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 28th February. Bingo at 19.45 in the parish centre.
FRIDAY FILM SESSIONS:. We next meet on Friday 3rd March at 14.00 for the continuation of the film Bakhita, about St Josephine Bakhita, the slave girl saint from Sudan. Everyone welcome.
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 to obtain permission from your own parish priest first.
RESTORATION FUND: Please kindly support the Coffee Morning for the Restoration Fund which is taking place on Tuesday 28th March in the Parish Centre at 10.00 – 13.00. To help to make this event successful, we would really welcome prizes for the Tombola or Raffle, which you can deposit at the parish office. Thank you.
LENTEN ALMS: The box for the Lenten Alms can be found near the statue of St Anthony.
MRS MARIE CROASDALE is leaving us and moving to North Yorkshire. We would like to say thank you to Marie for the daily collection of our post over the years. We wish you well and we hope that everything works out for you in your new home. God bless.
CHRISM MASS DETAILS: On Wednesday 12th April we will travel to the Cathedral in Liverpool for the Chrism Mass, cost will be £10.00. If you have never been to the Chrism Mass, I encourage you to go. It is a splendid occasion and His Grace gives a very special address to his Priests and to the congregation. I also encourage families to come with us and pray together as a family in the Great Holy Week and also to hear the splendor of the choir and the famous Cathedral organ, especially in this Jubilee Year. 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.
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
EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (A)
26TH FEBRUARY 2017
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.
‘That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and how you are to clothe it. Surely life means more than food, and the body more than clothing! Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are we not worth much more than they are? Can any of you, for all his worrying, add one single cubit to his span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his regalia was robed like one of these. Now if that is how God clothes the grass in the field which is there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you men of little faith? So do not worry; do not say, “What are we to eat? What are we to drink? How are we to be clothed?” It is the pagans who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all. Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on his righteousness, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’
Sun 26th Feb EIGHTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (Mass book p.142)
Sat. 18.15 Mass – Norah Carter (A)
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – George and Mary (A) Ormerod
11.45 - 12.45 Yr 4 Catechesis in the parish centre
Mon 27th
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass – Sarah Gildert (LD)
Tues 28th
12.00 Mass - Frank Fulton (A)
Wed 1st March ASH WEDNESDAY
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass – Joseph Whalley (A) School children Yrs 3-6 at Mass
12.00 Mass - LISCF
14.30 Ashes distributed in school for infants and staff
Thurs 2nd
12.00 Mass – John Brennan (LD)
Fri 3rd
09.30-11.45 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, beginning with Morning Prayer
12.00 Mass – Ian Francis Grime (A)
19.30 Stations of the Cross, Benediction and Holy Communion
Sat 4th
11.00–11.45 Confessions
12.00 Mass – Francis Calderbank RIP
Sun 5th FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (Mass book p.151)
Sat 18.15 Mass – Jack and Louise Rogers (LD)
08.00 Mass – Kate Redhead (A)
10.30 Mass – Parishioners
14.00 Msza Święta po polsku
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: Lelia Addy, 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, Leslie Knowles, Doreen Lang, Julie Lowe, Richard Lowe, Tusia Lynch, Debbie MacFarlane, Kevin McCarrick, Frances McHale, Kathleen Mitchell, Veronica Mobbs, Lawrence Moore, Catherine O’Donoghue, Anthony O’Malia, Kathleen Reynolds, Margaret Rice, Canon Bert Shaw, Maureen Taylor, Paul Tiffin, Terry Tingey, Muriel Wilson, Frank Waring, Marie Worden, Agnes Young and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall etc.
LATELY DECEASED: Bernadette Stanton (76) died suddenly (former Deputy Head of St Mary’s School). Eternal rest give unto her, O Lord….. Her funeral will take place at St Chad’s South Hill, Chorley. There are no further details.
ANNIVERSARIES: Fred Southworth, Norah Carter, Mary Ormerod, Frank Fulton, Joseph Whalley, Ian Francis Grime, Kate Redhead.
READERS: 25/26 Feb: 18.15: Kinga Grzeczynska, 08.00: Margaret Arrowsmith, 10.30: John Daniels. 4/5 March: 18.15: Stan Wilson, 08.00: Tony Calderbank, 10.30: Rosemary Grime.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION last week was £786 of which £370 was Gift Aided. Thank you very much for your generosity. Next weekend we have the very important parish collection for the Restoration Fund. The first collection for CAFOD raised £152. Thank you for all the donations to the Restoration Fund.
UPDATE ON REPAIR WORKS: The replacement ceiling boards and wall rails arrived on Thursday and were treated with fungicide. On Friday they had a first coat of paint. Installation will take place on Tuesday 28th and work will stop for midday Mass (because the works are noisy). We then need to wait for the metal bracketing plates for the corroded horizontal beam to be manufactured and installed, to re-plug the beam firmly into the wall.
GIFT AID please remember that the Gift Aid scheme helps the parish considerably. For every pound you give, on which you have already paid income tax, we can claim an extra 25p. If you pay tax, please pick up the salmon coloured form in the Resource Area and fill it in and pop it through the presbytery door. It will not cost you any more money in donations but will be a great help to the parish. If you go to another church and put your envelope in the collection, that parish will return it to us. Thank you.
You can also use St Mary’s envelopes even if you don’t gift aid. Then, if you attend another local church on a particular Sunday, the monies will be returned to us.
Also, please remember St Mary’s Parish in your will. You can always attach a codicil to a will already made, bequeathing the parish a definite sum, valid so long as it has your signature and that of two witnesses.