© Llay/Rossett Parish 2026
Llay Parish Wrexham, North Wales

The times of the Sacred Triduum

celebrations in our Neighbouring

Parishes:

Cathedral Maundy Thursday 7:30pm Good Friday 3.00pm Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm St Anne’s Maundy Thursday 6:00pm - Following the Mass there will be watching at the Altar of Repose until 9.00pm Good Friday 3.00p Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm Buckley Maundy Thursday 7.00pm Mold: Good Friday 3.00pm Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm Livestream for every service celebrated in Mold available on https://www.churchservices.tv/mold Wrexham Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2026 Led by our Bishop, Peter. 12-16 May 2026 (4 Nights) from £849 per person sharing. See the Notices in the porch. All bookings should be made through Joe Walsh Tours at 46-48 Long Street, Middleton, Manchester, M24 6UQ. Booking are also accepted online Joe Walsh Tours and over the telephone 0808 1890468. No booking is definite until a non-refundable deposit payment of £350 per person (plus insurance premium if applicable) has been receipted by Joe Walsh Tours

Pilgrimage to Assisi

Eddie Gilmore is leading a walking pilgrimage to Assisi from May 1st- 9th 2026. The group will spend a night in Florence, then travel to Città di Castello and walk for six days along the beautiful ‘Way of Francis,’ arriving in Assisi during the famous Calendimaggio, May festival. Contact Eddie for more information: gileag@gmail.com .

Quietness (Reverence) in

Church

Be silent, be thoughtful, and be reverent, for this is the house of the Lord. Before Mass speak to God. During Mass let God speak to you. After Mass speak to one another, but quietly, without disturbing those who are at prayer – ideally in the porch. 'Wrecsam Clarion' The New Digital Diocesan Newsletter Welcome to the March edition of 'The Clarion' the new Digital Diocesan Newsletter. Please click the button below to read the latest issue .

Church Cleaners

We are in need of a further team to help clean our church in Llay. We are asking for volunteers, male or female, from any part of the parish to help with this task. Please contact the parish office or Canon. Old copies of “The Tablet” Some old copies of “The Tablet” will be placed in the porch from time to time – to be taken away and read by anyone who would like to do so.

For the hard-of-hearing

Do remember that the “loop system” operates here. Good Friday – Day of Fasting & Abstinence This means having just one main meal and abstinence from meat or some other pleasurable food or activity for the day – in sympathy in some little way with the sufferings of Jesus on Good Friday. Let us do our best.

Lenten Alms

There are two little “Lenten Alms” Boxes in the Porch for any donations you may wish to give. This year they go to “The Pontifical Missions” and “The John Bradburne Memorial Society” – two very worthy charities. (Read about them in the Bulletin of the 2nd Sunday of Lent). The two little collection Boxes are emptied almost as soon as they receive any donations. https://www.johnbradburne.com/ Youth Days this Year Two forthcoming Diocesan Youth Days – Saturday 6th June in St. David’s, Mold, and Saturday 21st November in Colwyn Bay, 10.30am to 3pm. Save the dates

Holy Week and the Sacred

Triduum

As you were informed last week, the parishioners who were present at the Holy Week planning meeting on March 17th decided that it would be better for those who would like to celebrate the Sacred Triduum to join a neighbouring parish where they would be celebrated with greater dignity and more correctly. We have published the Mass and Service times of those neighbouring parishes over. Holy week is the greatest week of the Church’s year. It is not just an optional extra, but is at the very centre of Christian life and worship. The last days of Jesus on earth are made present to us - so do let us all try to attend i.e. the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday, the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday and the Easter Vigil (“most blessed of all nights, chosen by God to see Christ risen from the dead”) on Saturday. Mass of the Chrism This Wednesday, (1st April), at 7pm. Do try to be there for the blessing of the oils etc.

Food Bank

The“Food Bank” Collection this weekend. Please put your dry food donations in the appropriate boxes/containers which you will find in the porch, put there by the SVP. Holy Week Confessions Saturday 10.00 am to 10.30 am, and by request.

