St. Joseph’s Newsletter – 22nd October 2017
Bonus Ball Winner: 7 – Joe Ryan
Offertory - £1802.17 (inc. standing orders)
CAFOD – (next week)
Sanctuary Lamp
Paul and Ted Gallagher
(Anniversary Remembrance)
Marian Candle
Una Redmond
(Birthday Remembrance)
Lately Dead
Carmel Doherty, Paddy McGuire,
UCM
Saturday 21st October – Business Meeting at the Gibberd Room, Liverpool Cathedral 1pm-3pm
Final payment for the Mill House Christmas Lunch is £15 + £3.50 for coach, to be paid by 2nd November.
October’s Bingo raised £84.30
13th November BINGO at 1.30pm in St. Joseph’s Parish Centre
St. Joseph’s Gardening Team will meet again on Saturday 28th October when there will probably lots of leaves to sweep up! New members will be made very welcome Usual T & C’s will apply!
Mass for the Men of St. Joseph’s Parish
On the last Friday of each month, commencing 27th October, there will be a Mass for the men of our parish. Afterwards, we can gather in the Parish Centre for a glass or two of lemonade/other?
Lourdes by coach at Christmas, departs 22nd December 2017, no overnight travel, 4* Hotel Lourdes. £390 sharing £450 in a single room, contact Northern Star Travel 0161 773 2115.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Fr. Malcolm has arranged Parish Meetings for the following:-
Baptism Catechists, Readers and Eucharistic Ministers
If you are a member of one or more of these groups, it is very important that you attend the Meetings which are in response to the Pastoral Letter from Archbishop Malcolm and the growth of our Parish of St. Joseph.
Baptism Catechists: Saturday 28th October
Eucharistic Ministers: Saturday 18th November
Readers: Saturday 25th November
Each meeting will take place in the Church and Loreto Room between 10.30am – 12 noon.
NOVEMBER PIOUS LISTS
You will find the traditional Pious Lists for November at theback of church. Please take one if you want, write the namesof those you want to remember on the list, and then return itto church. We will remember all those on the Pious Listsduring Mass in November. Please DO NOT put any money in the envelopes as these will be kept on the Sanctuary throughout November. If you wish to make an offering, please either put it through the Presbytery or with the weekly collection bag during Mass.
Sometimes
Sometimes it’s very hard, to be good humoured.
To smile, when you would really like to frown.
But truly you will find it’s worth the effort
To add a few more diamonds to your ‘crown’!
The devil likes to see us all bad-tempered.
An angry man can really make his day.
So foil him with good deeds and lots of patience,
Telling others, that there is a better way.
Children take their attitudes from grown-ups,
Be careful how your child takes his from you.
Teachers, keep in mind, each child is different.
Encourage everyone, not just a few.
Parents, treasure every precious moment,
Enjoy the child that God has given you.
Teach them ‘lovely manners’, while you love them
And reap the ‘peace of goodness’ when you do!
P.W. 2017
The Phoenix Community Choirwill be closed over half term. It will meet again on Tuesday 7th November at 7.30pm.
St. Gregory’s PFA Firework Display – Friday 3rd November
Tickets are £5 each available from school. Contact P. Field at school or this is an All Ticket event NO tickets available at gate. There is NO on-site parking. Gates open at 6pm – Fireworks at 7pm
Refreshments will be available. Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult. NO SPARKLERS ALLOWED!
St. Joseph’s Toddler Group will be closed for half term. They will re-open on Thursday 9th November.
Penketh Chess Club now meets at St. Joseph’s Parish Centre, Meeting Lane every TUESDAY at 8pm. We are now a purely SOCIAL chess club – for friendly rather than competitive games. A worm invitation is extended to anyone who would like a game, including less experience and novice players – even those who would like to learn how to play. All enquiries: Chris Haggett 01925 724008.
Walsingham Pilgrimage 2018
Fr. Malcolm will be going with the Prescot Group to Walsingham again next year. If anyone would like to join the Pilgrimage, please contact Fr. Malcolm. The dates are; Monday 17th to Thursday 20th September 2018.
Mary’s Meals
We have received an urgent request for pencil cases (new or old) or make-up bags can also be used. Also, dessert spoons for the children to use. Please drop them off in the boxes at the back of our Churches. Thank you.
St. Joseph’s Eucharistic Ministers
Please collect your new rota from the back of church. It will commence on 5th November 2017. Thank you.
