Here's your chance to get organised in good time for Christmas - cards and wrapping paper, gifts, preserves and cakes. It's all there on Saturday, 12th November in Dewsbury West Community Centre - down the road on Church Street. Refreshments available too!Tickets for the great Christmas Hamper Raffle will also be on sale. Bring your friends.
Following a congregational discussion on Sunday 25th September we are making some changes to how we go about the liturgy:The Welcome Desk stays to welcome us all, and make newcomers feel comfortable. A list of names attending will no longer be compiled.The wearing of masks is discretionary. As is distancing.The Exchange of Peace - we will continue with minimal, discretionary, physical contact. The Offertory Procession with Collection will be reinstated. Receiving Holy Communion - we decided to continue with intinction and the option, of course, of receiving in one kind (the host) only. If you are going to intinct - dip the host in the Precious Blood in the chalice, please sanitise your hands before coming up, and take care not to let your fingers touch the wine. Post-mass Refreshments - how much you mingle is discretionary, please remember others may not wish to. We will review these measures again in due course. If you have any concerns, please speak to Fr George.
St Saviour's has run an annual Gift Day from time immemorial. As well as the congregation, local businesses are invited to contribute to our funds too. Why?a) At St Saviour's. like everywhere else these days, costs are increasing and our regular income through giving falls short of the total amount required to keep us solvent. We have not been able to fund raise publically until recently and so have not had our usual Summer Fayre.b) We seek to be very much a community church, contributing to the life of Ravensthorpe, irrespective of creed, race or religion. So we are involved with the local schools, have been instrumental in founding the Hope Cafe for everyone, and joint founders Ravensthorpe in Bloom. We are part of the Food Bank in Thornhill Lees from the outset in March 2020. We can marshall volunteers and co-operate with other community and faith organisations to try and make life better in Ravesnthorpe.c) We are a long-standing community resource concerned with the religious and spiritual aspects of life. Witness our Book of Condolence recently made available in the Church porch, and available for anyone to sign. And come they did! Just one of the ways we contribute to the life of our community.Please support our appeal for funds as generously as you can. Gifts can be handed into the Church from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Sunday 25th September, when the Church will be open. You can also donate by contacting our priest, Fr George on 07388507282, who will figure out how to collect and pass on a payment.
