19th Sunday Ordinary Time C 7th August 2016

Responsorial Psalm:
Happy are the people the
Lord has chosen as his own.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Blessed are you Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,
for revealing the mysteries
of the Kingdom
to mere children.
Alleluia!
Farewell
Faith is a bird that feels
dawn breaking and sings
while it is still dark.
(Rabindranath Tagore)
Money Matters :
Gift Aid: If you are a Tax Payer, please
consider filling out the Gift Aid form which
is in the church porch to receive a box of
weekly envelopes for your offertory donation or for a one-off donation then please
use the Green envelopes. Please remember to write your name, address, sign and
date the green envelope.
Thank you for supporting our Parish.
Margaret Carr, Judith Rowe, Margaret Evans, Fred Battersby, Gwen Jones,Joe Goggin, Ian Byron, Debra Ann Roberts,Tricia
Twizell, Rosa Maria, Joan Lawrence, Gay
McCornick, Moira Catherall, Lea Hill, Anne
Turner, Mary Rowe, Jenny Mansley, Jennifer Rowley, Nancy Wilson, Joe & Luisa
Desena,
Shelagh Fulham,
Margaret
Stubbs, Philomena Lamano,
and Leo
McManus.
Alan Ames Retreat
We remember in our prayers
Open Day:
Next Saturday 13th August 2016
Pilgrims Hall, Franciscan Friary,
Pantasaph. All Welcome:
10am (Holy Mass)- 5pm Finish
Attention: Extra Ordinary
Ministers of Communion
If you would like to have your dates
on the Rota changed, please let Dea
Saul know.
Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI,
St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH
Email: piuscmi@gmail.com
01352 752087
Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121
Website: http://www.stdavidsmold.org
Offertory Collection last weekend
£823.45 of which £513.92 was Gift Aided.
On this our last Sunday in St David's
parish We thank you for your kind
wishes, cards and gifts, and the recent lovely leaving coffee morning.
But most of all, our thanks for your
love, sharing and support over almost 50 years. We have some wonderful memories! Please remember
us in your prayers as we make our
new home in Devon. Love and God
bless
Sheila and Bob Naybour
With Healing Ministry
Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug
St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold
www.wrexhamdiocese.org.uk http://www.cmi.org.in
7th August 2016
Roy Cropper RIP
(Mrs. D Green)
7th August Sunday
Mass 11am
Michael Jones, Anne Jones, Jim Hughes,
(6th Aug) Mary Shannon (7th Aug) Emily
Jones, Doreen Agnes Granger, Patrick Hemingway (8th Aug) Julia Haynes, John Wilson,
Robert Goodwin, (9th Aug) Arthur Dalton,
John Durkin, Catherine Jones, Adolorata Merola (10th Aug) Thomas Dalton, Thomas Nolan, Margaret Evans, William George Scanlon
(11th Aug)Ann Nolan, Peter Hyland, Anna
Volk (12th Aug) J.Parker, Philip David Jones,
Ethel Saum, Gwilym Rees, Giuditta Izzo
http://www.cmi.org.in
Year C
LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week III
6th August Saturday
Mass 5.30pm
Let us pray for the Sick
Those whose anniversaries
Occur this week
19th Sunday Ordinary time
For People of the Parish
Thanksgiving: Sheila&Bob Naybour
Monday :
8th Aug
Tuesday:
9th Aug
Mem: St. Dominic
Mass 9.15am
Int. Fr. John Abbert (Mary Harrison)
Feast: St. Edith Stein
Mass 7pm
Thanksgiving : Roland & Maureen
Wednesday: Feast: St. Lawrence, Deacon & M artyr
10th Aug
Mass 9.15am
Int. Julia Fawcett
Thursday:
Mem. St. Clare
11th Aug
Mass 9.15am
Nancy Lloyd RIP (Kay Ryan)
Friday:
Liturgy of the day
12th Aug
Mass 9.15am
Margaret Towey RIP (Bea Towey)
13th August Saturday
Mass at 5.30pm
14th August Sunday
Mass 11am
For People of the Parish
Hannah Roberts RIP
(Angela Green)
Eucharistic
Adoration
with
Rosary and
Benediction
Every Friday
following the
morning Mass
at 9.15am
Sacrament of
Reconciliation
(Confessions)
Saturdays
10.30am to
11.30am
& Before the Vigil
Mass
(4.45-5.20pm)
Sundays before
the Mass
(10.30-10.50am)
CALL MY BLUFF
FAITH IN FOCUS:
THAT’S WHAT I CALL FAITH!
