455955 CHURCH Sr Veronica 424665
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Theme: I am the Saviour of all people, says the Lord. Whatever their troubles, I will answer their cry, and I will always be their Lord.
WELCOME TO NEW PARISHIONERS / VISITORS
Please fill in our new Record Form, or if you move house within the parish-please amend a new form.
6.00 (Vigil Mass) The Parish
10.00 Dewhurst family intentions / Michael Dunne RIP
6.00 In thanksgiving prayers answered (EH)
St Matthew
9.00 Constantine (Romania)
11.15 Funeral service Harold Chippendale (Charnock Richard)
12.15 Marian Kirk
8.00 (with Schools) Fred Wilkinson
12.15 For a recently deceased friend in Ireland
9.00 Kathleen Martin & Noel Murphy
12.15 Gerard Gaughran
8.00 (Alverna) Teresa McDermott B’day remem
12.15 The Parish
Friday 25th September St Ceolfrid
9.00 Lanty McDermott Anniv
12.15 Sydney Knowles B’day remembrance.
9.00 Katy Lancaster
6.00 (Vigil Mass) The Parish / John Quaine’s ints
9.30 Singo family
Confessions Saturday 9.30 - 10.00 a.m. (or when they end) and 5.00 - 6.00 p.m. Also Confessions at any time. Ring for a mutually convenient time with one of the priests.
Last Sunday: Offertory Loose Plate £600.03 Gift Aid £243
For Gift Aid contact Gerry Brown 431002 Many thanks!
The Congregation says: May this sacrament unite them with Christ and his Church and give them consolation and peace.
Exposition is at any time that you can make it. We have the rota for watching and we hope it covers much of the week. You are welcome to pop in any time. -Contact the Priory for enquiries
THE PARISH FAMILY
PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL OUR SICK Jim & Joan Madden (Fr Abbot’s parents), Maggie Ashbolt, Francis Clark, Maire Jones, Jim McKay, Agnes Bennett, Lynn Hamer, Joe Copeman, Mark Clements, Toni Gannon, Brian Pooley Dot Reynolds, Patricia Duffy, Maria Brennan, Susan McCarthy, John Hampson, Walburga Hall, Gordon Cottle, Moyra Haynes, Joyce Wilcox, Danny Bonner, Annie Kelly, Eve Hankin, Frances Rice, Tracey Anne Holly, Evelyn Swarbrick, Gerald Ralphs, Eileen Kenyon, Tegan Hyslop (5yrs), Paul Bruce, Martin Glancy, Edith Rice, Alice Ogden, Graham Halstead, Baby Casey Cross, Baby Liam Hodkinson, and connected with us, Eric Woof, Ami Froehlick, Loreena Fairhurst, Audrey Padmore, Alicia Middlemas (friend of Maria, Brenda) Malcolm Pyman, Peter Mee and Frank Dever Long-term sick are prayed for each day at mass. Let us know those who you wish to pray for by Thursday of each week.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL OUR DEPARTED: Especially Harold Chippendale and Michael Dunne who died recently and the following whose anniversaries occur about this time: Margaret Nightingale, Teresa Murray, Agnes Cooke, John Dickinson and Joseph Nigel Blake Morgan
Pastoral Letter from Archbishop Patrick
No Journey in Faith Youth Group 7 – 9 pm
Family Rota of Prayer: Cath Sullivan, 35 Anderton Road
Monday: Word of Life 7 - 8pm
Tuesday: Prayer Meeting Alverna 7.30pm
S.V.P. Abbot H Room 8 pm
Thursday: Vigil from 8 p m to 10pm in honour of the Relics of St Therese being at our Cathedral and to pray for Vocations.
Senior Youth Group 6.45 pm
NEXT SUNDAY: Journey in Faith 5 – 6 pm
Youth Group 7 – 9 pm
Relics of St Therese of Lisieux will be in our Cathedral 3pm Thursday 24 to 3pm Friday 25th and in Preston Carmel on Monday 28th Sept from 11am to 3pm.
Needed for the Drama Production of ‘Bah Humbug’ – the Drama Group are looking for 2 males to participate in the Drama Group pantomime being performed on 28, 29 and 30 January 2010. We need someone to play Scrooge (large part) and Mr Fezziwig (small part) and to be available to rehearse on Thursday nights and possible Sundays. Please contact Catherine Sullivan on 07866741734.
Tuesday Evening Prayer Meeting is starting again on 22nd September at ‘Alverna’ 35 Westgate. Would you like to join us? See you at 7.30 pm
The Great North Run 2009 good luck to Tim Sullivan, Gemma Boys and Katherine Brown and all running 13.1 miles today in Newcastle. All monies raised by him are in aid of Cafod.
