FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

SUNDAY, 31ST JANUARY 2010

MASS TIMES: INTENTIONS:

Saturday Vigil Mass: 7.15 p.m. The Parish

Sunday: 9:15 a.m. Mary O’Gorman

11.00 a.m. Winifred Street

Monday: 9.15 a.m. Christine & Steve Colgan

Tuesday: 9.15 a.m. William Reid

12 noon REQUIEM – John Joseph

McLoughlin

Wednesday: 9.15 a.m. Patrick O’Gorman A.

Thursday: 9:15 a.m. Edward Robertson (ill)

Friday: 9.15 a.m. Christopher Bryon

Saturday: 9.15 a.m. Lesbia Sullivan

Saturday Vigil Mass: 7.15 p.m. Ray James

Sunday: 9.15 a.m. Anne Fitzpatrick

11.00 a.m. David Beckett

MORNING PRAYER:

9.00 a.m. in the Sacristy Office on weekdays except on Wednesday.

BAPTISMS:

By appointment with Fr. Cooke. After speaking to Fr Cooke, it is important that parents 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: Please remember in your prayers: Jim Grisdale, William Carter, Bernard Smith, Mary O’Gorman, Bridget Rhoden, Anne Heaney-Glynn, Anne Helen Fitzpatrick, George Fletcher, Roman Boryseawski, Clifford Sale, Stephen Hunt, Joseph Blagg, Dr de Gamrose, John Joseph Lynch, Nellie Tyldesley, Minnie Brown, Elizabeth Tiffin, Madeline Vozniak, Edward Kiernan, Tom Wilkinson, Isabella Boulton, William Byrne, Bigview Tadeusz, Frank Burton, Roszvowski, Bruno Walmsley, Patrick O’Gorman, Mabel Volk, Kerry Maria Duffy, Christopher John Bryan,Vincent Murphy, Margery Angela Whatmough, Michael Jones, Kathleen Bernadette McGoldrick, Thady Byrne, Sr. Andrea O’Malley , Joan Davies, Janet Bailey, Fr. James Molloy, Lesbia Sullivan, Christopher Woods, Edward Joseph Brecon, Ernest Kendal, Ann Mary Hughes, Ray James, Marjorie Sweeney, Ida Trumdale, Ethel McGlown.

COFFEE AFTER MASS:

Tea and coffee are served in the Hall after the Sunday morning Masses. All are welcome.

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.

OFFERTORY:

Loose Plate: £483.01

Planned Giving: £580.43

Average Weekly S/O’s £562.00

Thank you very much for your generous offerings.

BEREAVEMENT GROUP:

Has bereavement affected you?

Do you feel the need to talk in confidence?

The Parish Bereavement Group provides support and care to the bereaved and their families. All members have been fully trained and would like to invite people to contact the group by ringing Ruth on (01244) 380300.

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS & READERS ROTA:

Please collect your new rota from the front Porch. This includes the Rota for Holy Week. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ROTA OFF NOTICEBOARD. THESE ARE FOR INFORMATION.

VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD:

A series of meetings are being held for men who are thinking about a vocation to the Priesthood or Religious Life. Further details can be found in the Porch.

SPUC WHITE FLOWER APPEAL THIS

WEEKEND:

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children will hold the Annual White Flower Appeal at St Columba’s this weekend. In common with the Catholic Church, SPUC defends human life from conception to natural death. Their work covers many issues. It works to protect the unborn from abortion, and defends the disabled, elderly and incapacitated from euthanasia and assisted suicide. SPUC also provides trained speakers for schools, and offers pro-life support for teachers, parents and medical professionals. PLEASE give generously to this worthy cause. THANK YOU!

UPTON CHURCHES PRAYER DIARY:

This week we pray for:

The residents of Shocklach Road, Horrocks Road, & Bolesworth Road

For the choirs, music groups, folk choir, Sing Praise group and Brigade band

For uniting all who play and sing from the three churches.

UPTON CHURCHES FRIENDSHIP LUNCH:

Many thanks to all of you who supported this recent event held at St Columba’s. A total of £133.02 was raised which has been donated to CAFOD and Christian Aid.

PASTORAL COUNCIL:

St Columba’s Pastoral Council has its next meeting on Monday, 8th February. This is the group which considers all pastoral matters in the Parish, and this means everything except finance. The agenda is displayed on the notice board. Should you have matters to raise then please contact a member of the council whose names are displayed on the notice board.

FEASTS OF THE WEEK:

Tuesday – Presentation of our Lord.

Wednesday – ST WERBURGH –

This saint is very closely associated with Chester. A “Saxon Royal”, she was born around 650 AD near Stone (in what is now Staffordshsire). She became a nun and rose to be Abbess of Ely, subsequently founding or reforming a number of convents across the huge extent of the Diocese of Lichfield (coinciding with the greater part of the Saxon Kingdom of Mercia). She was buried at one of her convents in Hanbury, Staffs, but at the time of later Danish invasions her remains were brought to the comparative safety of the Saxon stronghold of Chester, where her shrine became a renowned place of pilgrimage. The Minster established at her shrine in Chester later became the Benedictine Abbey, then still later Chester Cathedral.

Friday – St Agatha.

Saturday – Ss Paul Miki & Companions.

FIRST FORGIVENESS:

This Saturday, 45 children from the Parish received the Sacrament of First Forgiveness. Please pray for the children and their families at this special time in their faith journeys.

HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL:

Thank you for your generosity for the special collection last weekend - £2,400 was raised. As mentioned in last week’s Newsletter, all donations placed in the Third World wall boxes in both porches over the next few weeks will be added to the Earhquake Appeal. Donations can also be made online at www.dec.org.uk

ACOLYTE CANDLES:

The new Acolyte Candles have been presented to the Church in memory of Peter Anthony Burton who died suddenly in 2008.

S.V.P. COLLECTION:

This will take place next weekend, 6th & 7th February. Thank you for your continued support.

PERFORMANCE OF LITTLE WOMEN:

This fund-raising performance is being held at Birkenhead Theatre on Monday, 1st February. Tickets £10 including coach. The coach leaves Hoole URC at 6.15 p.m. (cars can be left in car park). This fund-raiser is for “Women to Women for Peace”, which promotes reconciliation and friendship between women of different countries. To book – contact Hazel Lawson (tel: 677478) or Carol Herbstritt (tel: 383616).

S.V.P. URGENT APPEAL:

We have an urgent appeal from Surestart. They have a family in great need of clothes. The children’s ages are 14, 10, 8 and 5 yrs old and are male, and 1 girl aged 12 yrs and a 14 month baby girl. The mother is approx. Size 14 -16 and the father of medium size. If anybody can help in any way with this you can contact Brian Forrest on 01244 318863.

THANK YOU:

Ann Massey would like to thank Fr Cooke and Parishioners for your kindness and prayers. It was lovely to see so many of you at Molly’s beautiful Requiem Mass.

NEXT WEEK’S NEWSLETTER:

This will be compiled by Bernard Payne.

Tel: 01244 350323

E-mail: bernard.payne[YOU KNOW WHAT]tiscali.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.

Please take your Newsletter home with you and use it for reference and prayer during the coming week.