St Mary’s Catholic Church Chorley



CHORLEY HOSPITAL: Please contact St Joseph’s, Harper’s Lane (262713) if you are scheduled for an operation and would like to receive the Sacraments while in hospital. In an emergency, the ward staff will bleep the on-call priest via switchboard.

NOVEMBER is traditionally the month of prayer for the Holy Souls, the deceased who are on their way to heaven, but undergoing purification and expiating their sins in purgatory for a while. "It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins."(2 Macc.12, 46).

NOVEMBER PIOUS LIST forms and envelopes can be found at the back of church. Please complete your list, put in your offering and seal the envelope and give it in at the Sunday collections or at the Parish Office. Thank you.

INDULGENCES FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY: The faithful can gain a plenary indulgence applicable only to the souls in purgatory subject to the usual conditions of a recent Confession, Holy Communion on the day, and freedom from all sin or sinful intentions, by visiting a cemetery and praying, even mentally only, for the dead on each of the first eight days of November.

QUARANT’ORE: Thank you to everyone for their hard work, attendance and assistance for our Annual Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.

FRIDAY FILM SESSIONS: Friday 11th at 14.00 in the presbytery dining room. The Great Irish Famine – the 19th Century worst humanitarian crisis.

ST ANNE’S GUILD: meets on 8th Nov. Bingo as usual at 19.45 in the parish centre.

BACK TO SCHOOL: Welcome back to Mr Smyth and his staff and all the pupils.

BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE: Would parents please contact Fr Marsden or Deacon Norman personally, after one of the weekend Masses, if they wish to enquire about baptism arrangements.

FRIENDS OF UGANDA: Coffee morning and sale of ladies wear – ‘new and nearly new’. Tuesday 8th November at 10.00am – 13.30 in our parish centre.

YEAR OF MERCY AT ST MARY’S LEYLAND: The last official pilgrimage will be on Friday 11th November – an ‘Experience of Benedictine Life’, 18.00 – 20.30. There will be a presentation from the Benedictine monks from the Anglican Ecumenical Abbey of Mucknell and monks from Leyland and Ampleforth. Vespers at 18.00, 18.20: Sharing on monastic life / Lectio Divina, sharing the scriptures. Illustrated life on St Benedict and refreshments at 20.30. Everyone most welcome.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOLUNTEER after the 10.30 Sunday Mass and assist in providing refreshments? There is a rota and help would be very appreciated. Please contact Stella Vigar via the parish office. Many thanks.

Fr Francis Marsden 01257 262537

and Deacon Norman Arrowsmith

E-mail address: stmaryschorley@yahoo.co.uk

Parish website: stmarys-

Office hours Tuesday - Friday 9.00-13.00 (except Mass), 14.00-16.00

Parish Centre: 270122 or 07971025 985 (Manager – Heather Roscoe)

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St Mary’s Catholic Church Chorley

THIRTY- SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

6th November 2016

Some Sadducees – those who say that there is no resurrection – approached him and they put this question to him, ‘Master, we have it from Moses in writing, that if a man’s married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother. Well then, there were seven brothers. The first, having married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children. Finally the woman herself died Now, at the resurrection, to which of them will she be wife since she had been married to all seven?’

Jesus replied, ‘The children of this world take wives and husbands, but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are sons of God. And Moses himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.’

Sun 6th Nov THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Mbk p161)

Sat 18.15 Mass – Štefan Gič

08.00 Mass – Parishioners

10.30 Mass – Pious List

11.45 Baptism – Lawrence Philip Walsh

14.00 Msza Święta po polsku

Mon 7th Nov St Willibrord

08.40 Morning Prayer

09.00 Mass – Pious List

Tues 8th Nov Bd John Duns Scotus, All Saints of Wales

09.30 Morning Prayer

09.30 – 11.50 Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

12.00 Mass – Pious List

Wed 9th Nov Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

08.40 Morning Prayer

09.00 Mass – Pious List

Thurs 10thNov St Leo the Great, St Justus of Canterbury

12.00 Mass - Pious List

Fri 11th Nov St Martin of Tours

09.30 Morning Prayer

09.30 – 11.45 Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

11.30 Divine Mercy Chaplet

12.00 Mass – Pious List

Sat 12th Nov St Josaphat

11.00 - 11.45 Confessions

12.00 Mass – Pious List

12.45 Baptisms – Isabella Fae Mary Kent and Myka Patricia Anne Kent

Sun 13th Nov THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (Mbk p.164 )

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

Sat 18.15 Mass – Michael James Purtill (A)

