| A reminder of arrangements for the Jubilee Celebrations next Sunday Our Lady of Peñafrancia: Our joint celebration of Our Lady of Peńafrancia and the Jubilee celebrations take place with Bishop Peter on September the 20th at 1pm. We have been joyfully invited by the Norwich Filipino Community to celebrate this beautiful feast together and to celebrate our Jubilee Mass with Bishop Peter. Let us all come together as one community and make this a celebration to remember. We hope to make a display of three boards in the Narthex of St Helen’s for this event with pictures of our three churches depicting our life over the last 50 years (or beyond). If you do have pictures that we can use, then please bring them to Mass so we can use them on the displays. The Programme for September 20th looks like this: 12:30 – gather at Broads Tours, Wroxham (just over the bridge after Roys) 13:00 – procession from Broads Tours to St Helen’s 14:00 – Mass with Bishop Peter 15:30 – Feast and celebration kindly provided by the Filipinos | |
| North Walsham Churches Together Christmas Day Lunch has been an event in the town for over thirty years. Its aim is to ensure that no resident of our town has a lonely Christmas Day but can join with others in a welcoming space for a traditional meal. Since the friendly welcome is as important as the food, volunteers for all sorts of roles are needed. More information on the roles of volunteers and timings are detailed in the letter available at the back of the Church. Please take one if you are interested. The guests who attended in previous years will be contacted in good time to be invited again. If you, or someone you know, has not been before and will be alone on Christmas Day, please request an invitation by posting a note with their name, address and a contact email or phone number to: CTNW Christmas Meal, 32 Youngmans Close, North Walsham, NR28 9JQ Email address : ctnw.christmas@gmail.com | Photos or items for the Parish Jubilee Exhibition at St Helen’s on September 20th should be delivered to St Helen’s (or “Faun’s Holt” opposite the church if closed) not later than Wednesday September 16th – this will give us time to put the display together. Photographs may be scanned and sent as jpg files to machaonic@gmail.com. Fund Raising for the Sound System: Our current total has almost reached the goal! The sound system will be installed soon. Donations will still be appreciated. This is very exciting and an example of our commitment to joining in projects to benefit our church community. A Thank You to Fr Alan for Blessing and Opening St Helens Library during the Celebration Mass of the Patronal Feast of St Helens on 22nd August 2026. |
| We pray for our sick parishioners: Matt Butler, Frances Palman, Mary Bell, Celia Cooper, Margaret Larkins, Maria Halsey, Joan Macnamara, Richard Skelton, Teresa Fitzmaurice, Bernadette Saunders, Doreen Rockey & daughter Sandra, Pam Thornton, Mary Long, Malcolm Akers, Frances Mack, Amy Heywood & Peter, Cathie Dickson, Carolyn Rayner and her mother Mary Rayner, Alan Ganney, Roma Brooder | We pray for those whose anniversaries occur this week: Mary Mousley, John Barton, Ann Bailey. May they rest in peace |
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