Newsletter: 30th June 2024

Newsletter: 30th June

The Solemnity Of Saints Peter And Paul

11.00 70th Anniversary Mass St Gabriel’s
13.30 Mass of the Sick
NO CONFESSIONS
17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 BAPTISM

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning

10.00 Mass
13.00 Funeral Service for Baby Arthur Bainbridge (Agecroft Crematorium)

11.30 Requiem Mass – William Boland

18.00 School Staff Retirement Mass

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 BAPTISM

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.

UCM
The UCM will not be meeting on Wednesdays 3rd and 10th July, the next meeting will be on Wednesday 17th July at 7.30pm. Members and friends had a very enjoyable day out to Southport on Wednesday 26th June.

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.

CARITAS
Can you help bring back a child’s smile this summer? Over 330,000 children in our diocese are now living in poverty. Our diocesan charity, Caritas Salford, has found demand for its services to support them and their families has grown significantly recently, with hardworking families significantly affected and experiencing acute crisis. Can you help? Find out simple ways you can take action, or make a donation to help children in your area now here: www.caritassalford.org.uk/childpoverty

LAST WEEKS COLLECTION
Last weeks collection was £546.62, 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.

DBS UPDATE

Please bear with us as we resolve the delay in receipt of DBS certificates. Thank you for your patience. Forms will be provided to keyholders and those performing ministries requiring a DBS in due course.

DATA PROTECTION

You may remember that when the Data Protection laws were implemented there was some confusion around the publishing of names in parish newsletters. We have recently been asked to confirm the position. The names of sick parishioners should not be published in parish newsletters or on your website, unless you have consent to do so. Many parishes are opting instead to read the names aloud and note that we pray for all the sick of the parish from Mass Intentions received. Data Protection laws do not need to be considered for the lately dead or anniversaries.

THANK YOU

For £100.00 received from the coffee morning.

CONGRATULATIONS TO FR BRADY!

Please remember Fr Brady in your prayers. He celebrates the 27th Anniversary of his ordination on 6th July.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

This is one of the very rare saints’ days to displace the Sunday celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord, which shows its importance. In a way it is still a Feast of the Lord, for it is the feast of the Church. Peter is to be the Rock foundation of Jesus’ own people, for that is what we are. Christ has called us together as his own people, and he has promised that he will always be present in this Church, ‘when two or three are gathered together in my name’. So Christ is present even in an ordinary household trying to live together with Christ at their centre. Here Jesus makes the promise to Peter that what he binds on earth will be bound in heaven; his decisions will hold firm in the eyes of God. Later Jesus makes the same promise to the community itself. So Peter is the spokesman for the Christian community, voicing the decisions of the Church. At his last meeting with his disciples the risen Christ promises to be with them ‘till the end of the ages’; the bishops, as the successors of the apostles, are the channels of Christ’s presence among us now. So today is the celebration of Christ among us, his people. How do you celebrate day by day this wonderful presence of Christ in our midst?

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, Baby Arthur Bambridge, William Boland.

Anniversary
Adrian Moran, Maureen Harrington, Edith Hopkins, Monica Comac.

Birthday Memory
Frank Walsh, Elizabeth O’ Hara.

Sick
Michelle Clegg.

Other
Deceased members of Livesey and Carney.
Intentions of Mr and Mrs Anigbo.

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Margaret and Patrick Barrett.
Frank Walsh.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Adrian Moran.
Elizabeth O’Hara.
Kathleen Fitzgerald.
Father Brady.

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