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PARISH HOMEPAGE
NOTICES
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♦ Dear Parishioners, Visitors and Friends ♦
Our website is updated frequently throughout the week.
Please press the F5 key on your Computer keyboard or laptop,
OR the Update function on your mobile device
to ensure you receive the most recent updated versions of all
News and Events at our Parish Churches |
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Dudley Council Plus
Castle Street, Dudley
The walk-in centre is closed
from Wed. 27 Jan. 2021
Customer service advisors are
continuing to offer help
and support during the latest
lockdown but are asking
people not to visit the shop
in person
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To contact an adviser
during the closure
telephone the
main switchboard
0300 555 2345
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Specialist advice is available
by telephone:
Benefits:
0300 555 8100
Council tax/business rates:
0300 555 8000
CallPay:
0300 555 7000
Housing repairs:
0300 555 8283
Adult Social Care
Access Team:
0300 555 0055
Children Social Care
and Safeguarding:
0300 555 0050
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(Our website was last updated on Friday 26 February 2021)
ALL CURRENT COVID NOTICES APPEAR HERE ON OUR
HOMEPAGE 
WITH A LIGHT GREY BACKGROUND COLOUR FOR EASY RECOGNITION
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Help the NHS alert your close contacts if you test positive
for coronavirus (COVID-19)

When someone is positive for COVID-19 speak to them and find out their movements 48 before their first symptom OR if in the event they were asymptomatic a rough idea when they may have caught the virus (as people are going out of the house less this is a rough calculation of which day they could have been infected from).
Track and Trace app will pick up ‘close contact’ and notify people via their app but as some people are not using the app so we must refer to the manual T&T list and contact immediately those on the list who could have had ‘contact’ in our building in the above time frames.
As the virus can also be picked up by touch (up to 72 hours on some surfaces) alert anyone who was in the same building to make them aware that a person who was in the building has tested positive and may have had the virus when they were there too.
No names need to be given but explain as touch alone can transfer the virus we are notifying them as a precaution.
Anyone who does not wear a face mask for medical reasons is especially at risk if you are in an enclosed area.
Following the alert people may then decide to self isolate as a precaution and not visit vulnerable people whom they are in a bubble with.
The Isolation period is 10 days after ‘contact’ with a positive person was established.
The more people are aware they can decide if they need to take action on the information by Isolating or getting a test.
Once cleaning has been completed the area is deemed to be free from infection and therefore you do not need to contact anyone who was in the building after a ‘clean’ takes place.
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CELEBRATION OF MASSES DURING THE NATIONAL LOCKDOWN STARTING 5 JANUARY 2021
Places of worship may stay open but attendance is subject to very strict controls.
Now, more than ever, we must keep safe and observe the Government regulations to the letter
especially with the new more virulent strain of covid.
ALL RULES MUST BE OBSERVED
Masses and Confessions, for the duration of the 5 January 2021 national lockdown,
will continue in the recommended format required until further notice.
Parishioners of both our churches must be prepared to be turned away if our churches
already have reached the maximum number of worshipers we are allowed inside both buildings
Please click the blue button below to read our current Newsletter for Mass times and other details
(Note: Any necessary amendments to our published Newsletter will appear here on our website Homepage)

Confessions: At Lower Gornal will take place outisde exit doors following Mass on Friday
Please Note: Parishioners will receive Communion on exit
Unfortunately, there is no "safe place" at Segley for Confessions at the moment
If you know anyone without a computer to keep up with any updates,
please pass on to them all important changes to our routines |
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ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS UNDER THE 5 JANUARY 2021 NATIONAL LOCKDOWN
Private prayer and communal worship may still take place in accordance with Government regulations
under the current national lockdown
(1) During lockdown, no interaction or mingling with anyone other than
your own household or support bubble is permitted.
(2) We ask parishioners who are first to enter a pew that they must go to the far end.
This is to avoid people who are not within family bubbles from crossing over each other.
It also helps and enables wardens to get parishioners seated when the church starts filling up to our allowed maximum.
(3) Additionally, we ask that the one way system is followed.
Therefore, once you are seated you remain seated until wardens guide you out for Communion.
At St Chad’s only, you then leave the church.
(4) Hand sanitiser, social distancing and mask wearing is still in place.
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RULES FOR ATTENDING MASSES
1. All entering the church must use a face covering at all times to minimise the risk of contagion to all present - unless exempt for medical reasons or children below 11 years.
2. Alcohol-based hand gel will be available and must be used on entry and departure from the church.
3. Any handkerchiefs or tissues shall be taken off the premises.
4. Personal possessions should be kept to a minimum and should be taken away on leaving the church.
5. Any items found during cleaning shall be disposed of and shall not be deposited in any lost property.
6. While children are unlikely to become very ill, they are capable of both being infected by the virus and of spreading it. Parents or guardians bringing children into a church should not be discouraged from doing so, but it will be important for parents to manage their children appropriately, particularly ensuring they touch as few surfaces as possible for their safety and the safety of others.
7. TRACK AND TRACE is now in place. The NHS Covid App may be downloaded to your phone and may be used to take a photograph of the Q.R.Code on display at the entrance to the church OR you may fill in your details on the special form instead, which is also at the entrance to the church. Stewards are available to help you if needed.
VERY IMPORTANT
Please read and follow the "ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS" items (1), (2), (3) and (4) in the section above.
It is a condition by the Government that regulations are followed if "worship at church" is to be allowed to continue.
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♦ NATIONAL LOCKDOWN FROM 5 JANUARY 2021 ♦
The Government has placed England under new lockdown measures.
You must stay at home.
The single most important action we can all take is to stay at home
to protect the NHS and save lives.
Play your part - protect Dudley Borough
For more information click → www.dudley.gov.uk/coronavirus
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You must not leave, or be outside of your home
except where necessary
The police will now issue a £200 fine
if you are stopped and do not have a valid excuse

