St Mary’s Catholic Church Chorley



CHORLEY AND PRESTON HOSPITALS: Please contact St Joseph's Chorley (262713) if any member of your family is admitted into Chorley Hospital and needs a visit. Please, by making a request for the visit, make sure that the ward staff understand that you would like the RC Chaplain to come and administer the Sacraments to your loved one, The ward staff will call the Chaplain on his bleep/phone. For the chaplaincy service at Royal Preston Hospital please ring 01772 522435. For the chaplaincy service at Wigan Infirmary T. 01942 822324.

PARISH CENTRE: The NEW TIMES for the Parish Centre openings. Thursday and Friday 19.00 – 22.00. Saturdays – 17.00 – 22.00. Sundays – 12.00 – 17.00. Table service only. Please observe the H&S Rules. Thank you.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNICANTS: This is the last weekend for Yr 5 First Holy Communion Masses for this year. Many congratulations to all the children. Thank you to parents/Carers. They all looked very splendid in their small groups. Please pray for the children and their families. Please leave the reserved front pews free.

SAFEGUARDING NOTICE: Please make sure that you photograph only your own child. Please do not take photos of the other children without consent from their parents. No photos in church during Mass, please. Thank you

OCTOBER IS THE MONTH OF THE HOLY ROSARY: Please pray the rosary in your homes, at work or in the church. We ask Our Blessed Lady to protect our parish and priest, our school with the children and staff. We pray for our housebound, the sick and those who care for them in hospitals, care and nursing homes and hospices.

ANNUAL MASS COUNT: Weekend No 4 and final weekend of the mandatory count. Last weekend there were 93 at 5pm (Sat) and 92 at 10am (Sun).

HEAVY RAIN: Chorley has suffered very heavy rainfall this last week, testing our church gutters beyond their limits. Please be careful of wet patches, both inside and outside Church, and avoid wet leaves.

FAST DRIVERS: There are still drivers who have ignored the H&S calls to drive slowly on the church grounds. Everything is on CCTV and we know who you are. SLOW DOWN or lose your car parking permit. Pedestrians are in danger when you drive fast.

NOVEMBER PIOUS LIST: The envelopes are ready at the back of the church. Please complete the list and add your stipend and post it through the presbytery door. Every day during November, Holy Mass will be offered for all the names on the lists handed in. Thank you.

Parish Priest: Fr. Francis Marsden

Deacon Norman Arrowsmith

Tel: 01257 262537

Parish website: stmarys-

Parish Office now open: 10.30 -13.00, 14.00 -16.00 Tues – Fri.

Parish Centre: 270122 or 07971 025985 (Manager – Heather Roscoe)

LIVERPOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESAN TRUSTEES INC. Registered Charity No. 232709

St Mary’s Catholic Church, Chorley

XXVIII SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

11th OCTOBER 2020

Jesus began to speak to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son’s wedding. He sent his servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come. Next, he sent some more servants. “Tell those who have been invited” he said “that I have my banquet all prepared, my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding.” But they were not interested: one went off to his farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his servants, maltreated them and killed them. The king was furious. He despatched his troops, destroyed those murderers and burnt their town. Then he said to his servants, “The wedding is ready; but as those who were invited proved to be unworthy, go to the crossroads in the town and invite everyone you can find to the wedding.” So these servants went out on to the roads and collected together everyone they could find, bad and good alike; and the wedding hall was filled with guests. When the king came in to look at the guests he noticed one man who was not wearing a wedding garment, and said to him, “How did you get in here, my friend, without a wedding garment?” And the man was silent. Then the king said to the attendants, “Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.” For many are called, but few are chosen.’ Matthew 22:1-14 

Mon-Fri 11.00-13.00 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament except for 12.00 Mass

Sat 10th St Paulinus of York, St John of Bridlington

16.00-16.45 Open-air Confessions – presbytery garden, house porch if raining.

