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3rd August - 10th August 2025 |
Week Eighteen |
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Eighteenth Sunday 3rd August Eccles 1.2; 2.21-23 Col 3:1-5, 9-11 Lk 12:13-21 9.00am -Margaret Blakie RIP 11.00am-Lavinia Crowther RIP 12.30 Baptism 6.00pm Mass People of the parish Exit Aid: Organ Fund |
Dear Brothers & Sisters St.John Vianney (Monday) ‘the Curé of Ars’, ever dedicated to pastoral work is a model for Diocesan priests today. St.Mary Major-Dedication (Tuesday) is kept because this basilica was the first in the West to be dedicated to the Virgin Mary, after the Council of Ephesus declared her Mother of God in 431. This church is where Pope Francis liked to pray incognito, & now houses his tomb. The Transfiguration (Wednesday) marks Jesus showing his three favourite disciples a glimpse of his future glory. The presence of Moses (representing Law) and Elijah (representing prophets) was Jesus' way of reassuring his apostles that he was faithful to Jewish tradition despite opposition from the Priests. Pope Sixtus (Thursday) was elected in 257. A year later, on August 6 while celebrating Mass in the catacombs he was seized by roman officers and beheaded along with four of his deacons. He was buried in the same catacomb. St Dominic (Friday) founded the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) and was an apostle of truth when heresy was chic. His missions against the Cathars were a model of how Christians should face up to falsehood, and his Order of Preachers was a wonderful legacy for the church. St.Edith Stein (Saturday) was a pre-WWII University philosopher before moving from Judaism to Catholic faith. She then became a Carmelite sister, as Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Her superiors imagined she’d be safer from Nazi tyranny if sent to Holland. To no avail...she was sent to Auschwitz like Maximilian Kolbe before her. As an academic she’d done original research on philosopher Edmund Husserl, deeply influencing another Polish saint: Pope John Paul II.
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Monday - 4th August St.John Vianney Numbers 11.4b-15 8:10 Matthew 14.13-21 7.00am Mass - Private Intention 10.15 Mass Sue & Atul Shankar |
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Tuesday - 5th August Dedication of St.Mary Major - Rome Numbers 12.1-13 Matthew 14.22-36 7.00am Mass Holy Souls 10.15 Mass Stanislawa & Leon Dochan RIP also Martina Flaherty & Pairic Flaherty 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Wednesday - 6th August Transfiguration of the Lord Dan 7.9-10 Luke 9.28b-36 7.00 Mass - Alan Fullard RIP 10.15 Mass Tony Holland 5.00pm Vigil Christine Czepukojc RIP |
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Thursday - 7th August St.Sixtus & companions –martyrs Numbers 20.1-13 Matthew 16:13-23 7.00 Mass Anna & Liam Anderson 10.15 Flo Hughes 11.30 Funeral Christine Czepukojc RIP 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament |
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Friday - 8th August St.Dominic Deut 4.32-40 Matthew 16:24-28 7.00 Mass - Brother Patrick SCJ birthday 10.15 Mass - Peter & Karen Briggs 12.00 Wedding James McElwee & Lucy Thomas |
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Saturday 9th August St.Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Hosea 2.14b, 15b, 19-20 Matthew 25.1-13 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Angela Walsh |
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Nineteenth Sunday 10th August Wisdom 18.6-9 Heb11.1-2, 8-19 Lk 13:32-48 9.00am -Mark Singal 11.00am-Ronald Charles Jones RIP 12.30 Baptism 6.00pm Mass People of the parish Exit Aid: SCJ Sick and Elderly |