Grandparents Group
The next meeting will be on Tuesday 31st October in the small meeting room in St. Joseph’s Parish Centre. Heather Hall will be demonstrating hand massage. If you would like to have a go, please bring a small towel, cushion and hand cream. All are welcome.
Christmas Cards are now on sale in the Piety Shop!
Also, at St. Joseph’s – “Early Bird Bargains” 20% off all Christmas gifts!
Gospel Reflection for the Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time?
Torn?
We live our lives torn in many directions. From the moment we wake up there are a hundred and one claims on our time. We have to look after our homes and our families. We have to go to work and deal with a whole range of tasks from the very important to the totally banal. We have to fill in forms, pay bills, make calls, answer emails, maintain the car, and pick up the shopping. If we’re very lucky we might just squeeze in a bit of leisure time.
The Pharisees and the Herodian’s in today’s gospel decided to set a trap for Jesus. “Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor,” they asked, “or not?” they were confident that they had put Jesus in a ‘no win’ situation. If Jesus said “taxes should be paid to Caesar, then this was something akin to treason. If however Jesus said that the taxes should be paid, he would be denounced to the strict Jews. Jesus replied, “Give to the emperor, the things that are the emperor’s and to God the things that are God’s.”
It is tempting to imagine that Jesus might have been talking about compartments. We imagine a compartment for things belonging to Caesar, and a compartment for things belonging to God. Of course there could be no such compartments, because as we know everything comes from God, so everything must belong to God. So had Jesus really answered the question, or merely sidestepped it?
Perhaps today we struggle with Jesus’ answer as much as the Pharisees and Herodian’s must have done. Perhaps we see life as a conflict between God’s claim on us and all life’s other claims in just the way God’s enemies were suggesting. Perhaps we try to put God into a Sunday morning compartment and even that will conflict with the children’s football and the D.I.Y. What Jesus tells us today is liberating. Once we learn to allow God into every corner of our lives our lives become whole instead of torn and fragmented. Once we know that our only loyalty is to God there can be no conflict.
World Mission Sunday
22nd October
World Mission Sunday is one of the most special days in the global Catholic Church. It unites Catholics all over the world in prayer, mutual friendship and support; both spiritual and material.
Annually, on the penultimate Sunday of October, Mission Sunday is celebrated in every parish around the world. On this day the Universal Catholic Church joins together, through prayer and sharing, in support of dioceses and parishes too poor or young to support themselves.
This year we focus our attention on war torn South Sudan and the great efforts being made by the Catholic Church there to foster healing, mercy, peace and hope.
Disarmament Week
24th -30th October
DO ONE THING for a Better World
- Find out more about nuclear disarmament and gun control.
- Hold an event or a debate about nuclear disarmament and gun control.
- Support organizations working to stop the proliferation of weapons.
One World Week 2017
22nd-29th October
‘Good Neighbours. My World Depends On Us.’
The strapline, “My World Depends On Us” reminds us that our personal world is directly affected by what we do, purchase, read, say, consume, vote, ... and that these do not happen in isolation. Our life depends on how we impact on and influence others in our common experience at home and in the world. Active citizenship, media literacy and critical thinking are vital tools in acknowledging
our interdependence with others, locally as well as farther afield, while countering populism, extremism and hate. One World Week invites us to create or become a part of local OWW events to explore what we need to do to be a good neighbour locally and globally in our 21st century.
St Jude and St Simon
Praying For A Desperate Cause?
28th October
Jude is often, in popular usage, referred to as the patron of desperate causes, the "saint of last resort," the one you ask for help when all else fails. Jude's feast day is linked with St Simon because tradition has it that Simon preached in Egypt and then went to Persia with St. Jude, where both suffered martyrdom.
Bitesize
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
Mass Intentions for week commencing 23rd October 2017Monday 23rd / 9.30am / Jackie Atkinson
Tuesday 24th / 9.30am / Paddy McGuire L/D
Wednesday 25th / 9.30am / Patricia Butler
Thursday 26th / 9.30am / Paul Hilditch (Sick)
Friday 27th / 9.30am / Special Intention
Saturday 28th / 4.30-5pm / Reconciliation (Confession)
Sunday 29th / 8.30am
10.30am
4.00pm / Molly Clough
Peter Ryan
Anthony Green (1st Anniversary)
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph’s will take place this week on Wednesday and Friday from 10.00am until 12 Noon.