17.00 Mass – Helen Lowe (A)

Sun 11th XXVIII SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

10.00 Mass – Corrie Borgonjeu (LD)

11.30 Mass at St Joseph’s Anderton – Mary Appleyard (A)

Mon 12th St Wilfrid of York

12.00 Mass – Deceased members of McCrory Family

Tues13th St Edward the Confessor

12.00 Mass – Maureen Sweeney (LD)

Wed 14th St Callistus

12.00 Mass – Mary McKeever (LD)

Thurs 15th St Teresa of Avila

12.00 Mass – Peter Higgins – Wedding Anniversary

Fri 16th St Margaret Mary Alacoque, St Hedwig, St Richard Gwyn

12.00 Mass – William Lewis (A)

Sat 17th St Ignatius of Antioch

15.00 Baptism – Baby Reddan

16.00-16.45 Open-air Confessions – presbytery garden, house porch if raining.

17.00 Mass – Eileen O’Neil (A)

Sun 18th XXIX SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

10.00 Mass – Vincent Murphy (A)

11.30 Mass at St Joseph’s Anderton – John Kerins (LD)

Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Emily Atkins, Kevin Bailey, Jane Banks, Brigid Cain, Michael Collins, Hughie Daly, Elmo, Paul Eastham, Yvonne Finlayson, Carol Focske, Desmond Gorman, Anne Higginson, baby Hope, Jacob Hughes, Eileen Howard, Debbie MacFarlane, Molly Redhead, Canon Bert Shaw, Eileen Snape, Mgr. Jan Szponar, Terry Tingey, Bridget Trimm, Muriel Wilson, Roger Walmsley, Frank Waring, Ann Woodruff, Agnes Young and parishioners in The Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall.

ANNIVERSARIES: Helen Lowe, Mary Appleyard, William Lewis, Eileen O’Neil, Vincent Murphy, Maria KwaSnicki, Joseph Hallett, Michael Bradley.

RECENTLY DECEASED: Agnes Ruth Pressler (76) who died on 1st October. Funeral Service at Charnock Richard Crematorium was held on Friday 9th October. Maureen Sweeney (76) of Richmond House who died on 5th October. Funeral Mass on Wednesday 21st at 12.00. Mgr Austin Hunt (88), previously parish priest All Saints’ Anfield and director of the Diaconate Training. Funeral 15th Oct.

FINANCIAL MATTERS: Thank you to everyone who has sent in their Gift Aid envelopes and offerings. It is truly appreciated in these times of hardship.

READERS: 11th October. Sat: 17.00 Jeni Wilson. Sun: 10.00 Margaret Arrowsmith.

18th October. Sat: 17.00 Eileen McCarrick. Sun: 10.00 John Gunn

25th October. Sat: 17.00 Kinga Grzeczynska. Sun: 10.00 Margaret Rossall

Please note that your Reading will be on the ambo in front of Our Lady’s Altar. Please do not bring your own materials to read from with the exception of your Smart Phone.

WRAP UP WARM: It has definitely got colder in the recent days. Please wrap up warm for church. The doors must remain open to provide the necessary ventilation requirement during the pandemic. NEW SIGNAGE: When you come into the church, please pick up one of the place cards and leave it where you have sat. This will indicate to our volunteers where to sanitise and clean after you have left the church.

PLEASE MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING OF 2 METERS

BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS (1991-2006) is being beatified this Saturday October 10th in the Basilica of San Francesco, in Assisi. Aged 11, moved by the Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano. Carlo, a daily communicant from his First Holy Communion and a computer genius, worked on collating all Eucharistic miracles and creating an online downloadable Exhibition. The project had immediate success: it was viewed and displayed the world over. Shortly after completing the project Carlo was diagnosed with fulminant leukaemia, and died a week later, aged 15. Carlo lived a short life but a very fruitful one close to Jesus. You may wish to pray for the young members of your families and friends and ask Blessed Carlo to intercede for them. shows the international Exhibition designed and created by Carlo Acutis. Here you can read about many Eucharistic miracles appearing in listed countries. This web page is fascinating, and I encourage you to have a look at it.

SAINT TERESA OF AVILA - QUOTATIONS

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that. God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

"Truth suffers, but never dies."

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee: All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.”

“Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware to Whom he is speaking, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-----however much the lips may move.”

“One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.“

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