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Today's 9.30am Mass was awash with children and their families. Two events were combined: our boys and girls in Year 6 helped to lead the liturgy: greeting & welcoming, reading the scriptures, singing & bringing forward the offertory gifts. The second event, an annual occurrance, in which the children of Year 3 age enrolled in the First Confession Programme. All were asked to support the boys & girls with prayer.
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The Year of Faith, inaugurated by Pope Benedict XVI, is rapdily coming to a close, indeed, we are almost there. So the last Y o F celebration was a School Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady at Fernyhalgh. The top two classes (5 & 6) with teachers and others made their way to this ancient Lancashire Shrine. The top class even walked, in proper pilgrim style.
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All the excitement of the race was to be found in St Clare's Parish Hall on Friday night when a funder raiser was organised to send some of our young people to Lourdes with the Diocesan Pilgrimage next year.
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WHEN I NEEDED A FRIEND WHERE YOU THERE? -These are the words of a hymn sometimes sung in church at Mass. They were lived out this last weekend when very many members of the congregation responded to an appeal made the previous weekend by a member of the Parish Pastoral Council.
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Today 47 young people gathered for the Youth Day to re-launch the Youth Groups after the summer break. Contrary to the weather reports, the day was dry and sunny.