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8th June - 15th June 2025 |
Week of Pentecost 2025 |
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Pentecost Sunday 8th June Ac 2:1-11 1Co 12:3-7,12-13 Jn 20:19-23 9.00am -Patrick Mc Manus RIP 11.00am-People of the Parish 12.30 Baptism 6.00pm Mass – Mervyn Darling RIP Exit Collection Brushstrokes |
Dear Brothers & Sisters This day the Holy Spirit came on the disciples hiding in the upper room, and gave them courage to witness to Jesus. This is the church’s birthday, blown into being by the wind of the Spirit. It’s our parish feast too: our church is dedicated to The Holy Ghost & Mary Immaculate Mary our Mother was with the apostles that day so we honour her on Monday as Mary Mother of the Church. She displaces two other saints who share a feast June 9: St.Columba & St.Ephraim. St.Barnabas (Wednesday) wasn’t one of the original twelve apostles, but accompanied St.Paul in his mission to the gentiles. A Cypriot by birth, his origins are commemorated in Limassol by a Catholic basilica and an Orthodox cathedral. Jesus Eternal High Priest (Thursday) is a new feast (2018) celebrating Jesus as mediator between God & Humanity. Always the Thursday after Pentecost. St. Anthony of Padua (Friday) a 13th century Franciscan is popular in devotions all over the world. We ask his intercession when things are lost, or for people who need healing, and to be closer to the child Jesus in our lives. Next Sunday is Trinity Sunday final feast of the Easter season. We honour our God as Father, Son & Spirit, a formula that means that in baptism we become part of God’s family, and that the Lord of creation touches our world. ******************* Exit collection today is for Brushstrokes the church project in Smethwick to aid refugees. We recall the address of Lucy Clark of Brushstrokes at our 2024 PPC AGM: Refugees in the UK have no friends in politics. Only the church supports, recalling that Jesus, Mary and Joseph were once refugees in Egypt.
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Monday - 9th June Mary Mother of the Church Gn 3:9-15 or Ac 1:12-14 Jn 19:25-34 7.00am Mass - Private Intention 10.15 Mass Amanda Lane |
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Tuesday - 10th June 2Co 1:18-22 Mt 5:13-16 7.00am Mass Sally Allsop 10.15 Mass Gerard Henry 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday - 11th June St.Barnabus-apostle Ac 11:21-26,13:1-3 Mt 5:17-19 7.00 Mass - Margaret Moores 10.15 Mass Francis & Nora Mc Greal 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (Day Chapel) |
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Thursday - 12th June Our Lord Jesus Christ-Eternal High Priest Is 6:1-4,8 or Heb 2:10-18 Jn 17:1-2,9, 14-26 7.00 Mass Roger Moores 10.15 Mass Fr Dominic Innamorati SCJ RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament 6.00 Evening Prayer & Exposition |
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Friday - 13th June St.Anthony of Padua 2Co 4:7-15 Mt 6:27-32 7.00 Mass - Una Chapman 10.15 Mass - Sr Angela – special birthday |
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Saturday 14th June 2Co 5:14-21 Mt 5:33-37 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Mary, Tom, Peggie & Martin Flemming RIP |
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Trinity Sunday 15th June Pr 8:22-31 Rm 5:1-5 Jn 16:12-15 9.00am -People of the Parish 11.00am-Tony & Barbara Eames RIP 12.30 Baptism 6.00pm Mass Margaret Darcy RIP & Patrick Diviney RIP Exit Collection Day for Life |