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Table of Contents - (see notes and explanation )
Updated October 2004

For the most up-todate church notices please consult Fr Pat's online parish leaflet. This is updated each Wednesday with the addition of some photographs of baptisms, Children's Liturgy etc

Photo albums of the Children's Liturgy are still available here. New web pages are listed below with more to come.
Please report links that don't work or photos missing from albums
(but remember that delays are sometimes server, not webmaster, problems and do try again later!)

Site Map	Site map this page...	Some links here, the rest on the appropriate pages Parish Walks 2003-8	Current Notices Notices with News	Walking Group Dinner Churches Together : Pilgrimages Together
The Church	The church Parish Council "Jubilee" New Start with Jesus	Notices & News - 'what's next?' Supplement -'local dictionary' & 'interesting people'	History of the parish Tribute to Fr Worden Bishop Patrick +photo Fr Bernard Farewell	Photo albums etc Altar servers - 2001-2004 The bookstall Flowers
Services	Services daily, weekly, Holydays etc Why go to Mass? Singing the Mass	Sacraments:Preparation Baptism Communion Confirmation Celebration 2004	Seasons: extra links to -Advent, Christmas, Lent, Stations of the Cross Easter,  Whitsun etc and in Notices)	Recipes for seasons, e.g. Christmas and Easter (see Notices when topical) Mother's Day (with photos)
Prayer	A prayer suggestion	Meditation ( ideas, photos) Julian of Norwich Stations of the Cross	Pray for Peace on Meditation Pilgrimage to Fernyhalgh	Including External Links on meditation, mysticism etc
Learning	Pre-school (photos) Our schools Building Bridges Project	Bible Study (also notes in the Supplement) Passover - photo album	Courses: - RCIA Marriage Preparation Bookstall (photos)	Children's Liturgy : Advent photos Photo Album - the Church's Year
Churches Together	Churches Together - the Covenant	Carol Singing Unity week 2001	2003 Clergy Farewell	Photo albums Durham, Heysham , Carlisle Ripon & Harrogate , Nantwich Saltaire & Pudsey
Caring	Caring Services Helping hands SVP., Cafod etc	Caring Services St Catherine's Hospice Good Shepherd Fund	Kalomo, Zambia Christian Aid.... and new page: Faith, Peace & Justice etc	Children of Chernobyl Cheshire Homes APF .....& more
Welcome	Parish Centre (photos) Bar Staff: 2002, 2003, 2005 Parish lunch 2005	Impact: Ancona, Italy 2003 Finland Hudson, Wisconsin 2001 Exchange visit 2002 World Youth Day 2002	Ladies Flowers (photos) Snooker Parish Centre Bowls	Young people - Beavers, Brownies, Cubs, Guides, Scouts Impact at Castlerigg Return visit from Ancona, 2004 American guests 2002
Walks	Parish walking group Dinner 2003 (photos)	Walks from Apr 2003-Nov 2005 List for 2005-2006	Parish holidays - 2000 Scotland - photos 2001 Norfolk & the Broads 2002 Cornwall	More parish holidays 2003 - The Highlands 2004 - Lake Como, Italy 2005 - Malta and North Wales
Links	Diocese of Lancaster Our bishop	Catholic Church in England & Wales	Local & National Charitable Organisations	Local & National useful addresses Others....
New pages	Past times	Fylde Missions	Cottam, Fernyhalgh, Newhouse	A dip into the past....
Contacts	Fr Pat MacMahon Parish Priest	Rev Peter Williams Deacon	Other local parishes Building Bridges - English Martyrs (see Links)	The Webmaster invites your views, news and comments

• Access any page from here, including those out of season.
• Other links will continue to appear where the items are of topical interest,
  as in the Notices and within grouped pages.
• Where links are not included the items are on other pages in the same group
  or refer to pages under development.
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• Some links appear more than once on this page (and from most of the graphics on the left)
• The Supplement, one page at present, contains notes and explanations for topical events,
  words, services, practices etc and is also linked directly from those items where appropriate.

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Singing the Mass
Guidelines from the Bishop's Conference summarising the General Instruction on the Roman Missal

Why go to Mass? Answers can be found in the changes put forward by Vatican II when it corrected an imbalance which had crept in, partly as an over-response to heresies, over the centuries. Going to Mass is not paying your heavenly insurance policy! Some of the most important reasons to go have been described in an expanded first page on the liturgy, (The list of parish services. The liturgy section now has three pages, the second and third illustrating the Children's Liturgy).