Please give blood - Monday 21st September between 2 – 4 pm and 5.30 – 7.30 pm at South Ribble Civic Centre. See poster for more details. The next opportunity to give blood will be Thursday 8th October. Venue and times the same. See poster on notice board.
Wednesday Word-This is the free leaflet to help us prepare for the following Sunday’s readings, it is available each week from the box on the table in the Narthex by the Holy water stoop. If anyone has used it and would like to make a comment or feedback on how useful they found it please let us know in the Priory house (verbally or written just a few lines) so we can share with other parishioners.
Mission Boxes will be emptied before 26th September. Thank you to all concerned
Cafod’s Campaign – Our climate is in our hands. Please take one of the hand shaped leaflets, complete it and send it off. The world’s poorest people are most at risk. But hand in hand with our brothers and sisters worldwide, we demand a fair deal to tackle climate change. We can make a difference.
November service with photos of those who have died Please let us have the photos of those dear to you ready for our visual and prayerful evening that will be at 6.30pm on Tuesday 3rd November 6.30pm. We cannot put up photos if you do not give us them so do not be disappointed. We need them by Sunday 11th October. Please hand in to the Priory house in an envelope with "the name of the deceased person and with your name and address for us to return it to you", or you can send them by email on: administratorstmarysleyland@btconnect.com
Saints this week We have two pictures of recent Saints: St Therese of Lisieux and Padre Pio, a picture of the statue of our Lady of Walsingham and St. Ceolfrid this week.
Padre Pio May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968 born Francesco Forgione (same as our Leyland parishioners) who was a Capuchin friar and priest, famous for the stigmata.
St Therese or Lisieux 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897 was French Carmelite nun, a Doctor of the Church and patron of Missionaries. Her relics will visit us this coming week
Saint Ceolfrid was born in Northumbria in 642 and died on 23 September 716 on the way to Rome in France. Abbot of Wearmouth and was important for his work as a scholar and bringing England into line with Rome.
Walsingham Shrine founded in 1061 is known as England’s Nazareth and when people could not reach Rome, Jerusalem or Compostella they went there for centuries.
500 CLUB CONGRATULATIONS! £100
Dreams and Visions-Pastoral Formation Department invites Laity and Clergy to a Day of Pastoral Planning and Formation to look at how having a sound pastoral planning process can help to build a solid team. There will be the chance to hear and share good practices from various parishes around the Diocese. The Day is led by Bill Huebsch who is from America and is well known for his expertise as a speaker and writer on parish life and ministry. The day will take place at LACE on Saturday 26th September from 10.00 am until 3.15 pm (Fr Ambrose will be going and is happy to give anyone a lift. If ten people go we get a discount)
A Celebration Mass for and with Disabled People Sunday 4th October at 3 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral. See poster on notice board for more details.
Music for Advent Saturday 10th October at St Oswald’s Church, Liverpool from 10.30 – 1 pm. See poster on notice board for more details.
A Musical Evening with Marty Haugen Friday 16th October from 7.30 – 9.30 pm at LACE, Croxteth Drive, Liverpool. See poster for more details.
Day of Renewal Saturday 24th October 10 am – 4 pm at the Salesian Convent in Cumbria. See poster on notice board for more details
A Day in honour of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday 31st October from 11.00 12.30 pm at the Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool. See poster on notice board for more details.
St Mary’s Youth Group invite you to be ‘Taught a Lesson’ a murder mystery. St Mary’s Parish Centre, Saturday 21 November. Details to follow…..
Jesus is not encouraging you to be inactive or passive about earthly things, to be irresponsible or superficial about your work. Jesus wants to change being ‘concerned about’ things into being ‘concerned with’ things, and set you free from anxiety, fear, restlessness. Indeed, he says: "Seek ‘first’ the kingdom . . ." ‘First’ means ‘more than anything else’. The search for God’s kingdom is put in first place, but it does not exclude the Christian from being concerned with the necessities of life. "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness . . . "means, then, living up to God’s demands made manifest by Jesus in his Gospel. Only by seeking the kingdom of God does the Christian experience the marvellous power of the Father working on his or her behalf.
Copies of the full text are on the table in front of the Piety shop
Saints of the Week (continued)
Saint Matthew is the Evangelist of the first Gospel and is responsible for the Words that give life under the Holy Spirit. Traditionally he is known as the tax collector who left everything to follow Jesus. Like all the apostles he was martyred like Jesus.
