Newsletter: 18th June 2023

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS | 10.30 MASS
12.00 Baptism

Father Brady’s Day Off

10.00 MASS
10.30 Coffee Morning

10.00 MASS
19.30 UCM Meeting

10.00 MASS

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS | 10.30 MASS
12.00 Baptism

NEW LOOK WEBSITE IS LAUNCHED THIS WEEKEND!!
Please have a look at our New Website which has lots of information about the parish and our activities, mission, community and the Sacraments. The new website is also linked to Our Facebook Page.

FATHER’S DAY
We remember in our prayers today all our fathers. We ask God’s blessing on them all whether they are in the world or already the next.

COLLECTION FOR THE SVP
There will be a collection at the weekend Masses on 1st and 2nd July. Please give generously to this worthy cause. God bless you.

STANDING ORDERS AND GIFT AID FORMS
If you would prefer to set up a regular donation to the Parish there are Standing Order Forms available in the porch and gift aid forms so that we can reclaim back 25p for every £1 donated for those who pay tax.

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.

DIOCESAN SYNOD MEMBERS
Thank you to Heather Gray and Stephanie Watson who have been appointed as the Diocesan Synod Members for St Mary and Saint Philip Neri.

PAYMENTS FOR WALSINGHAM
Please pay outstanding monies made payable to St Mary and St Philip Neri RC by 1st July.

UCM TRIP TO LYTHAM
Thursday 22nd June 2023. Coach leaves church at 10.30a.m. Explore Lytham before going onto St Anne’s for a meal at Toby Carvery at 5p.m and home for approx. 8.p.m. Cost £32 including meal. Please contact Iris Riley 0161 723 4947 or Iris Turner 0161 796 0181. Deposit of £20 Required. Spaces still available on the coach for anybody from the Parish who would like to go.

FOOD DONATIONS
Thank you for your donations and to the UCM for taking food donated by the Parish to Trinity Foodbank. Please bring anything you can spare each week for those in need.

SCHOOL SUMMER FAIR
30 June 3.30-5pm. All parishioners are welcome. Any donations of chocolate; bottles; good quality new and second hand toys; raffle prizes would be gratefully received. God bless your generosity.

BURY CONVENT GRAMMAR SCHOOL REUNION
Thursday 6th July, 6pm. Holy Cross College, Manchester Road, Bury, BL9 9BB. Tours of the site and light refreshments will be provided. The event is free, but tickets will be required to monitor numbers. Tickets can be found here>

SALFORD CATHEDRAL 175TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION MASS
Sunday 25th June, 11am. Bishop John will celebrate this special Mass followed by a reception in the Cathedral House and Gardens. If you would like to join us in this celebration, please RSVP to cathedral.admin@dioceseofsalford.org.uk or by post to Cathedral House, 250 Chapel Street, Salford, M3 5LE.

PARISH OFFICE HOURS: TUESDAY TO FRIDAY – 9am until 12.30pm

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

Jesus was concerned about his people. He wanted to bring to them the Kingdom of his Father, so he set out to heal them, and sent others out to do the same. His aim was to bring them the peace of God, to help them by ridding them of their worries, their sickness, their embarrassment at being lost sheep without a shepherd (God was always the shepherd in Israel). When he set up the twelve apostles he was making a New Israel, a new set of twelve tribes, as a permanent healing body, to make sure that the Kingdom of the Father and its peace and generosity would always be available. He was not setting up a clergy, a set of leaders, but appointing his own helpers in spreading God’s Kingdom. That is what every Christian must do. Do I make it my business to spread the Kingdom or the Kingship of God? Am I a labourer in the harvest, trying to bring God’s peace and healing to all the sick sheep? After all, I was made in the image of God, and God gave me the task of following on his creative work. And then Jesus called me, too, to work with him.

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.

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. Thank you.

MASSES AND PRAYERS RECEIVED THIS WEEK

Lately Dead
Frank Stockham, Doreen Barrow, Katie Hemmingway-Clark, Vinny Austin, Alan Harrison, Lawrence O’Keeffe

Anniversary
Patrick Dowling, Adrian Moran,

Birthday Memorial
Zofia-Henryk Krzyworacza

Sick
Michael Horan, Katherine Holroyd, Michael Crook,

Other
Tony Livesey R.I.P, Sr. Anthony de Padua. In thanksgiving for faith passed down to Gracey and Loughran families, For the requested intentions of Onyekachi Anigbo, For guidance along the right path for a friend.

This week burns for:

Simon Masawe R.I.P
Deceased Members of the Hickman Family. R.I.P.
Special Intention for return to good health

This week burns for:

Anthony Parkinson Birthday Memory R.I.P
For a Special Intention: David Watt R.I.P