CHORLEY HOSPITAL: Please contact St Joseph's Presbytery, 01257 262713, if any member of your family is admitted into Chorley Hospital and would appreciate a visit. In an emergency ask the staff to get the hospital switchboard to contact immediately the on-call Catholic Priest.
ST ANNE’S GUILD: next meets on Tues 31st Oct 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 Sunday Masses.
FRIDAY FILM SESSIONS: We meet on Friday 3rd November at 14.00. The film is: Understanding the Papacy.
ANNUAL MASS COUNT; finishes this weekend. Please record the numbers on the sheet provided in the sacristy. Thank you to the collectors.
SAFEGUARDING NOTICE
Please note: If you need to see Fr Marsden or the celebrating priest, please approach him after Mass rather than before. Please keep to a minimum persons going in and out of the sacristy before Mass commences. Any priest needs to have some quiet preparation before Mass and the Altar Servers need to vest quietly without being disturbed.
With regards to Little Church, parents are encouraged to come along for two visits accompanying their children. If parents wish to continue to be with their children during Little Church time, you will be asked to have a DBS check.
Thank you for your cooperation.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FR MAYNE 88 on 1st November. We think that Fr Mayne is the oldest serving Parish Priest in the Liverpool Archdiocese. God bless you.
Fr Francis Marsden
and Deacon Norman Arrowsmith
E-mail address: 01257 262537
Parish website: www.stmarys-chorley.org
Roman Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool. http://www.liverpoolmetrocathedral.org.uk
Parish Office hours: Tues. Thurs, Fri. 09.30-11.55 and 2- 4. Wed. 10-1 and 2-4.
OUTSIDE OF THESE TIMES BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Parish Centre: 270122 or 07971025 985 (Manager – Heather Roscoe)
LIVERPOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESAN TRUSTEES INC. Registered Charity No. 232709
St Mary’s Catholic Church Chorley
SUNDAY XXX IN ORDINARY TIME
29th October 2017
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.’
Sun 29th SUNDAY XXX (Mass book p.146)
Sat. 18.15 Mass – Elizabeth Jane Firth (A)
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – Frances Bond (A)
11.45 Baptism - Robert McMahon
14.00 Msza Święta po polsku
Mon 30th
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass – Eileen O’Neil (A)
Tues 31st
09.30 - 11.45 Morning Prayer, Exposition
12.00 Mass– Eddie McCrory (A)
19.30 Mass – Roland Cross RIP
Wed 1st Nov ALL SAINTS
(Holy Day of Obligation)
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass – Pious List
09.45-11.50 Solemn Annual Exposition
of the Blessed Sacrament
12.00 Mass – Parishioners
12.45-19.30 Solemn Annual Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
19.00 Evening Prayer
19.30 Benediction to end the day’s Exposition
Thurs 2nd ALL SOULS (ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED)
09.00 Mass – Pious List
09.45-11.50 Solemn Annual Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
12.00 Mass – Graham Mawdsley (LD)
12.45-19.30 Solemn Annual Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
13.15 Blessing of Graves in Chorley Cemetery
19.30 Mass – Donna Harrison (safe delivery of baby)
Fri 3rd St Martin de Porres, St Winifride of Holywell
09.30 - 11.45 Morning Prayer, Exposition
12.00 Mass – Pious List
Litany of the Sacred Heart after Mass
Sat 4th St Charles Borromeo First Saturday – Our Lady of Fatima Service
11.00 – 11.45 Confessions
12.00 Mass – Pious List
Sun 5th SUNDAY XXXI (Year A - Mass book p.149)
Sat.18.15 Mass – Smith Family
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – Pious List
Commissioning of new Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communions during Mass
Please remember that Wed 1st November is a Holyday of Obligation, the beautiful Feast of All Saints, which celebrates the worldwide community of Saints in heaven, the famous and the unknown – no doubt some of our loved ones who loved the Lord Jesus, led good and holy lives and are already with God in glory. There will be a Vigil Mass at 7.30 pm on Tues 31st, and Mass at 9.00 and 12 noon on Wednesday. There is also a Wednesday evening Mass at 7.30 pm at Sacred Heart Brooke St. Please pencil one of these times in your diaries and make sure you have time to come and enjoy the Festive Mass.
Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Emily Atkins, Emma Beatty, Pauline Bennett, Margaret Bower, Brigid Cain, Christine Caunce, Michael Carter, John Cheyne, Colin Clarke, Helen Collins, Michael Collins, Melville Coombes, Hughie Daly, Joan Doran, Sr Frances, Sr Paschal, Mavis Entwistle, Grace (14), Yvonne Finlayson, Mildred Gilhooley, Desmond Gorman, John Green, Martin Henry, Fr Bernard Higham, John Johnson, Joan Jones, Lynda Keeley, Bernard Kenyon, 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, Nora O’Neill, Edna Penman, Margaret Rice, Canon Bert Shaw, Mgr. Jan Szponar, Maureen Taylor, Paul Tiffin, Terry Tingey, Bridget Trimm, Muriel Wilson, Frank Waring, Agnes Young and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall.
