32nd Sunday Ordinary Time 6th November 2016
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32nd Sunday Ordinary Time 6th November 2016
Responsorial Psalm: I shall be filled when I awake, with the sight of your glory, O Lord. Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to stand with confidence before the Son of Man! Alleluia! Golden Jubilee Celebration Mass On Friday at 7pm Refreshments will be served in the Hall after the 7pm Mass. Thank you to all who have offered to bring food for the celebration on Friday. We would be grateful if items can be delivered during the day and not later than 5.30pm. You can still sign on for donations of food. (See list at the back of the Church) JUBILEE CELEBRATION SOUVENIRS A HISTORY OF ST DAVID’S PARISH AND SCHOOL By Margaret Joy // ST DAVID’S CHURCH MEMORIES DVD Over 150 photographs and documents covering the past 50 years. // TALKING MEMORIES OF ST DAVID’S PARISH DVD Over 1 hr. of recorded memories from parishioners // Available at the Jubilee Celebration, each for a £5.00 donation for the Jubilee Charities or All 3 for a £10 donation while stocks last. Let us pray for the Sick Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold Alfredo Fecci, Michael Jones, Anne Jones, Jim Hughes, Margaret Carr, Margaret Evans, Fred Battersby, Gwen Jones,Joe Goggin,, 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. We remember in our prayers Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI, St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH Email: piuscmi@gmail.com Tele: 01352 752087 Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121 Website: www.stdavidsmold.org www.wrexhamdiocese.org.uk http://www.cmi.org.in 6th November 2016 Those whose anniversaries Occur this week www.artofdyingwell.org Service of Remembrance Friday 11th November 2016 in St David’s Church led by pupils from St David’s Catholic Primary School at 2.15pm Everyone is welcome Year C LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week IV 5th November Saturday Mass 5.30pm (5th) John James Geraghty, Robert Owen, James O’Neill, Joseph Gavaghan, Michael Murphy (6th) Mary Fox, Kevin Morris, Winifred Parry (7th) Esther Ann O’Neill, Mary Roden, Brenda May ((8th) James Lewett, Michael Williams, Maureen Halton, (9th) Marie Kennedy (10th) Fr John Noonan The Art of Dying well is a new website that offers a helping hand to those grappling with issues around death and dying. Based on Catholic tradition but open to all, it features real-ife stories about dealing with the journey through death to eternal life. 32nd Sunday Ordinary Time Int. Canon Francis Doyle (John Goggin) 6th November Sunday Mass 11am For People of the Parish Monday : 7th Nov Liturgy of the day Mass 9.15am Eddie Doohan RIP (M.Croft) Tuesday: No Mass (Clergy conference, Llandudno) 8th Nov Wednesday: No Mass (Clergy Conference) 9th Nov Thursday: 10th Nov Liturgy of the day Mass 9.15am Int. Gay McCornick (Jean & John Ward) Friday: Golden Jubilee Celebration 11th Nov Mass 7pm 12th November Saturday Mass at 5.30pm Int. Canon Simon Treolar (John Goggin) 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 13th November Sunday (4.45-5.20pm) Mass 11am Sundays before the Mass For People of the Parish (10.30-10.50am) FAITH IN FOCUS: WILL MY DOG BE IN HEAVEN? had less than a Perhaps the first thing that just like the life he offers us. J esus week to live when the we must say about heaven We necessarily live in time events of today’s gospel took place. So it’s perhaps not surprising for him to be talking about life after death and teaching against the Sadducees that there is a resurrection that all created flesh will share in. Because the Sadducees didn’t believe in a resurrection they tried to trick Jesus into giving a stupid answer to their farcical case of a woman who was the surviving widow of her husband and six brothers-in-law. Whose wife would she be in heaven? is that it’s the fulfilment of all our desires and yearnings for God. Jesus enticed his listeners by saying that no eye had seen nor ear heard what God has in store for us. It goes far beyond what we could ever W Y et this is the sort of question that many people ask even today. Will my dog be with me in heaven? Will I recognise people I’ve known here on earth? What will happen if I come face to face with someone who’s been my sworn enemy? What about my best friend who doesn’t believe in God? And what if I don’t like it?! but God’s eternal nature means that he experiences infinity at every moment; in fact “moment” is too restricting for a God who exists free from the boundaries of time. After our resurrection we share in that “instantaneousness” of God. We are caught up in the immediacy of God. There is no yesterday or tomorrow about heaven. It’s an eternal “now”. imagine or hope for. We see God face to face and as we gaze on his glory we are moved to the profoundest level of love, a love which leaves no room for any kind of emptiness or regret. T he second thing that we need to remember is that God is eternal, hen we view heaven in this way we realise that many of our questions and difficulties about it are simply man-made and woman-inspired. We naturally have a tendency to tie things down to our own experience of reality. Yet today Jesus tells us that the afterlife is radically different from some of the ways we conceive of it. That’s why he says that the Lord is God not of the dead but of the living: for to God all people are in fact alive. November – The Month of the Holy Souls: During this month we remember our dear dead with love and gratitude. You can have your dead remembered during November in a special way at all Parish Masses by listing their names on your own paper and putting the list in an envelope (your own or one of those you will find in the porch) and hand it in (no money in those envelopes please!) at the church or the presbytery. These envelopes – with their lists – will be placed on the Altar during all Masses in November and the names will be remembered there. If you would like to offer a Mass for your departed loved one, please use the special Mass offering envelope. SVP Christmas Gift Initiative - This weekend the gift tags will be available before and after Mass for you to take if you wish to help with this initiative. If you would like to be involved but do not wish to buy a gift, you can take a tag and return it in an envelope with a £10-£12 donation and we will buy the gift on your behalf. Please remember that all gifts / donations should be returned before 27.11.16. Thank You Judith Rowe, on behalf of the SVP Thank You The Knights of Saint Columba Council 614 Buckley and District wish to thank all those who generously purchased the KSC 2017 Calendar on the weekend 29/30 October. The total amount raised was £137.50,proceeds for the KSC National Action Project,Missio, Again many thanks. Any further requirements for the calendar please contact, Mike Cotter,Peter Carberry Prison Chaplaincy: Wrexham will soon have its own prison – HMP Berwyn. There will be a meeting on Tuesday, 29th November 2016, at 7.00pm in the Cathedral Hall, for anyone who is interested in supporting Catholic Chaplaincy. Bishop Peter will be at the meeting, as will Mgr Robert Reader, Bishops’ Advisor on Prison Chaplaincy. A CAFOD Retreat – Proclaiming the Mercy of God: This coming Saturday 12th November, 10am to 4pm at Noddfa, Bangor Road, Penmaenmawr LL34 6YF. Visit cafod.org.uk/retreat or call 0303 303 3030 to book your free place and to find out about retreats in other locations. As this Year of Mercy draws to a close, explore how you can continue to live out Pope Francis’ call to be a “witness of mercy” in your family, community and in our world by taking time out of your everyday life to reflect on your faith journey alongside other CAFOD supporters. Historic Mold On Tuesday 15th November(3pm to 8.30pm) and Wednesday 16th November(10am to 3pm) Mold Town Council will be opening their doors and inviting members of the public to come along to the Mold Town Hall and take a step back in time, to view photographs and memorabilia of Mold over 150 years. Money Matters : Offertory Collection last weekend £680.10 of which £428.39 was Gift Aided Flowers: £117.20 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.