Wednesday's 6:15 PM Mass and confessions move to St Columba's while the boiler at St Brigid's is replaced.
Our Lady Star of the Sea is closed all Saturday while the floor is resealed; the 9:15 AM Mass on Sunday goes ahead.
All Saints falls on Sunday this year, so the usual Sunday times stand. Daylight saving ends overnight: set clocks back an hour on Saturday.
Masses for the dead at 8:30 AM and 7:15 PM at St Columba's. The November Book of Remembrance is out by the font in all three churches.
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This Sunday ·
Thirtieth Sunday
in Ordinary Time.
“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
Matthew 22:37
Lectionary
Year A
Color
Green
Gospel
Matthew 22:34–40
Three churches,
one Sunday.
Five weekend Masses between Wrenmouth, Ashlin Ford and Saltcote Harbor, eleven miles end to end. Choose the time first, then the church.
Parish church · office next door
St Columba's
14 Chapel Row, Wrenmouth
Ramp at the Mill Lane door · induction loop in the first six pews · 22 spaces behind the hall
4 mi · 9 min from St Columba's
St Brigid's
41 Weir Lane, Ashlin Ford
Gravel lot for 30 cars · one step at the west door, folding ramp kept inside
7 mi · 14 min from St Columba's
Our Lady Star of the Sea
3 Quay Street, Saltcote Harbor
Level entry from Quay Street · harbor lot, free on Sundays and after 5 PM
The week,
day by day.
Every Mass, confession and hour of adoration from Monday to Sunday. Holy days of obligation have three Masses of their own; the next one is Tuesday, December 8.
Fri
Asking for a sacrament?
Start here.
How much notice each one needs and who picks up the phone. A wedding needs six months; a sick call, none at all.
Baptism
Two months before
Maeve in the parish office
First Holy Communion
Enroll by September of second grade
Religious education, through the parish office
Confirmation
Two years, starting in ninth grade
Fr Tomasz Nowak
Marriage
Six months before the wedding
Fr Declan Moore, through the parish office
Anointing of the Sick
The same day — call any time
Parish office line, which rolls over to the priest on call
Funerals
Call us before fixing the date
Fr Declan Moore or Deacon Luis Alvarez
Coming up
in November.
What's on between All Souls and the First Sunday of Advent on November 29.
Blessing of graves
Fr Declan walks Wrenmouth Cemetery row by row with holy water; meet at the Hollis Road gate.
Bereavement group, four Tuesdays
Four evenings in the parish hall for anyone grieving a death, recent or long ago; Deacon Luis and two volunteers lead.
Soup lunch for the World Day of the Poor
After the 12:15 PM Mass, the hall serves soup and bread to anyone who comes in, and every bowl is free.
Asking about becoming Catholic
An evening at the presbytery for adults who want to ask about baptism, or about being received into the Church.
Parish sheet
Nº
43
Exodus 22:20–26 · Psalm 18 · 1 Thessalonians 1:5c–10 · Matthew 22:34–40. All Saints and All Souls times, the St Brigid's boiler.
This week's
sheet.
Nº 43 has Sunday's readings, the Mass intentions and the notices on one page. It goes online every Monday morning; printed copies sit by the doors from Saturday.
The parish runs on Sunday's collection.
Here's where it goes.
Envelopes, the basket and online gifts came to $412,386 between July 2025 and June 2026. Three of the bills they paid:
$41,287
Heating three churches from October to April
$12,946
Religious education: 63 catechists, books and the Confirmation retreat
$7,318
Groceries for the Saltcote food shelf, on top of the cans you bring