CHORLEY HOSPITAL: Please contact St Joseph’s, Harper’s Lane (262713) if you are scheduled for an operation and 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 4th April for the Easter Bingo. Please note that the next Bingo (following the Easter break) will be on 18th April at 19.45 in the parish centre.
FRIDAY FILM SESSIONS: We next meet on Friday 7th April at 14.00 to watch a film on the life of Blessed Fr Jerzy Popiełuszko, a young Polish Priest, who was Chaplain the Solidarity movement against the communists, and was tortured and brutally murdered in 1984 by the communist secret police.
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.
CHRISM MASS: Wednesday 12th April - Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Coach fare will be £10.00. It is a splendid occasion with the blessing of the Sacred Oils (of catechumens, for the sick, and Sacred Chrism). The Archbishop gives a special address and the priests renew their commitment to serve God and His people. I also encourage families to come with us and pray together in this Great and Holy Week. Please complete the list in the parish office to book a place on the coach and pay your fees at the time of booking. Under-16s travel free.
LAST BOOKING DATE: TUESDAY 4th APRIL. PICK UP TIMES: Adlington: 17.00. St Mary’s Chorley: 17.15 and Police Station at Coppull: 17.30.
SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION: His Grace, Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP will be here on 9th June to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation for the Deanery. Persons over the age of 14 in the Chorley Deanery who have not been confirmed are warmly invited to contact Fr Marsden to make arrangements for a short preparation programme for Confirmation. Please make every effort to make enquiries if someone in your family would wish to receive this very important Sacrament.
TABOR CARMELITES PRESTON. Sat Apr 8th Quiet Day in Preparation for Holy Week. 169 Sharoe Green Lane, Fulwood, Preston PR2 8HE Telephone: 01772 717122. Details http://www.carmelite.net/events.pdf
UPDATE ON REPAIR WORKS: Hopefully we will have the scaffolding down before Holy Week. We aim to start the deep clean next Thursday and Friday. Please join us if you have time. 09.00 start both days. The Assumption Window has had the wind -blown plastic covering replaced, after it blew off with the recent strong winds.
Fr Francis Marsden 01257 262537
and Deacon Norman Arrowsmith
E-mail address:
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
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
2ND APRIL 2017
The sisters sent this message to Jesus, ‘Lord, the man you love is ill.’ On receiving the message, Jesus said, ‘This sickness will end not in death but in God’s glory, and through it the Son of God will be glorified.’
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, yet when he heard that Lazarus was ill he stayed where he was for two more days before saying to the disciples, ‘Let us go to Judaea.’
On arriving, Jesus found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days already. Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to sympathise with them over their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus had come she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus, ‘If you had been here, my brother would not have died, but I know that, even now, whatever you ask of God, he will grant you.’ ‘Your brother’ said Jesus to her ‘will rise again.’ Martha said, ‘I know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said:
‘I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live,
and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?’
‘Yes, Lord,’ she said ‘I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.’
Jesus said in great distress, with a sigh that came straight from the heart, ‘Where have you put him?’ They said, ‘Lord, come and see.’ Jesus wept; and the Jews said, ‘See how much he loved him!’ But there were some who remarked, ‘He opened the eyes of the blind man, could he not have prevented this man’s death?’ Still sighing, Jesus reached the tomb: it was a cave with a stone to close the opening. Jesus said, ‘Take the stone away.’ Martha said to him, ‘Lord, by now he will smell; this is the fourth day.’ Jesus replied, ‘Have I not told you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?’ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said: ‘Father, I thank you for hearing my prayer. I knew indeed that you always hear me, but I speak for the sake of all these who stand round me, so that they may believe it was you who sent me.’
When he had said this, he cried in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, here! Come out!’ The dead man came out, his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a cloth round his face. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, let him go free.’ Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and had seen what he did believed in him.
Sun 2nd FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT (Mass book p.170)
Sat 18.15 Mass – Ian Smith (A)
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – Lauren Owen (A)
14.00 Msza Święta po polsku
16.00 Holy Hour – Adoration, Evening Prayer and Benediction
Mon 3rd St Richard of Chichester
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass – Richard Livesey (A)
Tues 4th St Isidore of Seville
09.30 Morning Prayer, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament (until 11.30)
12.00 Mass – Roland Cross (RIP)
Wed 5th St Vincent Ferrer
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass – Kenneth Henry (LD)
Thurs 6th
12.00 Mass – Gerrard Shaw (b’day remembrance)
Fri 7th St John Baptiste de la Salle, St Henry Walpole
No Morning Prayer or Exposition today.
12.00 Mass – Smith Family (blessings)
19.30 Stations of the Cross, Benediction and Holy Communion
Sat 8th St Julie Billiart
11.00–11.45 Confessions
12.00 Mass – Tom Wilcock (LD)
Sun 9th PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD (Mbook p.176)
Sat 18.15 Mass – Dr Wladyslaw (A) & Leokadia Gray-Grzeczynski,(A) and
Paul Creaner
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – Margaret Bunting (A)
15.00 Service of Reconciliation at St Gregory’s Weld Bank
16.00 Holy Hour – Adoration, Evening Prayer and Benediction
Rosary on Tues, Thurs and Sat after Mass
Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Roland Anderton, Emily Atkins, Emma Beatty, Pauline Bennett, Margaret Bower, Brigid Cain, Michael Carter, John Cheyne, Colin Clarke, Michael Collins, Jill Connor, Melville Coombes, Hughie Daly, John Daniels, Joan Doran, Kathleen Durkin, Sr Frances, Sr Paschal, Mavis Entwistle, Yvonne Finlayson, Mildred Gilhooley, John Green, Ryan Hamer, 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 Penmen, Kathleen Reynolds, Margaret Rice, Canon Bert Shaw, Maureen Taylor, Paul Tiffin, Terry Tingey, Muriel Wilson, Frank Waring, Agnes Young and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall etc.
READERS: 01/02 April: 18.15: Ian McLelland 08.00: Volunteer, 10.30: John Daniels.
Palm Sunday: 18.15: Jeni Wilson and Stan Wilson. 08.00: Dcn. Norman and John Gunn. 10.30: Dcn Norman and Rosemary Grime.
Holy Thursday: 19.30: Gillian Sharples. Good Friday: 15.00 Dcn Norman and Margaret Rossall. Easter Vigil: 20.00 Margaret Rossall, Angela Simm, Jeni Wilson, Kinga Grzeczynska. Easter Sunday: 08.00 Molly Stazicker, 10.30 Dr Jane Eccles.
ANNIVERSARIES: Ian Smith, Lauren Owen, Richard Livesey, Dr Wladyslaw and Leokadia Gray-Grzeczynski, Margaret Bunting. Isobel Butcher.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION last week was £840 of which £531 was Gift Aided. Thank you very much for your generosity. Many thanks for all the donations. Usual monthly Restoration Fund collection this weekend.
The Gift Aid envelopes are ready for collection near the hymn books. Please make sure you take the correct box. If you do not pay Gift Aid, but would like a collection box, please take a box near the side entrance to the resource area. Please note: If you cannot find your usual box number, please ask at the Office.