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Newsletter: 5th May 2024

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Newsletter: 5th May

Sixth Sunday of Easter

17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 BAPTISM

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning

19.00 VIGIL MASS
The Ascension of the Lord

10.00 Mass
The Ascension of the Lord

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

UCM MEETING

This week’s meeting is on Wednesday 8th May at 7.30pm

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.

CAFOD SUDAN CRISIS APPEAL 2024

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

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!

THE EDEN SINGER’S SUMMER CONCERT

St Mary’s Church, Church Green Radcliffe. M26 2QA on Saturday 11th May 7.30p.m. Tickets £7 including tea and cakes. Contact 0161 723 4965 / 07533 894392 or pay on the door. See poster in the atrium.

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.

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 £609.10.

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.
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

Like so many of the great discourses of Jesus in the gospel of John, today’s reading is not a shorthand record of Jesus’ words, but will have been written up after the event. Most probably there were several slightly different versions of what Jesus said at the Last Supper. In any case, one can see that the author has in mind two different contexts: Jesus’ own historical situation at the Last Supper and the situation of the early Church, where the disciples are being tested hard in their mission. They need encouraging by Jesus’ own example of his sacrifice and by his promise of real friendship; they are friends, not servants, specially chosen by Jesus to bear fruit that will last. So we too are welcomed as friends, chosen and commissioned by Jesus to go out and bear fruit, but reminded that we must be prepared to pay the price. There is no fruit without pruning. Jesus had just given the example of service by washing the feet of his disciples. If we are to share the joy of Jesus we must be ready to join him also in laying down our lives for our friends. Do we ever have to make hard choices for Christ?

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, Sister Margaret Avery, David Gerard James, Ursula Gilmartin, Mary Hardman.

Anniversary
Reece Patrick O’ Brian.

Birthday Memory
Bernice Moore, Veronica Brady.

Sick
Fiona Simmons, Paddy Moran.

Other
For those who offer support to others. May they continue,
Intentions of Mr and Mrs Anigbo,
A Birthday Intention.

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Peace in the Ukraine.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Peace in the Middle East.

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