Bulletin 3rd February 2013. 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This week’s readings

Please pray for our sick and housebound

Julie K, Connie Burton, Anne Henrys, Lenny Johnson, Mildred Ford, Lillian Stanhope, Doris Murch, Eric Brown, Joyce Heggarty, Winnie Richardson, Moura Hitchen, Cath Yates, Maddy, Agnes Nicholson, Frank Gilligan,  Elizabeth Snape, Derek Wilkinson,Mary Andrew, Fr. Peter Dolan and Annie. The residents of Highcliffe, Greenways, Brookside, Meadow Bank and Simeon house nursing homes.

We welcome anyone new to the parish. It would be helpful if you would ask for one of the parish information leaflets and fill in the white insert so that we can register your family details.

IMPORTANT

HOLY COMMUNION WHILST IN HOSPITAL

Please contact St. Joseph’s Presbytery if any of your family is admitted to Chorley Hospital 01257 262713.

If anyone is admitted to Preston Hospital, please inform the chaplain on 01772 719604. This request comes from the respective Hospital chaplaincy teams.

February 3rd – 9th

MARRIAGE (same sex couples) BILL

MPs will shortly be voting on whether or not to support this fundamental change in the law.

Archbishop Peter Smith has written to us on behalf of the bishops to make our views known to our MP Lindsay Hoyle. Lindsay is deputy speaker and will be chairing the debate and therefore will have no vote but in a letter to our Dean Fr. Marsden, he has promised full support, stating that “ I firmly believe that the government should ensure that churches are not forced to conduct same sex marriages and I have written to David Cameron to stress the importance of protecting churches from any change in legislation”

Archbishop Smith urges us to make our views known to our MP (even though he will not be voting). To this end cards have been provided and are available at the back of church.

 http://stbedesclaytongreen.co.uk/redefinition-of-marriage/

http://c4m.org.uk/

SCRIPTURE

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.

Dates for your diary.

Thursday Feb 7th. Prayer meeting in the Parish Centre.

Sunday Feb 10th Baptism of Katie Thompson.

Sunday March 10th. Baptism of India Elizabeth Wheeler

Recollection day for men

Saturday 23rd February at Holy Family Church Ingol. Details on the notice board. Lead speaker, Fr. Daniel O’Leary, speaker, author and retreat giver. The day has been organised by Harvesters, a Catholic mens network with a positive desire to include men from other Christian denominations,church traditions and backgrounds. Set up for men by men to help us grow in our Christian faith and be of support to one another.

Novena to St Joseph. Details on the notice board.

Lent begins on Wednesday 13th February

CAFOD LENTEN FAST DAY

24^th February. Envelopes are available at the back of church. Please take one….especially if you are a tax payer.

It’s discouraging to notice how often I fall. It’s easy to end languishing in a valley of disappointment and weariness at my personal limits.

But for Jesus what matters is not this or that failure but, to make an act of hope and live the present moment well.

Listen to St. Bernard: those who do not go forward go backwards. So, I can make a proposal: start again; don’t look back, what’s done is done, hand it over to God’s mercy. Live the present moment well. Don’t worry about the future – in hope leave that to God’s loving providence. Focus on the now.Fr. B Leahy

The food collection is on going…….

HELP THE HOMELESS CHORLEY

http://www.helpthehomeless.org.uk/ Tel 01257 273320 always needs food, bedding, furniture etc.