Category Archives: Parish life

Saturday, 9th July It was good to welcome a good number of people this year who were new to the service, that is to say the Sprinkling service at the holy well, but great singing and plenty to eat after the liturgy. We were fortunate with the weather: with rain before and after, it wasContinue reading “Annual Pilgrimage 2016”

The first appearance of our new monstrance, for the Sacrament on the Altar of Repose, on Maundy Thursday evening, 2nd April 2015. I am told there is a tradition in some towns of the faithful going from one darkened church to another between 9.00 p.m. and Midnight, after the Mass of the Last Supper, toContinue reading “The Watch”

This year, our Reader, Paul Christodoulou was charged to host the annual Carol Service at Thornton Hill Residential Home, and following the requests of the residents, the main body of the service was to be centred around Lancashire Sings Christmas, which is a service broadcast by BBC Radio Lancashire with around 40 event locations whereContinue reading “Thornton Hill Carols”

Devotional societies offer a great deal to small rural congregations. We are fortunate that the Society of Mary’s North-West Ward is an active branch of a venerable Catholic Society, more often based in the inner city. In the rather cold and rational context of the Church of England, devotion to Mary matters. It is notContinue reading “Society of Mary”

On the site of the old Thornton Manor – that saw a fierce little battle during the Civil War, and the burial of thirteen soldiers in St Mary’s churchyard – and based on the large nineteenth-century mansion is now an important and valuable nursing home. It has taken some years to establish itself, but thereContinue reading “Thornton Hill Nursing Home”