READERS: 22/29 Oct: 18.15 ian McLelland; 08.00 John Gunn; 10.30 John Brown. 4/5 Nov: 18.15: Robert Langford; 08.00: Margaret Arrowsmith; 10.30: Sr Cecilia.
ANNIVERSARIES: Elizabeth Jane Firth, Frances Bond, Eileen O’Neil, Eddie McCrory.
Catherine McCarrick.
RECENTLY DECEASED: James Slater (89)
OFFERTORY COLLECTION last week was £899 of which £555 was gift aided. World Mission Day collected £148. Next weekend is the Restoration Fund collection. Thank you for your great generosity.
CONGRATULATIONS: Mark and Sarah Poole who were married here on Saturday. God bless them in their married life together.
PIOUS LISTS AND ENVELOPES are still available for you to complete.
ANNUAL EXPOSITION – QUARANT’ORE is on 1st November - All Saints’ Day and 2nd November - All Souls. Envelopes are available for donations for the flowers and candles. Each candle can be a prayer offering for your families, or your grandchildren, thanksgiving or prayers for health. Flowers can be donated with similar intentions.
OCTOBER ROSARY: Thank you to everyone who participated in praying the Holy Rosary. Please can we carry on. Thank you.
ST MARY’S FRIENDS OF UGANDA: Coffee Morning on Tuesday 7th November, in the parish centre (free admission) at 10.00 -13.30. There will be the usual raffle, tombola, bric a brac, clothes and refreshments. Items for the tombola or raffle would be gratefully appreciated. Thank you.
NEW EXTRA-ORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION: Four people have successfully completed the Liverpool Archdiocesan training for EOMs of Holy Communion. Their Commissioning will take place during the 10.30 am Sunday Mass
on 5th November.
BISHOPS OF ENGLAND, WALES & SCOTLAND JOINT STATEMENT ON ABORTION - OCT 23rd 2017 Executive Summary
This statement, published by the Catholic Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 UK Abortion Act, is addressed not only to Catholics of our countries, but more broadly to all people who seek to uphold the dignity of human life and protect the unborn child. Over the last fifty years, the bishops of our countries, along with many other people, have spoken consistently in favour of the intrinsic value of human life and both the good of the child in the womb and the good of the mother. This anniversary provides an opportunity to lament the loss of life due to abortion and seek a change of minds and hearts about the good of the child in the womb and the care of mothers who are pregnant.
Fifty years ago, few envisaged the possibility of that there would be almost 200,000 abortions in Great Britain in 2015. Every abortion is a tragedy and few consider that abortion is the desirable or best solution to a pregnancy, which may be challenging on account of many different factors. The complex set of conditions in which a woman finds herself pregnant and may consider having an abortion may limit the exercise of freedom and diminish moral culpability. When abortion is the choice made by a woman, the unfailing mercy of God and the promise of forgiveness through the Sacrament of Reconciliation are always available. There is always a way home to a deeper relationship with God and the Church, as recent Popes have emphasised, which can heal and bring peace.
Today the language of 'choice' dominates discourse about marriage, gender, family and abortion. This needs further exploration. Choice has come to mean doing whatever I feel to be right for me - a very subjective view of the good - rather than taking into account a wider set of fundamental values. This is a very inadequate understanding of free choice, which requires an education in important truths about what is truly good and the possibility of other options. In this case, these must include the good of the unborn child, care and support for pregnant mothers, and the responsibility of the father.
This statement presents a number of different challenges for the future: a new understanding of the intrinsic value and worth of every human life in the womb, a better protection of unborn children diagnosed with a disability, a great need for education in moral responsibility about human sexuality and the meaning of sexual expression within marriage. Many professionals face the challenge that respect for conscientious objection against abortion has been eroded. Personal conscience is inviolable and nobody should be forced to act against his or her properly informed conscience on these matters. We encourage greater debate about this right and these challenges in our society.
Finally we thank many people, of religious faith and none, who have sought to protect unborn life and the life of the mother over the last fifty years; mothers who have continued their pregnancies in difficult circumstances, politicians who have sought to reform the legislation to better protect unborn life, those people whose prayers have been offered for greater respect to be shown to the wonder of the life in the womb, for mothers and those whose lives are cut short by abortion. Together let us better cherish life.