Responsorial Psalm:
I will bless your name for
ever, O God my King.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Blessings on the King who
comes, in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven and glory
in the highest heavens!
Let us pray for the Sick
We remember in our prayers
Alleluia!
Those whose anniversaries
Occur this week
Angelus Cards
(29th) Leonie Blass, Helen Hughes, John Davies,
John Goodwin, Brenda Cresswell (30th) Jane Rimmer, John O’Neill, Catherine Newbold, (1st Nov)
Ben Rowley and Nellie Rees, (2nd Nov) Francis
Roden, Sarah Rowlands, Anthony Williams, Joseph Frederick Shannon, Anne Tallant (3rd) Cyril
Halford, Antonio Lommano (4th) Kathleen Lewis
At St David’s Mold, we installed a new
digital controller for the bell in the belltower a couple of years ago and one of
the functions is a programmed daily Angelus chime at 12 noon and 6pm. You
may have heard it for example after
Mass on a Sunday.
As part of the Jubilee celebrations a
card has been produced to explain the
Angelus Prayer and give a little of the
history behind this and these are available at the back of church so please help
yourself.
Many thanks to Mike Bunting for this
(along with many others), for getting the
digital controller installed and for producing the Angelus prayer and information
card.
“ For bells are the voice of the church.
They have tones that touch and search
the hearts of young and old”.
Henry Longfellow
“The other religions are expressions
of the human soul seeking God, with
some beautiful spiritual insights….
Christianity is rather God seeking
humanity”. Francis Arinze
Today
Collection for Flowers
Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug
St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold
Alfredo Fecci, Michael Jones, Anne
Jones, Jim Hughes, Margaret Carr, Margaret Evans, Fred Battersby, Gwen
Jones,Joe Goggin,, Debra Ann Roberts,Tricia Twizell, Rosa Maria, Joan Lawrence, Gay McCornick, Moira Catherall,
Lea Hill, Anne Turner, Mary Rowe, Jenny
Mansley, Jennifer Rowley, Nancy Wilson,
Joe & Luisa Desena, Shelagh Fulham,
Margaret Stubbs, Philomena Lamano,
and Leo McManus.
Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI,
St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH
Email: [email protected]
Tele: 01352 752087
Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121
Website: http://www.stdavidsmold.org
www.wrexhamdiocese.org.uk http://www.cmi.org.in
30th October 2016
St.David’s Golden Jubilee 1966-2016
Jubilee Celebration
Friday 11th November
Refreshments will be served in the Hall
after the 7pm Mass.
We would be grateful for offers of help
and contributions of savoury food for the
buffet. Please see the list at the back of
the church.
Taste of India Evening
Thank you
Thank you for the wonderful support to
the Taste of India evening on Friday and
for your most generous donations of £950
to Visamo, the CMI orphanage in Gujrat,
N.India.
Year C
LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week III
29th October Saturday
Mass 5.30pm
For Refugees and Migrants
(Joyce and John Elcock)
30th October Sunday
Mass 11am
For People of the Parish
Missio Red Boxes
Your red boxes are due for collection to
be emptied. Please leave them in the
Sacristy and make sure, your names are
on the boxes. Tricia Hurd
31st Sunday Ordinary Time
Monday :
31st Oct
Liturgy of the day
Mass 9.15am
Tuesday:
1st Nov
Solemnity: All Saints
Thursday:
3rd Nov
Liturgy of the day
Mass 9.15am
Elisa Contilli RIP (Mrs.F.Lommano)
Mem: St.Charles Borromeo
Mass 9.15am
Antonio Lommano RIP(Mrs.F.Lommano)
Deceased Members of Legion of Mary (LOM)
Mass 9.15am
Int.Sr.Margaret Doherty (HF, Wrexham)
Wednesday: All Souls Day
2nd Nov
Mass 9.15am
Friday:
4th Nov
5th November Saturday
Mass at 5.30pm
Int. Canon Francis Doyle
(John Goggin)
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
6th November Sunday
(4.45-5.20pm)
Mass 11am Sundays before
the Mass
For People of the Parish
(10.30-10.50am)
FAITH IN FOCUS:
MAKING THE FIRST MOVE
T
here was a sign outside a church that
read, “Don’t let your funeral
be the next time you come
and visit us!” We can understand what it meant; it
was encouraging people to
think about the place of
God in their lives and their
response to God’s workings.
