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Newsletter: 12th October 2025

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

12th October 2025

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Requiem Mass: William Sherman

Fr. Brady on Pilgrimage to Knock

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

Wednesday 9am – 3pm
Friday 9am – 3pm

FR. BRADY ON PILGRIMAGE TO KNOCK

Fr. Brady will be away from Tuesday to Friday on pilgrimage to Knock, joining others in prayer at Our Lady’s Shrine. We keep him and all pilgrims in our prayers and look forward to welcoming him back refreshed and renewed in faith. Canon McBride will Preside at the Requiem Mass on Tuesday.

PRESENTATION OF CHILDREN ON THE SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMME

This weekend, at all our parish Masses, we will joyfully present the children who are beginning their preparation for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion. Please keep them, their families and their catechists in your prayers as they take these important steps in their journey of faith.

UCM

The next UCM meeting will take place Wednesday 15th October at 1.30pm in the Atrium.

SOCIAL EVENING “GLITTER AND GLOW”

The next parish social will be held on Thursday 6th November at 7pm in the Atrium. Cost of this event will be £3-this includes hot pot supper and entry raffle. Please add your name to the list on the table in the Atrium (we are limited to50)and place money in an envelope marked with your name and place it in the box by Fr. Brady’s office.

NOVEMBER DEAD

Throughout the month of November, we remember our beloved relatives and friends who have died throughout our lives and who we wish to pray for during the month of the Holy Souls. Envelopes are now available in the Atrium for the names (or list of names) of those we have loved. For Example: parents, relatives, priests etc. Please hand envelopes to Fr. Brady or place it in box by Fr Brady’s office.

CAN YOU HELP?

The Sunday Coffee Morning Team are looking for more volunteers to serve refreshments after the 10.30am Mass. If you can help once every 5 weeks, please contact Kazia on 07726 630429.

THANK YOU

The Coffee Morning Team have donated £200 towards Church Funds. Thank you for your generosity.

CHRISTMAS FAIR

The Christmas Fair will be taking place on Saturday 29th November from 11.00am – 1.00pm.

We are looking for donations of Bottles, Gifts, Fancy Goods, Chocolate and Tombola Goods. Wrapped and Unwrapped items for the £1.00 parcels, children, ladies and gents.

Also, Raffle Prizes for the ‘Big Raffle’ and ‘Pre loved teddies and soft toys.’ These can be left in the Parish Office.

200 CLUB

The 2nd draw for £20 will take place this Sunday after the 10.30am Mass. The Big Draw will take place on 7th December. There is a folder in the Atrium with all names, numbers and winners.

BABY LOSS AWARENESS WEEK 2025

Baby Loss Awareness Week is observed annually from October 9th to October 15th. In 2025, this significant week offers a chance for individuals and organisations to participate and show their support. The week includes the global “Wave of Light” event on October 15th, where people light candles in memory of babies who have died, creating a symbolic wave of light across different time zones.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY

We are hoping to start the Children’s Liturgy at the 10.30am Mass on Sundays. The children in Year 2 and upwards are welcome to join us in the Atrium. Start date 26th October.

UCM DAY OUT TO THE CHRISTMAS MARKET IN KNARESBOROUGH SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER

The UCM are having a coach trip to the Christmas Market in Knaresborough on Saturday 6th December and would be pleased if parishioners and friends join us. £25.00 to secure a seat on the coach. Please contact Iris Turner on 07463 497753 or any member of the UCM if you would like to come.

CHURCH FLAGS

The flags at the front of Church are a visible sign of welcome and pride in our parish. From time to time, they become weather-worn and need replacing. We are looking for a volunteer who would be willing to help by checking and changing the flags when needed. If you can assist, please speak to Fr. Brady or contact the parish office.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

‘The measure of love is to love without measure’
St. Francis de Sales.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

We see why the story of the cure of Naaman the leper has been chosen as our first reading today: in the Gospel reading we find another cure of a foreigner, and not an ordinary foreigner, but a hated foreigner.

There was a cordial hatred between Jews and Samaritans: for the Jews, the Samaritans were a wretched hybrid race, who accepted only part of the Jewish Bible, and had their own ideas about the coming Messiah.

Yet Luke has already recounted the story of the Good Samaritan, who succours the wounded traveller who had been neglected by Jewish priest and Levite.

Now only a Samaritan comes back to thank Jesus for the cure from leprosy.

Samaritans are the foreigners geographically nearest to Jesus, but hated by the Jews. If the Samaritans can set an example to the Jews, so can many other foreigners.

In his initial proclamation Jesus promises salvation to the gentiles, and Luke misses no opportunity to show us gentiles ripe for salvation: the centurion of Capernaum who built the synagogue and whose son is cured, the guests for the banquet called in from highways and byways.

Luke is preparing for his second volume, the Acts of the Apostles, where the Good News will spread to the ends of the earth, even to Rome itself.

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
Andrew Lake, Patricia Carragher, William Sherman, Ann King.

Anniversary
John Moon, Halina Laczko.

Sick
Andy Watson, Noel Moore, Paul Moore,
Cara Heather, Martin Nelson, John Griffin, Tom.

Other
For a Special Intention for All Holy Souls in Purgatory
(Throughout October)
Health and Wellbeing for Maureen & Clifford Unsworth.
Special Intention for Nuala Keane.

This week, the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Andrew Lake.

This week, Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

William Henry Sherman.

The Vatican

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Lourdes TV

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Walsingham TV

Newsletter: 12th October 2025