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Sunday 14th March

11am Solemn Mass
Father Simon

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Fridays in Lent

Stations of the Cross will be observed on Fridays in Lent at 11.45 am. What better way is there to make preparation for Mass at 12.30? After wards we will be holding our Lent Lunches as in previous years. Soup, bread and cheese will be served and proceeds will go to Christian Aid. Lent boxes for Christian Aid and the Additional Curates Society are also available at the back of the church.

Reading Group

The reading group will next meet on Monday 7th June. The book under consideration will be 'The Shack' by Wm Paul Young. The book can be purchased from CLC bookshop on West Street, via Amazon or borrowed from the Library or Fr Simon. Get reading!

Easter Flowers

Lilies are the flowers traditionally associated with Easter as their shape 'trumpets' the good news of the Resurrection. If you would like to sponsor a lily for Easter Day, please give your donation to Mary Wheatley or Jack Holland as soon as possible. If you would like a lily to be bought in memory of a departed loved one or friend, please give the name along with your donation to Mary.

Mothering Sunday and Palm Sunday

Flowers for Mothering Sunday will be prepared on Saturday 13th March at 10 am in the Church Rooms. Help would be gratefully appreciated. If you are able to come along please bring a pair of scissors! Palm crosses will also be made on Saturday 27th March. Please come along to help. Full tuition given!

Easter Preparations

Church cleaning will take place on Saturday 3rd April from 10 am. As usual there will be a list at the back of the church and you are asked to sign the list if you will take responsibility for a particular area.

Quiz Evening

The quiz evening that was postponed from Friday evening will now take place on Friday 23rd April.

The City Centre Church

Perhaps the best kept secret in the city centre of Sheffield is St. Matthew's church situated in Carver Street. The church was built to serve a densely populated area of what we would now call 'Victorian slums', although if you talk to older members of the congregation who were brought up in the locality, it was almost heaven itself! The foundation stone of the church was laid on June 1st 1854, the consecration taking place on June 6th 1855. The church celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2005. Since its foundation St. Matthew's has seen many changes and has had an interesting, and even distinguished history. A flagship of the Anglo-catholic movement offering rich elaborate ceremonial, today serving a bustling city centre, with a multitude of shops, offices, bars, restaurants and night clubs in its immediate proximity, a far cry from its surroundings 150 years ago when Mass was said to the accompaniment to the pounding of machinery in the nearby 'mesters' and small factories often making cutlery from Sheffield steel. St. Matthew's has survived many threats to its existence. During the Second World War it survived the bombing which ravaged the city, and, despite the war, the church was 'blacked out' so that worship might take place daily. Much of the surrounding area was lost or damaged. In August 1956 it survived a fire which damaged the organ, destroyed choir robes and damaged the Lady Chapel which had been restored merely two weeks previously. In the 1970's. Matthew's was again threatened, this time by redevelopment of the city centre, but plans for a proposed road were changed and the church and its buildings remain on the same site. In the next few years St Matthew’s will be in the centre of the new retail quarter and will be open daily for services, welcoming visitors and for those who want private prayer.

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