T
om Wheeler had no
doubts about his
faith. He was an active
member of his local church
and very well known in the
wider community as the
owner of a string of used
car salesrooms. He was
happily married
and had four
healthy and bright
children. In his
heart of hearts he
knew that he
owed his wealth,
health and happiness to his faith.
Often at prayer
meetings he stood
up to witness that
the Lord has
promised milk and
honey to those who believe
in him. And Tom was convinced that he was living
proof of the way that the
Lord rewards faith.
A
deola Yeboah was a
local schoolteacher.
She lamented the demise
of the catechism and the
knowledge of faith that it
imparted. For faith is surely
about believing a set of
doctrines? She was a faith-
ful member of the Christian
Evidence Association and
would often be seen on
Saturday mornings in the
High Street on her little
soapbox, witnessing to her
faith and handing out leaflets about the true teaching
of the Church.
J
ose Gonzalez was an
inspiration to some and
a puzzle to others. For him
faith was a leap in the dark
and on several occasions
he had been at the helm of
initiatives that put the fear
of God into less brave
souls. His sponsored walk
up Everest left him with
frostbite and only four toes,
but in fairness his Send a
Goat to the Missions
scheme did apparently
meet with a good deal of
success.
N
obody doubted that
Suna Murati was a
woman of faith. She was
part of the furniture at the
parish church and
her rosary beads
were almost worn
out. Sometimes her
zeal would embarrass others, especially when she went
into raptures about
recent apparitions in
Eastern Europe and
her attempts to get
them officially recognised by the Church.
Such was her broad
faith that it even stretched
to the Zen coffee mornings
and consulting runes, but
she drew the line at treehugging.
O
ur reading from Hebrews today tells us,
“It was for faith that our ancestors were commended”.
Which of the above four
types of faith would you
most like to have? Or would
you prefer another?
For the holiday month of August here are some bits of trivia for you to take a
look at. All you have to do is decide whether they are true or false:
*Lots of people died in the Bible but no one ever committed suicide.
*Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not
contain an easy way to say “many things” and used a term which has come down to us
as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to “40 days”, they
meant many days.
*Strict Puritan laws had their origins from practical reasons. Smoking was banned farmers would raise badly needed food crops instead of tobacco. Cooking was banned
on Sundays - to prevent house fires during the long hours the family was at church.
Young men were banned from hunting - to prevent weapons from falling into Indian
hands.
*The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington DC, by Zachary H.
Cruise, the father of the Hollywood actor.
*The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed
by John Purvey in 1388.
*The Hindu holy day begins at sunrise, the Jewish holy day begins at sunset, and the
Christian holy day begins at midnight.
*The longest name in the Bible Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1).
*The patron saint of dentists is St. Apollonia. She reportedly had her teeth pulled out in
249 AD by an anti-Christian mob.
(to be continued next week….)
HOLIDAYS
CHEQUERED SAINT (August 9th)
August sees so many comings and goings
with people off on holiday. As everyone’s
routine changes a bit it’s possible for some of
the vulnerable in our parish to be overlooked:
the person you usually see down at the
shops, the pensioner collecting her money at
the post office, the man with the dog at the
park...Keep an eye out for each other!
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born
as Edith Stein in 1891 in what was then Germany but now is Poland. She was the youngest of
seven children born into a Jewish family. By the
age of 13 she had lost interest in the Jewish
faith. A bright student at university, she met
many Catholic friends and she became interested in Catholicism and was baptised a Christian
in 1922. 12 years later she became a Carmelite
nun and was first a teacher in Speyer and then a
lecturer in Munich. With the rise of Hitler she had
to be smuggled out of Germany; being both
Catholic and Jewish made her vulnerable. She
was taken to the Netherlands but when the German army took the country she was discovered
and sent with her sister to Auschwitz where on
this day in 1942 she was gassed in the ovens.
Pope John Paul II canonised her in 1998. This is
one of the prayers she made in the midst of her
complex life:
O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, with courage and strength to serve you. Enkindle your
love in me and then walk with me along the next
stretch of road before me. I do not see very far
ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect will open
before me, and I shall meet it with peace.
Holidays are one of the best tonics we can
have. A change of scenery, a taste of different food and a couple of weeks in another
setting can do wonders for our regeneration.
And of course, we don’t even have to go
away to have a holiday. All we have to ensure is that we take a break from the usual
routine, from the things which normally occupy our time.
Recreation isn’t simply about lying on a
beach. It can be about climbing mountains or
walking till we drop. Recreation means creating again, and positive recreation means any
form of activity, strenuous or relaxing, which
recharges our batteries and makes us once
again able to function on all pistons.
So whether you go away or stay at home,
keep your eyes open!