This “gem church” will be open each day for private prayer and meditation from 9.30am. until 3.30pm.
5TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (YEAR B)
WEEK: FEBRUARY 5TH – FEBRUARY 11TH 2012
Alleluia, alleluia!
He took our sicknesses away,
and carried our diseases for us. 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; Casey Joseph Nkeodi; Jean Hallas; Luke McSherry; George Thomas; Maurice Donovan; Antonio Caso; Rodrigo Penero.
LATELY DEAD: Andrew Fairfoull; Saturnino Goas; John Johnson; Martin Slicker; John Healy; Anne Williams (née McGowan).
ANNIVERSARIES: David Baker; Henryk Sobieralski; Romeo B. Tee; Jeanette Fleur Thornton; Alice Dutson; Antonietta Hordynski; Peter Hordynski; baby Laura Dabrowski. May they rest in peace.
SUNDAY COLLECTION: Envelopes: £439.09; Loose: £305.73; Total: £744.82
Thank you all for your continued generosity.
DONATIONS/COLLECTIONS: many thanks for the following donations:
Bell Tower Fund: Loose: £143.94; £9.75 and £6.27
Gift Aided: £14.89
Also, £27.61 for CAFOD.
“BITS and PIECES”
- Caritas Diocese of Salford is looking to recruit Service Manager (Community Services) to lead on the management and strategic development of community services and to be responsible for the development of new projects and related resources. Closing date is Wednesday 8th February. For an application pack, please email Rachel Birks at recruitment@caritassalford.org.uk or phone 0161 817 2250.
- The Churches Together in Oldham are holding their annual meal on Friday 24th February at 7.30pm at the Salt Cellar, Church Lane, Oldham. The cost is £13 per person and the speaker is Dave Smith from the BOAZ Trust. Please book places with Biddy Dawson by phoning 0161 678 8926 or emailing at biddyd@hotmail.co.uk. The menu and booking form is on the church notice board.
LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT
Amid th’encircling gloom, lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home; lead Thou me on!
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see the distant scene; one step enough for me.
I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou shouldst lead me on.
I loved to choose and see my path; but now Thou lead me on!
I loved the garish day, and spite of fears, pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still will lead me on,
O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till the night is gone;
And with the morn those angels’ faces smile which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.
(Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman)
THE SENILITY PRAYER
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference!
READERS: 10.00am. Mass 11.30am. Mass 6.00pm. Mass
TODAY: 2 Youths C. O’Donnell C. Douglas
NEXT SUNDAY: D. Daka & W. Powell I. Hamer B. Hall
CHURCH 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 meet during the 10.00am Mass in St. Patrick’s church.
ALSO, there will be a retiring collection after all Masses today for Caritas, which includes the Catholic Children’s Rescue Society and Catholic Welfare Societies. The appeal will remain open for 4 weeks and there are special envelopes available at the back of church for your donation.
ALSO, there is a Mass for the Italian community in St. Patrick’s church at 2.00pm.
MONDAY: St. Mary’s Parish Team meeting at 7.30pm.
NEXT SUNDAY: the baptism and christening of Weya Kahina Teixeira takes place during the 10.00am Mass in St. Patrick’s church.
PARISH NEWS
- A letter of thanks has been received from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children for the parish donation of £184.55.
- Another letter of thanks has been received from Caritas Diocese of Salford for our recent donation of £527.00 in aid of homes for homeless young women and their children and will provide vital support for work with these disadvantaged families.
- If you need transport to any of the Lenten Station Masses, or are able to offer transport, please see any of the Parish Team.
- Cards and gifts for St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Confirmation and First Holy Communion are now available from the piety shop.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Please see the church notice board for further details of the following:
- Lenten Station Mass at Ss. Aidan & Oswald’s, Royton, on Tues. 28th Feb. at 7.30pm.
- CAFOD Lent Fast Day is on Friday 2nd March.
- 3s – 11s Children’s Liturgy Group meets during the 10.00am Mass on 4th March.
- Lenten Station Mass at St. Joseph’s, Shaw, at 7.30pm on Tuesday 6th March.
- Lenten Station Mass at St. Anne’s, Greenacres, at 7.30pm on Tuesday 13th March.
- Sacramental Programme: parents’ meeting & children’s lesson in school at 3.15pm on Wednesday 14th March.
- Sacramental Programme: celebration – “We Celebrate God’s Gifts” at the 10.00am Mass in St. Patrick’s church on Sunday 18th March.
- Lenten Station Mass at St. Joseph’s, Mossley, at 7.30pm on Tuesday 20th March.
- Lenten Station Mass at St. Christopher’s, Ashton-under-Lyne, at 7.30pm on Tuesday 27th March.
- Confirmation at 7pm in St. Patrick’s church on Tues. 15th May will be by Bishop Brain.
- Parish Day of Prayer for Vocations on Monday 30th July.
- School Day of Prayer for Vocations on Monday 5th November.
THIS WEEK’S SAINTS
St. Paul Miki: towards the end of the 16th century, the Emperor Hideyoshi began a persecution of the Catholic Church in Japan; among those arrested were Paul Miki, a young Jesuit, and 25 others, some as young as 13. They were taken to Nagasaki where they were crucified in 1597.
St. Jerome Emiliani: like other saints, Jerome started adult life as a soldier, but after capture and imprisonment he left his military career and began to serve the poor. In 1532 he founded the “Order of Clerks Regular of Somaschi” to serve the poor and needy. He died in 1537.
St. Josephine Bakhita: born in Sudan in 1869, she was kidnapped, sold as a slave and taken to Italy. There she became a Catholic and entered the Institute of St. Mary Magdalene of Canossa, where she took part in the community life prayer, cooking, sewing, embroidery and attending to the door.. Her humility, simplicity and constant smile won her the hearts of all the citizens. She died in 1947.
St. Scholastica: the sister of St. Benedict, she was born in Umbria, Italy, around 480. Like her brother, she dedicated her life to God, founding a community of contemplative religious, before ending her days at Monte Cassino in 547.
Our Lady of Lourdes: in 1858 the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous near Lourdes, in France, in the grotto of Massabielle. Through the poor child, Mary called sinners to penance, and thereby there arose in the Church a marvellous spirit of prayer and charity, especially in helping the poor and the sick.
“SMILE – A – WHILE” (funny church signs)
There was a church that had problems with outsiders parking in its car park, so they put up a sign: Church Car Park – for members only. Trespassers will be baptised! That took care of the problem!
- An ad for one church has a picture of two hands holding stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments are inscribed and a headline that reads: For fast, fast, fast relief ,take two tablets!
- When the restaurant next to another church put out a sign with big red letters which said Open Sundays, the church reciprocated with its own message: We are open on Sundays, too!