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2nd November - 9th November 2025 |
All Saints - Week Thirty One |
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All Saints Day 2nd November Rv 7:2-4,9-14 1Jn 3:1-3 Mt 5:1-12 9.00 Pat Doyle RIP 11.00am Carol Roberts RIP 6.00pm Mass People of the Parish also Elena Walsh Exit Collection Johnson Association for Retired & Infirm Diocesan Clergy |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, All Saints day is the day we honour all the many Saints in heaven who are our role models & intercessors. All Souls day (tomorrow) its younger brother has more emotional pull than All Saints because it concerns those we have loved who’ve gone before us. St.Martin of Peru displaced by All Souls is loved by the disadvantaged, especially those who have known racial abuse. A Dominican lay-brother & descendant of slaves, he was the 1st African-American to be declared a saint and is deservedly popular among black people. St Charles Borromeo (Tuesday) was bishop of Milan after the 16th cent Council of Trent & implemented Trent reforms e.g. good education for clergy & laity. He faced opposition to reforms of the Council (much as Pope Leo today re– Vatican II) but faced it down. Blessed George Napier (Saturday) an English priest working secretly in Oxfordshire in penal times, was martyred in 1610 at Oxford. The Catholic High School in Banbury is named after him. The dedication of the Lateran Basilica Next Sunday fêtes the underground Christian Church in Rome becoming an Overground church after the conversion of Constantine in 313. This church is the cathedral of the Rome Diocese. Our Celebration of Life Mass Saturday is a beautiful prayer for the people of our parish family who died in the last 12 months. Bp. David Evans will preside. Remembrance Sunday next day honours the dead of two world wars. Fine poppy displays in church will reflect this. **************************** Exit Collection today is for retired & infirm Birmingham Diocesan priests. Diocese worries re- growing demands on the fund and asks for generosity, and suggests you might consider a legacy. |
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Monday - 3rd November All Souls Day 2 Macc 12:43-46 Ph 3:20-21 LK 7:11-17 7.00 Mass Rodney Rodrigues 50th Birthday 10.15 Mass Jacqueline & Martin Lynch RIP also Lynda, David, Daisy, Janet, Juliana, Susan and all Davies family |
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Tuesday - 4th November Saint Charles Borromeo Rm 12:3-13 Jn 10:11-16 7.00am Mass Special Intention GM & Es RIP 10.15 Mass Helen McEllisott also Denis Linehan 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday - 5th November Rm 13:8-10 Lk 14:25-33 7.00 Mass Danny C 10.15 Mass Nora & Francis Mc Greal RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel) |
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Thursday - 6th November Rm 14:7-12 Lk 15:1-10 7.00 Mass Holy Souls 10.15 Mass Graz, Basia, Stepa, Iza, Gill RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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First Friday - 7th November Rm 15:14-21 Lk 16:1-8 7.00 Mass Denis Linehan RIP 10.15 Mass John Burns also Damien McKernan RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Saturday 8th November Blessed George Napier Rm 16:3-9,16,22-27 Lk 16:9-15 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Faithful Departed of our Parish |
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Dedication of Lateran Basilica 9th November Ez 47:1-2,8-9,12 1Co 3:9-11,16-17 Jn 2:13-22 9.00 Peggy & Douglas Coshan 11.00am People of the Parish - Remembrance 6.00pm Mass Intentions of Pope Leo XIV Exit Collection Friary Cemetery upkeep |