PARISH FINANCE: Last weekend you gave – Spalding: £788.40. Second Collection: £185.01;  Holbeach: £221.84. Second Collection: £81.81.  Thank you.

THE NEW TRANSLATION OF THE ORDER OF THE MASS: Concluding session in St. Norbert’s Community Hall this afternoon at 4.00pm; please bring something towards a Shared Table.  Sincere thanks to Anne & Dennis for their work in putting together these sessions and for the input from Joan Patterson and Sharon Amess.

JOINT CHOIR: We need your help to establish a ‘Joint Parish Choir’ to learn the music and the responses to the new translation of the Mass – so calling both Spalding and Holbeach parishioners, of all ages – if you would help lead the singing and the responses to the new rite, we are asking you to sign up today!

REHEARSING THE NEW ORDER OF MASS: You will see from the August Diary Dates that we have set some dates to practice the new translation of the Mass: 11^th, 18^th, 21^st, 27^th August; 1^st, 2^nd & 10^th September. There will be separate meetings for Lectors (Readers), Eucharistic Ministers and Altar Servers.  These will be announced shortly.

FAREWELL TO REV JENNY PARK: As announced in the newsletter Rev. Jenny is taking her last service at The St. Thomas’s Road Methodist Church this evening at 6.00pm. Fr. Jim will be attending the service and presenting Rev Jenny with a farewell gift – it would be a nice gesture if some Spalding and Holbeach (Rev Jenny was a good friend to the Sisters during her time in Holbeach) parishioners could be present.