• Saint Mary And Saint Philip Neri Newsletter - Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time 2025
  • Saint Mary And Saint Philip Neri Newsletter - Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time 2025

Newsletter: 27th July 2025

Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

Newsletter: Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

27th July 2025

12.00 Wedding Mass
16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms
17.30 Pre-Departure Mass at St. Patrick’s, Collyhurst

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning
13.30 Funeral Service for Bernard Kelly, Radcliffe

10.00 Mass

10.00 Mass
12.00 Funeral Service for Brian Clowes at Agecroft

10.00 Mass

12.00 Wedding Mass
16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

Wednesday: 9am – 3pm
Friday: 9am – 3pm

OPEN DAY AT THE PRESBYTERY

Unfortunately this has had to be postponed due to work commitment. A new date will be rearranged.


LOURDES PETITIONS

Father Brady will be travelling to Lourdes with the Diocese this week. If you would like Father to take your petition to Our Lady’s Grotto, please hand in to Church by 10.00am on Tuesday 29th July. Please do not enclose any money. Money for candles and Masses can be given to Father Brady.


EXTRAORDINARY MINISTER OF HOLY COMMUNION

If you are an Extraordinary Minister and are willing to help take Holy Communion to the sick and housebound, please speak to Fr. Brady. Your support in this important ministry would be greatly
appreciated. Thank you.


DBS

If you do a voluntary role in Church, there is a form in the Atrium for you to complete. Please speak to Claire if you need advice.


BOOK OF THE DEAD

If you have a relative that has died since 2019 and would like them including in the Book of the Dead displayed in Church, please email the parish office with their name and date and year of death. Thank you.


UCM

The next meeting for the UCM will be on Wednesday 30th July at 7pm.


200 CLUB

There will be a new 200 Club beginning in September. There will be a weekly draw of £20 . The first draw will be 5th October and run until the week before Christmas. The end prizes will be: 1st £400, 2nd £250 and 3rd £150. The cost of a number will be £1. £10 in total. Speak to Stacy Wheildon or Jose Morris for more information.


SVP SUMMER RAFFLE

The SVP 2025 Summer Raffle. Tickets are £1 each (or in books of 5 at £5) . The draw takes place 25th September 2025. Tickets can be purchased from Chris & Steph of the SVP. More details are on the noticeboard.

HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT

Please do not bring any further hospital equipment. The amnesty for Fairfield Hospital is finished.


JUBILEE FOR GRANDPARENTS AND OLDER PEOPLE

The Diocese of Salford’s Jubilee series continues this month as we celebrate the Jubilee for Grandparents and Older People by sharing a fantastic resource from our diocesan charity, Caritas Salford. For resources, activity ideas, prayers, key contacts and more, head to >


SALFORD LOURDES PRE-DEPARTURE MASS

St. Patrick’s Church, Livesey Street, Collyhurst, Manchester. Sunday 27th July at 5.30pm. Mass will be celebrated by Bishop John, along with clergy from the diocese, with music from our wonderful Lourdes choir.


FAMILY FOREST FUN MORNINGS

Diocese of Salford’s Laudato Si’ Centre. Taking place between 10am –12.30pm over the first three Tuesdays of August. Find out more >


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.


OUTDOOR MASS FOR SEASON OF CREATION

This September welcomes back the Season of Creation– a month long campaign that invites us to reflect on our call to be loving stewards of God’s creation. We invite you to join us in beginning this time of reflection with an outdoor Mass in the beautiful grounds of the Diocese of Salford’s Laudato Si’ Centre. Mass takes place on Monday 1st September at 9.30am. Email > to find out more or register.


QUOTE OF THE WEEK

‘The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you.’

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

Luke is the evangelist of prayer.

Again and again he shows us Jesus praying. At all the important moments of his life Jesus needs this intimacy with his Father.

So he is praying at the baptism; before the choice of the disciples he prays through the night; at the Transfiguration he is praying.

Now the prayer which is so often used by Christians is one he gives us himself. Luke’s rendering of the prayer he taught the disciples is slightly shorter than the version in Matthew.

It begins with the simple call ‘Father’ (rather than ‘Our Father in heaven’) – a noble and affectionate way of speaking to God. ‘Thy will be done’ is omitted, for it is Matthew who often insists on doing the will of the Father.

Instead of ‘give us this day our daily bread’ Luke presents the insistent ‘give us each day’, which stresses the continuity of our dependence on God.

After this prayer follows a series of parables and images which underline the importance of persistence in prayer and continual prayer after the model of Jesus himself.

Elsewhere Luke will give us other parables about prayer: the Unjust Judge (again teaching perseverance in prayer) and the Pharisee and the Tax-Collector (teaching the importance of humility in prayer).

PICTURED Pacecco De Rosa: St. Luke the Evangelist.

PHOTO CREDIT Pacecco De Rosa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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
Margaret Collins, Anne Kiernan, Jean Benson, Patricia Rowe.


Anniversary
James Patrick O’Malley, Anna Pabian, Ellen Thompson, Jack Eagleton.


Birthday Memory
Patrick Barrett, Denis Fendlen.


Sick
Andy Watson, Mike Page.


Other
All souls in Purgatory, Birthday Wishes to Angela Cushnahan.

This week, the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Birthday Memories for Cara Parkinson from Grandma and Grandad.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Anne Kiernan.

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