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Parish Newsletters

5th Sunday of Easter Year (C)

17 de mayo de 2025

THOUGHTS FOR THIS WEEKEND

Extracts from the Homily given by Pope John Paul II for The Family and Family Values, at a service at the Racecourse in York 31st May 1982. At the Open Air Service many renewed their marriage vows.

“I am conscious of the history, especially religious history, in this part of England. I refer to Holy Island where Aidan and Cuthbert brought the Catholic Faith. I recall Bede who wrote so lovingly of the early life of the Church in England. I remember that a thousand years later men and women laid down their lives in this region for the Faith they loved. Mary Ward taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ to English exiles and Margaret Clitheroe gave her life in this city of York.

4th Sunday of Easter Year (C)

10 de mayo de 2025

THOUGHTS FOR THIS WEEKEND

Extracts from the Homily given by Pope John Paul II, Monday 31st May 1982, Mass of Ordination at Heaton Park, Manchester.
At this important moment in your lives I say to you, young men, realise how deeply Jesus desires you to be consecrated as he himself is consecrated Realise how closely the bond of priesthood joins you to Christ. Be worthy of the privilege you are going to receive for bringing God’s gift of love to his people and offering to God the people’s prayerful response…

3rd Sunday of Easter Year (C)

3 de mayo de 2025

THOUGHTS FOR THIS WEEK

From the Homily given by John Paul II outside Coventry during his Pastoral Visit to Great Britain 30th May 1982.
My first words to you all are, Peace Be With You …
We are close to the city of Coventry, a city devastated by war but rebuilt in hope. The ruins of the old Cathedral and the building of the new recognised throughout the world as a symbol of Christian reconciliation and peace…

2nd Sunday of Easter Year (C)

27 de abril de 2025

THOUGHTS FOR THIS WEEKEND

The Gospel Readings for these first three Sundays of Easter describe the gradual coming to belief of key figures in the Gospel Story; the beloved disciple believes as soon as he sees the empty tomb and Mary Magdalen when she sees the Risen Jesus. At this point the disciples don’t know what to believe until Jesus arrives in the locked room with them and shows them that it really is him, but showing his scars and bringing the Spirit on them.

The Parish of Haigh, Aspull & Blackrod

Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception was founded in the mid 1850's and is part of the R.C. Diocese of Salford. The Church was blessed and opened in 1858, the year of the apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes. The Church was re-ordered in the 1990's and several new stained-glass windows were installed, some made in Blackrod, and are an interesting feature of the Church.

Holy Family Parish, New Springs, was funded from Our Lady's in 1898 and in 2009 clebrated the Golden Jubilee of its Church. The community of Blackrod, Bolton, had a chapel-of-ease from 1960 to 2009 when St. Andrews Church Hall was closed.

All three areas - Haigh & Aspull, Blackrod and New Springs are now served from Our Lady's.

Rev Kevin Foulkes


48 Haigh Road
Aspull
Wigan WN2 1YA

TEL: 01942 516732

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A Parish History    ~   1858-2018

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Mr Livesey & Mr West have worked with local parishioners to produce a book about the history of our parish and school, they have kindly allowed us to reproduce an electronic version of their book, available on the Parish Page, CLICK HERE to read it.

If you would like to purchase a hard copy of the book CLICK HERE

Forward... 

 

It is a privilege and honour to write the forward to the Parish History of Our Lady’s Parish, on its 160th Anniversary.

 

It has also been a privilege and honour, and a pleasure, to serve as Our Lady’s Parish Priest since 1997 – following in the footsteps of my twenty-six predecessors.

 

Saint Peter writes ‘He is the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him; set yourselves close to him so that you too, the holy priesthood that offers the spiritual sacrifices which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God, may be living stones making a spiritual house.’ (Peter 2:3-5)

 

We are the living stones of this Christian community – commissioned as ‘missionary disciples’ to be Christ’s ‘ambassadors’ (St. Paul Cor. 5:20) in loving witness, worship and service to our community.

 

There have been many changes over these 160 years – in the Church, Society, Education and the design of Our Lady’s Church. The priests and people of Our Lady’s Parish have experienced many joyful family and Parish celebrations but also wars, peace, poverty and economic depressions, through twelve Pontificates and six Reigns – and we too are facing a challenging time for the Catholic Church. Blessed John Henry, Cardinal Newman wrote that ‘To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often’.

 

And so, building on and celebrating our heritage – the stones of Our Lady’s Church, and the ‘living stones’ of our dedicated, faithful and often courageous priests, parishioners and teachers in our Parish School we can face the future with confidence. We do so knowing that Jesus, Our Risen Lord, has promised to be with his Church forever. (Matthew 28:20)

 

I commend this publication to be read and enjoyed by everyone.

 

Many thanks to Phil Livesey and Neil West for their initiative to begin and to bring this book to completion and to all who have collaborated with them, with their own very interesting and often amusing memories! God bless you all.

 

Fr Kevin C. Foulkes

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