4 January – 2nd Sunday of Christmas
MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK
Saturday 3rd 5.00pm Parishioners
Tuesday 6th 11.15am Parishioners
Wednesday 7th 11.00am Funeral Mass: Late Julie Sharrock
Saturday 10th 5.00pm tbc
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MASS TIMES: SATURDAY VIGIL MASS at 5pm PARISH OFFICE: The Parish Office will be open on Fridays, 10am to 4pm |
PARISH NEWSLETTER
MASSES THIS WEEK
Please see above
CONFESSIONS: Next confessions: last Saturday of the month – 31 January, 4.15pm to 4.45pm
READINGS FOR 4 JANUARY
POPE LEO’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JANUARY
For Prayer with the Word of God
Let us pray that praying with the Word of God be nourishment for our lives and a source of hope in our communities, helping us build a more fraternal and missionary Church.
FEAST DAYS THIS WEEK
7 January – St Raymond of Penyafort
SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY – TUESDAY 6 JANUARY
This is a Holyday of Obligation. Mass will be held here at 11.15am on Tuesday 6 January. All are welcome.
Our school children will also be in attendance.
There will be a Vigil Mass at St Agnes, Eccleston on Monday 5 January at 6pm.
FUNERAL MASS – WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY
A funeral Mass for the late Julie Sharrock will be held here on Wednesday at 11am. Eternal rest give unto her, O Lord – may she rest in peace.
A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Whose mercies are new each returning day:
May the love and comfort offered by your Holy Spirit renew our lives,
Warming our hearts and giving light to our minds;
That we may live the coming year
In joyful obedience and firm faith;
Through him who is the beginning and the end,
Our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who lives and reigns with you,
In the unity of the Holy Spirit,
One God, now and forever. Amen.
OFFERTORY ENVELOPES / GIFT AID / STANDING ORDERS!
If you are a taxpayer then you can easily help the parish to claim 25% extra on top of every donation you make – and it won’t cost you a penny! Eg: a donation of £10 per week would result in £12.50 going to the church. If you are able to use gift aid, please collect a form from the porch on your way out today, and return it to the Parish Office asap.
If you are a taxpayer who makes regular cash donations, please consider using an offertory envelope instead of just placing your ‘loose’ donations in the basket. This is really important: it can bring in more than £1000 to the church every year, as we’ll be able to claim gift aid directly on every donation you make. It won’t cost you anything at all, but it will make a huge difference to our finances.
Please contact the Parish Office if you’d like to use envelopes – they are free!
Even better – you can donate ‘painlessly’ each month by setting up a standing order with your bank. Forms are available in the porch.
PARISH MONTHLY LOTTERY – HAVE YOU JOINED YET?
Are you missing out on this monthly lottery draw? Letters are available in the narthex explaining how the lottery works and also how important this is for the parish. Please pick one up before you leave church.
DON’T FORGET! PARISH FOODBANK – DONATIONS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME
Thank you for donations already received, which have been taken to the foodbank centre at St Mary’s in Leyland. They are particularly short of tinned pasta, tinned meat / fish and puddings.
Please check that donations are well before their BB date!
Thank you all for your kind-hearted generosity. It makes such a big difference.
CATHOLIC PICTORIAL
Keeping you up to date with all the news from around the Archdiocese online: www.catholicpic.co.uk
Postal subscriptions are available: 3 issues = £9.50, 6 issues = £19 and 12 issues = £37.50.
Email enquiries@cpmmmedia.com or ring 0151 709 7567.
Digital copies are also available. Please use the phone number / email address above.
MASS INTENTONS
Mass intentions are welcome, not just for our dear departed, but for any other occasion eg in thanksgiving, successful outcome (exams / operation), wedding / anniversary blessings. Please write your name and intention, with the preferred date – if applicable – on a piece of paper and place in an envelope, along with your offering, either in the weekly offertory basket or through the presbytery door. It may not be possible to guarantee the specific date requested, for various reasons, however, every effort will be made to find a date as near as possible.
THE UNIVERSE CATHOLIC WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS
These are available to order directly from the publisher (www.thecatholicuniverse.com or call Michelle on 0743 661 7650. It can be posted to you each week. A 3 months print subscription is £42.00 – 6 months is £75.00 and the year at £140.00.
MAGNIFICAT
Now is a good time to buy a yearly subscription to Magnificat. It works out at less than £1 per week at £65 pa.
The Magnificat is published monthly. For each day, it contains the readings and prayers for Mass, with a meditation from the great spiritual writers of the Church throughout history and prayers for morning and evening inspired by the Liturgy of the Hours. You will also find the lives of the saints, articles on spiritual topics by contemporary writers, prayers at night, hymns, reflections and essay on a great example of Christian art in each issue.
Please order online at www.magnificat.com or phone Margaret Hiscock on 020 3882 9432.
MUSICAL TREAT FOR THE WEEK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-TplMYH0Ko&list=RDy-TplMYH0Ko&start_radio=1
In honour of the Magi this week, here is Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, singing the always popular hymn, As with gladness, men of old.
WITH EVERY BLESSING FOR A HAPPY AND PEACE-FILLED WEEK