Newsletter: Easter Sunday 2025

20th April 2025

19.00 EASTER VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning

10.00 Mass
19.00 UCM Meeting

10.00 Mass

16.30 NO CONFESSIONS
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms
15.00 Divine Mercy Devotions – St Maries Church Bury

FIFTY DAYS OF REJOICING!

May Easter Light upon you shine, and fill your heart with joy divine. Happy Easter, Father Brady.

EASTER OFFERING

Envelopes will be available this weekend. Please place your offering in the envelope and return Easter weekend. Thank you in advance for your generosity.

WEEKDAY MASSES

We welcome Canon Mc Bride next week who will be celebrating weekday Masses.

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. Please provide your payment in an envelope with your name and give to the office or Fr Brady as soon as possible. Thank you

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY

On 27th April at 3pm at St Marie’s Church Mass will here will be Divine Mercy Devotions will take place at St Marie’s Church. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction, For an introduction to this devotion, visit >

SVP AND UCM

The SVP and UCM would like to wish everybody a Happy Easter!

MISSIO

In the last four months St Mary’s raised £1,053.94 through our Red Boxes and donations to Missio and the Mill Hill. Thank you for your generosity.

PARISH OFFICE

Office Hours this week:
8.30am – 2.30pm Tuesday
8.30am – 1.30pm Wednesday
8.30am – 2.30p.m Thursday
8.30am – 11.30a.m Friday

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM

Our diocesan pilgrimage office is now taking bookings for its next annual pilgrimage to Walsingham. Our pilgrimage in this Holy Year of Jubilee will take place on Saturday 3 May 2025. The day pilgrimage costs £45pp and includes transport to Walsingham from St Bernadette’s, Whitefield and other pick up points. More information, prices, and details on how to book please visit > or call 0161 817 2209. The SVP is offering to fund two places on the trip. Please contact the Parish office if you are interested.

“A VERY BRITISH FUN RAISER”

In honour of St George and 80th Anniversary of VE Day. Wednesday 30th April 2025 in the Atrium. Further details to be provided in due course.

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 >

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION

Would the children in Year 8 who attend either St Monica’s or St Gabriel’s and have completed their Confirmation Catechesis with Sister Linda and been given a form to return to Father Brady, please hand it to the parish as soon as possible. Thank you. Confirmations will be celebrated at St Bernadette’s Whitefield on Sunday 28th September at 2pm.

SAFEGUARDING / VOLUNTEERS

We are in the process of updating our current list of parishioners who kindly offer their services to help the Parish in any way and those requiring a DBS. Members from the Safeguarding Team will be present during the coffee morning on the 29th April to assist with any enquiries. Volunteers require two referees and these can be friends who know you who attend the coffee morning. The Diocese will also require proof of identity such as a passport, driving licence and proof of address. Volunteer forms will be left out for completion next weekend.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

There are several accounts in the various gospels of the discovery of the empty tomb. The slight variations between them show all the marks of oral tradition, for in genuine oral tradition each ‘performance’ is different. Different people tell the story slightly differently, stressing different aspects. This story in John’s Gospel places emphasis on proving that the tomb really was empty, for the apostles examine the evidence carefully. Other accounts concentrate less on the evidence and more on the message, that the disciples will meet the Risen Lord in Galilee. It was important to establish that the tomb was empty, to prevent the charge that the meetings with the Risen Christ were simply ghost-appearance accounts. Apart from the proof that the risen Jesus was a real, living and bodily person, these encounters stress two other things – the power of the risen Christ and the commission given to the disciples. The disciples are to go out into the whole world and spread the message, always accompanied and strengthened by Christ himself. In this account of John’s, Simon Peter is clearly the senior, authority figure, to whom the Beloved Disciple defers. But it is the love of the Beloved Disciple which immediately brings Peter to faith. What is the best way in which I can proclaim the Good News of Christ’s resurrection?

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
Saira Akram, Callum Crolla.

Anniversary
Zofia Krzyworaczka.

Birthday Memory
Anne Mc Glynn.

Sick
Pope Francis, Andy Watson, Jeanette Moran, Michelle Clegg, Angela Webster, Joseph Holland, Don Barrett.

Easter Masses
Jeanette Moran, Teresa Burton, John Mc Glynn, Anne Mc Glynn, Elizabeth Livesey, Albert Livesey, Barbara Mc Cann.

Other
Thanksgiving For the Safe Delivery Of Our Grand Daughter And Health Of Both Mum And Dad In Thanksgiving For A Special Delivery. Mary Hastings.

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Those who are grieving.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Jeanette Moran.

Lourdes TV

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