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: meets on Tuesday 6th and 13th September. Bingo as usual at 19.45 in the parish centre.
SVP AWARENESS MONTH: On the display board in the narthex you will find very interesting information about the SVP. Please take a moment to read it.
BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE: Would parents please contact Deacon Norman personally, after one of the weekend Masses, if they wish to enquire about baptism arrangements. Next preparation course is booked in for Mon 26th Sept and 3rd October at 19.00-20.15 in the little meeting room.
ADVANCE NOTICE - YEAR OF MERCY PILGRIMAGE TO THE CATHEDRAL
Archbishop Mc Mahon has invited each Deanery of the Archdiocese in turn to the Cathedral for a Year of Mercy Celebration. On Saturday 8th October the Chorley Deanery - all the priests and as many people as possible, are asked to come to the Cathedral on pilgrimage We will enter via the Door of Mercy at 10.00 and will then be addressed by Canon O’Brien the Cathedral Dean. Our deanery priests will take us around the Stations of Mercy in the Cathedral.
A Service of Reconciliation will take place at 10.45 with the opportunity for individual confessions. At 12.15 the Archbishop will celebrate Holy Mass and the Deanery Priests will concelebrate. Please bring a picnic lunch which we will have after Mass. There is also the opportunity to visit the Museum in the Crypt.
The coach will leave West Street car park at 08.30 and will leave the Cathedral at 15.00. Cost £10.00 per adult and £5.00 for under-16s. Please book your place at the parish office if you wish to go. Bookings taken from 15th- 27th September in the parish office. Payment at time of booking, please.
Please note there will be neither confessions nor 12 noon Mass here on that day (Oct 8th) at St Mary’s. These are available at the Cathedral. The Archbishop wants as many people and priests as possible to take part in this Year of Mercy Pilgrimage.
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
SUNDAYS XXIII and XXIV IN ORDINARY TIME
4th & 11th September 2016
Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. ‘If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
‘And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all start making fun of him and saying, “Here is a man who started to build and was unable to finish.” Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who advanced against him with twenty thousand? If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace. So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.’
MASSES, MASS INTENTIONS AND SERVICES
Rosary is recited Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays after Mass
Sun 4th Sept TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Mbk p133)
Sat 18.15 Mass – Edward Ostick (birthday memories)
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – Sr Cecilia Snape – Golden Jubilee of Profession in the
Order of the Holy Child Jesus
Mon 5th Sept
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass – John Paul Joyce
Tue 6th Sept
09.30-11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition
12.00 Mass – Bernard Urmston
Wed 7th Sept
No Morning Prayer
12.00 noon Funeral Mass – Brenda Clare Wells
Thurs 8th Sept Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary
12.00 Mass – Theresa Goulding (LD)
Fri 9th Sept St Peter Claver
09.30–11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition
11.30 Divine Mercy Chaplet
12.00 Mass – Canon Roger Daley
Sat 10th Sept St Ambrose Barlow
11.00-11.45 Confessions
12.00 Mass – Mary (LD) and Colin Campbell
Sun 11th Sept TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (Mbk p.136)
Sat 18.15 Mass – Imelda (A) and Thomas Roscoe
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – Fr John Smith (A)
14.00 Msza Święta po polsku
Mon 12th Sept The Holy Name of Mary
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass - John Urmston (LD)
Tues 13th Sept St John Chrysostom
09.30-11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition
12.00 Mass – Parishioners who are ill
Wed 14th Sept Exaltation of Holy Cross
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass - Theresa Gallagher (LD)
Thurs 15th Sept Our Lady of Sorrows
12.00 Mass - Theresa Goulding (LD)
Fri 16th Sept SS Cornelius and Cyprian
09.30 – 11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition
12.00 Mass - Jan and Maria Lavrič
Sat 17th Sept St Robert Bellarmine
11.00 -11.45 Confessions
12.00 Mass - Jack Parkinson and Peter Whittle
Sun 18th Sept TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Sat. 18.15 Mass - Albert Harvey
08.00 Mass - Parishioners
10.30 Mass - Stanley Eccles (A)
Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Lelia Addy, Roland Anderton, Emily
Atkins, Connie Atkinson, Frances Bond, Emma Beatty, Pauline Bennett, Margaret Bower, Brigid Cain, Marie Cannon, Michael Collins, Jill Connor, Melville Coombes, Hughie Daly, John Daniels, Monica Donalds, Joan Doran, Sr Frances, Sr Paschal, Mavis Entwistle, Yvonne Finlayson, John Green, Gerry Harrison, Martin Henry, Simon Holcroft, John Johnson, Joan Jones, Doreen Lang, Julie Lowe, Richard 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, Samuel Round, Paul Tiffin, Terry Tingey, Frank Waring, Marie Worden and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall etc.
LATELY DEAD: Brenda Clare Wells (78) died 23rd August at the Royal Preston Hospital. Her Requiem Mass will be at 12.00 noon on Wednesday 7th September.
ANNIVERSARIES: Imelda Roscoe, Fr John Smith, Stanley Eccles.
EDUCATION DAY: 11th September. There will be a retiring collection to go towards the annual School Levy which the parish has to pay of around £6 per Mass-goer.
READERS: 11/12 Sept: 18.15 Ian McLelland, 08.00 Volunteer, 10.30 Margaret Rossall; 17/18 Sept: 18.15 John Brown, 08.00 Monica Wilcock, 10.30 Robert Barnes.
PLEASE WELCOME FR JOZEF SKOWRON SDB who is resident while Fr Marsden is away for the remaining part of his annual leave. Fr Jozef was at Lisieux Hall for two years, 2013-15 so he knows the deanery area well.
CHORLEY HOSPITAL: Please come and join us at the Euxton Lane entrance 10.00-11.00 on Saturdays, to join in the protest against Chorley A&E closure. If we do not protest about this closure, soon there may be no NHS hospital left in Chorley. One hears stories of Wigan and Blackburn A&E departments being at times overwhelmed, and asking people not to come unless absolutely necessary.
FOUND – AN ETERNITY RING: Have you lost your eternity ring? Please let us have a full description if you are claiming this lost property as your own.
SPECTACLES: The sacristy windowsill is now home to several lost pairs of spectacles, ranging from very expensive ones to more economical specimens. You must know if you have lost your glasses - after all, you probably paid a lot of money for them! Please ask Deacon Norman for further details and collect your lost glasses (unless you cannot see this notice!).
SAFEGUARDING TEAM: Please remember the date and time of the next training session: St Marie’s Standish on 17th September. All details are on the main notice board in the Safeguarding section.
ST BERNADETTE’S STATUE: We are expecting the new statue of St Bernadette to arrive soon and be put into place. Many people have asked if we are going to cover her and protect her from damage. Please let me know your views. It is hard to understand why some odd people take out their frustrations or their malevolence on poor Bernadette!
WELCOME TO THE TWO NEW DEANERY PRIESTS: Fr Bill Simpson is settling into his new post at St Chad’s from 10th September. We wish him well. Please remember him in your prayers. Fr Graeme Dunne is arriving a bit later at St Gregory’s to take over there.
RELIGIOUS DISCERNMENT WEEKEND FOR WOMEN: The Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a very successful Order, founded by Mary Ward (York, 1585 – 1645) are having a discernment weekend in York on 30th September – 2nd October. If you are considering a vocation as a nun, then please look at the further information which is available on 01904 643238 or