THIRTY THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.
SUNDAY 15th NOVEMBER 2009
MASS TIMES: INTENTIONS:
Saturday Vigil: 7.15 p.m. Ernest Edward Pearson.
Sunday: 9.15 a.m. The Parish.
11:00 a.m. Deceased Members of the Catenians.
Monday: 9:15 a.m. Bill Roberts.
Tuesday: 9.15 a.m. NO MORNING MASS.
1.00 p.m. MARY HEFFERNAN.
Wednesday: 9.15 a.m. November List.
Thursday: 9.15 a.m. For a very sick friend. (Galvin)
Friday: 9.15 a.m. November List.
Saturday: 9.15 a.m. November List.
Vigil Mass 7.15 p.m. Austin Pendlebury. A.
Sunday: 9.15 a.m. The Parish
11.00 a.m. Annie Keegan..
MORNING PRAYER:
9.00 a.m. in the Sacristy Office, on weekdays excepting Wednesday.
CONFESSIONS:
Confessions are heard every Saturday after morning Mass, and before the Vigil Mass on Saturday evenings, from 6.45 p.m. to 7.10 p.m.
BAPTISMS:
By arrangement with Fr. Cooke. After speaking to Fr. Cooke, it is important that families contact our Baptism Co-ordinator, Ann Siddall, 01244 371787, who will arrange for members of our Baptism Team to discuss Baptism and the practical details.
ANNIVERSARIES:
We remember Catherine McPhillips, Percy Edwards, Elosie Magot Hunt, James Regan, Sheila Rigby, Kenneth Mahoney, Rose Ebo, John Carroll, George Pickering, Doreen Faulkner, John Francis Rigby, Phillip McMullan, Gertrude Buddery, Mary (May) O’Neill, Fred Rowlands, William Pollock, John North, Joseph Smith, Margaret Theresa Dennan, Margaret Mary O’Grady, Joseph Desmond McCartney, Mary Catherine Hopkins, Alan (Tony) Trotter, Margaret Bird, Annie Keegan, Patricia Madden.
COFFEE AFTER MASS:
Tea and coffee are served in the Hall after the Sunday morning Masses. All are welcome.
OFFERTORY: (8th Nov 2009)
Loose Plate: £509.33
Planned Giving: £611.30
Donation (Piety Stall) £50.00
UPTON CHURCHES PRAYER DIARY:
This week we pray for:
The residents of Bache Drive, Birch Rise, Long Lane and Mallard Court.
For the ACF, Friendship Group and Catholic Women’s League.
For all catering staff and those who make refreshments after the services.
NOVEMBER INTENTIONS:
Envelopes are available for the November List. Please place your intentions and offerings in the envelopes for inclusion in the List.
PASTORAL COUNCIL MINUTES:
Please look at the Minutes of last weeks meeting, there are one or two matters which we are seeking your views. Don’t hesitate to express a view.
REMEMBRANCE CELEBRATION:
Thank you all for last Sunday evenings Remembrance Celebration of Upton Churches Together. Prayers for all the dead. Victims of wars and those who still need our prayers to come to terms as best they can with their loss.
Our thanks to those of you who attended and also to the ladies of our choir who provided refreshments.
MARY HEFFERNAN:
Please remember in your prayers Mary Heffernan a long and very good parishioner as was Jim her husband who died not that long ago. Her funeral Mass is on Tuesday at 1 p.m.
SPUC:
Abortion providers wish to advertise their services on TV & radio. SPUC is organising a Mini-petition against this move and leaflets will be available at St Columba’s on 14th/15th November. Each leaflet will take four signatures and we ask you and your family (over 18) to sign the petition urging the Prime Minister to oppose these adverts. Pens and leasflets will be in the porches together with boxes for completed leaflets. Thank you.
THE BOOK OF THE GOSPELS IN PARISH LITURGY:
The Gospel Reading during Mass is reverenced in a number of ways. All stand to acclaim and listen to it, and the priest/deacon seeks a blessing, that he “may worthily proclaim” it. The priest/deacon signs the Reading with the cross and all sign that the Gospel message may be “in my head, on my lips and in my heart”, and on special occasions the Reading may be incensed. Having read it, the priest/deacon reverences the Reading with a kiss, or presents it for the Bishop to do so if he presides.
