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Responsorial Psalm:
O Lord, it is you
who are my portion.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Speak Lord, your servant is
listening: you have the
message of eternal life.
Alleluia!
Wednesday (29th) –
Solemnity of SS Peter and Paul –
Holy Day of Obligation
Masses on the eve, 28th Tuesday at
7pm & 29th Wednesday at 9.15am. At
these Masses, the offertory collection
will go to Peter’s Pence, the money
which funds the Pope’s charitable works
throughout the world. Please do the
best you can.
Today
Collection for Flowers
For the Altar
Money Matters
Offertory Collection last weekend
£774.35 of which
£396.95 was Gift Aided.
Gift Aid: If you are a Tax Payer,
please consider filling out the Gift Aid
form which is in the church porch to
receive a box of weekly envelopes for
your offertory donation or for a one-off
donation then please use the
Green envelopes.
Please remember to write your name,
address, sign and date the
green envelope.
Thank you for supporting
our Parish.
St. David’s Golden Jubilee
Mass of Healing with
Sacrament for the Sick Next
Sunday 3rd July at 3pm.
Volunteers needed.
Can you help with the transport
to get the housebound and sick,
to the church and back home.
If you can help, please Brian
Cullen know.(01352 755067)
Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug
St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold
Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI,
St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH
Email: [email protected]
01352 752087
Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121
Website: http://www.stdavidsmold.org.uk/
www.wrexhamdiocese.org.uk http://www.cmi.org.in
26th June 2016
Let us pray for the Sick
13th Sunday Ordinary time
LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week I
25th June Saturday
Mass 5.30pm
Jim Hughes, Margaret Carr, Judith Rowe,
Margaret Evans, Fred Battersby, Gwen
Jones,Joe Goggin, Ian Byron, Debra Ann
Roberts,Tricia Twizell, Rosa Maria, Joan
Lawrence, Gay McCornick, Moira Catherall,
Lea Hill, Anne Turner, Mary Rowe, Rose
Bryan, Jenny Mansley, Jennifer Rowley,
Nancy Wilson,
Joe & Luisa Desena,
Shelagh Fulham, Margaret Stubbs, Philomena Lamano, and Leo McManus.
Neil Edney RIP
(Josie and John Leigh
26th June Sunday
Mass 11am
For People of the Parish
We remember in our prayers
Those whose anniversaries
Occur this week
(25th June) James O’Neill, Mary Theresa Edwards
(26th June) Elizabeth John Clarke, Paddy Mullen
(27th June) Josephine Teresa Ikin, (28th June)
James Gilbride, Reginald George Scott, James
Mannion, Teresa Smith (29th June) James Joseph
Tobin, Maureen Roberts , (1st July) Michael
McManus, Mary Cahill, Arie Pieter Droog, Martin
Stephen Brennan
Christopher Shone RIP
Chris Shone (38) (who was an altar server here years ago), has gone home to the
Lord. Our sympathies and prayers to his
parents Joanne and John and to his
brother Andrew. The funeral service for
Chris will take place here on Thursday
30th June at 11.30am, followed by committal at Pentrebychan.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory
http://www.cmi.org.in
Year C
Monday :
27th June
Tuesday:
28th June
Liturgy of the day
Mass 9.15am
Int. Hugh Leonard
Feast: Ss. Peter and Paul
Mass 7pm
Brendan Towey RIP (Bea Towey)
Wednesday: Feast: SS. Peter and Paul
29th June
Mass 9.15am
Elizabeth Kennedy RIP (Kath Hodgkindson)
Thursday:
Liturgy of the day
30th June
Mass 9.15am
Antonio Lommano RIP (Mrs. F.Lommano)
Friday:
Liturgy of the day
1st July
Mass 9.15am
Tony Flannery RIP (J & R Hamill)
2nd July Saturday
Mass at 5.30pm
3rd July Sunday
Mass 11am
Neil Edney RIP
(Sheila & Brian)
For People of the Parish
Eucharistic
Adoration
with
Rosary and
Benediction
Every Friday
following the
morning Mass
at 9.15am
Sacrament of
Reconciliation
(Confessions)
Saturdays
10.30am to
11.30am
& Before the Vigil
Mass
(4.45-5.20pm)
Sundays before
the Mass
(10.30-10.50am)
FAITH IN FOCUS:
T
RAPID RESPONSE
he people who met
Jesus on the road in
today’s gospel, and who all
had reasons to delay following him, are mirror images of Elisha when he
was called to come and
follow the prophet Elijah.
After an initial request to go
and say goodbye to
his parents Elisha
realised the enormity
of the calling. There
and then he killed a
pair of oxen he was
using to plough the
field with, killed them
and cooked them by
burning the plough.
The meat would
have been absolutely fresh
but not very tender!
