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17th May - 24th May 2026 |
Seventh Week of Easter |
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Seventh Sunday of Easter 17th May Act 1:12-14 1Pt 4:13-16 Jn 17:1-11 9.00 Peggy & Douglas Coshan 11.00 Catherine & James Murphy RIP 12.30 Baptism 6.00 Mass People of the Parish also Peggy & Sammy Lee RIP Exit Collection Catholic Communications |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, Our Going Forth Mass is at 9.00am today when we give thanks to God for bringing our children closer to him in Holy Communion, and we send them forth as ambassadors of Jesus. St.John I (Monday) pope in mid 6th cent tried to bring reconciliation with Arian heretics. The Emperor imprisoned him for his efforts and he died in gaol. St Dunstan (Tuesday)10th century Abbot of Glastonbury was by tradition a metal worker, who threatened the devil with red hot pinchers! He became Bishop of Worcester and then Canterbury just as England was becoming a unified state. The coronation rite he wrote for King Edgar in 973 was the same in outline as that used for King Charles in 2023. St.Bernardine of Siena (Wednesday) was a 15th century Italian Franciscan was a popular preacher who inspired devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus. Christabel Magallenes (Thurs) born 1869 in Mexico took the gospel to indigenous Huichol people, so annoying European settlers. The Mexican revolution of 1912 launched a persecution against the church so he opened a secret seminary in response. He was arrested in May 1927 en route to celebrate mass in a local farmhouse, and executed on the spot. Before dying he gave all his possessions to the executioners and gave them absolution. St.Rita Cascia (Friday) was a mother of two, married to a violent husband in 15th century Italy. After he died in a gang fight she entered a convent & bore the stigmata. Along with St.Jude she is patron saint of hopeless cases. **************************** Next Sunday is Pentecost, and as this church is officially the Church of the Holy Ghost and Mary Immaculate, it is one of our two Friary church feast days.
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Monday - 18th May St.John I pope & martyr Act 19:1-8Jn 16:29-33 7.00 Mass Private Intention 10.15 Mass “Mary & Michael’s Breakfast Club” |
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Tuesday –19th May Saint Dunstan Act 20:17-27 Jn 17:1-11 7.00 Mass Mrs Maggie Duggan RIP 10.30 Requiem William Joseph Butler RIP 10.45 Rosary of the unborn 7.00 Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament 6.00pm Vigil Pansy Pascoe |
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Wednesday - 20th May St.Bernardine of Sienna Act 20:28-38 Jn 17:11-19 7.00 Mass Brother John Dawson SCJ 10.15 Requiem Pansy Rita Pascoe RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel) 7.00pm Vigil Anthony Benjamin Davies RIP |
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Thursday - 21st May St.Cristobal Magellanes Act 22:30,23:6-11 Jn 17:20-26 7.00 Mass Jim Baynham RIP 10.00 Requiem Anthony Benjamin Davies RIP |
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Friday - 22nd May St.Rita of Cascia Act 25:13-21 Jn 21:15-19 7.00 Mass Margaret Finnegan 10.15 Mass Hazel Scott RIP |
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Saturday 23rd May Act 28:16-20,30-31 Jn 21:20-25 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Don O’ Donnell |
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Pentecost Sunday 24th May Act 2:1-11 1Co 12:3-7,12-13 Jn 20:19-23 9.00 Ellen Wilkinson, Nancy Forster, Irene Colleron 11.00 People of the Parish also Jim Noonan 12.30 Baptism 6.00 Mass Mary Bell Exit Collection Friary Building Fund |