Being a small man he
climbed up a sycamore tree
to get a good view. But before he could say anything,
before he could make his
mind up, it was Jesus who
made the first move and
told him he was coming
home with him to stay for a
while. When Zacchaeus
B
ut, actually, the
sign is fundamentally flawed.
Why? Because it
encourages people
to think that they are
the ones who must
make the first move.
It gives the impression that God is sitting back waiting for
them to decide to
start doing something about their
lives. And that simply isn’t heard what Jesus had to
say he was immediately
true!
moved to repent and give
he amazing thing half his property to the
about God’s dealings poor. (He’d cheated people
with us is that he always by charging them too much
makes the first move. Think tax and then keeping most
of Zacchaeus in today’s of the money himself.)
gospel. He’d heard all the
od never ceases
rumours about Jesus and
reaching out to us.
wanted to see for himself.
T
G
We find this hard to cope
with because we think that
God is so concerned with
weighty global problems
that he has no time for us
and our particular situations. Yet the opposite is
true.
W
hen we feel
drawn to God
it is only because
God’s grace has been
offered us in the first
place. Our lives are a
response to Christ’s
example of sacrifice
and love; our response
comes from hearing
God’s word; our actions
are inspired by God’s
Spirit working in us, if
only we take the time to
discern it.
A
t the Eucharist
we thank God for
never abandoning us and
for continually offering us
the chance to enjoy the life
that Christ promised.
Amazingly, God never
stops leading us on to
deeper trust and love. And
all he asks in return is that
we respond.
The LAMPEDUSA CROSS
and Refugee messages.
This weekend we are privileged to have a
Lampedusa Cross in our church.
The first such cross was made from pieces of a boat wrecked off the coast
of Lampedusa, on which 311 Eritrean and
Somali refugees were drowned.
The local carpenter made each of the 155
survivors a cross from the wreckage as a
reflection of their salvation and a powerful
symbol of hope for their future.
After Masses you are invited to write or
draw a short message of hope or
commitment on the cards provided. Your
message will be shared with refugees in
UK or around the world.
Joyce Elcock and Katja Jewell
SVP Christmas Gift Initiative Advance Warning:
As usual, the SVP is asking parishioners to help
in providing Christmas
Gifts for children who
may not receive very
much for Christmas.
We ask you to take a tag from the tree
that will be in the Church porch, which will
show the age and gender of a child or
young person, and to buy a suitable gift
for that child. Please do not spend more
than £10-£12 on your gift. You will then
need to wrap your gift, attach the tag and
return it to the box in the Church porch
(under the table) before 27.11.16. The
tags will be available next weekend.
Thank you,
Judith Rowe (on behalf of the SVP)
A History of St. David’s Parish,
Church and School Mold
By Margaret Joy
100 Copies Available
Available in the Repository for a £5
donation to the Jubilee Charities
ALL SAINTS (November 1st)
“The day before All Saints is called Halloween in the secular world. The name is
Christian, Halloween means the eve of All
Hallows, the eve of All Saints, but that is
the only Christian element in it. All the
rest that accompanies Halloween is of
pagan origin so it goes back to the time
before Christianity. It was a pagan Celtic
feast. They believed that after sunset on
Samhain, which we now called Halloween, the spirits of the dead and evil spirits
roamed the skies seeking to harm humans, especially if the dead had been
harmed by them. To protect themselves
people disguised themselves by dressing
up in costumes and carried lights inside
in turnips. In order to turn a pagan feast
into a Christian feast the Church placed
the feast of All Saints on 1st November,
to coincide with the pagan celebration.
Children have fun on Halloween now and
it is OK but it would be a pity if children
did not know the Christian feast at this
time, the feast of All Saints.
So if your children are celebrating Halloween and know nothing about All Saints,
please explain All Saints to them. We are
Christians now, so let us not celebrate as
pagans. The Church has tried to turn a
pagan celebration into a Christian celebration. Is the reverse happening again
now? Let us celebrate All Saints.”
(Fr Tommy Lane)
Money Matters :
Offertory Collection last weekend
£612.74 of which £344.00 was Gift Aided
Mission Sunday: £287.17
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.