Parish Priest: Fr. Bernard Needham Parish Deacon: Rev. Richard Walsh Parish Sister: Sr. Frederica Britto The Presbytery 1 St Joseph’s Street Matlock Derbyshire DE4 3NG  01629 582804 FAX 01629 582804 www.matlockcatholicchurch.org.uk [email protected] th 4 April 2015 th 11 April 2015 Easter Sunday Second Sunday of Easter Year B Year B MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS th Week: 4 April 2015 Saturday 8.00 pm (Vigil) Sunday 8.30 am 10.30 am Monday 9.30 am Tuesday 9.30 am Wednesday 9.30 am Thursday 9.30 am Friday 9.30 am Elizabeth Hyde All the people of our Parish Brigid & Tom Doyle Geraldine Silke RIP Monica McDonnell RIP Val Ryan RIP Aideen Lovett RIP Billy Quinn RIP MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS th Week: 11 April 2015 Saturday 6.00 pm (Vigil) Sunday 8.30 am 10.30 am Monday 9.30 am Tuesday 9.30 am Wednesday 9.30 am Thursday 9.30 am Friday 9.30 am Noel Nagle RIP All the People of our Parish Fay Family Intention Morning Prayer & Holy Communion Morning Prayer & Holy Communion Morning Prayer & Holy Communion Morning Prayer & Holy Communion Morning Prayer & Holy Communion Christ has risen. Alleluia! SCRIPTURE READINGS Easter Sunday. Acts 10. 34 & 37 – 43 Colossians 3.1- 4 John 20.1 – 9 nd 2 Sunday of Easter. Acts 4. 32 – 35 1.John 5. 1 - 6 John. 20. 19 -31 SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Friday: 6.30 - 6.55 pm READERS Week Commencing 4 April Week Commencing 11 April Easter Vigil 8.00pm Saturday 6.00 pm. Sunday 8.30 am 10.30 am J.M. & D Lambert D. Johnson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ S. Bradshaw M. Goddard F. Kornas A. Whittaker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C. Wroe L.Philpott A. Seeney D. Johnson D. Wain M. Lambert TELLERS Parish Team Alan & Eileen Johnson CHURCH CLEANERS Roseanne Coyne & Ann Seeney John & Gloria McCaul COLLECTIONS 22 th nd March 2015 £549.20 Saturday: 10.30 - 11.00 am, and on request th th 29 March 2015 £626.50 Congratulations Welcome to Elizabeth Hyde and Richard Angrave who will be received into full Communion with the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil Ceremony. Thanks It seems appropriate to express our thanks to all who make our Passiontide and Easter Celebration so satisfying: the choir who sustain us so well with their singing; the ladies who decorate the sanctuary and church so beautifully; the servers who reverently serve at the altar; Jackie who prepares and prints the service sheets; thanks to Derrick Wain who ensures everything is ready and in its proper place. Easter Flowers Many thanks to you for your very generous donations towards funding the flowers for the church at Easter which came to £134.00. Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline Children’s’ Visit to the UK 2015 We are appealing for host families for this summer of 2015 to host 2 children and even though this has been advertised in local papers we have had little interest. If you know of anyone who may be interested in hosting 2 children or supporting a host family please contact us. We also need to fundraise for this year and if you are able to spare a couple of hours to help with a Sainsbury’s bag pack on Saturday 18th April please contact us. St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy, Derby are looking to appoint a full-time Key Stage 2 Teacher from Sept 2015. For more information and an application pack please call the school office and speak to Mrs Harlow 01332 572154 or email [email protected] Gift Aid Envelopes If you use envelopes for the offerings at Mass, it would be a great help if you would collect your box which is available at the back of church. The Diocesan Education Service. Is seeking expressions of interest from people interested and willing to serve the mission of the Church by becoming a Foundation Governor in one of our schools/academies. For more information visit www.nottingham-des.org.uk where you will also find further information and a ‘Self-Nomination’ form. Alternatively, call 01332 293833 for more information. Divine Mercy Sunday At St Joseph’s Church (1st Sunday after Easter) 12th April 2015 at 2.45pm All are welcome. Youth Singing Day with Apollo5 vocal ensemble. Saturday 16th May at St Barnabas Cathedral Nottingham Afternoon Workshops . Concert starts at 7.45pm. For more information please see poster on the notice board. The Big Briars Bike Ride! The Briars are looking for people age 18+ to take part in the Big Briars Bike Ride 3-5th July 2015. This will cover 150 miles of beautiful Derbyshire Scenery. Accommodation will be provided en route at Alton Castle. For more information contact Angela Gillespie at [email protected] or phone 01773 852044 see poster on the notice board at the back of church Medjugorje Pilgrimage May 10th – 17th 2015 Flying from East Midlands directly to Dubrovnik. Coach from Dubrovnik airport to Medjugorje. Dinner, Bed and Breakfast £544.00 per person for further details please see poster on the notice board at the back of church. Or phone Kath Gambin on 0116 2340103 or Phil Lees on 07837 932795 St