Weekly Diary

12th April - 19th April 2026	Second Week of Easter
Divine Mercy Sunday 12^th April Act 2:42-47 1Pt 1:3-9 Jn 20:19-31 9.00 Mr & Mrs J.J. Gallagher RIP 11.00 Liz & Phil Garvey 60^th Wedding Anniversary 2.30pm Divine Mercy Chaplet & Benediction 6.00pm Mass People of the Parish also Michael & Eveleen McDermott RIP Anniversary Exit Collection SCJ Missions	Dear Brothers & Sisters, The Easter season continues today with the gospel of ‘Doubting Thomas’, and Divine Mercy Sunday. Nearly 100 years ago, a young Polish Sister, Faustina Kowalska was gifted with revelations of the mercy of God. The simple message in a time of great turbulence, when some were using God’s name for sinister political projects and others totally denying God’s existence, was ‘God is love and his first trait mercy’ The Chaplet of Divine Mercy slowly spread, but really caught on when a young Polish mystic, Karol Wojtyila was much moved by her vision. Later as Pope John Paul II he began Divine Mercy Sunday, which we keep today. The Divine Mercy Chaplet is kept at 2.30pm today in church, with Benediction. The feast of pope Martin I (Monday) honours a 7^th century pope who defended the true humanity of Jesus against aggressive opponents. As always heretical currents were enmeshed with politics and he was imprisoned by the Byzantine Emperor and then exiled to Kerson, now in modern Ukraine, where people have known great suffering these last three years. Martin was originally a monk of St.Basil with no interest in a church ‘career’ but he reluctantly accepted the role of diplomat, and then pope in order to protect God’s people. He paid for this with his life, witnessing to the words of Jesus: ‘A man has no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends’
Monday - 13^th April St. Martin I pope & martyr Act 4:23-31 Jn 3:1-8 7.00 Mass Special Intention 10.15 Mass Fr Edward Simpson SCJ anniversary also Marcella (Rita) Glendon
Tuesday –14^th April Act 4:32-37 Jn 3:7-15 7.00 Mass Danny C. 10.15 Mass Mary’s Honour Prayer group also Peggy Conran 10.45 Rosary of the unborn 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament
Wednesday - 15^th April Act 5:17-26 Jn 3:16-21 7.00 Mass John D. 10.15 Mass Protection of the Unborn Child also Margaret Morres RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel)
Thursday - 16^th April Act 5:27-33 Jn 3:31-36 7.00 Mass Sean C 10.15 Mass Phoebe Kerr 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament 7.00pm Vigil Matthew Gallagher
Friday - 17^th April Act 5:34-42 Jn 6:1-15 7.00 Mass George Wilkes RIP 10.15 Mass Cecilia, Ann and families 11.30 Requiem Matthew Gallagher
Saturday 18^th April Act 6:1-7 Jn 6:16-21 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Deceased of Ganderton family RIP also Ros Sherman
Third Sunday of Easter 19^th April Acts 2:14,22-33 1Pt 1:17-21 Lk 24:13-35 9.00 People of the Parish also Thomas Sherlock RIP 11.00 Grazia De Feo 12.30 baptism 6.00pm Mass James & Mary Mc Namee Exit Collection Friends of the Holy Land FHL

12th April - 19th April 2026

Second Week of Easter

Divine Mercy Sunday 12^th April

Act 2:42-47 1Pt 1:3-9 Jn 20:19-31

9.00 Mr & Mrs J.J. Gallagher RIP

11.00 Liz & Phil Garvey 60^th Wedding Anniversary

2.30pm Divine Mercy Chaplet & Benediction

6.00pm Mass People of the Parish

also Michael & Eveleen McDermott RIP Anniversary

Exit Collection SCJ Missions

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

The Easter season continues today with the gospel of ‘Doubting Thomas’, and Divine Mercy Sunday. Nearly 100 years ago, a young Polish Sister, Faustina Kowalska was gifted with revelations of the mercy of God.

The simple message in a time of great turbulence, when some were using God’s name for sinister political projects and others totally denying God’s existence, was ‘God is love and his first trait mercy’

The Chaplet of Divine Mercy slowly spread, but really caught on when a young Polish mystic, Karol Wojtyila was much moved by her vision. Later as Pope John Paul II he began Divine Mercy Sunday, which we keep today.

The Divine Mercy Chaplet is kept at 2.30pm today in church, with Benediction.

The feast of pope Martin I (Monday) honours a 7^th century pope who defended the true humanity of Jesus against aggressive opponents. As always heretical currents were enmeshed with politics and he was imprisoned by the Byzantine Emperor and then exiled to Kerson, now in modern Ukraine, where people have known great suffering these last three years.

Martin was originally a monk of St.Basil with no interest in a church ‘career’ but he reluctantly accepted the role of diplomat, and then pope in order to protect God’s people. He paid for this with his life, witnessing to the words of Jesus: ‘A man has no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends’

Monday - 13^th April

St. Martin I pope & martyr

Act 4:23-31 Jn 3:1-8

7.00 Mass Special Intention

10.15 Mass Fr Edward Simpson SCJ anniversary

also Marcella (Rita) Glendon

Tuesday –14^th April

Act 4:32-37 Jn 3:7-15

7.00 Mass Danny C.

10.15 Mass Mary’s Honour Prayer group

also Peggy Conran

10.45 Rosary of the unborn

7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament

Wednesday - 15^th April

Act 5:17-26 Jn 3:16-21

7.00 Mass John D.

10.15 Mass Protection of the Unborn Child

also Margaret Morres RIP

11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel)

Thursday - 16^th April

Act 5:27-33 Jn 3:31-36

7.00 Mass Sean C

10.15 Mass Phoebe Kerr

11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament

7.00pm Vigil Matthew Gallagher

Friday - 17^th April

Act 5:34-42 Jn 6:1-15

7.00 Mass George Wilkes RIP

10.15 Mass Cecilia, Ann and families

11.30 Requiem Matthew Gallagher

Saturday 18^th April

Act 6:1-7 Jn 6:16-21

9.30 Confessions

10.15 Mass Deceased of Ganderton family RIP

also Ros Sherman

Third Sunday of Easter 19^th April

Acts 2:14,22-33 1Pt 1:17-21 Lk 24:13-35

9.00 People of the Parish

also Thomas Sherlock RIP

11.00 Grazia De Feo

12.30 baptism

6.00pm Mass James & Mary Mc Namee

Exit Collection Friends of the Holy Land FHL