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4th/5th April 2026 1st WEEK OF EASTERTIDE - EASTER WEEK
Saturday 04 - April HOLY SATURDAY
7:00 pm The Easter Vigil at Buxton
7:00 pm The Easter Vigil at Marple Bridge
Sunday 05 - April EASTER DAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD
8:30 am Adoration at Chapel-en-le-Frith
9:30 am Mass at Chapel-en-le-Frith for the deceased members of the Lavery Family
9:00 am Adoration at New Mills
9:30 am Mass at New Mills
10:30 am Adoration at Buxton
11:00 am Live streamed Mass at Buxton for the intentions of the Collins Family
11:00 am Adoration at Marple Bridge
11:30 am Mass at Marple Bridge for Julie Ann Barrow RIP and Angela McLoughlin RIP
Monday 06 - April
9:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Buxton
10:00 am Mass at Buxton for Andy and Barbara Duffy's intentions
Tuesday 07 - April
9:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at New Mills
10:00 am Mass at New Mills for Clare Hanrahan RIP (Birthday anniversary)
Wednesday 08 - April
9:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Chapel-en-le-Frith
10:00 am Mass at Chapel-en-le-Frith for Cecilia Mary Barnes RIP (anniversary)
9:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Marple Bridge
10:00 am Mass at Marple Bridge
Thursday 09 - April
9:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at New Mills
10:00 am Mass at New Mills for Angela McLoughlin RIP and Cyril Evans RIP
Friday 10 - April
9:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Buxton
10:00 am Mass at Buxton for the Family of Divine Innocence
9:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Marple Bridge
10:00 am Mass at Marple Bridge
Saturday 11 - April
11:00 am - 12 noon Adoration and Confessions at Buxton
3:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Marple Bridge
4:00 pm Mass at Marple Bridge
4:30 pm Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Chapel-en-le-Frith
5:00 pm Live streamed Mass at Chapel-en-le-Frith for Jeremy and Andrew Kadzevski's intentions
Sunday 12 - April
9:00 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at New Mills
9:30 am Mass at New Mills
9:30 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Buxton
10:00 am Live streamed Mass at Buxton for Giulia Delli-Colli RIP
11:00 am Adoration, Confessions and Anointing at Marple Bridge
11:30 am Mass at Marple Bridge
Please pray for all who have recently died including Michael O’Meara and Daphne Tighe who died last week. Please remember their families in your prayers.
Fr Greg writes ALLELUIA! HE HAS RISEN!
Christ has conquered death itself by rising from the dead, and in doing so, offered to us all the opportunity of Eternal Life. The 40 days of fasting have finished (there is no Easter Sunday without Good Friday) and in true religious fashion we have 40 days of Eastertide leading us to the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. What a wonderful time to belong to the Church, and we welcome our newest adult member Oakley Owens who will be Baptised into the Roman Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil, the first Easter Mass of 2026, in Marple Bridge this weekend.
As we go to press, I am mindful of the many parishioners across all four Churches who are working tirelessly behind the scenes in preparation for our Holy Week (Sacred Triduum). Thank you all.
Enjoy the Easter celebrations and enjoy the fruits of your labours. In the Gospel of John (20:1-9), we are taken with Mary Magdalene to the empty tomb in the early hours of the morning. What she first encounters is confusion and loss, yet this quickly gives way to wonder, discovery, and the first glimmers of faith. The beloved disciple “saw and believed.” The Resurrection is not simply an event to be remembered, but a living reality to be encountered—a light breaking into the darkness of our lives.
Our Diocesan Mission Plan reminds us that it is our personal relationship with Christ Jesus, in both the good times and the difficult ones, that sheds light on our path. It is this relationship that shapes how we live, guides our priorities, and influences the choices we make each day. Easter calls us not only to rejoice, but to deepen that relationship - to recognise the Risen Lord walking with us, even when we do not yet fully understand. As we enter into the season of Eastertide, a time of joy and renewal, the Church invites us to pray especially for these intentions:
• New members of the Church, that they may be welcomed and strengthened in faith
• Vocations, that many will respond generously to God’s call
• Human work, that it may be dignified and just for all
• Survivors of abuse, that they may find healing and peace
• The right use of the media, that truth and goodness may flourish
• The Church, that she may faithfully proclaim the hope of the Resurrection
May the light of the Risen Christ fill our hearts and homes this Easter, and may we, like the first disciples, come to see and believe more deeply. From Fr Benjamin and myself a blessed and joyful Easter to you all. Alleluia!
EASTER by Anne Shimwell (parishioner)
This then is the summit of the year.
After the busy Advent time,
the secular-sacred Christmas joy,
cold, dark Epiphany
and penitential Lent,
now, now is the bursting into life,
the reassurance that death cannot win.
Our faith is nothing without this -
Christ died, and lives, and loves us.
Sing His praise.
There is no death without a resurrection.
Seeds fall into the earth to be reborn.
Man’s sin becomes the seed of his redemption,
A happy fault to be absolved in love.
So, after war and near-annihilation,
the withered world rejoices in the Spring
and God, through man, continues His creation,
for Love must always triumph over Death.
A year of partings this has been,
piling of grief on grief, the little pains,
the trivial, adding to the great,
till I am sucked beneath and suffocate
under the weight of loss.
