Newsletter: 8th September 2024

Newsletter: 8th September

Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

16.30 CONFESSIONS
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Word and Communion
10.30 Coffee Morning

19.00 Mass with Cannon McBride

10.00 Word and Communion

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 Baptisms

DISABILITY AWARENESS UCM MEETING
On Wednesday 11th September in the Atrium there will be a presentation by Dr Minna Moffatt-Feldman Accessibility Co-ordinator for Caritas Salford. All Parishioners Welcome.

MC MILLAN COFFEE MORNING
Wednesday 2nd October 1.00p.m.

THANK YOU
For £100.00 received from Tuesday Coffee morning £1,600 raised in last two years.

BABY BANK
Together with school we are setting up a baby bank and appealing for all things needed to help mums with new born babies . All donations welcome. See poster in Atrium.

WORLD YOUTH DAY ROME 2025
Are you aged 16-35? Are you looking for an unforgettable opportunity to share your faith with other young Catholics? Pope Francis has announced a special World Youth Day in Rome next summer to celebrate the Church’s Year of Jubilee and our diocesan Youth Ministry team invites you to be part of this once-in-a-25-year event! The pilgrimage will take place between 28 July and 3 August. For more information and to register your interest, please email youth@dioceseofsalford.org.uk

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LINDISFARNE
Led by Bishop John, the pilgrimage will take place between 15th-17th May 2025. Find out more about this and all of our pilgrimages during our Jubilee year – click here

BECOMING A ROMAN CATHOLIC
If you are interested in being received into Full Communion (baptised, confirmed, first holy communion) with the Roman catholic church, there will be an initial meeting for all interested parties on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 at 7.00pm in the Atrium at church. The prerequisite of becoming a Catholic is celebrating Mass with us EVERY weekend; this is where you must start your journey to Full Communion.

ST DUNSTAN’S AOD’S
Kenyon Lane Moston Presents “Masquerade” – Wednesday 30th October. Return coach and ticket £25.00 per person. 30 places, please sign up and pay ASAP. This is a celebration of Lloyd Webber’s music and it is staged Cabaret Style with a 16 piece orchestra and bar open throughout. Sure to be a lovely evening.

OFFERTORY
Last week’s collection came to £614.95 (Excluding Standing Orders). Thank you.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

This Sunday’s first reading prepares us to understand the true meaning of this incident, for in his wonderful cures Jesus is fulfilling that prophecy of Isaiah. Jesus’ activity, as he goes around ‘doing all things well’, manifests the coming of God into the world, that Day of the Lord when the tongues of the dumb will sing for joy. Jesus is the sacrament of God. In him God is active in the world, bringing peace, healing and joy. In him people met and experienced God. His gestures (of putting his fingers into the man’s ears and touching his tongue with spittle) are affectionate ways of showing that God is physically at work in him. In a modern hygiene-conscious world such actions might be frowned upon. But if we are truly acting as the members of Christ’s body in the world, we cannot hold back, and from time to time we will be involved physically and totally in helping others. One such famous, courageous gesture was Princess Diana’s handshake with an AIDS-sufferer when it was still thought that the condition was physically contagious. We too can bring Christ’s healing in countless simple (but often costly and courageous) ways. What do we learn about God from the gestures and words of Jesus in today’s Gospel.

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
Gary Melling, Lawrence Hewart.

Anniversary
Margaret Fawcett, Michael O’ Carroll, Andrew Walsh, Paul Casey.

Birthday Memories
Edith and Ronald Hopkins.

Sick
Ann Timothy, Michelle Clegg, Geoffrey Hunt.

Other
Intentions of Jackie Weight.
Inrentions of Mr and Mrs Anigbo.

This week and next the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Andrew Walsh.
The Chiodo Family.
With Thanks.

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

Margaret Fawcett.

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