CHORLEYHOSPITAL: 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 Tuesday27thSeptember. Bingo as usual at 19.45 in the parish centre.
BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE:Would parents please contact Fr Marsden or Deacon Norman personally, after one of the weekend Masses, if they wish to enquire about baptism arrangements. 26th Sept and 3rd October are the dates for the next Monday evenings course (19.00-20.15)
ADVANCE NOTICE - YEAR OF MERCY PILGRIMAGE TO THE CATHEDRAL
ArchbishopMc 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 by Friday 30th September.
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. TheArchbishop wants as many people and priests as possible to take part in this Year of Mercy Pilgrimage.
VISITOR FROM BELARUS: Sister Olga, a nun from St Elizabeth’s Convent in Minsk, Belarus, will be here after 12 noon Mass on Friday to sell some icons, crucifixes, holy pictures, some-home made by the sisters.
Fr Francis Marsden 01257 262537
and Deacon Norman Arrowsmith
E-mail address:
Parish website:
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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TWENTY- SIXTHSUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
25th September 2016
Jesus said to the Pharisees, ‘There was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and feast magnificently every day. And at his gate there lay a poor man called Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to fill himself with the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even came and licked his sores. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
‘In his torment in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off with Lazarus in his bosom. So he cried out, “Father Abraham, pity me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.” “My son,” Abraham replied “remember that during your life good things came your way, just as bad things came the way of Lazarus. Now he is being comforted here while you are in agony. But that is not all: between us and you a great gulf has been fixed, to stop anyone, if he wanted to, crossing from our side to yours, and to stop any crossing from your side to ours.”
‘The rich man replied, “Father, I beg you then to send Lazarus to my father’s house, since I have five brothers, to give them warning so that they do not come to this place of torment too.” “They have Moses and the prophets,” said Abraham “let them listen to them..” “Ah no, father Abraham,” said the rich man “but if someone comes to them from the dead, they will repent.” Then Abraham said to him, “If they will not listen either to Moses or to the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone should rise from the dead.”’
MASSES, MASS INTENTIONS AND SERVICES
Rosary is recited Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays after Mass
Sun25thSept TWENTY-SIXTHSUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Mbk p143)
Sat 18.15Mass – Paul and Margareet
08.00Mass – Parishioners
10.30Mass – George (A) and Mary Ormerod
14.00 Msza Świeta po polsku
Mon 26thSept Ss Cosmas and Damian
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass –Olive Turner (A)
19.00Baptism Preparation Course (part 1)
Tue27thSept
09.30-11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition
12.00 Mass –Harry Carter (birthday remembrance)
18.30Yr 4 parents meeting in school
Wed 28thSept St. Wenceslaus
08.40 Morning Prayer
09.00 Mass –Mgr Leo Alston (A)
Thurs29thSeptARCHANGELS MICHAEL, GABRIEL AND RAPHAEL
12.00Mass –Jim (A) and May Roden
Fri 30thSept St Jerome
09.30–11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition
11.30Divine Mercy Chaplet
12.00Mass –Margaret and Mark Turner (Sp. Int.)
Sat 1st OctoberSt Teresa of the Child Jesus
11.00-11.45Confessions
12.00 Mass–Michael Joyce
Fatima Prayers after Mass
Sun 2nd OctTWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME(Mbk p.146)
Sat 18.15Mass –Parishioners
8.00Mass – Tom (Sp.Int)
10.30Mass –Thomas Gunn (A)
11.45-12.45 Yr 4 catechesis
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, 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.
ANNIVERSARIES:George Ormerod, Olive Turner, Mgr Leo Alston, Thomas Gunn.
OFFERTORY COLLECTIONlast week was £874 of which £443 was gift aided. Home Mission Sunday raised £289. Restoration Fund next week and also next weekend there will be the annual CAFOD collection.
READERS: 24/25 Sept: 18.15 Gillian Sharples, 08.00 Molly Stazicker, 10.30 Rosemary Grime; 1st /2nd Oct: 18.15 Kinga Grzeczynska, 08.00 Margaret Arrowsmith, 10.30 Caty Cross.
OCTOBER is the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary. Please would someone lead the rosary after each Mass. Thank you.
MASS COUNT: Collectors, please remember to take a count of attendance during every one of the weekend Masses during October. Please be sure that you record the numbers on the sheet in the sacristy.Thank you.
MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING: Friday 30th September in the Parish Centre at 10.00 – 14.00. If you are able to spare any prizes for the tombola, kindly give them to Heather Roscoe by Thursday. Thank you for supporting this very worthy cause.