Welcome to St Hilda, Prestwich

St Hilda’s is a Forward in Faith Parish in the Diocese of Manchester and under the Pastoral Care of the Bishop of Beverley.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT: To love God through the Eucharist, Prayer and the Sacraments. To love and help each other through our shared beliefs, values and sense of community.

It is our hope that you will find visiting this website an interesting and helpful experience and a means of discovering who we are and what happens at St Hilda, Prestwich. We are a growing church that sits within the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England and has a focus on the community. The congregation is open and has a welcome second to none that embraces all ages and backgrounds and sets no expectations other than a willingness to embrace the love of God.

Once you have traversed the website we hope that you might feel moved to visit us and to worship Almighty God amongst a congregation who would love to meet you as an individual, or as a whole family and become part of the family of St Hilda.

We look forward to meeting you!

Fr R Croft

01Nov 2019

Father Croft – November

by JW

November

As we move into November our lives are dominated by the days getting shorter and the nights longer. Winter coats, scarves and gloves are brought out of the wardrobe, but it isn’t a month of all doom and gloom, just rather chilly.

We start with All Saints Day on 1^st November.

Who are the Saints? They are everyone who has found their resting place in heaven.

Certain ones from among their number are given the title Saint because it is felt that there is something about them, some aspect of their life on earth that set us an example to follow. However these are the exceptional ones; on 1^st November we celebrate all those others, the ordinary folk, including deceased members of our own families, who have joined the heavenly family.

On the 2^nd the Feast of All Souls we pray for all those whom we have loved and who have passed away; that their souls may find rest in heaven.

Sunday 10^th is Remembrance Sunday, when we bring to mind all those who have given their lives in war to preserve our freedom.

A Saint that we remember particularly, on the 17^thNovember is our patron St Hilda. Her contribution to the Church in this country was huge; she presided over the Meeting (the Synod) in Whitby in 664 that united the Roman and Celtic churches into one body. Please come and join us in our celebrations on that day.

November brings the church’s year to a close with the Feast of Christ the King on 24^th as we then embark on the following Sunday into a new year with the beginning of Advent.

God Bless