• Newsletter: 23rd June 2024

Newsletter: 23rd June 2024

The Twelfth Sunday Of The Year

Newsletter: 23rd June

The Twelfth Sunday Of The Year

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00
BAPTISM

10.00 Word and Communion (Father Brady in Walsingham)
10.30 Coffee Morning

10.00 No Service In Church (Father Brady in Walsingham)

10.00 Mass

10.00 Mass with School (KS2)

11.00 70th Anniversary Mass St Gabriels
13.30 Mass Of The Sick
No Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 BAPTISM

MASS OF THE SICK
The SVP team would like to invite all to the Mass for the anointing of the sick taking place at 1.30pm on Saturday 29th June. Light refreshments will be provided by the UCM afterwards. Please share the news of this sacrament with your family members and friends.


SVP SUMMER RAFFLE 2024
Please support the SVP by buying a raffle ticket with all proceeds supporting the great work of SVP groups both locally and nationally. Books of tickets cost £5.00 each with prizes of 1st prize £5,000, 2nd prize £1,000 and fifteen prizes of £100.


ALTAR LINEN 
Thank you to the three parishioners who have kindly offered to take care of the Altar Linen. Please speak to Fr after Mass for further details.


PIETY STALL
Please do help with buying a few items. Covered grave candles are available in red and blue and can be left burning at a loved ones grave to continue your prayer for those gone before. If you have any requests for the piety stall please let Fr Brady know.


CHIP AND PIN MACHINE
We are currently trialling a machine from the Diocese and will provide instructions when received.


MADONNA DEL ROSARIO PROCESSIO
The annual Madonna Del Rosario procession, organised by the Manchester Italian Association, will take place on Sunday 7 July 2024. The procession will begin at 1.15pm from St Michael’s (former church), George Leigh Street, in Ancoats. It will continue through Manchester City Centre to St Peter’s Square. All are welcome to join this wonderful celebration.


LAST WEEK’S COLLECTION

Last weeks collection – £574.43 – Thank you. (Excluding Standing Orders)

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES IN OUR CENTENARY YEAR
Led by Bishop John Arnold, will take place between 26th July and 1st August. Find out more and book online at www.salfordlourdes.co.uk/travel-accommodation Leaflets are available in the Atrium.


CATHOLIC FAMILY CARE

Subscriptions are now due.
Please give to Ann Barrett or any member of the U.C.M, Please make cheques payable to Catholic Family Care. A church collection will be taken in September Thank you.


FUNERALS

Just a note of thanks with those who assist regularly at funerals. But, we really do need more regular help, as sometimes there are only two parishioners present. Often families need help with the responses and singing the hymns. Readers are often needed to proclaim the scriptures and sometimes an Extra Ordinary Minister of the Eucharist is required. Could I please urge you help in this corporal work of mercy (to bury the dead). It would also mean a great deal to me personally if I had more support around me, at a time when the building is so often filled with many strangers on these occasions. I know funerals are difficult for many people but if you can help, it would make such a difference. Many Thanks, Fr Brady.


DBS UPDATE

We have received a list from the Diocese of those in the Parish requiring a DBS which includes keyholders, Eucharistic Ministers ( who visit the sick), SVP, Children’s Liturgy and Counters . A DBS is no longer required for readers, welcomers, stewards, cleaners or flower arrangers. We are in the process of updating our keyholder list so please inform the Parish Office if you have a key to church so that a DBS form can be provided or if you carry out any of the roles and require a DBS. Thank you.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

Jesus certainly seems to have chosen a pretty dim and unappreciative group of disciples. They do call him ‘Master’, but after all the wonders he has performed they still don’t really trust him, and have no hesitation about addressing him rudely and brusquely. Did you think, ‘Just like me’? Well, perhaps I am just as untrusting. We often behave as though Jesus were quietly snoozing, quite unconcerned about our troubles and worries, as we struggle hopelessly, up to our necks in the mud and sinking rapidly. However, once Jesus’ attention has been roused, once the disciples have put their trust in him, he effortlessly remedies the situation. This incident is the climax of a series of wonders, when we see Jesus’ authority gradually increasing. First he imperiously called the disciples and they followed. Then he taught authoritatively in the synagogue as no other had ever taught. Next he had the effrontery to forgive sins, as only God can do. Now he controls the elements. Only God controls the wind and the waves, as in the psalms God ‘walks on the backs of the waves’. The disciples are awe-struck; they react with astonishment. But, just like me too, they soon forget again and are surprised when Jesus comes to their rescue. What are the qualities required by a disciple of Christ?

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. Thank you.

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
Kathleen Fitzgerald, Veronica Jarvis.

Anniversary
Adrian Moran, David Watt, Margaret Casey.

Birthday Memory
William Bailey, Tony Riley.

Sick
Michelle Clegg.

Other
Intentions of Mr and Mrs Anigbo,
Anthony McGuinness and Wilf Mallalieu (Father’s Day),
Michael O’Sullivan (Father’s Day),
Jean O’Sullivan (Birthday) Eileen Davies.

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Adrian Moran.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

David Watt.

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