08.00 Mass – Parishioners

10.30 Mass – Pious List

11.45- 12.45 Yr 4 Catechesis in parish centre

Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Lelia Addy, Roland Anderton, Emily

Atkins, Emma Beatty, Pauline Bennett, Margaret Bower, Brigid Cain, Marie Cannon, Michael Carter, Michael Collins, Jill Connor, Melville Coombes, Roland Cross, Hughie Daly, John Daniels, Monica Donalds, Joan Doran, Sr Frances, Sr Paschal, Mavis Entwistle, Yvonne Finlayson, John Green, Gerry Harrison, Martin Henry, Simon Holcroft, John Johnson, Joan Jones, Doreen Lang, Julie Lowe, Richard Lowe, Tusia Lynch, Debbie MacFarlane, Jude Mack, Kevin McCarrick, Frances McHale, Kathleen Mitchell, Veronica Mobbs, Catherine O’Donoghue, Anthony O’Malia, Kathleen Rae, Kathleen Reynolds, Margaret Rice, Samuel Round, Paul Tiffin, Terry Tingey, Frank Waring, Marie Worden, Agnes Young and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall etc.

RECENTLY DECEASED: Frances Bond, Requiem Mass at St Gregory’s 10.30 on 10th November. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord…..

ANNIVERSARIES: Michael James Purtill, Fr Terry Cotter, Fr Bill Naylor.

OFFERTORY COLLECTION last week was £817 of which £402 was gift aided. This weekend is the much needed Restoration fund. Thank you very much for your great generosity.

READERS: 5/6 Nov 18.15: Robert Langford, 08.00: Monica Wilcock, 10.30: Simon Eccles. 12/13 Nov: 18.15: Kinga Grzeczynska; 08.00: Molly Stazicker 10.30: Uniform Groups.

ROSEMERE CANCER FOUNDATION CABARET NIGHT raised a magnificent £833 for cancer research. Many thanks to everyone.

CHRISTMAS CARDS will be on sale after most Masses from this weekend. Please buy early, while the stock is available. Thank you.

WWI COMMEMORATIVE SINGALONG is taking place on Friday, 11th November at the Town Hall. 14.30 – 16.00. It is £3.00 on the door. Singer – Katy Bradley.

CONCERNING THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY:

“We believe in the true resurrection of this flesh that we now possess’ (Council of Lyons II). We sow a corruptible body in the tomb, but he raises up an incorruptible body, a ‘spiritual body’ (cf. 1 Cor 15:42–44)" (CCC 1017). 

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost, but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had, but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received. (Timothy Keller – American Presbyterian Pastor and apologist))

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! (Evelyn Underhill)

"Perish the thought that the omnipotence of the Creator is unable, for the raising of our bodies and for the restoring of them to life, to recall all [their] parts, which were consumed by beasts or by fire, or which disintegrated into dust or ashes, or were melted away into a fluid, or were evaporated away in vapors" (Augustine The City of God 22:20:1 [A.D. 419]). 

The Fourth Lateran Council (1215), infallibly defined that at the second coming Jesus "will judge the living and the dead, to render to every person according to his works, both to the reprobate and to the elect. All of them will rise with their own bodies, which they now wear, so as to receive according to their deserts, whether these be good or bad [Rom. 2:6–11]" (constitution 1). 

"See, too, how for our consolation all nature suggests the future resurrection. The sun sinks down, but is reborn. The stars go out, but return again. Flowers die, but come to life again. After their decay shrubs put forth leaves again; not unless seeds decay does their strength return. A body in the grave is like the trees in winter: They hide their sap under a deceptive dryness. Why are you in haste for it to revive and return, while yet the winter is raw? We must await even the spring of the body. I am not ignorant of the fact that many, in the consciousness of what they deserve, would rather hope than actually believe that there is nothing for them after death. They would prefer to be annihilated rather than be restored for punishment" (Minucius Felix - Octavius 34:11–12 [A.D. 226]). 

"After the present age is ended he will judge his worshipers. . . . All who have died since the beginning of time will be raised up again and shaped again and remanded to whichever destiny they deserve" (Tertullian Apology 18:3 [A.D. 197]). 

"[Jesus Christ] sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From there he shall come to judge the living and the dead; at his coming all men have to rise again with their bodies and will render an account of their own deeds; and those who have done good will go into life everlasting, but those who have done evil, into eternal fire [Rom. 2:6–11]. This is the Catholic faith, unless everyone believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved" (Athanasian Creed [A.D. 400]). 

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