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31st May - 7th June 2026 |
Week Nine |
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Trinity Sunday 31st May Exod 34.4b-6,8-9 2 Cor 13.11-14 Jn 3.16-18 9.00 People of the Parish also Bridget McCabe RIP 11.00 George Everard RIP 6.00 Mass Barbara Hardwick RIP Exit Collection: SCJ School Project - Assam |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, St.Justin (Monday) martyred just 2 generations after the apostles, is known as ‘The Apologist’ not because of anything he regretted but because he strove to make Christian faith reasonable in terms that even pagans could understand. Sts. Marcellinus & Peter (Tuesday) were martyrs who died 304, beheaded in Rome under Diocletian. Reputedly members of the Roman clergy, they are held in special honour in Rome itself, as a basilica was built over their tombs. St.Charles Lwanga & Ugandan Martyrs (Wednesday) included teenage converts, put to death in a savage persecution of the 1880’s. Pope Paul VI declared them saints in 1964 apologizing that it was beyond his remit to canonise the Anglican martyrs who also died with them. St Boniface (Friday) a Benedictine monk from Crediton, Devon, preached in Germany and later was consecrated bishop. He then was able to organise the Church in Germany and was martyred preaching among the Frisians *********************** Next Sunday we keep Corpus Christi a feast of the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. It has been called ‘Holy Thursday in happy times’. We feast the real presence of Jesus in our Eucharist in a way that is not possible during the sorrows of Holy Week. Corpus et Sanguis Christi (full title-the body & blood of Christ) began 800 yrs ago because of huge insecurity about the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, some related to the meaning of words, but in the end revolving round our worthiness to receive Jesus in communion.
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Monday 1st June St.Justin, martyr 2Pt 1:2-7 Mk 12:1-12 7.00 Mass Private Intention 10.15 Mass Ann Letts RIP |
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Tuesday 2st June Saints Marcellinus & Peter 2Pt 3:12-15,17-18 Mk 12:13-17 7.00 Mass Sarah Welsh 10.15 Mass Tony Davies RIP also Pat Bishop birthday intention 10.45 Rosary of the unborn 7.00 Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday 3rd June St.Charles Lwangwa & the Ugandan martyrs 2Tm 1:1-3,6-12 Mk 12;18-27 7.00 No Mass 10.15 Communion Service 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel) |
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Thursday 4th June 2Tm 2:8-15 Mk 12:28-34 7.00 Mass Graine McCabe & office staff 10.15 Mass Annie Mc Skeane RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament 4.30pm Vigil Margaret Mary Mc Hugh RIP |
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First Friday 5th June St.Boniface 2Tm 3:10-17 Mk 12:35-37 7.00 Mass Margaret Myers RIP 10.15 Requiem Margaret Mary Mc Hugh RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Saturday 6th June 2Tm 4:1-8 Mk 12:38-44 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Pat & Graham Bishop |
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Corpus Christi 7th June Dt 8:2-3,14-16 1Co 10:16-17 Jn 6:51-58 9.00 June & James Eccles 11.00 Caroline Sparling RIP 6.00 Mass People of the Parish also Jason Evans Exit Collection: Organ Restoration Fund |