THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD (YEAR B)
WEEK: JANUARY 8TH – JANUARY 14TH 20122
Alleluia, alleluia!
We saw his star as it rose and have come to do the Lord homage. Alleluia!
YOUR CHARITABLE PRAYERS are requested for our parishioners and friends, especially those whose names appear below:
SICK or HOUSEBOUND: Joanna; Shirley; Joan Casey; Cecilia; Jude Michael Harrison; Regina Wisniewski; Terence & Debbie; Seamus Whelan; Catherine McCarthy; Terry Hulley; Terry Mills; Margaret Miller; Michael McGee; Kevin Henry; Nora Henry; Casey Joseph Nkeodi; Jean Hallas; Luke McSherry; Stephen Cosby; John Fogg; Alison McGee.
LATELY DEAD: Mary Dillamore; Anne Fleming; Elizabeth Heyworth; Jack Earley; Alan Arthur Fallas.
ANNIVERSARIES: Ron Kain; Paddy Canny; Mary Elizabeth Dunachie; James Sexton; Anna Sexton; James Fogg (Snr); Marcia Peixoto Braga; Brendan Sheehy; James Cawley; John Dwyer. May they rest in peace.
THANKSGIVING PRAYER of Gino Templo and Sonia Moleta.
SUNDAY COLLECTION: Envelopes: £567.35; Loose: £313.69; Total: £881.04
Thank you all for your continued generosity.
DONATIONS/COLLECTIONS: many thanks for the following donations:
Bell Tower Fund: Loose: £60.00; £14.30; £12.13; £10.00 and £0.90
Gift Aided: £0.00
Also, £19.38 and £10.00 for CAFOD; £40 in memory of Mary Dillamore.THIS WEEK’S SAINTS
St. Aelred of Rievaulx was born in 1110 and died at Rievaulx (Yorkshire) in 1167. The son of a priest, he was educated at Durham and in the household of King David of Scotland. In 1134 he visited the newly founded Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx and was so attracted to it that he chose to become a monk there, and was eventually elected abbot. He is remembered for his gift of friendship, for his sensitive and gentle rule, and for his enduringly popular spiritual writings, especially that on friendship.
St. Hilary was born of pagan parents in Poitiers (France) in 315. He and his family were baptised, and shortly afterwards Hilary was chosen as bishop of Poitiers. He fought strenuously against Arianism, being exiled to Phrygia for this. He died in 367, after publishing works outstanding in their doctrine.PARISH NEWS
- Copies of the new Sunday Missal have eventually arrived and can be viewed, or bought, at the piety shop at a cost of £9.99 each.
- Both diaries and calendars for 2012 have been greatly reduced at the piety shop to only 50p. each.
- The “Inter-Church Quiz” will be held this year in the main hall of Honeywell Lane Methodist church on Saturday 21st January commencing promptly at 7.15pm. (the middle Saturday of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity). The parish is invited to send a team of up to 6 players with a cost of £4 per player, including a potato pie supper and tea/coffee/juice. The organisers need to know numbers by Monday 16th January – if you would like to go, please put your name on the list which is on the church notice board.
- The parish Day of Prayer for Vocations this year is on Monday 30th July. The date for the school is Monday 5th November.
ST. PATRICK’S WEEKLY SERVICES
This “gem church” will be open each day for private prayer and meditation from 9.30am. until 3.30pm.
SUNDAY: 10.00am; 12.30pm (Polish Mass) and 6.00pm.
MONDAY: 12 noon Eucharistic Service
TUESDAY: 12 noon Funeral Mass for Elizabeth Heyworth
WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Eucharistic Service
THURSDAY: 12 noon Mass (St. Aelred of Rievaulx, religious)
Funeral Service for Jack Earley at 10.00am.
FRIDAY: 12 noon Mass (St. Hilary, bishop)
SATURDAY: 12 noon Mass
CONFESSION: Saturday: 11.00 – 11.50am and 12.30 – 12.45pm.
BAPTISM: By appointment
MARRIAGE: 6 months notice must be given (Diocesan requirement)
ST. MARY’S WEEKLY SERVICES
SUNDAY: 11.30am. Mass
MONDAY: Mass at 10.00am (The Baptism of the Lord)
WEDNESDAY: Mass at 12 noon
CONFESSIONS: first Saturday of the month: 10.00 – 10.30am.