Margaret Clitherow, Catholic Voluntary Academy, Nottingham are seeking to appoint a Class Teacher. For further details or to arrange a visit please phone the school office, 0115 9150296. Closing date for applications is Mon 27th April 2015. Why look among the dead for someone who is alive? For us who believe in Christ a glorious day has dawned, a long unending day, the mystical Passover symbolically celebrated by the law and effectually accomplished by Christ, a wonderful Passover, a miracle of divine virtue, a work of divine power. This is the true festival and the everlasting memorial, the day upon which freedom from suffering comes from suffering, immortality from death, life from the tomb, healing from a wound, resurrection from the fall, and ascension into heaven from the descent into hell. So does God perform his mighty works, bringing the incredible from the impossible to show that he alone can do whatever he wishes. To show that he had power over death Christ had exercised his royal authority to loose death’s bonds even during his lifetime, as for example when he gave the commands, “Lazarus, come out and Arise, my child.” For the same reason he surrendered himself completely to death, so that in him that gluttonous beast with his insatiable appetite would die completely. Since “death’s power comes from sin,” it searched everywhere in his sinless body for its accustomed food, for sensuality, pride, disobedience or, in a word, for that ancient sin which was its original sustenance. In him, however, it found nothing to feed on and so, being entirely closed in upon itself and destroyed for lack of nourishment, death became its own death. Many of the just, proclaiming the Good News and prophesying were awaiting him who was to become by his resurrection “the firstborn from the dead.” And so, to save all members of the human race, whether they lived before the law, under the law, or after his own coming, Christ dwelt three days beneath the earth. After his resurrection it was the women who were the first to see him, for as a woman brought the first sin into the world, so a woman first announced the news of life to the world. Thus they heard the holy words, “Women, rejoice,” for sadness was to be swallowed up by the joy of the resurrection. Hippolytus (c. 170-236) After eight days Jesus came in and stood among them. Thomas’ profession of faith came swiftly when, eight days after he had declared his unwillingness to believe, Christ showed him his side and the nail marks in his hands and removed every possible doubt. Our Lord Jesus Christ had miraculously entered the room when the doors were closed. As this would have been impossible for an ordinary earthly body he reassured Thomas, and through him the other disciples, by letting him see his side and the wounds in his flesh. Only Thomas is reported to have said: "Unless my hands touch the marks of the nails and I see them, and unless I put my hand into his side, I will not believe"; yet to some extent all the disciples were guilty of disbelief. Doubt remained in their minds even after they had told Thomas that they had seen the Lord. Saint Luke’s account says that, “while they stood amazed, torn between joy and disbelief Christ said to them: 'Have you anything to eat?' They gave him apiece of broiled fish and part of a honeycomb, which he took and ate before their eyes.” This surely proves that it was not only in the mind of blessed Thomas that disbelieving thoughts still lurked, but in the minds of the other disciples as well. It was their very astonishment that made them slow to believe, but when it became impossible to disbelieve what they could see with their own eyes, blessed Thomas made his profession of faith: “My Lord and my God.” Jesus said to him: “Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet believe.” There was a wonderful providence behind these words of the Saviour, and they can be of very great help to us. They show once again how much he cares for our souls, for he is good and as Scripture says: He wants everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth. Even so, this saying of his may surprise us. As always, Christ had to be patient with Thomas when he said he would not believe and with the other disciples too when they thought they were seeing a ghost. Because of his desire to convince the whole world, he most willingly showed them the marks of the nails and the wound in his side; because he wished those who needed such signs as a support for their faith to have no possible reason for doubt, he even took food although he had no need for it. But when anyone accepts what he has not seen, believing on the word of his teacher, the faith by which he honours the one his teacher proclaims to him is worthy of great praise. Blessed, therefore, is everyone who believes the message of the holy apostles who, as Luke says, were eyewitnesses of Christ’s actions and ministers of the word. If we desire eternal life and long for a dwelling place in heaven, we must listen to them. Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444)