St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 1st October 2023
We seek to be a church that lives by faith, is known by love and
is a voice of hope to the community we serve.
Website https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/11671
Sunday 1st October
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Carole & Sandra. Reader: Margaret
4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms
Monday 2nd October
11.30 am Funeral of Stuart Riley – Lytham Crematorium
Tuesday 3rd October
2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church
Wednesday 4th October
11.00 am Funeral of Janice Kemp in Church
Thursday 5th October
10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room
11.30 am Funeral of John Hurst in Church
Friday 6th October
9.00 am Little Gang in the Broadway Rooms
Saturday 7th October
7.00 pm Dream Team Singers – Concert in Church
8.30 am Communion by Extension in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Judith & Dorothy W. Reader Elizabeth
12.30 pm Baptisms of India & Luca Macsymons Welcome and set up: Judith
4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms
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Dream Team Concert: We do now have some tickets for this event on Saturday night. Please see Joanne. Tickets will also be available on the door at a cost of £5 each.
Harvest festival: Sunday 15th October, please sign up at the back of church if you are joining us for lunch and if you are able to bring something to share at lunch, jot that down too.
Bishop’s Harvest Appeal: Full details of this appeal can be found on our website or on the Diocesan website. Envelopes for donations are available at the back of church and can be returned to the collection plates today and on Sunday 8th and 15th October.
100 Club: Winners during the month of September were, Christine McLellan, Carole Pilling, Judith Crosby, Cath Shuttleworth, Linda Cawley, Jeannette Norman, Maureen Siddall, Muriel Freestone, Dorothy Calderbanks, Dorothy Cox, Christopher Ashworth, Gordon Roberts, Julie Lyon and Bernice Meekins. Congratulations and thank you for supporting St Nic’s in this way.
29th September: On Friday the Church celebrated the feast of Michaelmas. Michaelmas is a shortened form of “Michael’s Mass” (just like Christmas is a shortened form of Christ’s Mass). It is also known as the feast of St Michael and All Angels. At the heart of Michaelmas is the recognition of the reality and presence of angelic beings, the Heavenly Host, and their participation and ultimate victory in the war against darkness. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel are the 4 named biblical angels, depicted as the beloved messengers of God. A basilica near Rome was dedicated in the 5th century in honour of Michael on 30 September, beginning with celebrations on the eve of that day and so 29 September is now kept in honour of Michael throughout the western Church.
Everlasting God, you have ordained and constituted the ministries of angels and mortals in a wonderful order: grant that as your holy angels always serve you in heaven, so, at your command, they may help and defend us on earth; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
Please remember in your prayers: Peter Dell, Rev Jane Everitt, Rev Martin Keighley, John Richardson, Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Mark Price, Rebekah, Colin Cook, Keith Shaw, Craig Abson and John Hawley. And the families of John Hurst, Janice Kemp, Jo Crosswell, Edna Jenkins, Emmi Rae Taylor and Stuart Riley whose funerals are due to take place.