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7th December - 14th December 2025 |
Second Week in Advent |
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Second Sunday of Advent 7th December Is 2:1-5 Rm 13:11-14 Mt 24:37-44 9.00 Fr Peter Eccles 11.00am People of the Parish also Peter Noonan 6.00pm Mass Mr & Mrs Sheehan & Family Exit Collection Poor Parishes of Diocese Fund |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, Bible Sunday Today readers renew their commitment at their usual Sunday Mass The Immaculate Conception tomorrow is our parish feast, and acclaims Mary’s freedom from Original Sin, God’s way of preparing her to be Jesus' Mother. St.Juan Diego (Tuesday) & his wife became Christians in 16th cent. Mexico. He shocked Spanish rulers by saying in 1531 that Our Lady appeared to him at Guadelupe & spoke his own Aztec tongue St.Edmund Gennings (Wednesday) from Lichfield was martyred as a catholic priest at the age of 24. He was canonised as one of the 40 martyrs in 1970. Our Lady of Loreto (Wednesday) was made patron of air travel in 1920 by Benedict XV when air travel was v. new Saint Damasus (Thursday) a pope of the tumultuous 4th century was famed for a synodal consultative style of rule. Our Lady of Guadalupe (Friday) is patron of Mexico & all the Americas. St.Lucy (Saturday) was an early Roman martyr. Her life story is scarcely known but she is named in the 1st Eucharistic prayer, the early church’s way of honouring forgotten heroes. She is patron saint of good eyesight. In Advent we also have Thursday night reflections in the Day Chapel styled ‘Getting to know Pope Leo’, on the new message of Pope Leo on the love of Jesus in our lives: Dilexi Te. 7.30pm. Followed by Night Prayer... Ends 8.45. Fr.Austin to share next 2 Thursdays. Confirmation 2026: Programme for Y6 children not at Catholic School or Y7 & Y8 children who’ve missed previously * 5 Sunday sessions after 9.00am mass * starts today December 7th at 10.00am * to enrol your child, email Sarah Wood * Confirmations Friday 6th Feb at 7pm |
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Monday - 8th December Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary Gen 3.9-15, 20 Eph 1.3-6, 11-12 Luke 1.26-38 7.00 Mass Private Intention 10.15 Mass Fr Biju Antony SCJ 7.30pm Mass People of the Parish |
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Tuesday - 9th December St.Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoazin Isaiah 40.1-11 Matt 18. 12-14 7.00 Mass Holy Souls 10.15 Mass Maria Hartigan also Barry Hodges 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday - 10th December Our Lady of Loreto St.Edmund Jennings Isaiah 40.25-31 Matt 11.28-30 7.00 Mass Desmond Mc Kinley RIP 10.15 Mass Monika & Stefan Sawicki RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel) |
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Thursday - 11th December St. Damasus (Pope) Isaiah 41.13-20 Matt 11.11-15 7.00 Mass Paula Mallon RIP 10.15 Mass May Fagan also Bernadette McGhie RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Friday - 12th December Our Lady of Guadalupe Isaiah 48.17-19 Matt 11.16-19 7.00 Mass Brother Liam Finucane SCJ 10.15 Mass Shelia Griffin RIP also Michael Cottam |
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Saturday 13th December St.Lucy 2Cor 10.17-11.2 Matt 25.1-13 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Archbp Mario, Mario Paul & Noel Minihan |
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Third Sunday of Advent 14th December Is 36:1-6a,10 James 5.7-10 Mt 11:2-11 9.00 Piotr Sawicki 11.00am Brendan Mc Inerney RIP 6.00pm Mass People of the Parish Exit Collection Prison Support Ministry |