Newsletter: Palm Sunday 2026

29th March 2026

Newsletter: Palm Sunday

29th March 2026

17.30 VIGIL MASS
Confession after Mass

9.00 MASS
Confession after Mass
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
Confession after Mass
12.00 Baptisms

08.00 Fr. Brady on Call, Fairfield Hospital
09.30 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning
14.30 Funeral Service – John Whelan, Radcliffe Crematorium

08.00 Fr. Brady off Call – Fairfield Hospital
11.00 Mass of the Sacred Chrism, (St. Patrick’s, Livesey Street)

18.30 Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by watching at the Altar of Repose until 20.30

15.00 Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

19.00 EASTER VIGIL

09.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

UCM

The next UCM meeting will take place on Wednesday 8th April at 7.30pm after Mass.

UCM ANNUAL SOCIAL

The Annual UCM Parish Social will take place this year on Wednesday 22nd April at 7.30pm at St. Mary’s Club. Pine Street, Radcliffe M26 2WQ. Entertainment from Eddie Matrix. £6 per ticket. Please see a member of the UCM.

EASTER OFFERING ENVELOPES

Will be available from this weekend in the Atrium. Please take one and return it with your offering during the Easter period.

Thank you for your continued generosity and support of the parish.

WALK FOR AUTISM

Emma Davidson and her family would like to thank everyone for their kind donations. Please could all monies be handed in this weekend, so Emma can upload the amount to her ‘Walk for Autism’ page.

THANK YOU

A heartfelt thank you for the incredibly generous anonymous donation of £1000.

THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who supports the coffee morning. £200 has been donated to the parish funds. Your support is greatly appreciated.

CHILDREN’S CHURCH

Children’s Church at the 10.30am Mass will be closed until Sunday 12th April. We wish all our families a joyful and blessed Easter, and we look forward to welcoming the children back after the break.

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

We are looking for Eucharistic Ministers who would be willing to visit care homes and parishioners who are housebound, as Fr. Brady’s workload continues to increase. If you feel called to support this important ministry, please speak to Fr. Brady or contact the parish office.

SAFEGUARDING REMINDER

For the safety and wellbeing of all our children, we kindly ask that parents and carers accompany their child if they need to leave Mass for any reason (for example, to use the toilet). Please remember that the Church doors remain open during Mass, and therefore children should not leave the building unaccompanied. Thank you.

OFFICE HOURS

Wednesday 9am – 3pm
Friday 9am – 1pm

FRIENDS OF THE HOLYLAND CHARITY

This is an international charity working in the Holy Land and is registered as a charity with the Palestinian Authority, maintaining two offices in Bethlehem and Ramallah, staffed by local Christians, who enable the charity to direct funds speedily especially hardship grants to individual Christians and their families suffering intense deprivation due to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. To support our work please visit >

Fr. Brady is the Diocesan Representative to the charity on behalf of the Bishop.

CONFIRMATION

Is your child in year 8 or above and attends St. Monica’s or St. Gabriel’s and has completed their Confirmation Catechesis with Sr. Linda. Your form needs to be handed in to Fr. Brady or the parish office as soon as possible. If you do not attend either school, and are in Year 8 or above, and have made your First Holy Communion and would like to be Confirmed please speak to Fr. Brady after Mass. Confirmation will take place at St. Bernadette’s, Whitefield on Sunday 4th
October at 2pm.

ST. DUNSTANS AODS PRESENTS THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

A hilarious musical packed with big songs, brilliant characters and plenty of laughs. Our talented cast cannot wait to perform for you! Grab your tickets now before they are gone. Wednesday 13th May– Saturday 16th May. St. Dunstan’s Parish Centre, Kenyon Lane, Moston M40 9JP. Adults £18.50, Children £15.00. Visit > or telephone 03336 663 366 Mon-Fr 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5pm

DEAF AWARENESS AND CONVERSATIONAL BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE COURSE

Caritas Salford has developed a brand new 12 week course for parishioners, to equip them with the basic British Sign Language Skills and greater awareness of accessibility and inclusion in parish life. The course will commence on 14th April and sessions will be held weekly on Tuesday evenings at St. Patrick’s Church, Livesey Street, M4 5HF (with parking available in the Caritas Salford Car Park adjacent to the Church). Places for the course are strictly limited. To find out more and book a place visit >

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

When they were near Jerusalem and had come in sight of Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village facing you, and you will immediately find a tethered donkey and a colt with her.

Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Master needs them and will send them back directly.’”

This took place to fulfill the prophecy: “Say to the daughter of Zion: look, your king comes to you: he is humble, he rides on a donkey and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.”

So the disciples went out and did as Jesus had told them.

They brought the donkey and the colt, then they laid their cloaks on their backs and he sat on them.

Great crowds of people spread their cloaks on the road, while others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in his path.

The crowds who went in front of him and those who followed were all shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heavens!”

And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil.

“Who is this?” people asked, and the crowds answered, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.

BAPTISMS Please see Fr. Brady after Mass if you would like your child to be baptised. A baptismal certificate for one of the parents must be provided as evidence of baptism in a Roman Catholic Church before a baptism date can be given. We welcome parents and children and by attending Masses at the weekend on Saturday at 5.30pm, Sunday at 9.00am or 10.00am which fulfil the Sunday obligation. All Catholics are OBLIGED to celebrate Mass on EVERY Sunday.

BAPTISM CERTIFICATE COPIES REQUESTS For those requesting copies of baptism certificate the office can be contacted initially and the certificate can be collected at any of the weekend Masses. This is also to encourage people to come to Mass.

SICK AND HOUSEBOUND If you know of anybody who would like Fr Brady to visit, could you please give him their name and address with postcode and a contact telephone number. Thank you.

MASS INTENTIONS, OUR LADY’S LAMP AND THE SANCTUARY LAMP The practice of requesting a Mass to be offered for loved ones, living or deceased, is a beautiful and wonderful part of our Catholic Tradition. Continuing this long-standing practice, you can remember someone who has died recently or many years ago. The Mass can also make beautiful gifts for any special occasion: birthdays, anniversaries, in thanksgiving for a prayer answered etc. You can offer an intention for anybody who is struggling with a serious illness or other difficulties of life. There are Mass Intention Envelopes provided on the table in the Atrium. (Please ensure that you have the express consent of the sick or housebound person as the bulletin is posted on the parish website, therefore making that information available to the public at large. Please provide a contact number with Mass Intentions so that any discrepancies can be resolved. Our Lady’s Lamp and Sanctuary Lamp are £5.00 and burn for seven days. Please place any intentions in an envelope with your donation and give to Father Brady or place in the Mass offering Box in the Atrium. All newsletter items must be sent in by Thursday morning.

MASSES AND PRAYERS RECEIVED THIS WEEK

Lately Dead
Peter Bleasdale, Frances Lowe, Catherine Fox, William Casey, Kathleen Bury, Rose Bluett, Vincent White, Damian Hegarty, William Sherman, Rose Norman.

Anniversary
Anthony Malone.

Sick
Andy Watson, Noel Moore, Paul Moore, Francis Loughran, Raymond Gracey, K. Livesey, Felicity Hesford-Jones.

Lenten Masses
Masses for the repose of the soul of Elizabeth Livesey, Albert Livesey, John Mc Glynn, Anne McGlynn, Barbara McCann, Holy Souls in Purgatory

Other
For a Special Intention for All Holy Souls in Purgatory (Throughout March), Special Intention for Amanda Sherman, Mrs Margaret Sherman, Having Surgery, For Peace in the World, In Thanksgiving for Returning to their Faith, Easter Intentions for Angela Cushnahan.

This week, the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Pat & Maureen Tower.

This week, Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

A Special Intention,
Veronica Eagleton.

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