PARISH MINISTRY ROTAS – THANK YOU all for your service to our parish and commitment to your ministry. New rotas for St Anne’s have been circulated by email, a copy is displayed at the back of church and they are on the homepage of our website. If you would like to get involved with any of our Parish ministries: welcoming, reading, livestreaming, operating the PowerPoint at Sunday Mass, being a collector at Mass, or counting the collection, please email: stannesbuxton@dioceseofnottingham.uk or speak to Fr Greg, Fr Benjamin, or Margaret Swift.
Encountering Jesus in the Gospels: how to lead groups in reflective prayer. On Tuesday evenings between April and June, join the Jesuit Institute online for a short online formation course building the skills and confidence needed to hold and guide groups of those who wish to deepen their relationship with Jesus, in conversation with others, through reflectively praying with gospel texts. Please visit: www.jesuitinstitute.org/events/encountering-jesus-in-the-gospels
ST ANNE’S REPOSITORY - a selection of gifts and cards is available at the back of St Anne’s Church, including gifts and cards for First Communion. If you’d like to order a specific item, you can browse the catalogues or visit https://www.cbcdistributors.co.uk/ Order forms are available in the repository cabinet. For any questions or assistance, please contact Trish Bothamley on 07964 235659.
PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM 26th- 28th MAY 2026 – Please ensure that you have paid your next instalment of £120.00 pp! Please pay it into the St. John Fisher and TM bank account, REF. WALSINGHAM 2026 (details below). Speak to Peter Barnes or Margaret Swift for any queries.
BUXTON 100 CLUB winners: £100: Anne Cleary (no. 4); £30: Stephen Taylor (no.79); £20: Anne Shimwell (no.3) Congratulations!
IF YOU ARE A UK TAXPAYER, PLEASE CONSIDER GIFT AIDING YOUR COLLECTION as it increases the value of your offering by 25% at no extra cost to yourself. It would greatly help the parish if you are able to set up a regular direct payment from your bank into the parish account; the details are below. Find Gift Aid forms at the back of church and on the website. In the meantime, you may wish to use the yellow Gift Aid envelopes available on the pews.
Thank you for your continued generosity and support of the parish.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN US FOR TEA AND COFFEE AFTER SUNDAY MASS IN ST. ANNE’S PARISH COMMUNITY CENTRE - Sorry not this Easter Sunday
If you would like to include anything in the newsletter, please ensure that we receive it by Wednesday of the week before to allow sufficient time for printing.
BANK DETAILS
St Anne’s Buxton RCP: Sort Code 30-96-18: Account No. 00420334
ST ANNE’S DROP-IN PLAYGROUP For families with children aged 0-5, come and join Marion, Gráinne and Liz at St Anne's drop-in playgroup every Wednesday from 9.30 am to 11.15 am (term-time only) in St Anne's Community Centre. Please join us, you’ll be very welcome!
Follow us for updates on www.facebook.com/StAnnesDropIn
St Anne’s Voluntary Academy, Lightwood Road, SK17 7AN Tel: 01298 23589 Email: enquiries@ann.srscmat.co.uk Headteacher: Mrs Julia Wiggins
St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy, Palace Fields, SK17 6AF Tel: 01298 23167 Email: enquiries@stm.srscmat.co.uk Headteacher: Mr David Redfern
Church safeguarding contacts:
Buxton: Margaret Swift: Margaret.SwiftPSR@dioceseofnottingham.uk Tel: 07513 725529
Chapel: Sue Thornhill: Susan.ThornhillPSR@dioceseofnottingham.uk Tel: 07513 725269
St Anne’s Pastoral Parish Council (PPC): stannesbuxtonppc@gmail.com
Rob Aldous, Maggie Baldock, Gemma Day, Thomas Langer, Mark McCabe, Fr Greg, Yvonne Ripley, Margaret Swift, Chris Uddoh
Chapel-en-le-Frith Pastoral Parish Council: Joan Matthews, Pat Dawson; Hugh Doherty, Lucia McLean, Jacqui Lavery, Barbara Hindley, Anne Lomas, Frank Frost, Peter Barnes, Sue Thornhill, Deacon Don and Fr Gerry
Centre Management Committee (CMC): Sue Hardman, Clare O’Neill, Marion Redman
Click to see the new St. Annes Community Centre
Click logo for Year Book 2011 - 2012
Grand Total raised for the Flower Festival £1,812.37Many thanks to everyone who helped, particularly to Mike who acted as Auctioneer with great humour and skill and some wonderful individual bids undoubtedly came as a result of his gentle cajoling. Thanks also to Bruce who dealt with the bids, to Angela and Aileen for doing the refreshments, to Rob for all the printing and to Fr Dennis for all the advance publicity. Last but not least, thanks to everyone who kindly donated an item to auction or who bid for one or more of the lots.
We shall have a truly wonderful Flower Festival. We shall display a full list of the lots, donors & money raised at the back of the church from this evening.
Best wishes, Margaret Robinson
ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF NOTTINGHAM 1 Castle Quay, Castle Boulevard, Nottingham. NG7 1FW
Charity number 1134449 Company registration number 7151646
