SUNDAY 15th JANUARY 2012

SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.

SUNDAY 15th JANUARY 2012.

MASS TIMES: INTENTIONS:

Saturday Vigil Mass: 7.15 p.m. William and Lily Duggan

Sunday: 9.15 a.m. The Parish

11:00 a.m. Kitty O’Donnell

Monday: 9.15 a.m. Steve & Chris Colgan

Tuesday: 9.15 a.m. Sean Floyd

Wednesday: 9.15 a.m. Patricia Duggan &

Maud Bagshaw

Thursday: 9:15 a.m. Winifred Nicholson RIP

Friday: 9.15 a.m. Denis O’Donovan

Saturday: 9.15 a.m. Sean Floyd

Saturday Vigil Mass: 7.15 p.m. David Beckett

Sunday: 9.15 a.m. The Parish

11.00 a.m. Hughie Middleton

BAPTISMS:

By appointment with Fr. Cooke. After speaking to Fr Cooke, it is important that parentscontactour Baptism Co-ordinator, Ann Siddall (01244 371787) who will arrange for members of our Baptism Team to discuss Baptism and the practical details.

MORNING PRAYER:

9.00 a.m. in the Sacristy Office, except on Wednesday, when Novena prayers are held at 9.15 a.m. before Mass commences.

ANNIVERSARIES:

Please remember in your prayers: Mary Regan, William Walker, Joan Ann Roberts, Samuel Grourke, Victoria Nisperos Scott, Samantha Edwards, Dora Bowen, William John (Jack) Barlow, Dorothy Boulton, Rowena Thompson, Angela Finan, Mary Anne Corner, Eliza Dean, John Rooney, Joan Mary Connolly, Kenneth Liversage, Helen Wilson, Jack Cunniff, John Abbott, Veronica Martell, Edith Watkins, Ann Mahoney, John Joseph McLoughlin, Reg Wells, Norah Byrne, Annie O’Loughlin, Margaret Holding, Eileen Coombes, Jason Monet, Elsie Rowlands, William Woods, Mgr. George Roger Leonard, Joan Connolly, Nora Margaret Connolly, David Noel Beckett, Bridget O’Malley, William Hope, Mary (Molly) Tallon, Monica Tweedle, Olivia Trotter, Tony Comerford, Richard Monet, James Kilcoyne, Florence Donnolly, Dorothy Tallon, Reginald Walpole, Anne Cunniff and Ivy Katherine Vickery.

CONFESSIONS:

Confessions are heard every Saturday after morning Mass, and in the evening from 6.45 p.m. – 7.10 p.m.

LATELY DEAD:

Sean Francis Floyd and James Walpole we remember them and their families in our prayers.

OFFERTORY:

Loose Plate: £495.92

Planned Giving: £509.75

Average Weekly Standing Orders: £562.00

Donations: Coffee Morning £38.85

The Children’s Society £145.09

COFFEE AFTER MASS:

Tea and coffee is served in the Hall after both of the Sunday morning Masses.All welcome!

UPTON CHURCHES PRAYER DIARY:

This week we pray for:

• The residents of Newhall Road, Winston Court, Arradon Court, Breton Close and Wealstone Lane.
• Greenacres, Orchard Manor, Wealstone and Crabwell Hall.
• All those who live and work in these homes.

CELEBRATION MASS:

The Baptism Celebration Mass at 11.00 a.m. this Sunday 15th January 2012 is for all the families who have had a Baptism during 2011. It will be followed by tea/coffee and biscuits in the hall. All are very welcome.

SINGERS WANTED:

CAN YOU HELP AT 11:00 MASS?

We want to introduce new settings of the Gloria, Sanctus and Memorial Acclamation at the 11:00 Mass on the weeks when the music group is not present when Rob Green usually plays the organ.

We will be holding a practice run-through of the new music at 7pm (for about 30 minutes) on Friday 20th January at the Church so that enough people can become familiar with the music to give a strong lead to the congregation at Mass. Please come along if you can help with developing the music in our parish.

