GALLERY - events
Newly Decorated Porch - December 2020
Thanksgiving Mass for Marriage - 1st November 2020 - live-streamed from St Chad's Cathedral
Two couples from St Mary's celebrating milestone anniversaries:
Keith & Teresa Williams 50 years and Paul & Mary Jones 40 years
Two couples from St Mary's celebrating milestone anniversaries:
Keith & Teresa Williams 50 years and Paul & Mary Jones 40 years
Visit of Sisters from St Elisabeth Convent in Belarus 27th August 2020
Outdoor Jumble Sale - 1st August 2020
St Mary's Parishioners making the most of the situation they are living under - all coming together to organise an outdoor jumble sale - at a distance! - to raise funds to repair Calvary. (Also Anne Baxter's Birthday)
St Mary's Parishioners making the most of the situation they are living under - all coming together to organise an outdoor jumble sale - at a distance! - to raise funds to repair Calvary. (Also Anne Baxter's Birthday)
Fr Paul's Celebration - 30th Anniversary of his Ordination 24th Nov 2019 - Date of Ordination 25th Nov 1989
Fr Paul Lester - First Year Seminarian 1983
2nd Year Seminarians 1984 - Fr Paul Lester 1st row third from left, Fr Ray Corbett back row third from left.
Fr Paul & Fr Ray Seminarians (front row centre) 1983-1984
Fr Paul's Ordination to the Diaconate March 1989.
L - R: The late Fr Gregory Winterton Provost of the Birmingham Oratory with the late Bishop Joseph Cleary and Monsignor Michael Kirkham the Rector of Oscott College
L - R: The late Fr Gregory Winterton Provost of the Birmingham Oratory with the late Bishop Joseph Cleary and Monsignor Michael Kirkham the Rector of Oscott College
Fr Paul's Ordination to the Priesthood 25th Nov 1989. Birmingham Oratory with Bishop Leo McCartie (former Curate of St Mary's)
Fr Paul's Induction 21st November 2017
Fr Paul's First Mass in School - 28th February 2019
Children's Liturgy 3rd March 2019
Fr Paul and some of the children from St Mary's Primary School, celebrating the Feast of the Annunciation at the Lady Altar.
Fr Paul visits the fraternity of St Peter at St Mary's, Warrington and meets Fr Ian Verrier.
Fr Ian is from Great Barr. He was received into the Church by Fr Pat O'Sullivan and played the organ at St Mary's 2000-2004.
Fr Ian is from Great Barr. He was received into the Church by Fr Pat O'Sullivan and played the organ at St Mary's 2000-2004.
Blessing of the new statue of St Joseph - Saturday 11th May 2019
May Procession 2019
Fr Paul with the First Holy Communicants - 15th June 2019
Corpus Christi Procession - Sunday 23rd June 2019
Cate & John Maddox receive a blessing from Fr Paul and renew their vows on the occasion of their 45th Wedding Anniversary
September 2019
September 2019
The crowning of Our Lady of Walsingham on her Feast day - 24th September 2019
The restoration of the original Font
Visit to Oscott College - 8th December 2109
Fr Ian Verrier Visits St Mary's
Fr Ian Verrier is a member of the fraternity of St Peter based at Warrington. He grew up in Great Barr and was received into the Church by Fr Patrick O'Sullivan at St. Mary's. Our Parish Priest, Fr Paul Lester is a member of the confraternity of St. Peter.
Candlemas 2nd February 2020
Cake Sale - Sunday 23rd February 2020
Baptism of John Holt - 22nd February 2020