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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.

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. The next Baptismal Course is booked in for Mondays 25th July and 1st August, 19.00-20.15.

ST ANNE’S GUILD: Bingo this Tuesday 5th July 2016 at 19.45 in the Parish Centre.

MOVES AFOOT: A number of clergy moves were made public in the Archbishop’s ad clerum dated 14th June. Here in Chorley, Fr Andrew Robinson who has been at St Chad’s for two years, is going full time on the staff at Oscott College (seminary) in Birmingham and additionally has been made Director of Studies. Many congratulations to him. Fr Bill Simpson is coming from Litherland (Queen of Peace and English Martyrs parishes) to replace him.

The other appointment which became public knowledge on 14th June was the appointment of Fr Graeme Dunne as Parish Priest of St Gregory’s Weld Bank, effective from the second weekend in September, consequent upon the retirement of Mgr Michael McKenna. Fr Dunne is moving up from St Anthony’s Scotland Rd where he also looked after Our Lady’s Eldon St and Our Lady Immaculate, St Domingo Road.

EURO-REFERENDUM AND ITS AFTERMATH:

The last ten days have been unparallelled in British politics since 1945. We have seen resignations, backstabbing and betrayal on the Conservative side, and on the other, the Parliamentary Labour Party’s overwhelming loss of faith in a leader who refuses to step down. All this when the country is facing the most difficult set of negotiations with the rest of the European Union, possible economic recession and great uncertainty.

Some of those who campaigned for Brexit played on people’s legitimate anxiety about immigration; others went further and were implicitly racist, for their own political ends. Hence we have seen a host of disgraceful racist attacks and slurs, often against hard-working eastern European immigrants who contribute much to the national economy and do a lot of jobs which some English people don’t want to do.

Unless we want the world to see us as introverted, unwelcoming and racist, such behaviour needs to stop or be stopped at once. Who would want to visit or work in such a country?

Within the Catholic Church, we are all equally God’s children, whatever our nationality, be it English, Welsh, Scots or Irish, Spanish, Polish, Lithuanian, Slovak, Indian, Nigerian, Filipino, Italian…. At this time of political instability, we need to deepen our security and closeness to the Lord Jesus, and to pray very much for our country.

Fr Francis Marsden 01257 262537

and Deacon Norman Arrowsmith

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

Parish website: stmarys-

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

Parish Centre: 270122 or 0797 1025 985 (Manager – Heather Roscoe)

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FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

3rd July 2016

The Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him, in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself was to visit. He said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest. Start off now, but remember, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.

‘Whatever house you go into, let your first words be, “Peace to this house!” And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house.

‘Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you. Cure those in it who are sick, and say, “The kingdom of God is very near to you.” But whenever you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say, “We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet, and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very near.” I tell you, on that day it will not go as hard with Sodom as with that town.’

The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Yes, I have given you power to tread underfoot serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven.’

MASSES, MASS INTENTIONS AND SERVICES

Rosary is recited Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays after Mass

Sun 3rd July FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Mbk p105)

Sat 18.15 Mass – Canon Roger Daley (LD)

08.00 Mass – Parishioners

10.30 Mass – David Lynch (LD)

11.45 Baptism - Hanna Zoja Filus

14.00 Msza Swięta po polsku

Mon 4th St Isabel of Portugal

07.40 Morning Prayer

08.00 Mass – Mary McDaid

Tue 5th St Anthony Mary Zaccaria

09.30-11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition

12.00 Mass – Bill Durkin (A)

Wed 6th St Maria Goretti

08.40 Morning Prayer

09.00 Mass – Sarah Mayer

10.45 Visit from St George’s School

Thurs 7th St Hedda

12.00 Mass – Peter (LD) and Maureen Frazer

Fri 8th St Kilian

09.30–11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition

11.45 Divine Mercy Chaplet

12.00 noon Mass – Sp. Int. (R.W.)

Sat 9th St Augustine Zhao-Rong and Companions (Chinese martyrs)

11.00-11.45 Confessions

12.00 Mass – Sp. Int. (J.L.)

Sun 10th July FIFTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (Mbk p.108)

Sat 18.15 Mass – Parishioners

8.00 Mass – Theresa Walsh

10.30 Mass – Ronald Wentworth Taylor (LD)

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

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

ANNIVERSARIES: Miriam O’Melia, Janet Maria Cowdall, Bill Durkin.

OFFERTORY COLLECTION last week was £902 of which £488 was gift aided. The Day for Life collection came to £285. This weekend there will be a second collection for the Restoration Fund. Thank you for your great generosity.

At the moment in summer we have virtually no heating costs, but during the last Dec-Feb quarter, the gas bill we have just received for the church heating worked out at an average of £342 per week – more than a third of our normal collection. I know people sometimes feel the church is a bit cold in winter, but we have to be economical, and it is difficult to get it just right, when it takes more than eight hours to “warm” the building in the coldest months. We did receive a very generous donation of £1000 last week towards the Church Heating Fund. If anybody else would like to contribute it would be gratefully received.

READERS: 2/3 July: 18.15. Kinga Grzeczynska, 08.00, John Gunn, 10.30. Robert Barnes. 9/10 July: 18.15. Angela Simm, 08.00. Anthony Calderbank, 10.30.Rosemary Grime.

FAREWELL ON WEDNESDAY TO BISHOP HRYHORIY KOMAR, Auxiliary of Sambir-Drohobych of the Ukrainians, and Andriy Sovchak his secretary and assistant, who are returning home after a fortnight’s holiday here. Andriy is due to be ordained to the diaconate quite soon. Thank you for making them welcome.

WELCOME TO FR WLADYSLAW BIENIAS SDB who is revisiting the parish on supply for Fr. Marsden. Fr Bienias will be staying with us for two weeks before he moves to Sacred Heart to supply for Fr Ball for one month. Fr Bienias is a Professor in Latin in Poland. Please make him welcome. Perhaps you would like to invite him for lunch or supper? I am sure he would appreciate it. Thank you.

Fr Marsden is on annual leave and will be visiting Canon Richard Firth in Dublin and all your best wishes and thoughts will be conveyed. He also hopes to visit the grave of Canon Peter Cronin near Clonbabin Cross in Co. Cork and he will lay flowers on behalf of all the Deanery Priests and parishioners.

ST MARY’S LEYLAND will be holding an evening of reflection on St. Alphonsus Liguori, the Redemptorist founder and moral theologian, on Thursday 7th July. The programme can be seen on the notice board and it runs from 18.00 to 20.30.

DEANERY RETREAT DAY was held last Thursday at St Joseph’s Brinscall. Thank you to Fr Raphael Jones OSB for being our host. I would like to say a special thank you to Fr Andrew Robinson for his excellent lectures on the Gospel of St Matthew. It was a fruitful and inspiring Retreat Day for the Priests and Deacons.

JULY – THE MONTH OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS which was "shed for the many, for the remission of sins" (Mt 26:28). (The Feast of the Precious Blood, established by Pope Pius IX in 1849, used to be celebrated on the first Sunday of July.) Some find Catholic devotion to the "body parts" of Jesus Christ to be a little odd. In addition to the Sacred Heart and the Precious Blood, there are devotions to the Five Wounds (in Christ's hands, feet, and side); to the shoulder wound, where Christ carried the Cross; and to the wounds caused by the crown of thorns, to name just a few. These prayers provide a living witness to our belief in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. Our Saviour is not an abstraction; He is God-Made-Man. And as the Athanasian Creed tells us, in becoming man, Christ assumed humanity into the Godhead. It's an awesome thought: Our physical nature is united to God through the Person of Jesus Christ.

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