Bulletin – 18th Sunday of the year 4th August 2013

18th Sunday of the year 4^th August 2013    

This week’s readings

Please pray for our sick and housebound

Julie K, Connie Burton, Anne Henrys, Lenny Johnson, Mildred Ford, Doris Murch, Eric Brown, Joyce Heggarty, Winnie Richardson, Moura Hitchen, Cath Yates, Maddy, Agnes Nicholson, Elizabeth Snape, Derek Wilkinson, Mary Hunter, Ann Wood, Ron Kitching, 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.

SCRIPTURE

Vanity OF vanities, all is vanity.

Look for things that are in heaven where Christ is………

There is only Christ: he is  everything

And he is in everything

Be on your guard against avarice of any kind, for a man’s life is not made secure by  what he owns.

POPE IN BRAZIL

Mercy is clearly one of Pope Francis’ favourite words. He uses it often  to describe a personal encounter,  in prayer and sacraments, with Jesus Christ It is his term for a loving embrace

that conveys acceptance and forgiveness, not dwelling on people’s’ faults  but looking for the good in them. It was powerfully on display during his visit to  World Youth Day in Brazil which brought three million  young people to the beach in Copacabana to join him at Mass, “to meet Jesus and feel the warmth of his mercy and his love.”

The Pope seems to recognise that the Catholic Church has not  been regarded as  loving and merciful, and therefore has been  untrue to  its divine founder.

…it is seen as  disapproving and judgemental, especially by the generation that World Youth Day wishes to embrace…..

Alongside his  preaching of the church of the poor, Pope Francis preaches a church of mercy.

Sayings of the Pope…”.Jesus  did not tell his disciples to share the gospel ,”if you would like to,or  if you have time. Where does Jesus send us ? There are no borders, no limits. He sends us to everyone.”

“How precious is the family as the privileged  place  for transmitting the faith. How important grandparents are for family life”

For more reports  on the papal visit…see this week’s Catholic press and, of course, the internet.

BECOMING A CATHOLIC

If any family member is interested in joining the church please encourage them to contact Fr. Michael.

PRAYER MEETING Thursday 7.30pm

Minister rotas

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

FOOD BANK PLEA Preston food bank  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

Activities