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18th January - 25th January 2026 |
Second Week in Ordinary Time |
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Second Sunday Ordinary Time 18th January Is 49:3,5-6 1Co 1:1-3 Jn 1:29-34 9.00 Norah Donnelly RIP 11.00am Charles Bernoski RIP 6.00pm Mass People of the Parish Exit Collection: Pax Christi |
Dear Brothers & Sisters, Peace Sunday today, witnesses that the dying & rising of Jesus gave a new logic to the world. We’re no more doomed to solving disputes by fighting & killing. Every pope for a 100 years has pleaded for nations to settle differences by non-violent means, a need no less urgent now Today’s 2nd collection is for Pax Christi the Catholic peace movement that educates people into finding non-violent ways of resolving differences. St.Wulstan (Monday) Bishop of Worcester 1062-1095 was the only Bishop to keep his job after the 1066 Norman conquest. As a friend of the poor he opposed the Bristol slave trade, which sold and trafficked teenagers to Ireland. St.Sebastian (Tuesday) a Roman soldier in Milan before conversion to Christian faith, was martyred by shooting with arrows c.300, and his cult has a life of its own. St.Sebastian parishes the world over mark his day with street marches carrying his statue, with the arrows. Rosary of the Unborn will follow 10.15 Mass each Tuesday. All welcome to join St. Agnes (Wednesday) a contemporary of St.Sebastian was a teenage martyr & remembered in Eucharistic Prayer I St.Vincent of Saragossa (Thursday) was another early roman martyr, who along with St.Lawrence & St.Ephraim is a patron saint of deacons. St.Nicholas Owen (Friday) a Jesuit lay brother & skilled Carpenter. In times of persecution he used his skills to create priests’ hiding holes in country houses like Coughton Court, Harvington Hall & Baddesley Clinton. He was captured, tortured & martyred in the Tower 1606 St.Francis de Sales (Saturday) post reformation Bishop of Geneva a genuine pastor who wrote Introduction to the Devout Life, to encourage laypeople to deepen their spiritualty. Canonised 1655. Named doctor of the church 1877.
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Monday - 19th January St Wulstan 1Co 9:16-19,22-23 Jn 10:11-16 7.00 Mass Private Intention 10.15 Mass Barry Pyne RIP 5.00pm Vigil Doris Sarah Ann Carrol RIP |
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Tuesday - 20th January St.Sebastian 1Sam 16:1-13 Mk 2:23-28 7.00 Mass The Peoples of Asia 10.15 Requiem Doris Sarah Ann Carrol RIP 6.00pm Vigil Mary Teresa McCann RIP 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday - 21st January St.Agnes 1Sam 17:32-33,37,40-51 Mk 3:1-6 7.00 Mass Anne Stokes RIP 10.15 Mass Phillip & Ellen Majorie Byrne also Philip Thomas 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (day chapel) 11.30 Funeral Mary Teresa McCann RIP |
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Thursday - 22nd January St.Vincent 1Sam 18:6-9,19:1-7 Mk 3:7-12 7.00 Mass Peter Allsop RIP 10.15 Mass Betty McGeehan also Ellen & Hugh Brady 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Friday - 23rd January St.Nicholas Owen 1Sam 24:2-20 Mk 3:13-19 7.00 Mass Elizabeth (Kathleen) Kelly 10.15 Mass Patrick McManus also Dr Edward Crouch |
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Saturday 24th January St.Francis de Sales 2Sam 1:1-4,11-12,19,23-27 Mk 3:20-21 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Andrew Cunningham RIP also Mavis Pereira RIP |
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Third Sunday - Word of God day- 25th January Is 9:1-4 1Co 1:10-13,17 Mt 4:12-23 9.00 The Carter Families 11.00 Maureen McGeown & Joseph McGeown 6.00pm Mass People of the Parish Exit Collection: LEPRA for World Leprosy Day |