Document 362601

Our Lady of Lourdes & St Joseph
26th October 2014
30th Sunday Ordinary Time + Year A +
Mass Schedule
Sat - Vigil Mass for Sunday
Sunday
Our Lady of Lourdes
5.30pm Bill Parker (B)
St Joseph
7pm Ian Sinclair
9.30am Parishioners
11am Kathleen Newsham (A)
Mon
10am John Moss (LD)
Tue
Wed
10am In thanksgiving (BA)
Thurs
Fri
Vigil Mass for Sunday
Sunday
10am Josephine Rawlinson (A)
10am Frank O‘Brien
5.30pm Int Paul Bagshaw
10am Maureen Hodgson (LD)
7pm Cerys Loughlin (LD)
9.30am Parishioners
11am Ints Jean & Joe Judge
We pray for the sick Mary Teresa Millington, Peter des Landes, Mia King, Louise Booth, Patricia
Cosgrove, Renee Sproat, Vera Robinson, Hilda Stoker, Andrew McFayden, Phil Irlam, Deirdre McLean,
Justine Kehoe, Patricia Taylor, Ian Dalton, Baby Katrina Byrom, Maureen Driscoll, Paul Bagshaw, Anita
Meadows
Lately Dead Fr Brendan O’Sullivan, John Moss, Maureen Hodgson, Cerys Loughlin
Anniversaries Kathleen Newsham, Josephine Rawlinson
We pray for the First Holy Communion Children and their families, the long suffering Christians in Iraq and
the Middle East.
Rosary 9.40am Mon, Wed, Fri at St Joseph
Confessions St Joseph after 10am Mass Friday,
Our Lady of Lourdes 5pm Saturday
Church Cleaning Friday10.30am St Joseph Thursday 9am OLOL – Many hands make light
work. Perhaps you can spare an hour a week, a
month, occasionally?
Liturgy this Sunday.
Eucharistic Prayer as chosen by celebrant.
Children’s liturgy at both Sunday Masses
To hire the Meeting Rooms call Sheila Ball
567788
Tea and Coffee after 11am Mass on Sunday
Collection: Envelopes £1,196.80 Loose £401.38
Total £1,598.18 Received with thanks
Missio Special Collection: £479.25
Next Sunday is LAMP Sunday and there will be a
retiring collection.
Monday Bridge at Our Lady of Lourdes from 1pm
to 4pm. If you are interested in coming along call
Eve Houghton on 538579.
Please come and enjoy a relaxing afternoon
drawing and painting. Everyone welcome. First
meeting 16th October at 1pm in the meeting
rooms. Phone Marie 550706.
Contact Details: Parish Priest Fr Atli Jonsson,
40 York Road, Southport PR8 2AY, Tel 01704
568313, [email protected]
Parish Deacon Rev Bill Ball, Tel 567788
http://birkdalecatholics.com
Youth Pilgrimage to Lourdes - Fr Philip Gregory,
coach chaplain, has called a meeting for those
who wish to join the youth pilgrimage to Lourdes.
This meeting will be at 6pm on Tuesday 4th
November at Our Lady of Lourdes. The purpose
of this meeting is to explain the application
procedure and completion of the application forms,
which become available at 12 Midnight. Please do
your best to be there if you want to travel on the
yough pilgrimage in Summer 2015..
Pious Lists – Envelopes and Blank lists are
available at the back of church. Please return to
the sacristy – Masses for the Pious Lists will be
offered during the month of November.
Next CAFOD coffee morning at Our Lady of
Lourdes 13th November after 10am Mass. All
welcome!
Christmas Gift Tags – we now have the lists of
gifts for Christmas. The tags will be available next
weekend – please take a tag, buy the gift, wrap it
and stick the tag on the outside. Please return to
church in good time for distribution before
Christmas. Thank you for your support.
Knights of St Columba would like to thank all
those who have contributed in any way to the
£6,000 raised this year for their nominated
charities.
Sacramental Preparation for Children in Year 4
has now begun. This preparation is open to all
Catholic children whose parents request that they
receive the Sacraments. If your child is not
baptised arrange a date for your child’s baptism as
soon as possible. If your child attends a school
other than Our Lady of Lourdes and you would like
them to be included please contact Fr Atli asap.