You may leave your home to:
🔼 shop for basic necessities, for you or a vulnerable person
🔼 go to work, or provide voluntary or charitable services,
if you cannot reasonably do so from home
🔼 exercise with your household (or support bubble) or one other person.
This should be limited to once per day,
and you should not travel outside your local area.
🔼 meet your support bubble or childcare bubble where necessary,
but only if you are legally permitted to form one
🔼 seek medical assistance or avoid injury, illness or risk of harm
(including domestic abuse)
🔼 attend education or childcare - for those eligible

⚠️ You must not leave your home to meet socially with anyone
you do not live with or are not in a support bubble with
(if you are legally permitted to form one)
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ROLE OF OUR CHURCHES DURING CURRENT LOCKDOWN
On Friday 8 January 2021, following some questions about why our churches remain open,
Bishop John Sherrington, Diocese of Westminster, issued a letter explaining
the position and role of our churches during the current lockdown
Please click the blue button below to visit the link

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UPDATES AND AMENDMENTS TO OUR PRINTED NEWSLETTER
Because of the unpredictability of events in our current times, please visit our website ► www.rcsedgley.com
frequently to read any (if any) necessary updates which have had to be made to our weekly printed Newsletter.
All changes will be published here on our Parish Homepage |

I thank you for cooperating with all the requests in this section
throughout these difficult times
Fr. Paul Edwards, PP
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St Chad Church (Sedgley) |
St Peter Church (Lower Gornal) |
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Welcome to our parish website
www.rcsedgley.com
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Please browse our site by clicking any blue title tab on our menu bar above |
Remember to add the name of our website to your favourite bookmarks for quicker access |
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PARISH SCHOOLS ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-2021


Please click the button above to visit our schools.
When their website opens, please click the "School Diary & Dates" link
of the school of your choice to access its school diary
for further term information and all other news
Please be aware that
because of the regular changes by Government Covid 19 restrictions and regulations
our schools' timetables might not reflect accurate up-to-date information
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DUDLEY CATHOLIC DEANERY WEBSITE
(Registered Charity No. 234216)

Please click the blue button above to vist the website 
INTRODUCTION
On the Dudley Catholic Deanery website you will find contact details and links to websites, where they exist, for all the Catholic Parishes in the Deanery, together with Mass Times and details of our Catholic Schools.
Our website brings together the Deanery resources and provides information about the Deanery wide activity.
There are twelve parishes in the Dudley Deanery.
The Dudley Deanery is one of eighteen deaneries which make up the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham.
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GIFT AID
Envelopes for 2019-2020 and Gift Aid Declaration forms
are available for collection at both churches
Please check we have your current address.
Also, if you no longer pay income tax, please inform your Parish Gift Aid Organiser
For UK taxpayers who contribute weekly, please consider completing a Gift Aid
Declaration form to enable your Parish to claim 25% on your donation
May we remind all Gift Aid Donors if your financial circumstances alter, for example,
if you retire, please inform Fr Paul as soon as possible,
because we are obliged to notify Cathedral House of any such changes.
Thank You.
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Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Guidance and other Correspondence
All the Conferance contents have been moved to a new location
Please click the blue button below to see the contents

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PARKING IN ASDA CAR PARK - VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Please click ► to read the latest Car Park regulations in force from the end of July 2018
The regulations have been updated again in August 2019
In order to avoid a fine, please do not delay to familiarise yourselves with their latest regulations
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"THE CATHOLIC CHURCH"
Excerpts of an article written by a non-Catholic, Sam Miller,
a prominent Cleveland (USA) Jewish businessman
to read this informative article
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