NEXT BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE: Monday 1st and 8th February 7-8.15 pm in the little meeting room between church and presbytery. Would parents please contact Fr Marsden or Deacon Norman personally, after one of the weekend Masses, iti make baptism arrangments.
CHORLEY HOSPITAL: Please contact St Joseph’s, Harper’s Lane (262713) if any member of your family is admitted into the hospital and needs a priest to visit. In an emergency, the ward staff will call in the duty priest chaplain via the switchboard.
ST ANNE’S GUILD: Bingo this Tuesday 26th January 2016 at 7.45 pm in the Parish Centre.
THANK YOU to Fr. Matthew Jolley on his enjoyable return visit last Sunday to celebrate our 10.30 am Mass with us. As a seminarian Fr Matt spent some time with us on placement in January 2014. He was ordained priest in July last year at St Mary’s Warrington. He is stationed at Holy Name, Fazakerley. He is also the Deputy Vocations Director for this Archdiocese.If any person is thinking about the Priesthood or Religious Life, please do contact Fr Marsden or the parish office for further information. You will be welcome.
TABOR CARMELITE PRIORY, 169 Sharoe Green Lane, Fulwood, Preston PR2 8HE
Telephone: 01772 717122. The new programme of retreats from January to July can be found in the Resource area or on http://carmelite.net/programme/
Saturday retreats 10-4: Jan 30 THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY – CHALLENGED TO WITNESS TO THE LOVE OF GOD Charles Whitehead
Feb 6 THE NON-NEGOTIABLE ESSENTIALS What is the essential and non-negotiable within Christian spirituality? Lent offers us the answer. Philip McParland
Feb 13 THE LOVE OF GOD: A DAY OF MEDITATION WITH THE HELP OF JULIAN OF NORWICH - Julian of Norwich offers a vision of the love of God which is vivid, gripping and fresh, and we will spend the day allow ing her to lead our meditations - Karen Kilby
There are also special Wednesday evening talks, Monday evening Meditation group, a Friday morning Lectio Divina group, a Poetry and Book club, a Centering prayer group – well worth having a look at the variety of spiritual input available.
SANDYMOUNT HOUSE, BLUNDELLSANDS: see the programme in the foyer or at http://www.sandymountretreats.org.uk/Our_Programme
OCTAVE OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY: Please remember to pray and offer up the Rosary for the Unity of Christians. The Octave ends this Monday, on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul.
Fr Francis Marsden 01257 262537
and Deacon Norman Arrowsmith
E-mail address:
Parish website: www.stmarys-chorley.org
Office hours Tues- Friday 9.00-1.00 (except Mass), 2.00-4.00 pm
Parish Centre: 270122 or 0797 1025 985 (Manager – Heather Roscoe)
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St Mary’s Catholic Church Chorley
THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME
24th JANUARY 2016
Seeing that many others have undertaken to draw up accounts of the events that have taken place among us, exactly as these were handed down to us by those who from the outset were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, I in my turn, after carefully going over the whole story from the beginning, have decided to write an ordered account for you, Theophilus, so that your Excellency may learn how well founded the teaching is that you have received.
Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in Him, returned to Galilee; and His reputation spread throughout the countryside. He taught in their synagogues and everyone praised Him.
He came to Nazara, where He had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day as He usually did. He stood up to read and they handed Him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll He found the place where it is written:
The spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour.