The First Holy Communion Masses will be
celebrated at Our Lady of Lourdes and St Joseph
in May/June 2015. In the past two years we made
the happy experience of seeing parents directly
involved as they helped their children prepare for
the Sacraments of Reconciliation, Confirmation
and Holy Communion. An integral part of this
preparation is the attendance at Sunday Mass
as often as humanly possible!
Children’s
Liturgy and Family Masses will offer you and your
children the opportunity of taking an active part in
our celebration of the Lord’s day. At church and
school we look forward to welcoming you and
working with you.
Next session is 11th
November at 6.30pm in Our Lady of Lourdes
Church.
Admission to Primary School for September
2015. Parents/Guardians of children due to start
school in September 2015 need to apply through
Sefton on the website:
www.sefton.gov.uk/admissions
This includes parents/guardians of children who
attend Our Lady of Lourdes School nursery. You
do not automatically gain a school place which
transfers from Nursery to Reception. If you wish
to view the school or have any queries please
phone the school office on 01704 568375.
Praying with the Pope in October
Daily offering: O Lord God, King of heaven and
earth, may it please Thee this day to order and to
hallow, to rule and to govern our hearts and our
bodies, our thoughts, our words and our works,
according to Thy law and in the doing of Thy
commandments, that we, being helped by Thee,
may here and hereafter worthily be saved and
delivered by Thee, O Saviour of the world, who
livest and reignest for ever and ever. And I pray
for the Pope’s intentions with Mary and the whole
Church this month:
Universal: That the Lord may grant peace to
those parts of the world most battered by war and
violence.
For Evangelisation: That World Mission Day
may rekindle in every believer zeal for carrying the
Gospel into all the world.
Are you 50 this year? Were you in the class of
1981 at Christ the King School? A reunion has
been organised on Saturday 7th February 2015.
See poster for further details.
Christ the King School Sixth Form Open
Evening – all Year 11 students and parents are
invited to attend the evening to find out more
information about courses available in sixth form.
Thursday 6th November 2014 – there will be a
short presentation in the main hall at 6.30pm and
the evening will run until 8.30pm.
Reflection: In today’s Gospel, the Pharisees try
Jesus with the question: “Which is the greatest
commandment of the Law?” The issue was not
actually about which commandment took
precedence over all others. Rather, Jesus was
being asked to express an opinion on whether
there was a single commandment whose
greatness lay in its capacity to sum up the
meaning of the whole of the Law, with all 613 of its
precepts. It’s easy to imagine the endless debates
on the subject among the great and the good of
the religious leadership: everyone had an opinion
on the matter. Jesus doesn’t give a direct answer
to the question. Instead, he chooses two
commandments: from Deuteronomy and from
Leviticus. He says, “on these two commandments
hang the whole of the Law and the Prophets”. We
are reminded of pictures in a gallery, suspended
by two chains. Similarly, the two commandments
chosen by Jesus are like two chains that uphold
the entire Law.
The two commandments are well known. First
comes a quotation from Deuteronomy 6: “You
must love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind.” The
second, from Leviticus 19, resembles it, says
Jesus: “You must love your neighbour as
yourself.” We are left with the question of why
Jesus chose these two, and why he says the
second resembles the first. One way we can
explore this is to consider Jesus’ teaching on the
conditions of discipleship. To be a disciple, says
Jesus, it is necessary to renounce self and take up
the cross and follow him. If we take these in
reverse order, we see that these amount to the
two commandments Jesus cites as summing up
the Law, because they are the way that he too
lives the Law. Jesus’ total commitment to his
Father is shown through his taking up of the cross:
the cross shows he loves his Father with all his
heart, soul, strength and mind. In taking up the
cross he renounces himself. He continually places
the needs of humanity before his own needs: that
is, he loves his neighbour as himself. To be a
neighbour is to address the needs of others before
one’s own needs. So loving God with all our
energy, and loving neighbour as self, sums up the
Law because it describes perfectly the ministry of
Jesus, who is the fulfilment of the Law.