Newsletter: Fourth Sunday of Easter 2025

Newsletter: Fourth Sunday of Easter

11th May 2025

10.30 First Holy Communion Mass
16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning & DBS Checks
18.00 DBS Checks

10.00 Mass

10.30 First Holy Communion Mass
16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

NEW POPE

Congratulations and assurance of prayers for Cardinal Robert Prevost – Our New Pope. Who has taken the name Pope Leo X1V. Long may he reign. GOD BLESS OUR POPE!

FLOWERS

Flowers this week in Church are in memory of Irene Rawcliffe on her first anniversary.

ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

29th May is the Anniversary of the Church opening. Envelopes will be available from 17th May 2025. Collection dates will be Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June. Please return envelopes on these dates. All donations from this collection help towards the huge debt we have to pay off. Thank you in anticipation for your kind generosity.

SISTER ACT

Coaches will pickup outside church at 6.30pm on both nights, 14th & 15th May. Tickets still available. See poster in Atrium for details..

DBS CHECKS

Please collect your envelope from the table in the Atrium if you carry out roles in the church such as reading, counting, Eucharistic Minister and return with the ID requested. There is a ’check up’ session this Tuesday, 13th May after the coffee morning and at 6pm for bringing proof of name and address. Details in the packs. Thank you for your co-operation.

UCM

There will be NO UCM meeting on Wednesday 14th May.

UCM DAY OUT TO LIVERPOOL

Wednesday 4th June. There are two seats still available on the coach. Total cost £38.00 inc. meal at Toby Carvery. Please let us know if you are interested. All monies are now due.

DIOCESAN MASS FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Young adults across the diocese are once again invited to join our next Diocesan Mass for Young Adults. The Mass will take place at 5.30pm on Sunday 11 May at St Augustine’s, Manchester. Confessions are available between 4.45pm – 5.15pm and please join us after Mass for a short talk exploring more about our Catholic faith.

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.

MADONNA DEL ROSARIO WALK

This is a long established walk starting around Ancoats at 1pm on Sunday 6th July and lasting 2 hours, also known as the Italian Walks. If you would like to join the walk please sign the list in the Atrium with your e-mail. Contact Ray from our SVP
parkinsonray@hotmail.com

“COME AND SEE” DAY FOR THE PERMANENT DIACONATE

Saturday 17th May, our diocesan team will be holding a “Come and See” event for anyone interested in learning more about the permanent diaconate. Whether you’re discerning a possible vocation to this ministry, or would like to learn more. Join us for our drop in session at St Patrick’s Church, Livesey Street, Collyhurst, any time after 10am Mass and before 3pm
email here > to find out more.

WHIT WALKS

The Annual Manchester and Salford Ecumenical Walks is set to return for another year of prayerful celebration. Taking place on Monday 26th May, the walk will begin at 9.30am from Manchester Cathedral Gardens, and will process to St. Peter’s Square for an Act of Worship. All are welcome!

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LADYEWELL

Saturday 28th June 2025 £26pp. Please see poster in Atrium for details.

LAUDATO SI’ CENTRE GARDENING CLUB

The Laudato Si’ Centre, is delighted to announce a regular gardening club. email here > to find out more.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

Jesus’ teaching on the Good Shepherd is the nearest saying approaching a parable in John’s gospel.

It is so important that the Church puts it before us on the fourth Sunday of Easter in each of the three cycles of readings. Apart from its obvious sense of Jesus looking after his sheep – and silly, confused sheep at that – this image receives special meaning from the figure of the shepherd in the Old Testament.

God is the primary shepherd of Israel, who pastures his sheep in pastures green so that they fear no evil (Psalm 23).

In Ezekiel 34 God promises to free Israel from the self-centred shepherds who keep the sheep for their own advantage, and to send them a true shepherd after his own heart, a second King David, who will tend them as God himself would care for them.

Thus, in putting before us each year in Eastertide this proclamation that Jesus is the Good Shepherd, the Church is affirming the risen Christ as the divine Shepherd who tends his flocks.

Particularly in these verses we see the unity of the risen Christ and the Father in their role of shepherds of the sheep, just as in our second reading from the Book of Revelation we see the unity of the LORD God and the Lamb, both revered on the one throne.

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
Pope Francis, John Bullen, Norbert Kelly.

Anniversary
Irene Rawcliffe, Bernard Higgens.

Birthday Memory
Anne & Thomas Nally, Kathryn Hanson.

Sick
Mary Gracey, Andy Watson, Jeanette Moran, Michelle Clegg, Angela Webster, Paul Moore, Margaret Rogers, Mary Hastings.

Other
Our New Pope, Leo XIV. Ana Zambrano, Souls in Purgatory.

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns:

Rosetta Chiodo.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns:

Paul Casey. Maria Chiodo.

Lourdes TV

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