I
t’s noticeable that, when
Jesus was calling his
apostles, we are told that
they left their nets etc. “at
once” and followed him. For
those who choose to be
followers of Jesus there is
an immediate attraction,
something which is no
mere half-way house appeal. When the famous
prophet Elijah throws his
cloak over the simple
farmer Elisha, then Elisha abilities but we are also
knows he has a claim on aware that there are areas
him.
of our lives where we hold
f there’s one thing God back, aspects of the way
can’t stand then it must we live that are not helping
be half-heartedness. Am I our commitment as disciserving God with every ples of Jesus. This is beounce of strength and com- cause following Jesus is an
mitment or am I just doing ongoing, lifelong commitment. We have continually to ratify our
commitment, to keep
signing on the dotted
line as disciples of
Christ. What are the
nets that Jesus is
still asking us to
leave, the oxen that
we need to slaughter, the ploughs that
enough to keep my conscience quiet? Am I just we have to burn? Are there
covering all bases and pay- relationships in our lives
ing the premiums on my that dull our response? Are
heavenly insurance policy? there habits that we have
Or do I feel a magnetic at- taken for granted but which
traction to Jesus and all make us slow to respond to
that he asks of me? In my the challenge of being follife is God a passion or a lowers?
I
hobby?
W
hen Jesus calls us
to be disciples, he
calls us to make a lifelong,
irrevocable, absolute commitment. Most of us follow
Jesus to the best of our
Or have we felt the cloak
thrown over us, God’s mantel in Christ, which calls us
to follow wherever he may
lead and to proclaim the
best news possible to those
we meet on the road?
National Pilgrimage to
St. Winefride’s Holywell
Today, 26th June.
Do Come. This year we commemorate the 600th anniversary of King
Henry V’s pilgrimage on foot from
Shrewsbury to Holywell in thanksgiving for his victory at Agincourt. And
we can also avail of “The Door of
Mercy” recently installed there for this
Jubilee “Year of Mercy”.
The Mass will be celebrated in a marquee, so we need not fear the rain.
Rosary Procession from the Church
at 2.30pm, Mass in the Well Gardens
at 3pm.
Coach leaving St. David’s car park
at 1.45pm.
Return journey, Coach leaving
at 5pm.
Exhibition on Eucharistic
Miracles throughout the world:
at Our Lady of the Rosary Church Hall,
Jubilee Road, Buckley CH7 2AF
as follows:
Part 1: Friday 1 July and Saturday 2
July, 10.30am to 6.00pm
Part 2: Friday 5 August and Saturday
6 August, 10.30am to 6.00pm
A Grand Day Out:
A pilgrimage of faith and fun for grandparents and their grandchildren. Everyone is
welcome to the first Welsh Provincial
Grandparents Pilgrimage to Belmont Abbey on 16th July 2016. An opportunity
for grandparents to share their faith with
their grandchildren. Further details in the
April edition of The Link. Coaches are
being arranged. Contact: Margaret Hinton
tel: 07842 596 878
Cafod Emergency
Ethiopia Food Crisis Appeal.
A crippling drought in Ethiopia is affecting
over 10 million people.
Extreme weather shifts, due to El Nino
have caused severe droughts, leaving millions in need of emergency food. 400,000
children are already suffering from malnutrition. Action is needed now to prevent a
far more terrible crisis.
The Cafod collection on Sat 2nd and Sun
3rd July will be for this Emergency Appeal. Gift aid envelopes will be available.
Please remember Ethiopia in your prayers.
Thank for your support and generosity.
Joyce and John Elcock
CAFOD : Plant Sale
This year’s CAFOD Plant Sale will take place
on Saturday 25/Sunday 26 June, probably running over the following weekend as well. So,
please bring along house plants, garden plants,
fruit, vegetables, preserves, plant pots etc etc
to help us raise monies for CAFOD’s work for
the poor and disadvantaged of this troubled
world. Thank you in advance for your support!
John and Tina Harradine
L’Arche Flintshire
We are having the Charity Shop in Holywell
again this year, 11th July-23rd. We would be
really grateful for offers of help during this time.
Morning sessions 10am to 1pm. Afternoon sessions 1pm to 4pm. Please see Monica Standring or Sr. Helen if you can help. (A copy of
the L’Arche Flintshire Newsletter available on
the notice board)
Tools for Self Reliance
Tools for Self Reliance Cymru
(tfsrcymru.org.uk ) refurbish broken
and unwanted hand tools (eg carpenters, bike
repair etc) and sewing machines to send to
poor rural communities in Tanzania. They also
repair tools not needed in Africa, to sell in the
uk,which is their major source of funding. Please bring any 'preloved' tools to the box
at the back of the church.
Many thanks. Mena Kerslake