First Sunday of Lent 22nd February 2026
Saturday 21st - 17.00 Vigil Mass at St Mary's
Sunday 22nd - First Sunday of Lent
09.30 - Mass at St Mary's
11.00 Mass - Parishioners
Monday 23rd
Tuesday 24th
10.00 - Mass - Margaret Webster
18.30 Special Prayer Service at St Mary's Chorley for a Just Peace
on the 4th Anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine
Wednesday 25th
Thursday 26th
Friday 27th
10.00 Mass - Henry & Mary Agnes Kellett (F)
10.30 - Stations of the Cross
Saturday 28th
17.00 Vigil Mass at St Mary's Chorley
Sunday 1st March - Second Sunday of Lent
09.30 Mass at St Mary's
11.00 Mass - Michael Higginson
15.00 - Holy Hour with Evening Prayer & Benediction
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND THE HOUSEBOUND: Joan Bailey, Mary Patricia Case,
Ken Catterall, Michael Cross, Fr Peter Crowther, Veronica Denver, Bob Goulding, Janet McGowan, Maureen Hardman, Rosemary Hough, Bill King, Emma King, Fintan McWilliams, Vasil Olijniczuk,
Heidi O’Neill, Irene O’Neill, Lauren O’Neill, Barrie Swift, Dennis Woodruff.
If you want someone’s name to be on the parish sick list for prayers, please leave a note in the sacristy or presbytery IN WRITING, or by email to stjosephs.anderton@tiscali.co.uk
DURING LENT- St Joseph's - Stations of the Cross every Friday at 10.30 after Mass at 10.00;
Holy Hour each alternate Sunday (alternating with St Mary's) at 15.00 with Evening Prayer about 15.40 followed by a short Benediction.
BAPTISM BOOKINGS DATES AVAILABLE March 22nd, May 2nd, May 23rd, June 28th. Baptisms will take place at 12.00. Or at St Mary's Chorley 15.00 usually on the second Saturday of the month.Parents need to be resident within St Joseph’s parish area or (with the permission of another parish priest) regular Mass attenders here. Please collect a baptism booking form and an Order of Service from the Sacristy after Sunday Mass. Return the form so that any necessary preparation can be arranged.
APPEAL FOR DONATIONS TO THE UKRAINIAN HUB: Winter is approaching fast and we have seen a change in the weather, as we remember the long hot summer and dry autumn. The people of Ukraine are facing another bitterly cold, snowy winter. Electricity distribution centres are being targeted and purposely destroyed. Please look in your cupboards for candles, warm socks, gloves and hats (adult and children’s), thermal clothing, coats and jumpers you don’t need anymore, female hygiene items, plasters, bandages, paracetamol, cough mixtures (adult and children’s). It will all be very much appreciated and a good way to help these desperate poor people who are suffering so much. Please take your donations to the Ukrainian Hub, which was the White Hart pub near Chorley police station. Wednesday 14.00-16.00 and Sat 10.00-12.00 noon. Thank you.
CHORLEY AND PRESTON HOSPITALS: Please contact St Joseph's Chorley (262713) if any member of your family is admitted into Chorley Hospital and needs a visit. In urgent cases or emergency please ask the ward staff to call the duty Chaplain on his bleep/phone. For the chaplaincy service at Royal Preston Hospital Tel: 01772 522435. For the chaplaincy service at Wigan Infirmary Tel: 01942 822324.
Parish Priest: Fr Francis Marsden
Secretary: Mr Frank Webster
Parish Office: St Joseph’s Presbytery, 28 Bolton Road, Adlington, PR6 9NA
Wednesdays 10.00-13.00
Tel: all calls now to 01257- 262537 (St Mary’s Chorley)
E-mail: stjosephs.anderton@tiscali.co.uk
Parish Website: www.stjosephsanderton.com
ARCHDIOCESE OF LIVERPOOL Registered Charity No. 1199714
