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19th January - 26th January 2025 |
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Peace Sunday 19th January Is 62:1-5 1Co 12:4-11 Jn 2:1-11 9.00am Mass Edmund Poole 11.00am Mass Barry Pyne RIP 12.30 Baptism 6.00pm Mass People of the parish Exit Collection Pax Christi |
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Peace Sunday: the exit collection goes to Pax Christi, the Catholic peace movement that educates people to find non-violent ways of resolving differences. St.Sebastian (Monday) a Roman soldier in Milan before conversion to Christian faith. Martyred by shooting with arrows c.300, his cult has a life of its own. Dioceses the world over have St.Sebastian parishes marking today with processions through the streets carrying his statue, often showing the protruding arrows. Saint Agnes (Tuesday) a contemporary of St.Sebastian was a teenage martyr and remembered in Eucharistic Prayer I St.Vincent of Saragossa (Wednesday) was another early roman martyr, who along with St.Lawrence & St.Ephraim is a patron saint of deacons. St.Nicholas Owen (Thursday) a Jesuit lay brother & skilled Carpenter. During times of persecution he used his skills to create priests’ hiding holes in country houses like Coughton Court, Harvington Hall & Baddesley Clinton. He was eventually captured, tortured and put to death in the Tower of London 1606. St.Francis de Sales (Friday) Bishop of Geneva after the Calvinist reformation was a model of a dedicated pastoral Bishop, he wrote Introduction to the Devout Life, to encourage laypeople to deepen their spiritualty. Canonised in 1655 and later named a doctor or teacher of the church. Conversion of St.Paul apostle (Saturday) Once a pharisee zealot harassing Christians, he saw the light on the Damascus road & became the great missionary of the early church. His task was to reach out to non-Jewish people & repeatedly assert that Jesus came as a light for all nations. In a world of sectarian conflict we need his light more than ever.
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Monday 20th January St.Sebastian (optional) Heb 5:1-10 Mk 2:18-22 7.30 Mass Andrew Cunningham RIP 10.15 Mass Beverley Wilkes 6.00pm Vigil William Gaffey |
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Tuesday 21st January St.Agnes Heb 6:10-20 Mk 2:23-28 7.30 Mass Anne Stokes RIP 1st Anniversary 10.15 Requiem William Gaffey RIP 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday 22nd January St.Vincent (Deacon) Heb 7:1-3,15-17 Mk 3:1-6 7.30 No Mass 10.15 Comunion Service 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (Day Chapel) |
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Thursday 23rd January St.Nicholas Owen Heb 7:25-8:6 Mk 3:7-12 7.30 Mass Mary Barry 10.15 Mass Eva Timlin 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament 6.00pm Evening Prayer & Blessed Sacrament |
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Friday 24th January St.Francis de Sales Heb 8:6-13 Mk 3:13-19 7.30 Mass Gerry Stokes 10.15 Requiem Graham Thomas |
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Saturday 25th January Conversion of St.Paul the apostle Ac 22:3-16 or Ac 9:1-22 Mk 16:25-18 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Jean Sherman RIP |
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Third Sunday (Word of God) 26th January Ne 8:2-6,8-10 1Co 12:12-30 Lk 1:1-4,4:14-21 9.00am Mass Norah Donnelly RIP 11.00am Mass Finlay Miller & Comrades overseas RIP 6.00pm Mass People of the parish Exit Collection St.Stephen Guild medal fund |