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Dates for your Diary

Monday 6th September – Churches Together Meeting, Central URC 10.30 am

Monday 6th September – PCC Meeting, 7.30 pm

Wednesday 8th September – St Mary's, Handsworth Patronal Festival, 7 pm

Monday 13th September – Book Group, 7.30 pm

Thursday 16th September – Papal visit begins

Tuesday 21st September – St Matthew, Patronal Festival, 7.30 pm

Thursday 23rd September – Sacred Synod in Leeds

Friday 24th September – St Matthew's to 'host' the Soup Run

Sunday 26th September – Back to Church Sunday & Harvest Festival

Sunday 10th October – Parish Lunch after the Solemn Mass

Monday 18th October – Open PCC Meeting to discuss St Matthew's Rooms

Friday 22nd October – St Matthew's to 'host' the Soup Run

Prayer Group and Bible Study

The next meeting of the prayer group will be on Tuesday 8th September at 11.45am in the Lady Chapel. It will end in time for Mass at 12.30 followed be lunch as usual. If anyone is interested in attending a Bible Study group, Fr Watson is offering to lead one. Please let Mary Wheatley know, so that a meeting may be arranged to discuss both Topic and timing with Fr Watson.


Harvest Festival

We will be  celebrating our Harvest Festival on Sunday 26th September. Donations are invited of food and tins that can be used by the Ecumenical Soup Run or at the Archer Project. Packets of soup are particularly welcome and will be used when St Matthew's hosts the Soup Run. Pot Noodles will also be kept for those who come requesting food. Breakfast cereals and tins are warmly welcomed by the Archer Project. Apart from buying food, why not turn out your kitchen cupboards and bring along food that you have acquired and are unlikely to eat? As we celebrate the bountiful nature of God, let us also take time to help those who are hungry and homeless. If you would prefer not to donate food, donations will also be invited, proceeds to be donated to the Pakistan Floods appeal and the severe Famine in Niger