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26th July - 2nd August 2026 |
Week Seventeen |
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Seventeenth Sunday 26th July World Grandparents Day 1Kg 3:5-6,7-12 Rm 8:28-30 Mt 13:44-52 9.00 Peggy & Douglas Coshan RIP 11.00 Annette & Steve Howell 12.30 Baptism 2.00pm Wedding Luke & Autumn 6.00 Mass People of the Parish Exit Collection: Parish Hall Refurbishment |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, The feast of Saints Joachim & Anne the grandparents of the child Jesus is displaced today by the Sunday, but this is still World Grandparents Day, begun by Pope Francis in 2021. Blessed Robert Sutton (Monday) son of a carpenter from Burton-on-Trent was an Anglican priest but converted to Catholic faith 1577 inspired by a younger brother. Ordained at Douai he worked in Staffs for 10 yrs saying Mass secretly in catholic homes. Arrested in Stafford 1588, he was hung, drawn & quartered. His gallows speech told of his baptism candle which was still alight with the flame of faith. Our Lady of Betharram's feast comes on Tuesday, always an important day for our Sacred Heart Community. Many people know the ancient story of the little girl nearly drowning in the nearby river who called on Mother Mary to help. She duly appeared holding a branch and pulled the little girl to safety. Hence the name Beth-Ram meaning ‘beautiful branch’ in the Bearn dialect. Sts.Martha, Mary & Lazarus (Wednesday) were Jesus' great friends of Bethany and were a second home for Jesus who loved to relax in their company. *(11.00 Prayer Group has break in August) St Ignatius (Friday) Born to a wealthy family in Loyola, Spain, he became a soldier. Following a conversion he studied theology in Paris, and gathered his first followers. He founded the Society of Jesus in Rome dedicated to the greater glory of God and to the service of the Church, in total obedience to the Pope. St.Alphonsus Ligouri (Saturday) was a lawyer, but later became a priest. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists), and was given the title Doctor of the Church for his writings on Moral Theology.
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Monday 27th July Blessed Robert Sutton Jr 13:1-11 Mt 13:31-35 7.00 Mass Private Intention 10.15 Mass John & Muriel Lloyd diamond wedding 11.30am Requiem - Stella Minihan RIP |
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Tuesday 28th July Our Lady of Betharram Jr 14:17-22 Mt 13:36-43 7.00 Mass Anne Letts RIP 10.15 Mass Caroline Louise Sparling also John Hull RIP 10.45 Rosary of the unborn 7.00 Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday 29th July Saints Martha, Mary & Lazarus Jr 15:10,126-21 Jn 11:19-27 or Lk 10:38-42 7.00 Mass Brother Thang SCJ Thanksgiving 10.15 Mass Pope Leo XIV, priests & seminarists also Ros Mc Mullan (special birthday) 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel)* |
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Thursday 30th July St.Peter Chrysologus Jr 18:1-6 Mt 13:47-53 7.00 Mass Daniel Kelly 10.15 Mass James Fay also Unborn Babies 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Friday 31st July Saint Ignatius Loyola Jr 26:1-9 Mt 13:54-58 7.00 Mass Nancie D & Lucy D 10.15 Mass Marys Honour Group also John Gillen |
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Saturday 1st August St.Alphonsus Liguori Jr 26:11-16,24 Mt 14:1-12 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Andrew Lockington RIP 1st Anniversary & Lockington family (Cemetery blessing after) |
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Eighteenth Sunday 2nd August Is 55:1-3 Rm 8:35,37-39 Mt 14:13-21 9.00 Deceased of McNeil & Gallagher families 11.00 Caroline Sparling 6.00 Mass People of the Parish also Christine Lynch Exit Collection: SCJ School Project Assam |