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FATIMA GROUP AT ST MARY'S, CHORLEY – FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH

The Liverpool Archdiocese Fatima Group invites you to the First Saturdays Devotion at St Mary's Church, Chorley (PR7 2SR), led by Fr Marsden, the group's new Spiritual Director.

The devotion takes place on the first Saturday of every month and includes:

• • 11.30am – Fatima Prayers and Rosary
  • 12.00pm – Mass
  • 12.30pm – Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, with Confessions available during Adoration.

All are welcome to join in this monthly devotion inspired by the message of Our Lady of Fatima.

PRAYER FOR REDEMPTORIST VOCATIONS

Father, 

we thank you for the blessings you have given us in Christ our Redeemer.

Let your Spirit overshadow your people, making your gentle invitation heard in many hearts.

Lord of the Harvest, bless the Redemptorist family throughout the world with many vocations,

so that those in greatest need will experience the Good News of Redemption.

May your love grow among us and your kingdom come

through Christ our Lord.

AMEN.

SEASON OF CREATION 2026  PRAYER SESSIONS AT ST MARYS:

📅 Date: Saturdays 5th, 12th and 26th September

📍Meet:   St Mary's Church

To mark the Season of creation St Mary's will be opening the church on Saturdays 5th, 12th and 26th September, for a time of communal and private. prayer. Please note St Mary' church grounds are closed in the 19th .

ARCHDIOCESAN YOUNG ADULT GROUP

The Archdiocesan Young Adult Group will start meeting again for this academic year on 15^th September and then every fortnight.  All between the ages of 18 and 35 are welcome to attend.

📅 Date: Tuesday 15th & 29th September from  6:30PM - 8:00PM  

📍Location:  Pauline Book Shop

Scheduled talks

• Tuesday 15 September: ‘Integral Ecology – Everything is Connected’ with Dcn Paul Rooney
• Tuesday 29 September The Hope Within You’ with Fr Peter McGrail

BLESSED MOTHER MARIA CELESTE CROSTAROSA O.SS.R

Blessed Maria Celeste Crostarosa worked with St Alphonsus and founded the Redemptoristine sisters.  Her feast day is September 11th. You can learn more about her by clicking here.

EVENING PRAYER AND CANTATA

📅 Date:  Sunday 20 September at 6:30PM

📍 Location:  St Joseph, Blundellsands, Warren Road, Blundellsands, L23 6UE

St Joseph's in Blundellsands will play host to the Liverpool Bach Collective for Evening Prayer and Cantata. They will be performing Cantata 144; Take what is yours and go. All are welcome, admission is free, with a retiring collection.

INTRODUCTION TO SYNODALITY

📅 Date:Tuesdays 22 and 29 September

📍Location: Online Course 

Most of what people try to tell us never actually lands. Not because they didn't say it — but because we weren't really listening.

What gets in the way of listening to one another? What might change if we learned to listen differently — not just to information, but to the person in front of us?

Because when we truly listen, something happens. It stops being transactional — one person giving, another receiving — and becomes an exchange of gifts, often unexpected. Every person carries something worth hearing, however small or unlikely it might seem to them, or to us.

This is what synodality is really about: not more talking, but a different way of being together — one shaped by prayer, silence, and the discipline of genuine attention. Not a talking shop. A way of walking together that actually moves.

The School for Synodality is offering a two-session Introduction to Synodality course for anyone who is new to synodality or would like to deepen their understanding of what it means to listen, pray and walk together as the Church.

The course is offered online via Zoom, with a choice of morning sessions (11.00am–1.00pm) or evening sessions (7.00pm–9.00pm) on Tuesdays 22 and 29 September 2026.

Book the morning sessions here: www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/events/introduction-to-synodality-autumn-2026morning

Book the evening sessions here: www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/events/introduction-to-synodality-autumn-2026-evening

For more information and to explore other courses, visit the School for Synodality website: www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk

MASS OF ANOINTING AND PRAYERS 

📅 Date:  Saturday 19th September 12noon

📍 Location:  Shrine of St Peregrine OLA Gateacre

Our Lady of the Assumption Church, L25 2RW. St Peregrine is the patron saint of those with cancer and serious illnesses. All are welcome to pray for healing and comfort for themselves or loved ones who are ill or received difficult news. There will be Coffee and Cake to follow to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support. All welcome!

MARRIAGE PREPARATION CATECHISTS TRAINING

📅 Date:1 October, 8 October, 15 October, 22 October, 29 October

📍Location: St Joseph’s Church, Penketh, Warrington WA5 2BB

Would you like to accompany the engaged couples in their journey of marriage preparation? The archdiocese is now recruiting catechists to join the marriage preparation team. The catechist training will be provided at St Joseph’s Church, Penketh, Warrington WA5 2BB and consists of five sessions.

Upon completion of training, the catechists will be asked to offer marriage preparation course taking place across the archdiocese. If this is something you are interested in, please sign up here https://tinyurl.com/5c52zbbz