Today's update - 16/06/2019

Dear Parishioners, apologies for the website being abit outdated for a time. I'm back behind the stick with this weeks updates which include parish newsletter, Father Anton's column, and the events calendar and diary dates.

Our Summer Fayre is taking place on 13th July. Please volunteer and add your names to lists in the church porch. Start 'Saving and Sorting'!
See the Summer Fayre Event for more information

Events coming up are:

• Ashley Day of Adoration - Saturday 29th June
• St Werburgh Summer Fayre - 13th July
• Llandudno Trip - 20th July

Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC)

SPUC have launched a new petition against a new booklet called ‘Abortion and Abortion Care Factsheet’ which gives misleading and wrong information about abortion. Sign the SPUC’s petition form on SPUC’s campaign page on this

SPUC are also petitoning against the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland, England and Wales in the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill. See SPUC’s campaign page on this

We still require more volunteers to CLEAN YOUR CHURCH at Clayton.
We need a whole group still (3-4 people). PLEASE consider this request.
How about a MEN’S group?   Or surely there is a group of friends in the Parish, willing to volunteer, once every six weeks for one and a half hours of their time?  Contact Sharon in the office or Rosalind on 639421.

Tea and Coffee Rota at Clayton – URGENT need for 2 people to join one of the existing teams to serve tea and coffee after 10 am Mass on Sunday once every 6 weeks. Please see Judy Somers.

North Staffs LinkLine

Message of Thanks from LinkLine: On behalf of all the Clients and Volunteers at LinkLine I would like to thank everyone for the generous donations of stamps, money and fundraising efforts over the recent months. We appreciate the kindness and support that comes from the Parish for the LinkLine Project, which enables it to continue to provide comfort and care to the elderly and vulnerable. I cannot emphasise enough how much it means.

Baby Loss Matters

Our parish is participating in Baby Loss Matters, an initiative by the national prolife charity Life, to create memorial spaces in churches across the country to commemorate the lives of those lost before, during or shortly after birth for any reason. A memorial space has been created in the side chapel at Clayton church and includes prayers and a small memorial tree for anyone who wishes to make use of them. Please add a heart to the tree, with a name, if you wish.