CHORLEY HOSPITAL: Please contact St Joseph’s, Harper’s Lane (262713) if you would like to receive the Sacraments while in hospital. In an emergency, the ward staff will bleep the on-call priest via switchboard.
ST ANNE’S GUILD: next meets on Tuesday 23rd May at 19.45 in the Parish Centre.
BAPTISMS: In order to arrange a baptism, please see Fr Marsden or Deacon Norman after one of the weekend Masses to obtain a baptism application form. We can then see whether a Baptism Preparation Course is necessary. If you live outside the parish boundaries, you will need permission from your own parish priest first.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNICANTS; We are in the final stages of preparation for our First Holy Communion Day on the Feast of Corpus Christi – 18th June. Please can I ask you to be Spiritual Prayer Sponsors for the children. Please pray that the following weeks, months and years after the Day of their First Holy Communion, each child and their family will come to Sunday Mass weekly and grow closer to God by listening and participating in the Holy Mass and receiving Our Blessed Lord in the form of Bread and wine (when they are older) during each Mass. Let us not forget or put aside, the promises to God we made as Parents, Godparents and before the Sacrament of Confirmation.
FRIDAY FILM SESSIONS: We meet on Friday 26th May at 14.00 to see a documentary film on the Sistine Chapel and Raphael Rooms
FOUND KEY in the collection last Sunday at 08.00. Please ask around. Perhaps someone has not seen this notice. The same applies to the glasses, gloves, walking sticks and now also scarves. (nobody leaves a Gucci handbag!)
THANK YOU to the ladies that have been looking after the flowers since Easter. We had visitors from Australia who were very complimentary about the church, sanctuary and the flowers.
ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM: from Chorley and Lancashire areas will be taking place on 12th - 16th June. The cost is £291 pp. For further details please contact Miss Josie Noblet on 01257 265498.
WALSINGHAM ASSOCIATION members are inviting everyone to the parish centre for light refreshments after the Walsingham Mass on 23rd May at 12.00 noon and after the Rosary following the Mass.
Fr Francis Marsden
and Deacon Norman Arrowsmith
E-mail address: 01257 262537
Parish website: www.stmarys-chorley.org
Office hours Tuesday - Friday 9.00-13.00 (except Mass), 14.00-16.00
Parish Centre: 270122 or 07971025 985 (Manager – Heather Roscoe)
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St Mary’s Catholic Church Chorley
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
21st MAY 2017
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: ‘Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you; and, through the power over all mankind that you have given him, let him give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him.
And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I have glorified you on earth and finished the work that you gave me to do. Now, Father, it is time for you to glorify me with that glory I had with you before ever the world was. I have made your name known to the men you took from the world to give me. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now at last they know that all you have given me comes indeed from you; for I have given them the teaching you gave to me, and they have truly accepted this, that I came from you, and have believed that it was you who sent me. I pray for them; I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they belong to you: all I have is yours and all you have is mine, and in them I am glorified. I am not in the world any longer, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.’
Sun 21st May SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (Mass book p.268 )
Sat: 18.15 Mass – Sp. Int. (BS)
08.00 Mass – Dorothy Katherine (sick)
10.30 Mass – Fr Mayne’s intentions
11.45 – 12.45 Yr. 4 catechesis in parish centre
16.00 Holy Hour, Adoration, Evening Prayer and Benediction
Mon 22nd St Rita of Cascia
08.00 Mass – Francis Millington (A)
Tues 23rd
09.30 Morning Prayer, Exposition until 11.45
12.00 Mass – Living members of the Walsingham Association
Wed 24th
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion
Thurs 25th St Bede the Venerable, St Aldhelm of Sherborne
12.00 Mass – George and Margaret (A) Bury
Fri 26th St. Philip Neri
09.30 Morning Prayer and Exposition until 11.45
12.00 Mass – Ellen Murphy (A)
Sat 27th St Augustine of Canterbury, St Melangell
11.00-11.45 Confessions
12.00 Nuptial Mass – Craig Davidson and Amanda Makinson
Sun 28th THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD (p.272)
Sat: 18.15 Mass – Laura, John and Baby Renie Morris (thanksgiving)
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – Sam Round RIP
14.00 Msza Święta po polsku
16.00 Holy Hour, Adoration, Evening Prayer and Benediction
ROSARY FOR MAY:. During May the Rosary will be recited daily after Mass. Please could someone lead or lead in pairs. The intention for the May Rosaries is Vocations to the Priesthood and the Religious Life.
Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Fr David Foster, Fr Wilkinson, Emily Atkins, Emma Beatty, Pauline Bennett, Margaret Bower, Brigid Cain, Christine Caunce, Michael Carter, John Cheyne, Colin Clarke, Helen Collins, Michael Collins, Jill Connor, Melville Coombes, Hughie Daly, Joan Doran, Kathleen Durkin, Sr Frances, Sr Paschal, Mavis Entwistle, Yvonne Finlayson, Mildred Gilhooley, John Green, Martin Henry, Fr Bernard Higham, Simon Holcroft, John Johnson, Joan Jones, Bernard Kenyon, Leslie Knowles, Doreen Lang, Julie Lowe, Richard Lowe, Tusia Lynch, Debbie MacFarlane, Kevin McCarrick, Frances McHale, Kathleen Mitchell, Veronica Mobbs, Peter Nelson, Catherine O’Donoghue, Anthony O’Malia, Edna Penman, Kathleen Reynolds, Margaret Rice, Canon Bert Shaw, Mgr. Jan Szponar, Maureen Taylor, Paul Tiffin, Terry Tingey, Muriel Wilson, Frank Waring, Agnes Young and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall etc.
READERS: 20/21 May: 18.15: Ian McLelland , 08.00:Caty Cross , 10.30: Rosemary Grime . 27/28 May: 18.15: Gillian Sharples 08.00: Molly Stazicker 10.30: Robert Wilson
ANNIVERSARIES: Francis Millington, Margaret Bury, Ellen Murphy, Fr Gerard Snape.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION last week was £791 of which £516 was Gift Aided. Thank you very much. Donations to the Restoration Fund totalled £509. The Priests’ Training Fund collection likewise did very well with £620. Thank you for all your generosity. God bless you.
DONATING MONEY; Sometimes, we receive gifts of money in an envelope with no indication which fund it is for. If you would like to donate money to St Mary’s (and it is always greatly appreciated) would you please mark your envelope clearly which cause you want the money to go e.g. Restoration Fund. Thank you.
ST RITA OF CASCIA: is on Monday 22nd May. Please note the early start for the Mass at 08.00. Blessed roses from St Rita’s Convent in Honiton, Devon, are available in a basket on Our Lady’s altar rails.
CONFIRMATIONS: The Archbishop is coming to our Pastoral Area on Fri 9th June at 7.00 pm for Confirmation. If you are 15 or over and have not yet been confirmed – and whichever parish you belong to - this would be a great opportunity. Please give in your details to the parish office.
Prayer for Priests: Almighty Father, I commend to Thee the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me; the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me Thy Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed or helped me and encouraged me; all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way, particularly (your priest’s name here). O Jesus, keep them all close to Thy heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen. Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us; obtain for us many and holy priests. Amen.
NEW MAYOR AND MAYORESS OF CHORLEY: congratulations to His Worship Cllr Mark Perks the new Mayor, and Pat Haughton the new Mayoress We wish them every success.
QUOTATIONS: “The resurrection of Jesus changes the face of death for all His people. Death is no longer a prison, but a passage into God’s presence. Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.” (Clarence W. Hall)
“According to the laws of legal evidence used in courts of law, there is more evidence for the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ than for just about any other event in history.” (Harvard Law Professor Dr. Simon Greenleaf)
“The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection; the Resurrection explains the Gospels. Belief in the Resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith; it is the Christian faith.” (John S. Whale)
“There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.” (Billy Graham)
“All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, hell is afraid of it, while men are the only ones to ignore its meaning.” (Oswald Chambers)
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life. (Ravi Zacharias)
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead. (Tim Keller)
"The Cross had asked the questions; the Resurrection had answered them...The Cross had asked: "Why does God permit evil and sin to nail Justice to a tree?" The Resurrection answered: "That sin, having done its worst, might exhaust itself and this be overcome by Love that is stronger than either sin or death." (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)