Stations of the Cross

This Wednesday (April 1st) at 2pm and this Friday (April 3rd) at 10.30am in Llay. Do come, bring the children, and invite others, non-Catholics, and Catholics alike. Some people love to pray the stations alone on other occasions - a devotion highly commended, especially during Lent. The Collection for the Holy Places in the Holy Land, normally taken at the Good Friday Service, will be taken here in Llay at the Stations. Holy Week - Llay At a meeting on Tuesday last (17th) it was decided that it would be very difficult to celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Holy Thursday), the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) and the Easter Vigil, with proper dignity and reverence here at Llay because of shortage of servers, readers etc. And so it was suggested that it would be better for those wishing to participate in these ceremonies to go to a neighbouring parish and to celebrate them there. This, too, is recommended in this month’s “Wrexham Clarion”. There will, of course, be the usual Palm Sunday celebration and the Stations of the Cross, and Silent Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. We hope to publish the times of these ceremonies in our neighbouring parishes in next week’s Bulletin.

Radio Maria

Somebody has placed some Publicity leaflets for “Radio Maria” in the porch. They are there for anyone who would like to have one.
Our Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for April 2026 For priests in crisis Let us pray for priests going through moments of crisis in their vocation, that they may find the accompaniment they need and that communities may support them with understanding and prayer.

Let Us Pray For The Sick of the Parish

Dear Jesus, divine physician and healer of the sick, we turn to you in this time of illness. Oh dearest comforter of the troubled, alleviate our worry and sorrow with your gentle love, and grant us the grace and strength to accept this burden. Dear God, we place our worries in your hands. Amen.

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the

Lord, Yr. A

Saturday - No Morning Mass 10.00 - 10.30 Confessions this week and by request or appointment 6.00pm - Mass Sunday - 29th March 2026 10.00am - Mass 3.00pm - 4.00pm Eucharistic Adoration Clocks go forward: This weekend (28th to 29th) clocks go forward for the start of British Summer Time.
Mon - Monday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass Tue - Tuesday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass Wed - Wednesday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass 2.00pm - Stations 3.00pm - 4.00pm Eucharistic Adoration 7.00pm Cathedral - Mass of Chrism

Sacred Triduum

MAUNDY THURSDAY: MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER (NOT in Llay: Go to the Mass in the neighbouring Parish of your choice) GOOD FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD 10.30am - Stations of the Cross (“Holy Places” collection at the Stations) (For the “Passion of the Lord”: Go to the service in the neighbouring Parish of your choice)

Mass Times

St Francis of Assisi is open for SATURDAY, SUNDAY and Weekday MASS and During week for private prayer 9am - 5pm
Latest Bulletin to Download - Parish news insert -

Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of

the Lord

Saturday - No morning Mass 10.00 - 10.30 Confessions this week and by request or appointment No Easter Vigil in Llay Sunday - 5th April 2026 10.00am - Mass
CLARION CLARION
–
© Llay/Rossett Parish 2026
Llay Parish Wrexham, North Wales

Mass Times

St Francis of Assisi is open for SATURDAY, SUNDAY and Weekday MASS and During week for private prayer 9am - 5pm
Latest Bulletin to Download - Parish news insert -
Our Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for April 2026 For priests in crisis Let us pray for priests going through moments of crisis in their vocation, that they may find the accompaniment they need and that communities may support them with understanding and prayer.

Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum

As you were informed last week, the parishioners who were present at the Holy Week planning meeting on March 17th decided that it would be better for those who would like to celebrate the Sacred Triduum to join a neighbouring parish where they would be celebrated with greater dignity and more correctly. We have published the Mass and Service times of those neighbouring parishes over. Holy week is the greatest week of the Church’s year. It is not just an optional extra, but is at the very centre of Christian life and worship. The last days of Jesus on earth are made present to us - so do let us all try to attend i.e. the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday, the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday and the Easter Vigil (“most blessed of all nights, chosen by God to see Christ risen from the dead”) on Saturday. Mass of the Chrism This Wednesday, (1st April), at 7pm. Do try to be there for the blessing of the oils etc.

Food Bank

The“Food Bank” Collection this weekend. Please put your dry food donations in the appropriate boxes/containers which you will find in the porch, put there by the SVP. Holy Week Confessions Saturday 10.00 am to 10.30 am, and by request.

Stations of the Cross

This Wednesday (April 1st) at 2pm and this Friday (April 3rd) at 10.30am in Llay. Do come, bring the children, and invite others, non-Catholics, and Catholics alike. Some people love to pray the stations alone on other occasions - a devotion highly commended, especially during Lent. The Collection for the Holy Places in the Holy Land, normally taken at the Good Friday Service, will be taken here in Llay at the Stations. Holy Week - Llay At a meeting on Tuesday last (17th) it was decided that it would be very difficult to celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Holy Thursday), the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) and the Easter Vigil, with proper dignity and reverence here at Llay because of shortage of servers, readers etc. And so it was suggested that it would be better for those wishing to participate in these ceremonies to go to a neighbouring parish and to celebrate them there. This, too, is recommended in this month’s “Wrexham Clarion”. There will, of course, be the usual Palm Sunday celebration and the Stations of the Cross, and Silent Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. We hope to publish the times of these ceremonies in our neighbouring parishes in next week’s Bulletin.

Radio Maria

Somebody has placed some Publicity leaflets for “Radio Maria” in the porch. They are there for anyone who would like to have one.

The times of the Sacred Triduum

celebrations in our Neighbouring

Parishes:

Cathedral Maundy Thursday 7:30pm Good Friday 3.00pm Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm St Anne’s Maundy Thursday 6:00pm - Following the Mass there will be watching at the Altar of Repose until 9.00pm Good Friday 3.00p Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm Buckley Maundy Thursday 7.00pm Mold: Good Friday 3.00pm Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm Livestream for every service celebrated in Mold available on https://www.churchservices.tv/mold Wrexham Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2026 Led by our Bishop, Peter. 12-16 May 2026 (4 Nights) from £849 per person sharing. See the Notices in the porch. All bookings should be made through Joe Walsh Tours at 46-48 Long Street, Middleton, Manchester, M24 6UQ. Booking are also accepted online Joe Walsh Tours and over the telephone 0808 1890468. No booking is definite until a non- refundable deposit payment of £350 per person (plus insurance premium if applicable) has been receipted by Joe Walsh Tours

Pilgrimage to Assisi

Eddie Gilmore is leading a walking pilgrimage to Assisi from May 1st- 9th 2026. The group will spend a night in Florence, then travel to Città di Castello and walk for six days along the beautiful ‘Way of Francis,’ arriving in Assisi during the famous Calendimaggio, May festival. Contact Eddie for more information: gileag@gmail.com .

Quietness (Reverence) in Church

Be silent, be thoughtful, and be reverent, for this is the house of the Lord. Before Mass speak to God. During Mass let God speak to you. After Mass speak to one another, but quietly, without disturbing those who are at prayer – ideally in the porch. 'Wrecsam Clarion' The New Digital Diocesan Newsletter Welcome to the March edition of 'The Clarion' the new Digital Diocesan Newsletter. Please click the button below to read the latest issue .

Church Cleaners

We are in need of a further team to help clean our church in Llay. We are asking for volunteers, male or female, from any part of the parish to help with this task. Please contact the parish office or Canon. Old copies of “The Tablet” Some old copies of “The Tablet” will be placed in the porch from time to time – to be taken away and read by anyone who would like to do so.

For the hard-of-hearing

Do remember that the “loop system” operates here. Good Friday – Day of Fasting & Abstinence This means having just one main meal and abstinence from meat or some other pleasurable food or activity for the day – in sympathy in some little way with the sufferings of Jesus on Good Friday. Let us do our best.

Lenten Alms

There are two little “Lenten Alms” Boxes in the Porch for any donations you may wish to give. This year they go to “The Pontifical Missions” and “The John Bradburne Memorial Society” – two very worthy charities. (Read about them in the Bulletin of the 2nd Sunday of Lent). The two little collection Boxes are emptied almost as soon as they receive any donations. https://www.johnbradburne.com/ Youth Days this Year Two forthcoming Diocesan Youth Days – Saturday 6th June in St. David’s, Mold, and Saturday 21st November in Colwyn Bay, 10.30am to 3pm. Save the dates

Palm Sunday of the

Passion of the Lord, Yr. A

Saturday - No Morning Mass 10.00 - 10.30 Confessions this week and by request or appointment 6.00pm - Mass Sunday - 29th March 2026 10.00am - Mass 3.00pm - 4.00pm Eucharistic Adoration Clocks go forward: This weekend (28th to 29th) clocks go forward for the start of British Summer Time.
Mon - Monday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass Tue - Tuesday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass Wed - Wednesday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass 2.00pm - Stations 3.00pm - 4.00pm Eucharistic Adoration 7.00pm Cathedral - Mass of Chrism

Sacred Triduum

MAUNDY THURSDAY: MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER (NOT in Llay: Go to the Mass in the neighbouring Parish of your choice) GOOD FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD 10.30am - Stations of the Cross (“Holy Places” collection at the Stations) (For the “Passion of the Lord”: Go to the service in the neighbouring Parish of your choice)

Let Us Pray For The Sick of the Parish

Dear Jesus, divine physician and healer of the sick, we turn to you in this time of illness. Oh dearest comforter of the troubled, alleviate our worry and sorrow with your gentle love, and grant us the grace and strength to accept this burden. Dear God, we place our worries in your hands. Amen.
CLARION CLARION

Easter Sunday: The

Resurrection of the Lord

Saturday - No morning Mass 10.00 - 10.30 Confessions this week and by request or appointment No Easter Vigil in Llay Sunday - 5th April 2026 10.00am - Mass
© Llay/Rossett Parish 2026
Llay Parish Wrexham, North Wales

Mass Times

St Francis of Assisi is open for SATURDAY, SUNDAY and Weekday MASS and During week for private prayer 9 - 5
Our Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for April ––2026 For priests in crisis Let us pray for priests going through moments of crisis in their vocation, that they may find the accompaniment they need and that communities may support them with understanding and prayer.

Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum

As you were informed last week, the parishioners who were present at the Holy Week planning meeting on March 17th decided that it would be better for those who would like to celebrate the Sacred Triduum to join a neighbouring parish where they would be celebrated with greater dignity and more correctly. We have published the Mass and Service times of those neighbouring parishes over. Holy week is the greatest week of the Church’s year. It is not just an optional extra, but is at the very centre of Christian life and worship. The last days of Jesus on earth are made present to us - so do let us all try to attend i.e. the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday, the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday and the Easter Vigil (“most blessed of all nights, chosen by God to see Christ risen from the dead”) on Saturday. Mass of the Chrism This Wednesday, (1st April), at 7pm. Do try to be there for the blessing of the oils etc.

Food Bank

The“Food Bank” Collection this weekend. Please put your dry food donations in the appropriate boxes/containers which you will find in the porch, put there by the SVP. Holy Week Confessions Saturday 10.00 am to 10.30 am, and by request.

Stations of the Cross

This Wednesday (April 1st) at 2pm and this Friday (April 3rd) at 10.30am in Llay. Do come, bring the children, and invite others, non-Catholics, and Catholics alike. Some people love to pray the stations alone on other occasions - a devotion highly commended, especially during Lent. The Collection for the Holy Places in the Holy Land, normally taken at the Good Friday Service, will be taken here in Llay at the Stations. Holy Week - Llay At a meeting on Tuesday last (17th) it was decided that it would be very difficult to celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Holy Thursday), the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) and the Easter Vigil, with proper dignity and reverence here at Llay because of shortage of servers, readers etc. And so it was suggested that it would be better for those wishing to participate in these ceremonies to go to a neighbouring parish and to celebrate them there. This, too, is recommended in this month’s “Wrexham Clarion”. There will, of course, be the usual Palm Sunday celebration and the Stations of the Cross, and Silent Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. We hope to publish the times of these ceremonies in our neighbouring parishes in next week’s Bulletin.

Radio Maria

Somebody has placed some Publicity leaflets for “Radio Maria” in the porch. They are there for anyone who would like to have one.

Quietness (Reverence) in Church

Be silent, be thoughtful, and be reverent, for this is the house of the Lord. Before Mass speak to God. During Mass let God speak to you. After Mass speak to one another, but quietly, without disturbing those who are at prayer – ideally in the porch. 'Wrecsam Clarion' The New Digital Diocesan Newsletter Welcome to the March edition of 'The Clarion' the new Digital Diocesan Newsletter. Please click the button below to read the latest issue .

Church Cleaners

We are in need of a further team to help clean our church in Llay. We are asking for volunteers, male or female, from any part of the parish to help with this task. Please contact the parish office or Canon. Old copies of “The Tablet” Some old copies of “The Tablet” will be placed in the porch from time to time – to be taken away and read by anyone who would like to do so.

For the hard-of-hearing

Do remember that the “loop system” operates here. Good Friday – Day of Fasting & Abstinence This means having just one main meal and abstinence from meat or some other pleasurable food or activity for the day – in sympathy in some little way with the sufferings of Jesus on Good Friday. Let us do our best.

Lenten Alms

There are two little “Lenten Alms” Boxes in the Porch for any donations you may wish to give. This year they go to “The Pontifical Missions” and “The John Bradburne Memorial Society” – two very worthy charities. (Read about them in the Bulletin of the 2nd Sunday of Lent). The two little collection Boxes are emptied almost as soon as they receive any donations. https://www.johnbradburne.com/ Youth Days this Year Two forthcoming Diocesan Youth Days – Saturday 6th June in St. David’s, Mold, and Saturday 21st November in Colwyn Bay, 10.30am to 3pm. Save the dates

Palm Sunday of the Passion

of the Lord, Yr. A

Saturday - No Morning Mass 10.00 - 10.30 Confessions this week and by request or appointment 6.00pm - Mass Sunday - 29th March 2026 10.00am - Mass 3.00pm - 4.00pm Eucharistic Adoration Clocks go forward: This weekend (28th to 29th) clocks go forward for the start of British Summer Time.
Mon - Monday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass Tue - Tuesday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass Wed - Wednesday of Holy Week 9.30am - Mass 2.00pm - Stations 3.00pm - 4.00pm Eucharistic Adoration 7.00pm Cathedral - Mass of Chrism

Sacred Triduum

MAUNDY THURSDAY: MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER (NOT in Llay: Go to the Mass in the neighbouring Parish of your choice) GOOD FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD 10.30am - Stations of the Cross (“Holy Places” collection at the Stations) (For the “Passion of the Lord”: Go to the service in the neighbouring Parish of your choice)

Let Us Pray For The Sick of the Parish

Dear Jesus, divine physician and healer of the sick, we turn to you in this time of illness. Oh dearest comforter of the troubled, alleviate our worry and sorrow with your gentle love, and grant us the grace and strength to accept this burden. Dear God, we place our worries in your hands. Amen.
Latest Bulletin to Download - Parish news insert -
After the Sunday mass there will be Tea/Coffee served in the church hall.

The times of the Sacred Triduum

celebrations in our Neighbouring

Parishes:

Cathedral Maundy Thursday 7:30pm Good Friday 3.00pm Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm St Anne’s Maundy Thursday 6:00pm - Following the Mass there will be watching at the Altar of Repose until 9.00pm Good Friday 3.00p Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm Buckley Maundy Thursday 7.00pm Mold: Good Friday 3.00pm Holy Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30pm Livestream for every service celebrated in Mold available on https://www.churchservices.tv/mold Wrexham Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2026 Led by our Bishop, Peter. 12-16 May 2026 (4 Nights) from £849 per person sharing. See the Notices in the porch. All bookings should be made through Joe Walsh Tours at 46-48 Long Street, Middleton, Manchester, M24 6UQ. Booking are also accepted online Joe Walsh Tours and over the telephone 0808 1890468. No booking is definite until a non- refundable deposit payment of £350 per person (plus insurance premium if applicable) has been receipted by Joe Walsh Tours

Pilgrimage to Assisi

Eddie Gilmore is leading a walking pilgrimage to Assisi from May 1st- 9th 2026. The group will spend a night in Florence, then travel to Città di Castello and walk for six days along the beautiful ‘Way of Francis,’ arriving in Assisi during the famous Calendimaggio, May festival. Contact Eddie for more information: gileag@gmail.com .

Easter Sunday: The

Resurrection of the Lord

Saturday - No morning Mass 10.00 - 10.30 Confessions this week and by request or appointment No Easter Vigil in Llay Sunday - 5th April 2026 10.00am - Mass