Calendar 2025

• February 10th, 7pm: Parish Council meeting at Our Lady Help of Christians, Ruthin. Open to all. 

• Saturday March 8th, 10am: Parish Coffee Morning at Our Lady Help of Christians, Ruthin. Mass will be celebrated at 10am followed by a coffee morning until 12.30pm. Tickets available at the door and there will be a raffle drawn during coffee morning. 

• Friday March 28th, 6pm: Opening Mass for the Convent of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Ruthin. Celebrated by The Right Reverend Peter M Brignall, Bishop of Wrexham. 

• Sunday March 30th, after 11am Mass: Missio Collection and Raffle Draw, St Joseph's, Denbigh. 

• Saturday April 12th, 12pm: Lenten Family Day at the Vincentian Divine Retreat Centre Pantasaph. Organised by Wrexham Diocese Marriage and Family Life Commission. Stations of the Cross with The Right Reverend Peter M Brignall, Bishop of Wrexham. 

• Wednesday April 16th, 7pm: Chrism Mass at The Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Wrexham. Celebrated by The Right Reverend Peter M Brignall, Bishop of Wrexham.

• Sunday May 11th, 2.30pm: Christian Aid Ecumenical Service at Our Lady Help of Christians, Ruthin. 

• Monday May 12th, 7pm: Mass to celebrate Fr George's 40th year of Ordination at Our Lady Help of Christians, Ruthin. 

• Sunday June 22nd: Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage in Thanksgiving at the National Shrine of Saint Winefride, Holywell. 

2.30pm: Procession from the Church of St Winefride. 3pm: Mass in the Shrine Grounds. Celebrated by The Right Reverend Peter M Brignall, Bishop of Wrexham. 

• Friday June 27th/ Saturday June 28th: 24 hours of perpetual Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Beginning with 10am Mass on Friday (Feast of the Sacred Mass of Jesus) and concluding with 10am Mass for Healing on Saturday (Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) at Our Lady Help of Christians, Ruthin. 

• Saturday June 28th 11am-4pm: Wrexham Diocese Youth Day (for ages 14+) at Our Lady of the Assumption, Rhyl. Pizza and social after Mass. 

• Saturday July 12th: Wrexham Diocese Youth Pilgrim Walk from Flint Castle to St Winefride's Well (one of the designated Jubilee 2025 sites). The faithful may receive the Jubilee Indulgence granted by the Holy Father by making a devout pilgrimage to any designated Jubilee site. Poster attached in the Youth Group tab, for more information please contact s.jones@strichardgwyn.flintshire.sch.uk - Postponed due to heat wave 

• Sunday July 27th: 5th World Day of Prayer for Grandparents and the Elderly- Mass intention and special blessing for grandparents and the elderly. 

• Monday September 1st, 10th: World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.

The Holy Father has chosen as the theme of World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation this year: “Seeds of Peace and Hope”. The Season of Creation is an ecumenical initiative that is becoming customary and takes place from 1 September to 4 October. The theme for the 2025 edition, a Jubilee year and the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Encyclical Laudato si', is “peace with creation”, and Isaiah 32:14-18 has been chosen as the Biblical reference text for this initiative. As emphasized in the Magisterium of Pope Francis and his recent predecessors, there is a close link between peace and care for creation (cf. Messages for the 1990 and 2010 World Day of Peace). Similarly, the connection between war and violence on the one hand, and degradation of the common home and waste of resources (destruction and armaments) on the other, is very close. The Message urges prayer for the creation of the conditions for peace, a lasting and jointly built peace that inspires hope. The metaphor of the seed indicates the need for long-term commitment. Good practices and seeds of peace and hope from different continents are illustrated in the message. For the message of the Holy Father please click here. 

• September 1st to October 4th- Season for Creation. For more information click here

• Sunday September 7th, 2025: Canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Giorgio Frassati! Following 9am Mass at Our Lady Help of Christians Ruthin, we will watch the canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Giorgio Frassati live from The Vatican in Rome! 

• Sunday September 7th: Grandparents Day for Wrexham Diocese. Organised by the Marriage and Family life Commission, click here for the poster. 

• Wednesday September 10th: Lourdes Pilgrimage information evening. HCPT are recruiting volunteer helpers for their pilgrimage to Lourdes next Easter. An information evening has been organised on 10th September at St Anne’s Parish Centre in Wrexham. 

• September 12-13th: The Martyr-Saints of the North-West. A weekend studying some of the Reformation-era martyrs of England’s recusant North-West region. Part-retreat, part-biographical, the weekend will be led by Mgr John Allen of Salford Diocese, who has recently published a history of the diocese with a foreword by Eamon Duffy. Extend your stay at Stonyhurst with a discount on accommodation for extra nights. For more information and to book click here. For the flyer click here. 

• Saturday September 13th to Sunday September 14th: Wales Walk the Cross. Click here for the website and here for the poster. 

• Monday September 15th, 7pm: Parish Council meeting at St Joseph's, Denbigh.

Wednesday October 15th: Coffee morning at St Asaph Parish Room 10am-12 noon 

Saturday October 18th: Our parish pilgrimage for the Jubilee Year will be to Holywell. 

11am: Mass and Veneration of the Relic in St Winefride's Church

12noon: Procession to St Winefride's Well and Prayers 

1pm-1.30pm: Holy dip in the Well Waters 

(10am-11am: Confessions available) 

• November is the month the Catholic Church dedicates to remembering and praying especially for Holy Souls. We pray especially for the faithful deceased members of our parish and display their names in a memorial collage/prayer book on the altar in our churches. Please feel free to add the names of your deceased family and friends. 

December 7th, 2025: Parish Christmas Lunch. See newsletters for more details. 

December 14th, 2025: The Great Adventure Bible Study: introductory session, 6-8pm at Our Lady Help of Christians, Ruthin. See newsletter for more details.