Schools

St Joseph’s Primary School, SS Peter and Paul Primary School,

Cherry Orchard. Dimbles Hill.

Headteacher : Mr. Philip Flahive. Acting Headteacher : Miss Teresa Cotter.

Tel no : 01543 263505. Tel no : 01543 510748.

And finally… from another parish news-sheet; ‘Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of all those things not worth keeping around the house. Don’t forget your husbands’

‘for those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstriars’