Newsletter: 2nd March 2025

Eighth Sunday Of Ordinary Time

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Mass followed by Coffee Morning

10.00 Mass (With distribution of Ashes)
19.00 Mass (With distribution of Ashes)
19.30 UCM Meeting

10.00 Mass

8.00 Mass

15.00 Stations of the Cross and Benediction
16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)

LEPRA

There will be a Retiring Collection at this weekend’s Masses in support of Lepra. Please see below for a short faith appeal video. Thank you for your generosity.

CAFOD

During next weekend’s Masses Simon Holleran will be speaking about the work of Cafod.

ST PATRICK’S EVENING EVENT

Friday 7th March in St. Mary’s Social club on Pine St, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Tickets will be £5 per person; this includes entry and pasty supper.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER

Friday 7th March, 2.00pm at The Parish Church of St Mary’s, Church Green, M26 2QA. Thank you to Iris Riley, who has been our Parish Representative for the ‘World Day of Prayer’ for 24 years. She would like to hand over the reigns to a willing volunteer. (Only 2 meetings a year) If interested please contact Iris Riley on 0161 723 4947

DONA CARD MACHINE

A reminder that the Dona card machine, installed at the right-hand side of the church entrance stairs is fully functioning. Should it be easier for you to make your weekly offering by card, you can do so with this machine. God bless your generosity and thank you.

NATIONAL NOVENA TO ST JOSEPH 10TH TO 18TH MARCH 2025

The Mill Hill Missionaries will offer their annual Novena of Masses and Prayers in preparation for the Feast of St Joseph. You are welcome to attend Masses on zoom via the Mill Hillwebsite at 10.00am each day. Find Out More >.

OVER 70’S VARIETY SHOW – RADCLIFFE ROTARY CLUB (FOR RADCLIFFE RESIDENTS)

Please sign the list in the Atrium. Thursday, 17th April 1.00pm – 2.30pm by 29th March.

PARISH OFFICE

Office Hours next week:
8.30am – 2.30pm Tuesday
8.30am – 1.30pm Wednesday
8.30am – 2.30pm Thursday
8.30am – 1.30pm Friday.

SISTER ACT

St. Dunstan’s AODS are presenting “Sister Act the Musical,” in May. We have reserved tickets for 2 nights -Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th of May. Tickets are £25 including transport to the show and back to Church. Fr. Brady is playing Monsignor O’Hara! If you would like to reserve a place please sign the list in the Atrium, so we can organise transport and make the necessary arrangements.

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES

Bookings are now being taken for the 2025 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. This year’s pilgrimage will take place between 31st July and 6th August. For more information on how to book as a pilgrim or register as a volunteer: please visit >

PILGRIMS OF HOPE LENTEN TALKS

The Diocese of Salford is holding a series of talks this Lent that explores themes of journeying and pilgrimage through the lens of the Jubilee. Each week, the talks will focus on a different person from the Bible to help us better understand how the journey we are called to make this Holy Week year is rooted in scripture.
The weekly talks begin on Tuesday 4 March at 11am at Wardley Hall. Contact Sr Joan Kerley on joankfmsj@gmail.com or call 0161 971 7842 to find out more.

DBS UPDATE

Please could anybody with a key to the church front door advise Father Brady or Catherine in the office. Keyholders will require a DBS check. A DBS is due to be arranged with the Safeguarding Team from the Diocese for paperwork to be completed by all those requiring a DBS. More information to follow.

TRINITY FOOD BANK

Trinity Food Bank are really grateful for donations from parishioners which are kindly delivered by the UCM, They require more items such as tinned meat, jars of sauce, coffee, jam, honey and peanut butter, toilet rolls, cleaning sprays and cloths. (Not needed for the moment are dried pasta, biscuits, tins of peas, soup, beans and spaghetti, nappies, shower gel, tea, flour, other baking ingredients or bottled water.)

Lepra’s Faith Appeal Video

Thank you for your kind support, to find out more and to support Lepra’s work please visit www.lepra.org.uk

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

Matthew gathered together the teaching of Jesus on the basic requirements of Christian morality into the Sermon on the Mount; that formed a sort of manifesto for the Kingdom of Heaven, starting with the eight Beatitudes. Luke gathers many of the same teachings into his ‘Sermon on the Plain’, starting with four Beatitudes. This has provided the gospel readings for the last three Sundays. Matthew, writing for Christians of Jewish origin, stressed Jesus’ teaching on law, and how Jesus made it more interior and often more demanding. Luke, always aware of the needs of the poor, stresses more our social obligations. As he draws to a conclusion, he gives us two of Jesus’ warnings, expressed in the vivid language and with the fierce exaggeration and wit that is so characteristic of Jesus’ teachings. The first, the splinter and the log, warns us to use the same standards in judging ourselves as we use in judging others. The second, the sound and rotten fruit, is perhaps a double warning. You can judge people only by their actions. More profoundly, it is also a challenge: don’t flatter yourself on your achievements until you are good through and through, until the store of goodness in your heart is really overflowing. Is it ever helpful to point out people’s faults?

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
Norma Coyle, Vera Wilkinson.

Anniversary of Death
Mary Harlick, Teresa Molyneux, Ted Sealy.

Birthday Memory
Patrick Moran, Irene Jordan, Edith Higgens,
Kathleen Fulton, Marcella Currier

Sick
Pope Francis, Francis Loughran, Andy Watson, Geoffrey Hunt, Jeanette Moran, Michelle Clegg, Ann Timothy, Angela and Barry Darlow, Paul Moore, Private Intention, Kieran Rafferty.

Other
Special Intention
Daniel Maginn (Rest In Peace)
Thanksgiving for prayers answered
Intentions of Mr and Mrs Anigbo

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Pope Francis

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Mary Harlick
For Prayers Answered.

Lourdes TV

Please click on the red ‘Play’ button to watch Lourdes TV.