He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the synagogue were fixed on Him. Then He began to speak to them, ‘This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen.’ [Luke 1:1-4,4:14-21]
MASSES, MASS INTENTIONS AND SERVICES
Rosary after Holy Mass Tues, Thurs and Sat
Sun 24 Jan SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (Mass bk. p.129)
Sat 6.15 pm Mass – Tingey and Clarke Families
8.00 am Mass – Parishioners
10.30 am Mass – Agnes, Thomas and Brendan Saurim
2.00 pm Msza Swieta po polsku
Mon 25 Jan The Conversion of St Paul
8.40 am Morning Prayer
9.00 am Mass – Herbert and Clarice Blakemore (A)
Tue 26 Jan SS Timothy and Titus
9.30-11.45 am Morning Prayer (9.30) and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
12.00 noon Mass – Teresia Joseph (LD in India)
Wed 27 Jan St Angela Merici
8.40 am Morning Prayer
9.00 am Mass – Margaret Edmondson (LD)
Thurs 28 Jan St Thomas Aquinas
12.00 noon Mass – Mary C. Louge
Fri 29 Jan St Gildas the Wise
9.30-11.45 am Morning Prayer (9.30) and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
11.30 am Divine Mercy Chaplet
12.00 noon Funeral Mass: Jadwiga Adamczyk
Sat 30 Jan St Aidan of Ferns
11.00-11.45am Confessions
12.00 noon Mass – Pauline Smith (LD)
2.30 pm Syro–Malankara Rite Mass for the Indian community
Sun 31 Jan FOURTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (Mass bk. p.132))
Sat 6.15 pm Mass – Edward Maher (A)
8.00 am Mass – Parishioners
10.30 am Mass – Edna Herbert (A)
Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Lelia Addy, Rita Almond, Roland Anderton, Frances Bond, Emily Atkins, Emma Beatty, Pauline Bennett, Brigid Cain, Marie Cannon, Michael Collins, Melville Coombes, Hughie Daly, Monica Donalds, Joan Doran, Sister Frances, Yvonne Finlayson, Martin Henry, Simon Holcroft, Peggy Hughes, John Johnson, Joan Jones, Doreen Lang, Julie Lowe, Tusia Lynch, Debbie MacFarlane, Jude Mack, Kevin McCarrick, Frances McHale, Kathleen Mitchell, Veronica Mobbs, Canon Kevin Mullen, Catherine O’Donoghue, Anthony O’Malia, Kathleen Rae, Kathleen Reynolds, Margaret Rice, Paul Tiffin, Frank Waring, and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall etc.
RECENTLY DECEASED: Jadwiga Adamczyk (57) died suddenly on 17th January at her home in Wright Street. Polish/ English Funeral Mass will be held here on 29th January. Eternal rest grant unto her,O Lord..
ANNIVERSARIES: James Anthony Jordan, Herbert & Clarice Blakemore, Edward Maher, Edna Herbert.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION last week was £917 of which £352 was gift aided.
Many thanks for your support and generosity.
READERS: 23th/24th Jan: 6.15pm Stan Wilson, 8.00am Margaret Arrowsmith, 10.30am Margaret Rossall; 30th /31st Jan: 6.15pm Angela Simm, 8.00am John Gunn,10.30am Robert Barnes.
MICHAEL CROSS would like to thank the parishioners for their cards, gifts and messages on his retirement from the post of parish secretary last Friday. They were all much appreciated.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON FILM SESSION: Resumes in the presbytery large dining room 2.15 pm Friday with RESURRECTION: A story about Claudius, a Roman guard, who finds himself in the middle of a cover-up regarding the chaotic events following Jesus of Nazareth’s execution. As he investigates, he finds that the religious authorities, the Roman officials and others are trying to hide something from him…….
Next week (Feb 5th) Assisi – The Hill of Paradise, about the life of St Francis and the holy places of Assisi.
MARRIAGE & FAMILY LIFE MASS: His Grace, our Archbishop will preside at a special Mass on Sunday 21st February at 11.00 am, in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY is held nationally on the 27th January. Here in Chorley, Fr Marsden and fellow Church Leaders from Chorley Churches Together, led a Service of Remembrance yesterday Saturday 23rd, at the Cenotaph. Please remember in prayer, the millions of people murdered in the Nazi Concentration Camps. Please also remember the current persecutions and killings of Christians especially in the Middle East, China, North Korea and elsewhere.
WORLD YOUTH DAY 2016 will take place from 20th July to 2nd August in Krakow, Poland. This is a wonderful experience of the worldwide church for young people taking part, and can be a life-changing experience for some Therefore Chorley Deanery is asked to sponsor the costs of the pilgrimage for one person over the age of 18, at the time of the pilgrimage, to take part in WYD in Krakow. If you would like to apply please contact Fr Marsden, or the parish office by email.