Fr John Cairns ~ The Catholic Community Newsletter

The Catholic Community Newsletter
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St Mary’S, Marple Bridge
and
The Annunciation, New Mills
Fr John Cairns
St Mary
Marple Bridge
Marple Bridge Office
Lectionary
Sundays Year A
Weekdays Year 2
TH
28
Marple B.
Saturday
Sunday
11th
12th
Contacts
Parish Priest
The Presbytery,
Hollins Lane,
Marple Bridge,
Stockport
SK6 5BB
In Emergency
07525 052584
Deacon
Rev Kevin Gradwell
Tel: 0161 427 2408
Email
saintmarysmarplebridge
@btopenworld.com
Web
www.stmarysmarplebridge.
org.uk
12th October 2014
WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
The Annunciation
New Mills
www.stmarysnewmills.org.u
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Safeguarding:
Mrs Ursula Lundy xxxi
Mrs Jo Barber (NM)
Mr Peter Clarke (MB)
(Contact via Presbytery
or 07979 376933)
New
Mills
28th WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
6.30pm
9.30am
11.15am
Peter Clarke Ints (MB)
Private Intention (MS)
Terry Coop RIP (JC)
Parent Meeting for First Holy
Communion
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
St Edward the Confessor
7pm
9.30am
10am Feria
St Teresa of Jesus
10am Feria
St Ignatius of Antioch
9.30am
6.30pm
29th WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
9.30am
11.15am
11th/12th Oct
Welcomers
Readers
Gifts
Welcomers
Readers
Children’s Lit.
Welcomers
6.30pm MB
Eileen Newton
Maureen Matthews
Bill & Val Yates
9.30am NM Jacqueline Patel/ Doreen Kane
Nick Reynolds/ Jani Abbs-Brown
11.15am MB
Readers
Gifts
Helen Neeson RIP
John Kane RIP (DK)
Agnes Hannan RIP (TD)
Ned Butler RIP
Susan Hennigan RIP (JH)
Michael Furlong RIP
People of the Parish
Margaret Roche RIP
18th/19th Oct
Eileen Burgess
Gordon Lyon
Dorothy Mansfield
Brian and Rene Tierney
Simon Sharp/Ann Webb
Patrick Roche
Tom Delaney
Joe Harvey
Myra O'Connor
Martin Savage
George Wood
Pauline & Jim Howell
Patrick/ Geraldine Chamberlain
No flowers
Deborah Laugesen
Sheila Harvey & Teresa Clarke
Jacqueline Patel &Lauren Ross
Terry +Alice Poole
Chris & Linda Flowers
No flowers
Helen Wilson & Family
No Cleaning
No Cleaning
Children’s
Lit.
Counters
Flowers
Tea & Coffee
Cleaners
Cleaners
MB
NM
MB
NM
MB
NM
A SPECIAL COLLECTION for Mission Sunday will be taken at all
Masses next weekend
TEA BINGO AND LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT will take place this
Wednesday Oct 15th, 2-4pm in NM Parish Hall. All welcome.
TRAIDCRAFT SALES will take place in the Old School this weekend
after both Masses at MB. Tea and coffee will also be available
and CAFOD Christmas cards will be on sale.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION MARPLE BRIDGE. A meeting will take place
after the 9.30am Mass today for the parents of those children
who put their names forward this year to join our preparation
course. The first teaching session will begin next Sunday
October 19th at 11am.
CONFIRMATION. Confirmation for the Deanery will take place on
Thursday 14th May 2015 at 7pm in St. Mary Crowned Church,
Glossop. The programme begins in February starting with a
meeting for parents on Sunday 1st February at 6-30pm and
then 6 sessions for the candidates including a weekend away,
13th/15th March at ‘The Briars Catholic Youth Centre’, Crich,
Matlock. (cost £88)
The Sunday evening sessions will take place at St. Mary’s from
6-30 to 8pm. The dates are Feb 15th, 22nd,
Mar 1st,8th,22nd, Apr 19th, May 10th.
PARISH PILGRIMAGE TO KNOCK... If you are interested in joining
this pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady at Knock in May 2015,
please put your name down on the list at the back of church so
that I can get an idea of numbers for the hotel. Thank you.
MASS FOR OUR LADY Thank you to all who attended the special
Mass last Tuesday in honour of Our Lady, the Mother of our
God. Thanks to Mary Robinson for the hard work she put in
preparing the Mass, to the readers, musicians and those who
prepared and served refreshments. Thank you.
