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Newsletter: 31st August 2025

Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

31st August 2025

16.30 No Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning

10.00 Mass

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

Wednesday 9am – 3pm
Friday 9am – 3pm

NEW ACADEMIC YEAR

As a new academic ear begins, we keep in our prayers all children, young people and staff returning to school, college and university. May the Lord bless them with wisdom, joy in learning and the support they need to grow in knowledge and faith.

UCM

The next meeting for the UCM will be on Wednesday 3rd September at 7.30pm.

DONA CARD MACHINE

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.

Tickets are now on sale.

SVP SUMMER RAFFLE

Tickets for the SVP 2025 Summer Raffle will be available for the last time weekend of 6th/7th September. Chris/Steph will be in the atrium at each of the 3 masses of that weekend. If you still want tickets, this is your last chance. Tickets are £1 each (or in books of 5 at £5). To all who have purchased tickets for the draw, we thank you for supporting the SVP and wish you luck. The draw takes place 25th September 2025.

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.

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.

STOP ASSISTED SUICIDE. ACTION NEEDED!

The Leadbeater assisted suicide bill is expected to have its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday 12th September. Right to Life UK has launched a new EasyAction tool to help you email a few Peers directly. It creates a tailored message that highlights a key concern with the Bill and ensures it reaches the right Peers. https://righttolife.org.uk/aspeers

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.

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.

JOB VACANCIES

The Diocese of Salford is recruiting for a number of roles in the diocesan property team, as well as in our parish clubs. To find out more please visit >

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria

The two parables in today’s Gospel are about invitations to the table.

Both are from St Luke, without parallel in the other gospels.

Jesus moves in a higher stratum of society than he does in Mark and Matthew, and often has in mind the implications of the Gospel in this context.

The first parable, however, like several of Luke’s parables, seems to be developed from a little Old Testament proverb: ‘Do not give yourself airs, do not take a place among the great; better to be invited, “Come up here,” than to be humiliated’

At first sight this seems a merely worldly precaution, a false humility engineered to gain attention. But for Luke a banquet is always an image of the heavenly banquet of the Lord.

So the message is a moral one too: don’t think yourself better than you are.

The message is also typical of Luke’s open and straightforward approach.

One is reminded of the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax-collector at prayer, where the latter prays only ‘God be merciful to me, a sinner’.

The second parable also is typical of Luke: it exemplifies his stress on the inherent danger of wealth, on the need to use wealth well, and on his concern for the poor and neglected in society.

PICTURED St Vitus Cathedral – Prague.

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, Kath O’Neill, Giovanni Taurasi, Bernadette Semple, Phylis Sutton, Susan Graham, Anne Kiernan, Margaret Rogers.

Anniversary
Thomas Nally.

Birthday Memory
Pat Barnes, Martha Hornby, Marjorie Brady.

Sick
Rita Webster, Andy Watson, Mike Page, Noel Moore, Paul Moore.

Other
For a Special Intention, All Holy Souls in Purgatory (Throughout September), Elizabeth Livesey (RIP), John McGlynn (RIP), Barbara McCann (RIP), Albert Livesey (RIP), Anne McGlynn (RIP) Holy Souls in Purgatory.

This week, the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Holy Souls in Purgatory.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Marjorie Brady.

The Vatican

Please click on the red ‘Play’ button to watch Vatican Media Live.

Lourdes TV

Please click on the red ‘Play’ button to watch Lourdes TV.

Walsingham TV

Newsletter: 31st August 2025