A further sign of reverence is to use the Book of the Gospels, a book devoted to the Gospel Readings for the three-year cycle. The parish has acquired such a Book for use in our Mass celebrations. Beginning on the First Sunday of Advent, whenever the deacon serves at Mass, the Book will be carried aloft in the Entrance Procession to the Altar, and from the Altar to the Lectern for the Reading. After the Reading the Book will be displayed in a place of honour in the Sanctuary.
Thanks are due to the group of ladies of the parish whose skill and commitment have produced a set of embroidered covers for the Book, for use in each of the liturgical seasons, an additional sign of reverence.
We hope that this enhancement to our parish liturgy will help everyone to a full and active participation in the Mass.
FIRST SACRAMENTS ENROLMENT MASS:
On Sunday 22nd November, Feast of Christ the King, the children in our parish who are preparing to receive First Sacraments this school year will be enrolled at the 11.00 a.m. Mass. Please pray for the children and their families.
FEAST OF THE WEEK: ST HILDA OF WHITBY
Tuesday 17th November is the feast day of St. Hilda (614 - 680). She was born in Northumbria at a time of great missionary movements that followed in the wake of Augustine's arrival in England (597), highly influenced also by the work of the Irish monastic foundation at Lindisfarne. She became a nun at the age of 33 and was Abbess of Hartlepool before moving on to her main life's work, founding and developing Whitby Abbey as a very important seat of learning.
CARDS FOR CAFOD.
Kevin Keegan is back in the hall after the Sunday morning Masses selling his greetings cards in support of CAFOD
S.V.P:
The SVP would like to thank all parishioners for the donations of £320.45. Thank you all once again for your continued support.
If you know of anyone who cannot go out unless they have help, either with Wheelchair assistance or Transport, we are thinking of taking a small easily accessible coach to a local Garden Centre before Christmas. If they would like to go please contact Margaret Allmark on 01244 399624 or any member of the S.V.P.
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS/READERS ROTA:
Please can you pick up your Christmas and New Year Rota from the front porch. Please will you ensure a replacement is found if you are not able to carry out your duty, especially over the busy Advent/Christmas period. Your help is very much appreciated.
Carol Galvin (01244 381243).
BOTTLES FOR TOMBOLA:
Jerry and Eileen are running their famous bottle tombola at the Autumn Fayre event on 22nd November after the Sunday Masses. They would welcome bottle donations, please could these be left in the back porch of Church. Many thanks.
CLIMATE JUSTICE:
Thank you to everyone who signed the cards last weekend in support of CAFOD’s campaign the ensure that the international negotiations on measures to combat climate change take account of the special needs of the developing countries. Cards are still available for signing this weekend, with the display still on show in the rear porch. There are still a few places remaining on the Chester coach going to “The Wave” rally in London on Saturday 5th December. Seats can be booked through the local CAFOD office, 01244 677594.
DAY AT PANTASAPH:
Day of Prayer: Saturday 21st November
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., bring a packed lunch.
STATUE OF ST COLUMBA:
It was suggested at the AGM that the statue of St Columba located in the rear porch be relocated to a more appropriate position. The Pastoral Council would like to know what you think about this. If you have an opinion then please let Paul Wrigglesworth know on 382457 or paul.wrigglesworthYOUKNOWTHESYMBOLo2.co.uk
HEALTH & SAFETY OFFICER:
The parish is required by the diocese and the LPA to appoint someone to develop its Health & Safety policy based upon guidance provided by the diocese. If you have professional expertise in this area and would like to help then please contact David Savage on 380626 or savage214@btinternet.com.
THURSDAY EVENING BADMINTON:
The Thursday evening badminton group will now meet from 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
NEXT WEEK’S NEWSLETTER:
This will be compiled by Alison Wrigglesworth Tel: 01244 382457
Email: alison.wrigglesworthYOUKNOWTHESYMBOLo2.co.uk
Items for inclusion can also be left in the blue folder in the Sacristy. Please ensure that all items are in place by 9.00 a.m. on Thursday. Please include a phone number in case of queries. Current and past issues of the Newsletter can also be seen on the parish website, www.stcolumbachester.org.uk.
Please, please, please take your newsletter home and use it for reference and prayer during the week.