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Come back to the Mass! Our Cardinal urges us in his latest February 22 Pastoral letter..."Today I want to take a moment, first of all, to thank you for your faithfulness and for your presence here at Mass. These last two years have been very difficult and I thank God for the gift of faith...
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Welcome to the St Helens’ Catenian Website

On behalf of the St Helens Circle, the 21st Circle of the Catenian Association, I would like to extend to you a warm welcome to our website. St Helens has an active and thriving Circle of over 60 Brothers, with an age profile from 30 to nearly 90, we have a wide breadth of ideas and experiences. Some brothers are now retired, others still with active careers, but all share the same sense of brotherhood and traditional Catholic values.

We meet on the first Wednesday of each month at The Nalgo Club St Helens, where, after a short formal meeting, we socialise together over a 2 course buffet style meal, for which no charge is made to visitors including those interested in having a look at what we are about without obligation. We have a wide variety of social events right across the year, the highlight perhaps comes in November with the Ladies night, a fabulous black tie event in honour of our good ladies. Other events across the year are aimed at all the family and are less formal.

Please take a few moments to browse our site and feel free to leave any comments on the contact page. Roger Mullin, President

Fyles’ Features

Brother Bernard Fyles is a retired headmaster with a background in classics and modern languages-from poems to short stories, see...

St Helens Circle No 21 – Whats App group

This is a chat group to communicate Visits, requests for help, offers of transport, transport request, reporting sick family members...

Circle Meetings and Functions Message Board

All St Helen’s Circle Meetings and Functions have been cancelled until further notice. For details of Circle meetings and functions...

St Helens Circle History-Foreword

Long serving St Helens Brother, Ron Parr, tells us what stimulated him to research and write the story of the...

St Helens Circle History-Part One

The Story of  St Helens Catenian Circle Part One… On a number of occasions, particularly anniversaries, mention is made of...

St Helens Circle History-Part Two

Here follows the next instalment of the history of the institution of the mens Catholic group in St Helens, otherwise...

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St Helens Catenian Circle History-Part Three

St Helens Catenian Circle History by Ron Parr continues…. Click Here to read Circle History Foreword Click Here to read...

history of st helens circle part four

St Helens Catenian Circle History-Part Four

St Helens Catenian Circle History by long serving brother Ron Parr continues… (Note-Most of the research took place during 1996...

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St Helens Catenian Circle History-Part Five

St Helens Catenian Circle History-Part Five continues in this final instalment of the insightful and thought provoking story. Backtracking to...

St Helens Annual Programme 2020-2021

2020 4th March – Wednesday, Circle Meeting & Ladies Post Circle 6th March – Friday , Vocations Mass (12.15pm), Holy...

Can’t get to Mass?

If you are unable to get to Mass, especially with the restrictions caused by Coronavirus you could watch a Mass...

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St Helens’ Circle History

The Catenian Association History

A Brief History of the Catenians The Catenian Association was founded in 1908 at the suggestion of Bishop Louis Casartelli, then...