MASS INTENTIONS FOR 29TH / 30TH JUNE 2019
Saturday 5.15 pm – James Morrin / Mary Ellison
Sunday 10.00 am – Parishioners
Monday 1st July 10.00 am Mass – Michael Diamond
Tuesday 2nd July 10.00 am Mass – Lisa Connor
Wednesday 3rd July 10.00 am Mass – Benjamin & Frances Mercer /
Deceased Members of the Gannon & Murphy Family
Thursday 4th July 10.00 am Mass – Joseph Walsh
Friday 5th July 12 Noon Mass – Kevin Alliston
Saturday 6th July 11.15 – 11.45 am – Confessions
12 Noon Mass – Memorial Mass
Rosary prayed prior to Mass.
RETIRING COLLECTIONS: This Sunday: Peter’s Pence Next Sunday: Buildings Fund
FEAST DAYS Wednesday : St Thomas, Apostle. Thomas offered to die with Jesus on the way to Bethany.
He is remembered as the apostle slow to believe in the Risen Lord. Tradition
has it that St Thomas’s missionary work was in India, where he is said to have
been martyred.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR:
THOSE SICK: Louis Marshall, Jacob McCann, Albie Brandwood, Sheila Bradshaw, Carl Zeigler,
Catherine McCann, Sharon Gilmour-Glover, Ceara Judge, Lorna Gibson, Bill Leary,
Kathleen Buttery, Sam Byrne, Paula Byrne, Joseph Rowe and a sick teenager.
LATELY DEAD: Kevin Murphy, Betty Mosedale.
ANNIVERSARIES: Benjamin & Frances Mercer
SCRIPTURE FOCUS. This weekend we have the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the two great pillars on which the infant Church was built. The feast has always been an opportunity for us Catholics to renew our loyalty to the Holy See and to the tradition of the Church through the ages. It is a day to give thanks for our faith, for the Church, and for the many blessings that God has given us. Peter and Paul, at a time of great personal difficulty stood up steadfastly for the Gospel of Jesus. They preached it fearlessly, and went to their deaths – Peter was crucified, Paul was beheaded – for their joyful acceptance of the Word of God in their lives, and in their declaration that Jesus Christ is Lord.
At a time when it is comfortable to be a Christian, when even Church people do not readily live up to the demands and challenge of the Gospel, when there is so much apathy and carelessness for the things of the living God, we should be resolute in LIVING THE GOSPEL totally – as Peter and Paul did, so that we can say with them –
YOU ARE THE CHRIST! THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD! (Peter)
I NO LONGER LIVE, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME! (Paul)
MONTHLY MEMORIAL MASS at 12 noon on Saturday 6th July to remember all those lately dead especially George Woods and Jim Martin whose funerals recently came through our parish.
PARISH MEETING will take place on Tuesday 9th July at 7pm in the Lisbonian Room. All parish groups should be represented. Items for the agenda would be most welcome.
PARISH SUMMER FAYRE. This will take place on Sunday 7th July after 10am Mass. Any donations would be gratefully received for bottle and gift tombolas, jewellery, cakes, toys and white elephant stalls. Usual stalls plus BBQ. Donations can be left at the back of church.
P.S. Any volunteers would be welcome to help on the day!
COME AND SEE CONFERENCE 12th and 13th October 9.00am until evening at Christ the King High School, Stamford Road, Southport. Keynote speaker Peter McVerry SJ. Various workshops, music and paryer led by Jo Boyce and friends and Steve Murray. Suggested donation £40. For details and booking ring 949 1199.
SYNOD MEETING. The last chance for you to have your say on the subjects to be covered by the Synod is at Sacred Heart College Upper Site, Liverpool Road at 6 pm on Monday 8th July.
U.C.M. The UCM will be having a Bring and Buy Sale in aid of UCM charities on Wednesday 3rd July at 8.00pm in the Lisbonian Room.
USED POSTAGE STAMPS. Deacon Peter Deary from St Helens parish is collecting used stamps. These will be sorted and sold to dealers with proceeds going to charities such as British Leprosy Mission, Hearing Dogs, Guide Dogs for the Blind, and British Heart Foundation. Please can you put any used stamps (preferably trimmed to a half-inch border to avoid damaging the stamps edges) into the box provided at the back of the church.
LEGION OF MARY RETREAT on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th September at Sandymount L23 6TH from 10am to 4.30pm. £5 per day for light refreshments, but bring packed lunch. Details on church noticeboard or see Marie Halpin for details.
THE HAPPINESS HABIT
THE AIM OF YOUR LIFE IS TO BE TRULY YOURSELF
FULLY ALIVE AND GRATEFUL
To live out your most precious dreams, to blossom into the best possible version of yourself, to grow into your full power, to find your own voice and to use it – that is the purpose of your whole life, the reason you were created. In the end, that is what good teaching, good parenting, good friendship, good religion and good art are about – to convince you of the beauty of your own ‘wild and precious life’, and of how to make it flourish. To be fully alive is the greatest gift you can give to yourself, and to the universe. ‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’ (Howard Thurman). Take a moment now to ask yourself what makes you feel alive.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Live Simply – Laudato Si
‘Saint Francis of Assissi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us….’
‘This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her….’
‘This is why the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail” (Rom 8:22). We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth (cf Gen 2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters.’ Pope Francis
MASS INTENTIONS FOR 6TH / 7TH JULY 2019
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR C)
Saturday 5.15 pm – Intentions of Ted Halewood / Intentions of Marie Halpin
Sunday 10.00 am – May Hannigan / Pat Garrett