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 call in whoever is the on-call priest via the switchboard.
NEXT BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE: Would parents please contact Fr Marsden or Deacon Norman personally, after one of the weekend Masses, if they wish to make baptism arrangments. Course is on 4th and 11th April commencing 7 - 8.15pm.
ST ANNE’S GUILD: Bingo this Tuesday 5th April 2016 at 7.45 pm in the Parish Centre.
APF-MILL HILL: APF promoters will still be contacting “red box” holders to collect donations for the work of the APF-Mill Hill missions throughout the world. Thank you to everyone for faithfully supporting themissions, the totalamount raisedby St Mary's parishioners during 2015 has been confirmed at £3,940.89.
HEALING PRAYER CARDS are available for the sick and housebound. You can find them on the press in the sacristy or at Our Lady’s Altar. Please take one for the sick. Thank you.
BIBLE BASIC SERIES: a walk through the Old Testament. A series of 5 interactive sessions looking at some of the key characters and stories of the Old Testament that help us unlock the truth of the New Testament. Discover how the story of the people of Israel is our story, with all the joys, sorrows, triumphs and failures of our own walk with God. Thursdays 14th April – 12th May 7.30 -9.30pm at St Wilfrid’s Parish Centre, Preston. For more details please see poster at the back of Church or contact Joe/Ruth on 07957 566741
LIVERPOOL ARCHDIOCESE has joined the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends (ASDF) and is commited to making the ASDF awareness session in all our parish communities. We need people who have completed the one-day training and become Dementia Friends Champions. If you are already a Champion or would like to become one, please contact Maureen Knight at Pastoral Formation; 0151 522 1046 . The archdiocesan action plan can be viewed at www.dementiaaction.org.uk/ listed under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool.
Fr Francis Marsden 01257 262537
and Deacon Norman Arrowsmith
E-mail address:
Parish website: www.stmarys-chorley.org
Office hours Tues- Friday 9.00-1.00 (except Mass), 2.00-4.00 pm
Parish Centre: 270122 or 0797 1025 985 (Manager – Heather Roscoe)
LIVERPOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESAN TRUSTEES INC. Registered Charity No. 232709
St Mary’s Catholic Church Chorley
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
3rd April 2016
In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you’, and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord, and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. ‘As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’
After saying this he breathed on them and said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. For those whose sins you forgive,they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained.’
Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. When the disciples said, ‘We have seen the Lord’, he answered, ‘Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Doubt no longer but believe.’ Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him:
‘You believe because you can see me. Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe.’
There were many other signs that Jesus worked and the disciples saw, but they are not recorded in this book. These are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing this you may have life through his name.
MASSES, MASS INTENTIONS AND SERVICES
Rosary after Holy Mass - Tues,Thurs and Sat
Sun 3rd April DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY (EASTER II) (Mass book p.263)
Sat 18.15 Mass – Gerard Shaw
08.00 Mass – Parishioners
10.30 Mass – Lauren Owen (A)
15.00 Divine Mercy Service followed by Mass at Sacred Heart Church
Mon 4th April ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass – Sue Mason (sick)
19.00 Baptism Course in presbytery
Tue 5th April
09.30-11.45 Morning Prayer (9.30) and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
12.00 Bernard and Alice (A) Joyce
Wed 6th April
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Liturgy of the Word and Holy Communion
Thurs 7th April St Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, St Henry Walpole
12.00 Mass – M.S. (sick)
Fri 8th April
09.30-11.45 Morning Prayer (9.30) and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
11.30 Divine Mercy Chaplet
12.00 Mass- Leokadia (A) Władysław
Gray-Grzeczynski, Paul Creaner
Sat 9th April
PLEASE NOTE: NO CONFESSIONS TODAY
12.00 Mass – Agnes and Nellie Lee (A)
Sun 10th April THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
(C) (Mass book p.266)
Sat 18.15 Mass – Violet Moore (A)
08.00 Mass – . Parishioners
10.30 Mass - Audrey Jackson (LD)
11.45 Baptism: Emily Grace Walsh
14.00 Msza Swieta po polsku
Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Lelia Addy, Rita Almond, Roland Anderton, Emily Atkins, Connie Atkinson, Frances Bond, Emma Beatty, Pauline Bennett, Brigid Cain, Marie Cannon, Michael Collins, Melville Coombes, Hughie Daly, Monica Donalds, Joan Doran, Sister Frances, Yvonne Finlayson, Gerry Harrison, Martin Henry, Simon Holcroft, John Johnson, Joan Jones, Doreen Lang, Julie 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, Sam Round, Paul Tiffin, Frank Waring, and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall etc.
ANNIVERSARIES: Mary Jones, Lauren Owen, Alice Joyce, Leokadia Gray-Grzeczyńska, Agnes and Nellie Lee, Violet Moore.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION last week was £1233 of which £593 was gift aided. Next weekend there will be a collection for the Priests Training Fund. Envelopes can be found in the resource area. Many thanks for your great support and generosity.
READERS: 2/3 April: 18.15 Angela Simm, 08.00 Anthony Calderbank, 10.30 Simon Eccles. 9/10: 18.15 Jeni Wilson, 08.00 Greta Fazakerley, 10.30 Marion Herbert.
FUNERAL OF MARK TURNER will take place on Thursday 7th April at 2.00pm at St Chad’s Church, South Hill.
A WARM WELCOME TO FR JAMES SMALE CSsR from the Redemptorists at Bishop Eton, Liverpool, who will be making a mission appeal next weekend, 9th/10th April. Please make Fr Smale welcome.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON FILM SESSION: The next film will be on 15th April in the presbytery large dining room.
GIFT AID ENVELOPES: The boxes addressed with your names containing your new numbered envelopes are in the resource area. You will need them for this week’s donations. They have only just arrived from Ireland.
QUOTATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION
“Thousands and tens of thousands have gone through the evidence which attests the resurrection of Christ, piece by piece, as carefully as ever a judge summed up on the most important case. I have myself done it many times over, not to persuade others, but to satisfy myself. I have been used for many years to study the history of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence of those who have written about them, and I know of no fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fitter evidence and every kind.” – Thomas Arnold, educator and historian.
“I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.” - Albert Einstein
“The early church didn't experience explosive growth in the face of relentless persecution for believing the resurrection was a metaphor.” ― David D. Flowers
“Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.” ― N.T. Wright
“No shred of evidence has yet been discovered in literary sources, epigraphy or archaeology that would disprove that the tomb in which Jesus was buried was actually empty on the morning of the 1st Easter.” Dr. Paul L. Maier (a prominent professor of ancient history):
“According to the laws of legal evidence used in courts of law, there is more evidence for the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ than for just about any other event in history.” Dr. Simon Greenleaf (Harvard University professor of Law)
“There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.” - Brooke Foss Wescott (Anglican bishop and N.T. Greek scholar)