Newsletter: 17th November 2024

Newsletter: 17th November

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning
13.00 Funeral Service for Stuart Peters

13.00 Requiem Mass for Audrey Thompson
19.30 UCM Meeting

10.00 Mass
12.00 Funeral Service for Kathleen Healey

10.00 Mass

11.30 – 13.30 Christmas Fair
16.30 Confessions

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

CHRISTMAS FAIR THIS WEEK ON SATURDAY!

November 23rd. 11.30 – 1.30.

Donations of Chocolates and other gifts still VERY WELCOME! Fresh cakes request . Please would you be so kind as to donate cakes for the cake stall and bring to church either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning before the fair. All volunteers are welcome to set up at 3.30p.m on Friday 22nd November in the Atrium or School Hall. Huge thanks for your kindness and generosity.

DAY FOR READERS

As we prepare for the introduction of the new Lectionary at Masses on the First Sunday of Advent, there is a Study afternoon for all Parish readers in our deanery on Sunday 24th November from 2.00 – 4.00 p.m.

It will take place in Saint Vincent’s Parish Centre, Caldershaw Road, Norden, OL12 7QL.

All readers are warmly encouraged to attend if possible!

NOVEMBER DEAD

Throughout the month of November, we remember our beloved dead.

Envelopes are now available in the Atrium for the names of those we have loved and lost and for whom we wish to pray for throughout the month of the Holy Souls.

CARITAS CHRISTMAS DINNER

Please see poster in the Atrium if you or someone you know would like to order a meal on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day

THANK YOU

To those who attend the coffee for the kind £100.00 donation towards the Church running costs.

PARISH OFFICE HOURS

TUESDAY AND THURSDAY: 8.30 – 2.30 PM
WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY: 8.30-1.00PM

“Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and helps us to persevere”
St Philip Neri

SYNOD JOURNEY
To move our Synodal journey forwards, theme gatherings will now take place to identify key proposals for each of our four themes. The first meeting will be held on Sunday 1st December at 2.30pm and will allow us to reflect on the first two themes. Please help the parish of St Mary and St Philip Neri to have a voice on the future of the Church in our diocese. We look forward to welcoming you to our first gathering. For further information with regards to the Synodal journey and specifically the first two themes, please take a booklet from the atrium this weekend.

CHRISTMAS GIVING TREE
Following the enormous success of the Christmas Giving Tree last year and your amazing generosity as a parish, we would like to repeat the event again this year. The Giving Tree will be available in Church between the 24th November and the 15th December. All donations will be given to those members of our parish community that are most in need. Your generosity will be gratefully received. A list of recommended donations will be found on the noticeboard in the atrium. Thank you in advance from the members of St Mary and St Philip Neri SVP.

A PARISH CHOIR
We are eager to welcome additional members who have an interest in singing or playing musical instruments. If anyone wishes to join, please provide your contact details to Father Brady . Thank you.

TAKE ACTION TO OPPOSE ASSISTED SUICIDE
A bill has been introduced to Parliament by Kim Leadbeater MP to legalise assisted suicide. This will be voted on by MPs on 29th November. We know that assisted suicide laws in other jurisdictions have had devastating consequences for the poor, disabled and marginalised. This is the biggest threat to the vulnerable in a decade, and we need a huge effort to lobby MPs to vote against the bill. Please urgently contact your MP and ask him/her to vote against the bill. You can contact your MP by visiting www.livesworthliving.org.uk or write to him/her at: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

Jesus saw his mission to be the establishment of the sovereignty of God, the kingship and rule of God over the world, including over our rebellious human hearts. Using the language and imagery of his time, he described this ‘earth-shaking’ event in terms of cosmic disturbances. The coming of God, the Day of the Lord, would constitute the end of the world as we know it. As Christians we must acknowledge that the death and resurrection of Christ utterly changed the world for ever; it was the Day of the Lord. And yet the world still continues, and we have still to prepare for a future Day of the Lord, when we will come into that awesome presence. That meeting is pictured in terms of collapse and upheaval, our world turned upside down. At death all our familiar realities cease, even the ticking of the clock; at death, time ceases to have meaning. We do not know, and have no need to know, when or how this will occur. For all, it will come; everyone will meet the Lord, but will we meet Him all together or individually? The Son of Man will gather his own, in great power and glory. What does this reading have to teach us about the coming of the Son of Man? Is it something we should be afraid of? How do we best prepare for that Day?

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 AND NEWSLETTER INCLUSIONS 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. Please hand in any Mass Intentions and items for the bulletin before Thursday as the newsletter is printed on Friday Morning. There are Mass Intention Envelopes provided on the table in the Atrium. Please provide a contact number with Mass Intentions so that any discrepancies can be resolved.

OUR LADY’S LAMP AND THE SANCTUARY LAMP These burn for seven days. Please place any intentions in an envelope with £5 in the Mass Offerings Box in the Atrium.

MASSES AND PRAYERS RECEIVED THIS WEEK

Lately Dead
Jennifer Fitton.

Anniversary
Kazimierz Pabian, John Wolstencroft.

Sick
Theresa Burns, Daniel Kuhanga, Deanne Plummer, Michelle Clegg,, Ann Timothy, Jeanette Moran, Geoffrey Hunt.

Birthday Memory
Eileen Watmough.

Other
For Deceased Members the Parish.
Intentions of Anigbo Chinedu Kingley and Family.

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Monsignor Tom Mulheran RIP.

This week and next Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Rosario Filippo Chiodo,
Catherine Bailey (RIP).

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