BABY LOSS AWARENESS WEEK OCTOBER 9TH-15TH. A short memorial
service to show support for the Baby Loss Day will be held this
Wednesday October 15th at 6.30pm at All Saints RC Church,
Old Glossop. All are welcome but especially those whose lives
have been touched by the loss of a baby during pregnancy or
just after birth.
LOURDES IN A DAY.Fr Greg is holding another ‘Lourdes in a Day’
th
service at St Mary’s Crowned, Glossop on Sun Oct 26 from 26pm. The day begins with the celebration of Mass at 2pm,
Blessed Sacrament service and procession at 4pm and a
torchlight procession at 6pm. All welcome.
PARISH CHRISTMAS FAIR. Thank you to all those who took tickets
with you last week. I hope you are managing to sell them – if
you need any more there are some at the back of church. If
you couldn’t take any last week please make sure you do this
weekend. All funds go towards the maintenance and upkeep
of the church. There is a box at the back of church for
completed books of tickets.
Pray for the Sick and Housebound
DIOCESAN SICK AND RETIRED PRIESTS APPEAL. for those who took
the contact details form last week, please fill them in and
return them to me. I will forward them to the Appeals Office
who, in turn set up the Video Evening and Personal Pack for
each participant. If you don’t want the Video Evening and
Personal Pack, just follow the instructions given in the white
envelope. If you have any queries, please ask me.
SVP MASS. Next Thursday Oct 16th, 1.30 at SS John Fisher and
Thomas More, Chapel en le frith. Refreshments will be served
after Mass. All are welcome.
THE CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (UK) invites all health
professionals, medical students and any others interested, to a
talk to be given by Dr Dale Gardiner on “ORGAN
DONATION”. Dr Gardiner is an Intensive Care Consultant at
Nottingham University Hospitals and Deputy National Clinical
Lead for Organ Donation and will give an informative,
fascinating and stimulating talk on this important topic. The
meeting will take place in St Barnabas’ Cathedral Hall,
Nottingham, at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 21st October 2014. For
further information please contact Dr Tim Connery tim.cma@hotmail.co.uk.
VACANCY AT CAFOD DIOCESAN OFFICE. Do you have a strong
interest in global justice and international development? Are
you able to support a growing team of volunteers working in
partnership with CAFOD within parish and school communities
within our Diocese? CAFOD is seeking to recruit a Diocesan
Officer with strong communication & IT skills and a willingness
to travel throughout the diocese, to be based in the CAFOD
Nottingham Office at The Briars, Crich, Derbyshire. For further
details and an application form for this part time post, go to
the CAFOD web page :www.cafod.org.uk/jobs
Closing date 6th November 2014.
DEACON KEVIN’S ORDINATION. All Ordinations from the Diocese,
including Deacon Kevin’s, will take place in the Cathedral of St
Barnabas, Nottingham on Sat Jul 11th 2015 at 11.30am. I will
keep you informed about any preparations we as a parish
need to make but, in the meantime, please keep Deacon Kevin
and all Ordinands in your daily prayers.
DEEPEST SYMPATHY from the whole parish go to Cath Poole on
the death of her brother Michael Singleton, and to Joe Harvey
and family on their recent bereavement. May they rest on
peace.
RCIA will meet on Tuesday Morning after Mass at New Mills
COLLECTION
Envelopes £587.06
Loose £206.78
Total £793.84
Thank you
CAFOD £535.77
Rest in Peace
Anniversaries
Remember especially
Mary Forbes, George Cairns, Eileen Middleton, Monica Norton, Eileen
Grace, Margaret Mary Jackson, Katherine Cowan, Richard Greiner,
Joan Hines, Ellen Miller, George Heeds, Joan Whitley, Beverley Burke,
Fr. Hugh Doherty, Maureen Mitchell-Kirk, Bernadette Tonge, David Hill,
Bill Martin, Marie Sidebottom, Aine Shaw, Mike Ellwood, Geraldine
Knowles, Kate Beighton, Suzanne Mautschke, David Poole Dorothy
Graham, Fr Marianus ,Anna Kalnis
Margaret Haven, May Yarwood,Brian Gloyne, Henry
Wall, Margaret Morley, Sheila Maggiore, Herbert
Kennedy, Florence McKernon, Nuala Kenyon, Charles
Toft
May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful
departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.