Saints Philip and James Church, Up Hatherley

We will be celebrating the feast of SS Peter and Paul on Tuesday 29th June with Said Mass at 10am. All welcome.

Please note that we have changed the times of both Morning and Evening Prayer just slightly.

Morning Prayer has been changed to 9.30am and Evening Prayer to 5.30pm. We do want to encourage more people to join in the regular prayer life of the Church so please do try and come if you can.

In addition to midweek Mass on a Wednesday we now will be holding a said Mass on Thursday mornings at 10am.

At the Annual Vestry Meeting held on the 28th March Angela Gilbert was elected as the new Churchwarden along with Tony McFarlane who was re-elected for a further year. A big thank you to Gary Fawke the outgoing Churchwarden for his contribution over the years.

The next course is due to start on May 6th. If you know of anyone who may like to attend please contact Chris McFarlane via the Parish Office. We have had very few enquiries of late and need everyone to advertise the event. Word of mouth and personal recommendations are always the best form of advertising, so please do your bit!!

The roll has now been updated and the election for the coming PCC can take place. If you would like a nomination form please contact Bill at the Parish Office. It would be good to have all the nomination forms in before the meeting in the event of the need for us to have an election.

The APCM will take place after Mass on Wednesday 21st April in the Church Centre. We had a good turn out last year please try and make it again this year and support your Officers and Committee.

It’s been a hectic year or so with our Vacancy. However, everyone has pulled together, not least all the visiting clergy including the Bishop of Gloucester, to whom we are very grateful. Fr Richard Dunstan-Meadows will be licensed as our new Parish Priest on Wednesday, 16th June 2010.