Bulletin. Pentecost. May 19th – 25th

Pentecost  –19th May 2013

Masses this week  
Prayers of the Church Week  3…Mass Week 7
Saturday 6.30pm Special Intention
Sunday 8.30am Frank Gilligan
10.30am Private Intention
Monday 8.30am
Tuesday 9.15am Flo and Mary
Wednesday 9.15am Barbara Cranshaw
Thursday 9.15am Gillian Hartley
Friday 9.15am
Saturday 6.30pm Thanksgiving
Sunday 8.30am
10.30am
Exposition Saturday 6.00pm
Confessions Saturday 9.45am-10.15am, 5.30pm-6.00pm

This week’s readings

Monday Sirach 1.1-10 Mk 9.14-29
Tuesday 2.1-11 9.30-37
Wednesday 4.11-19 9.38-40
Thursday 5.1-8 9.41-50
Friday 6.5-17 10.1-12
Saturday 17.1-15 10.13-16
Sunday Provs 8.22-31
Roms 5.1-5
Jn 16.12-15

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,  Elizabeth Snape, Derek Wilkinson, Mary Andrew, Mary Hunter, Ann Wood, Ron Kitching, Margaret Feenan Kathleen Bolton and 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 any family member is admitted to Preston hospital please inform the chaplain on 01772 719604. This request comes from the respective chaplains.

HELP THE HOMELESS CHORLEY

Tel 01257 273320 always needs food, bedding,(sorry   no furniture) etc.

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 SCRIPTURE

Come Holy spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful.

And kindle in them the fire of your love.

 May the God of Our Lord Jesus Christ give you a  spirit of wisdom and perception of what is revealed, to bring you to full knowledge of him. May he enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see what hope his call holds for you

 SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND HOLY COMMUNION

Today  Daniel Rainford,Stephen Richardson, Katie Henry,Dylan Bilsborrow, Jacob Pridgeon, Ben McGonagle and Ben Abbey will receive these two sacraments.

MARRIAGE (SAME SEX) BILL will soon be presented to the House of Lords. For full information search the parish website under the heading  “marriage”.

In Confirmation they will receive the fullness of God’s Spirit. In Holy Communion they will share the banquet of Christ’s sacrifice, calling God their Father in the midst of the Church ( Rite of Baptism)

PRAYER MEETING Thursday 7.30pm.

BAPTISMS

India Elizabeth Wheeler…June 9th and

Stanley Walter Denton

Remi George H. Jones…June 23rd

Samuel Nelson and Tillie Box…July 14th

Thomas Doherty…28th July

FIRST HOLY COMMUNIONS

June 2nd

FOOD BANK PLEA

The Preston food bank has issued is running low on  the following items :

Rice pudding/ Custard                  Sugar

Jars of sauces                             Coffee

Tinned meat                               Cereal

Chopped tomatoes                      Tinned potatoes

Long life milk                              Noodles

Social Teaching of the church… new website

www.radicalcentre.co.uk

Activities

Slimming world Monday 6.00-8.30pm Parish Centre
Tuesday club Tuesday 1.30-3.00pm Parish Centre
Weight watchers Tuesday 6.00-8.00pm Parish Centre
Brownies & Rainbows Wednesday 6.30-9.00pm Parish Centre
Bingo Wednesday 8.00pm Club
Prayer Meeting Thursday  7.30pm

 

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