The Parish Pastoral Council held its second meeting of 2023 on the 15th January. The timeline for the PPC nominations for new members was agreed. We invite members of the Parish to consider serving on the PPC, a term is four years and meetings are held every three months. Speak...
The Parish Pastoral Council held its first meeting of 2023 on the 20th January. We discussed the PPC Constitution and Terms of Office. There will be a number of vacancies on the PPC created during 2023 as terms of office are due for renewal and current members have indicated they...
The Parish Pastoral Council held its fifth and final meeting of 2022 on the 8th November. We discussed the PPC Constitution and Terms of Office. Terms of office for several members of the PPC are complete in 2023 so we will be looking for new members to replace them. To...
The Parish Pastoral Council held our fourth meeting of the year on the 15th September in the church hall. We were joined by Stephen Trafford We reviewed and updated the current arrangements for Mass. Please follow this link to read the updated arrangements. We discussed the local follow up to...
The Parish Pastoral Council held our third meeting of the year on the 13th June in the church hall. We reviewed and updated the current arrangements for Mass. Please follow this link to read the updated arrangements. We discussed the local follow up to our submission to the Synodal Process....
The PPC have reviewed the arrangements for Mass and have updated our guidance as follows: The wearing of masks is now a question of personal choice. We do not request that you wear one, if you wish to continue to wear a mask, please do so. Either way we do...
Parents and the wider community have been taking an interest in the recent controversy concerning the diocese and the Governing Body at The John Fisher School in relation to a book signing event. A previous statement from the diocesan Schools Commission was published in our newsletter. Since then, the Archbishop...
The PPC have decided that the following should apply in St Aidan’s parish: People are asked to continue wearing a face covering at church for the time being. Hands should be sanitised when entering and leaving the church. There is no need for formal social distancing but those present should...
The Parish Pastoral Council held our second meeting of the year on the 7th April in the church hall. We were joined by Peter Chamberlain, our synod process parish delegate who updated us on the process and timelines for submitting our Parish document and the consequent draft Diocesan document. We...
This is just a brief update on where we are in the Synod process. We are in the process of pulling together input from all the three meetings, identifying common threads and issues. One thing, however, is already clear from the meetings: although a wide cross-section of the parish provided...