Contact Francis Coxhead (342668) or Rob Green (383836) or just come along on 20th.

PARISH BUILDINGS COMMITTEE:

A number of meetings have been held with diocesan advisers and contractors about the church floor. It was agreed that the existing floor is in poor condition and needs to be replaced. Their unequivocal judgement is that the tile flooring should be replaced by carpet. This would be much easier to replace than tiles in the future, will retain warmth (and help keep heating costs down), dampen noise and by reducing the echo help to improve the audibility of the spoken word. Some parishioners have expressed a concern that carpet may adversely affect the sound of our fine organ. Expert advice is that that is most unlikely to be the case as the sound of the organ will continue to travel upwards into the acoustically sympathetic roof and not downwards to the floor.

The diocese has agreed to release church funds to fund the provision of carpet for the entire church, assisted by the most generous legacy from a parishioner.

The process is still at an early stage but when contracts have been agreed and dates for the work set, parishioners will be informed.

pauline.rourke; leech2000

WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY 2012:

The annual Week of Prayer takes place from Wednesday 18th to Wednesday 25th January. The theme for 2012 is “we will all be changed”. This comes to us from the churches in Poland, who have reflected upon their own experience as a nation, and how they have been changed and transformed by the many upheavals of their history, and sustained by their faith.

Please do your best to support the following local events:

• Prayer service each evening (except Sunday 22nd) in the Kempe Room, Holy Ascension Parish Church from 6.30 to 7.00 p.m. These services are led in turns by members from the three Upton churches.
• Friendship Lunch on Thursday 19th, 12 noon to 1.00 p.m. at Upton URC, Heath Road. All proceeds will go to the Hospice of the Good Shepherd.
• Joint Service on Sunday 22nd in Chester Cathedral, starting at 3.30 p.m. The preacher will be Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, who was Archbishop of Westminster from 2000 to 2009. Music will be provided by the Cathedral Choir and the Choir of St. Nicholas Catholic High School, Hartford. All are welcome at the service.

FEAST OF THE WEEK: ST. WULSTAN:

Thursday 19th January is the Feast Day of St. Wulstan (1008-1095), a Benedictine monk who became Bishop of Worcester. He was unusually successful in combining monastic and diocesan duties. As an Anglo-Saxon, he was also unusually successful in weathering the turmoil of the Norman Conquest. He played an active role in the abolition of the slave trade between Bristol and the Viking domains in Ireland, and lived to the venerable age of 87.

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL THEME & PRAYER FOR THE WEEK:

Christian Unity Week

During Christian Unity Week,

May Christ be born afresh into our hearts.

May doors be flung open to welcome people of all faiths.

May new gifts be discovered, cherished and expressed.

And may love be nurtured, gently given and received by all.

We ask this through Christ who is Lord of us all. Amen.

DIOCESAN MASS:

A Diocesan Celebration of Married Life will be held in St Wilfrid’s Parish Church, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5NP, on Saturday 11th February 2012. Bishop Mark Davies will celebrate Mass at 2.00 pm and married couples will be invited to renew their vows to each other. All married couples and their families and those couples who are preparing for the sacrament of marriage are welcome. This year we especially invite those couples celebrating a significant anniversary. Also welcome are those who are widowed and of course, anyone else who wishes to attend. Refreshments will be provided afterwards in the parish centre

CHRISTMAS CRIB OFFERINGS:

As customary, the Christmas Crib offerings are for the benefit of the Diocesan Catholic Children’s Society. Envelopes are available if you would like to Gift Aid your donation.

You can see more about the Society’s work at www.cathchildsoc.org.uk

NEXT WEEK’S NEWSLETTER:

This will be compiled by Bernard Payne

Tel: 01244 350323

Email: bernard.payne691

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Please take your Newsletter home and use it for reference and prayer during the week.

Current and past issues of the Newsletter can be seen on the Parish website: www.stcolumbachester.org.uk