Newsletter: 17th August 2025

Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

Newsletter: Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

17th August 2025

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning

19.00 Mass

10.00 Mass
12.45 Wedding Ceremony

10.00 Funeral Service of the Angels for Baby Roselina Maria
12.00 Mass

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

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

NO CONFESSIONS

Please note there will be No Confessions on Saturday 23rd August and Saturday 30th August. Thank you.


COFFEE MORNING

Thank you to all involved in the Coffee Morning. A donation of £200 was given to the parish. This will go towards supporting our parish. We are so grateful for your kindness and continued support.


MILLS HILL MISSIONARIES

Thank you to everyone who has supported the Mills Hill Missionaries over the past four months. Through your generosity, a wonderful £852.83 has been collected. Your kindness helps to continue their vital work, and we are truly grateful for your ongoing support..


UCM

The next meeting for the UCM will be on Wednesday 20th August at 7pm. The UCM have purchased another two trestle tables to add to the ones used at Parish functions in the Atrium. Father Brady has thanked them for the donation..


DONA CARD MACHINE

The Dona Card machine has now been repaired. This machine lets parishioners donate money straight into the Parish Bank account using a bank card, phone or smart watch. You can use it to give a one-off donation or make a regular donation. The benefit is that it helps when fewer people carry cash, and it can automatically process Gift Aid after your first donation. It’s quick, secure and helps support the mission and upkeep of our parish. Thank you for your generosity and for supporting our parish community.


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.


Quote of the Week

‘We cannot do all great things, but we can do small things with great love’
St. Teresa of Calcutta

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.


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.


LOCAL HOSPICE SHOP

We encourage all parishioners to support our local hospice shop facing Radcliffe Times Office. By donating quality items or making a purchase, you are helping to provide essential care for those in need in our community. Thank you for your continued generosity.


CEMETERY MASS AT ST. MARY’S, WARDLEY

A Mass to remember loved ones will be taking place at 11am on Monday 25th August at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Wardley


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.


ECOLOGICAL ROSARY AT THE LAUDATO SI’ CENTRE

Join us at the Diocese of Salford’s Laudato Si’ Centre on Wednesday 3rd September as we gather to pray the Rosary with ecological reflections. Email > to find out more and to register.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

St. Luke, Linch: stained glass window (6) by Basher Eyre

What is this?

Jesus came to bring peace and harmony, to perfect the unity of society and families.

How is it then that he can here say exactly the opposite? And without apology!

There is no, ‘I am afraid there may sometimes be disagreements in the family’. Rather, ‘I have come to bring disagreements in the family’.

To make things worse, in Judaism the family is the basic unit which sticks together through thick and thin. Any Jew will be thoroughly shocked by this passage.

We have seen repeatedly that Jesus’ statements are often fierce and extreme: ‘If your hand causes you to fall, cut it off’; ‘Let the dead bury their dead’.

Elsewhere he says ‘It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven’ – and the traditional let-out clause that he is talking about a small gate in Jerusalem is simply wrong; there was no such gate!

Jesus is teaching that the most sacred earthly ties are less important than loyalty to the Lord.

He chooses the family as an example deliberately because it is so sacred and important, but even so, following Jesus who leads us into all truth is more important still.

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
Theresa Burton, Teresa Cooke, Susan Sumara, Giovanni Taurasi.


Birtdhday Memory
Ethal Mills.


Sick
Andy Watson, Mike Page, Noel Moore, Paul Moore, Adrian Kiddle, Margaret Rogers.


Other
All Holy Souls in Purgatory, A Special Intention, Teresa, Bill & Geraldine Armstrong.

This week, the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Kosta Lamniso.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Winifred Hadfield
and
Helen Hyndman.

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