BAPTISMS and MARRIAGES: as for St. Patrick’sREADERS: 10.00am. Mass 11.30am. Mass 6.00pm. Mass
TODAY: P. Hilton & S. Walmsley P. Marshall P. Dunne
NEXT SUNDAY: S. Walmsley & M. Chiappi D. Hilton B. MarleyCHURCH CLEANING ROTA
This week: Week 2 - Joyce & David Daka and friends (African)
Next week: Week 3 - Mary & Francis Fernandez and friends (Indian)“WHAT’S ON” THIS WEEK
TODAY, the 3s – 11s Children’s Liturgy Group meets during the 10.00am Mass in St. Patrick’s church.
MONDAY: St. Mary’s Parish Team meeting at 7.30pm.
SATURDAY: St. Bede’s College & Prep School invites you to an Open Morning for Nursery, Reception & Junior School and 11+ College Entrance Examination from 9.30am – 1.00pm. For further information and tour, contact Mrs. Bernadette McGoff on 0161 226 3323. There are leaflets at the back of church.
NEXT SUNDAY: is “Peace Day”, a day of prayer for peace in the world.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. (St. Francis of Assisi)N. B. Local police hunting the “knitting needle nutter” who has stabbed six people in the bottom in the last 48 hours believe the attacker could be following some kind of pattern.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Please see the church notice board for further details of the following:
- Sacramental Programme: parents’ meeting and children’s lesson at 3.15pm in school on Wednesday 18th January.
- Sacramental Programme: celebration “We Are People Who Celebrate God’s Word” at the 10.00am Mass in St. Patrick’s on Sunday 22nd January.
- 3s – 11s Children’s Liturgy Group meets during the 10.00am Mass on 5th February.
“BITS and PIECES”
- The Department for Evangelisation and the Council of Christians and Jews (Manchester), invites you to hear “A Survivor’s Story”. This Year’s speaker is Mayer, a child holocaust survivor, who will share his story. It is on Tuesday 24th January at St. Gabriel’s R.C. High School, Bridge Rd., Bury BL9 OTZ, from 7.30 – 9.30pm. There is a suggested donation of £5 per person to meet expenses.
- St. Bede’s College & Prep School invites you to a Prep Taster Day for Year 5 entry September 2012 on Saturday 28th January 9.30am – noon. For further information and tour contact Mrs. Bernadette McGoff on 0161 226 3323. Leaflets are at the back of church.
- Salford Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage 2012: the pilgrimage will take place July 31st – August 6th. If you are a doctor, nurse or health care assistant and are interested in the possibility of volunteering your skills to help support those sick and disabled pilgrims who need particular care, the organisers are eager to hear from you. Financial support may be available for those involved in healthcare, to assist with the cost of travel through a new bursary fund. If you are interested and would like further information please contact Veronica Hall on 0161 817 2209 or veronica@salfordlourdes.co.uk.
- The Manchester Branch of the Catholic Medical Association (formerly The Guild of Catholic Doctors), invites those Catholics, professionally involved in Health Care, to become members. The monthly meetings allow discussion of the ethical issues that confront us in our professional lives, and begin with Mass at 7.30pm in the University Catholic Chaplaincy, next to the Holy Name church on Oxford Rd., and are followed by a buffet supper. The programme for 2012 is on a sheet on the church notice board.
- Manchester Carmelite Spirituality Group offers formation and friendship to anyone interested in exploring the 800-year old tradition of the Carmelites, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. Christians of any denomination and walk of life – including lay people, clergy and religious – are welcome to this informal and friendly group, which meets monthly at the Manchester Universities Catholic Chaplaincy (335-9 Oxford Rd). The next meeting is on Saturday 21st January on the topic “Service: Essential to Carmel”. For more information contact Mr. John Berry (tel:07910 434677) or email manchester@laycarmel.org. or see the poster on the church notice board. Website: www.carmelite.org/manchester.
“SMILE – A – WHILE”
An elderly man in Louisiana had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some apple and peach trees. One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for a while, and look it over. He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring back some fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, 'we're not coming out until you leave!' The old man frowned, 'I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.' Holding the bucket up he said,
'I'm here to feed the alligator...'
