• Newsletter: Seventh Sunday of Easter 2024

Newsletter: 12th May 2024

Seventh Sunday of Easter

Newsletter: 12th May

Seventh Sunday of Easter

17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00
BAPTISM

10.00 Requiem Mass for Hilda Stratton
No Coffee Morning

10.00 MASS

10.00 Mass
14.30 Funeral Service – Kathryn Harrison at Radcliffe Crematorium
19.00 Confirmation Meeting

10.00 MASS

10.30 First Holy Communion Mass
16.30 Confession
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 BAPTISM

ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION CHURCH BUILDING FUND

Please take an envelope for our annual appeal to pay for our beautiful church opened and blessed on the 29th May 2009 by Terence Bishop of Salford. Please return envelopes by 26th May. Thank you.


DIOCESAN MASS FOR VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD

The Diocese of Salford’s Vocations team invites you to join our next Mass for Vocations to the Priesthood. The Mass will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 23rd May, at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Moss Side. All are very welcome to attend as we pray together for the future of the priesthood in our diocese.


CAFOD SUDAN CRISIS APPEAL 2024

Cafod.org.uk/SudanAppeal or call 0808 58 588 85. See Poster in Atrium


PIETY STALL

There is a wide range of gifts and cards including First Holy Communion Cards, Mass Cards and Baptism Cards, candles, rosary beads, crucifixes and other religious gifts now available.


MANCHESTER AND SALFORD ECUMENICAL WHIT WALK

The annual Manchester and Salford Ecumenical Whit Walk is set to return for another year of prayerful celebration. Taking place on Monday 27th May, the walk will begin at 10am from Manchester Cathedral Gardens, and the group will process to St Peter’s Square for an Act of Worship. Individuals, families, and groups are all welcome to attend!


UCM MEETING

This week’s meeting is on Wednesday 15th May at 7.30pm

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION MEETING

There will be a meeting on Thursday 16th May at 7p.m.for parents and children in preparation for the sacrament of Confirmation in the Atrium at St Mary’s Church. Would children in Year 8 who attend either St Monica’s or St Gabriel’s who have completed their Confirmation Catechesis with Sister Linda and been given a form please return to Father Brady A.S.A.P. Thank you. Confirmations will be celebrated at St Bernadette’s, Church in Whitefield on Thursday 6th June 2024 at 7.00pm.


ST GABRIELS R.C. HIGH SCHOOL

70th Anniversary Platinum Celebration Saturday 29th June at 7.30p.m at The Village Hotel. Tickets £30.00 per person available via the school office. See Poster in the Atrium


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 >


FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

Please remember in your prayers all the children who will be receiving the Eucharist for the first time in the next two weeks.


LAST WEEK’S COLLECTION

Last week’s collection was £613.71

May Is The Month Of Mary

Our Lady’s Altar decorated for her own month of May. You are most welcome to bring lilies to adorn Our Blessed Lady’s statue in this her own month of May.

May is the month of Mary. Our Lady’s Altar decorated for her own month of May.
May is the month of Mary. Our Lady’s Altar decorated for her own month of May.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

Surprisingly, this wonderful final chapter of Jesus’ discourse after the Last Supper comes in the Sunday readings only on this Sunday (in each year of the three-year cycle). In the whole discourse (John 14-17) Jesus is preparing his disciples for the time of the Church, after his death and resurrection. In this final chapter, however, he is speaking of his death itself, or rather of his consecration by his death. How exactly it is the actual words of Jesus we do not know, but it is a great prayer which is fully in accord with what Jesus would have been thinking on this daunting occasion. The prayer centres on the Fatherhood of God and the coming of the Kingdom or Kingship of God by the sanctification or consecration of the world, especially in the sanctification of the disciples, praying also for the deliverance of the disciples of Jesus from evil (as in the final petition of the Lord’s Prayer). Fully in view of his own approaching sacrifice Jesus prays that by his own glorification his disciples also may be consecrated. The prayer is also a fitting preparation for Pentecost at which the Church is consecrated by the coming of the Spirit. What do I bring to others? Is it Christ’s joy?

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
Hilda Stratton, Diedre Murray.

Anniversary
Rose Marie Johnson, Bernard Higgens, Brendan Dowling.

Birthday Memory
Paul Casey.

Other
Intentions of Mr and Mrs Anigbo.

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Paul Casey.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Peace in the World.

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