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25th January - 1st February 2026 |
Third Week in Ordinary Time |
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Third Sunday- Word of God day- 25th January Is 9:1-4 1Co 1:10-13,17 Mt 4:12-23 9.00 The Carter Families 11.00 Maureen McGeown & Joseph McGeown 6.00pm Mass People of the Parish Exit Collection: LEPRA for World Leprosy Day |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, Today is Word of God Sunday a day to encourage Christians all over the world to focus on the Word of God ...to read & understand scripture, & let our lives be guided by the inspired Word of God Saints Titus & Timothy were co-workers with St.Paul, and letters St.Paul wrote to them form part of the new testament. Timothy was possibly still in his late teens when St.Paul placed him in charge of one of the local churches. Tuesday’s feast.. St Edward Oldcorne, honours a local saint who worked in the midlands in highly dangerous post-reformation times. The Catholic High School in Worcester carries his name. Rosary of the Unborn will follow 10.15 Mass each Tuesday. All welcome to join St.Thomas Aquinas (Wednesday) was one of the greatest theologians of the church. He famously spelt out the relation between faith & reason. Faith, he said, though revealed by God, is not illogical or stupid but rather goes hand in hand with logic much as a key turns inside a lock. A useful image for our age St.John Bosco (Saturday) responded to the disruption of family life during the Italian industrial revolution by bringing education to the young poor in the big cities. Young homeless people would often collect around railway stations, and today many of the works of the Salesian order (which he founded) are centred around rail hubs. John Bradburne Memorial Society (JBMS) asks us to support World Leprosy Day, today, which highlights challenges faced by people enduring leprosy, a disease that still impacts thousands. Bradburne was a lay missionary who worked among lepers in Zimbabwe before independence. He was abducted and killed by guerillas in 1979, and moves are afoot to declare him a saint.
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Monday - 26th January Saints Timothy & Titus 2Tm 1-8 or Tt 1:1-5 Mk 3:22-30 7.00 Mass Private Intention 10.15 Mass Mary Philpott also Clive Harris |
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Tuesday - 27th January Blessed Edward Oldcorne 2Sam 6:12-15,17-19 Mk 3:31-35 7.00 Mass Elizabeth Kelly RIP 10.15 Mass Paul Williamson also Ray & Bernie Ryan 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday - 28th January St.Thomas Aquinas 2Sam 7:4-17 Mk 4:1-20 7.00 Mass Richard Lovegrove 10.15 Mass The Friary Gardening team also Mary’s Honour Prayer Group 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel) |
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Thursday - 29th January 2Sam 7:18-19,24-29 Mk 4:21-25 7.00 Mass Irene Mc Namara RIP 10.15 Mass Priests of Japan & China also Maria Hartigan 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Friday - 30th January 2Sam 11:1-10,13-17 Mk 4:26-34 7.00 Mass Beverley Wilkes 10.15 Mass Alan Fullard also Michelle, Joe, David, Niamh Costella |
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Saturday 31st January St. John Bosco 2Sam 12:1-7,10-17 Mk 4:35-41 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Barbara Watters RIP |
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Fourth Sunday 1st February Zep 2:3,3:12-13 1Co 1:26-31 Mt 5:1-12 9.00 People of the Parish 11.00 Jean & George Carmichael RIP 6.00pm Mass Bridget Green Exit Collection Catholic Association for Racial Justice |