Bulletin – 13th Sunday of the year – 30th June 2013

13^th Sunday of the year  30th June 2013    

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,  Elizabeth Snape, Derek Wilkinson, Mary Andrew, Mary Hunter, Ann Wood, Ron Kitching, Margaret Feenan Kathleen Bolton, Angelo Gandolfo 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.

SCRIPTURE

You are, all of you,children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. All baptised in Christ Jesus, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ, and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Who do you say I am?

If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and  take up his cross and follow me.

FROM THE VATICAN…THE Pope said

Christians are called to be revolutionaries, changing the world one heart at a time.

The Pope repeatedly  called upon Catholics to take seriously their responsibility to bring God’s love and the  promise of salvation to the poor, the sad and the suffering. Again this week the Pope has condemned the scandal of world hunger saying, the global level of  food production  is sufficient to feed the plant’s people….yet millions are malnourished.

CHRISTIANITY One of the most important things to understand about Christianity is that it is not primarily a philosophy or system of ethics or a religious  ideology.  It is a relationship to the unsettling person of Jesus Christ….to the God  man

                                                (Fr. Robert Barron)

…….hence today’s crucial question asked by Jesus…”Who do YOU say I am?”

We pray  for the repose of the soul of Patsy Scott’s mother who died recently in Ireland.

PRAYER MEETING  Thursday 7.30pm.

BAPTISMS

Samuel Nelson and Tillie Box…July 14^th

Thomas Doherty…28^th July

SCHOOL SUMMER FAYRE…..

Next Saturday, 6^th July…11am- 2pm….please take any donations to the sc hool.

MINISTER ROTAS

All the current rotas  for readers, Eucharistic ministers and altar servers can be found on the parish websit3 menu bar under “Ministries”.

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