The Catholic Parish of St Columba and St Theresa, Chester

Serving the Chester Community

  • Facebook

Mass Times
St Columba’s: 

Saturday 6.30pm
Sunday 11.00am
St Theresa’s: 
Saturday 5.00pm
Sunday 9.30am

  • HOME
    • Welcome to our Parish
    • St Columba’s Church
      • Directions and Location
      • History
    • St Theresa’s Church
      • Directions and Location
      • Social Club
  • Our Parish
    • Mass Times
    • Mass Intentions
    • Meet our Team
    • Pastoral Council
    • Parish Development Plan
    • Safeguarding
    • Key Contacts
  • I’m New
    • Parish Welcomers
    • New to our parish
  • SACRAMENTS
    • Baptism
    • Confirmation
    • Eucharist and Holy Communion
    • Marriage
    • Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults
    • Reconciliation
    • Anointing of the Sick
  • Giving
    • Online Giving
    • Legacies
  • Pastoral Care
    • Faith Formation
    • Visiting the Sick
    • Care of the Creation
    • Elderly and Isolated
    • Protection of unborn
  • Parish Groups
    • Children’s Liturgy
    • Choir
    • Churches Together in Upton
    • Family Events
    • Justice and Peace
      • Feeding the hungry: Foodbank
      • Refugees
      • SVP
      • Third World Project
    • Ministries in the Parish
    • Needles and Pins
    • Social Group
    • Teams of Our Lady
    • Youth Group
  • Family
    • Altar Servers
    • Children’s Liturgy Resources
  • Hall Bookings
  • News & Events
    • Events coming up
    • Past Parish Events
    • Newsletters
  • SYNOD
    • Journeying Together
    • Weekly Addresses
    • Parish and Diocesan Responses
    • Prayer for the Synod
  • Schools News
You are here: Home / At the Margin / Refugees

Refugees

God told Moses: “You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. (Exodus 20:21), and Jesus teaches ” “I was a stranger and you welcomed me ” (Mt. 25:35)

“The complex and varied phenomenon of continued migration has overwhelmed existing immigration policies and measures for the protection of migrants ratified by international agreements.  In the face of this crisis, the Church is committed to remain faithful to her mission “to love Jesus Christ, to adore and love him, particularly in the poorest and most abandoned” Pope Francis, (Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, 2015).

As a Parish, we are committed to helping the refugees and immigrants. Inspired by the Gospel values and Spiritan charism, our mission is the evangelization of the “poor” (Lk 4:18).

The Spiritan option for the poor involves solidarity which brings us to share in the world of the marginalized. “When we opt for the poor, we opt not for poverty as such, but for people who are unjustly poor.” Our Spiritan Rule of Life (14) asks of us to make ourselves “the advocates, the supporters, and defenders of the weak and the little ones against all who oppress them.”

Do you want to serve with Us?

The Spiritans have a dedicated project in Greater Manchester that helps people seeking asylum and refugees. For more information go to ww.revive-uk.org or ask the Spiritans in the Parish.

Ways to support: Prayer, donation, Clothes, Food, etc.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES – Sunday 27th September

The Holy Father has sent a message for the 107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR), which will be celebrated on 27th September. In the light of the disturbing scenes broadcast from Afghanistan, this day for migrants and refugees will have special poignancy. The theme for this year is “Towards An Ever Wider We” which is a major theme in Fratelli Tutti and the Declaration on Human Fraternity. The message can be downloaded here:

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/migration/documents/papa-francesco_20210503_world-migrants-day-2021.html

Pope’s Prayer:

Holy, beloved Father,
your Son Jesus taught us
that there is great rejoicing in heaven
whenever someone lost is found,
whenever someone excluded, rejected, or discarded
is gathered into our “we”,
which thus becomes ever wider.

We ask you to grant the followers of Jesus,
and all people of good will,
the grace to do your will on earth.
Bless each act of welcome and outreach
that draws those in exile
into the “we” of community and of the Church,
so that our earth may truly become
what you yourself created it to be:
the common home of all our brothers and sisters.

Amen.

News and Events

  • Newsletter 15 June 2025
  • Newsletter 8 June 2025
  • Newsletter 1 June 2025
  • Newsletter 25 May 2025
  • Newsletter 18 May 2025

Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletters direct to your inbox.

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

Key Contacts

If  you need to get in touch with someone in the parish this is the place to start. Click this link to see our list of contacts. 

Parish Secretaries can be contacted by email at: stcolumbaschurch2016@outlook.com or st.theresas@btinternet.com

If you need to contact someone about the website, please use this email address. website.stcolumbaandtheresa@gmail.com  Please note that this email is not monitored daily.

Mass times

If you need to find the mass times for any of the churches. You can visit their respective pages. you can find all of our mass times on the services page. You can follow the link to the location you would like to attend.

Newsletters and Bulletins

If you would like to locate the latest newsletter then please navigate to the News and Events Page.

Online Giving

For those Parishioners who normally give in the collection at Mass and wish to help our Parish at this time of restricted opening, the Online Giving page gives you a way to do this.

Copyright © 2025 · The Catholic Parish of St Columba and St Theresa, Chester · Site maintained by the Parish · Staff Log in · Webmail