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Our Lady of Lourdes & St Joseph
3rd May 2015
V Sunday of Easter Year B
Mass Schedule
Saturday
Vigil Mass for Sunday
IV Sunday of Easter
Mon The English Martyrs
Tue
Wed
Thurs
Friday
Saturday
Vigil Mass for Sunday
V Sunday of Easter
Our Lady of Lourdes
St Joseph
5.30pm Diamond Wedding
Anniversary Jack and Ann Shaw
11am Winefred Hunter LD
7pm Jim O’Brien
9.30am Parishioners
10am Sanrte Grilli
10am Special Intention (VC)
10am Edwin Meyer
10am Hamish and Tony Higgins
(B)
5.30pm in Thanksgiving
10am Claude Verite
7pm Parishioners
11am Catherine King (A)
9.30am Sante Grilli
We pray for the sick Mary Teresa Millington, Mia King, Louise Booth, Patricia Cosgrove, Renee Sproat,
Vera Robinson, Hilda Stoker, Phil Irlam, Patricia Taylor, Ian Dalton, Maureen Driscoll, Anita Meadows,
Isabel Kelly, Kate Todd, Leo O’Reilly, May and Henry Kennedy-Skipton, Dominic Johnson, Paul Maddrick,
Stephanie Morpeth, Canon Peter Cronin Lately Dead Anthony Cornwell, Myles Constantine, Winefred
Hunter, Fr Gerard Lee Anniversaries Hamish and Tony Higgins, Catherine King
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?
To hire the Meeting Rooms call Sheila Ball
567788
Tea and Coffee after the 11am Mass
Tuesday Bridge Club at OLOL. Contact Mr Jim
Porter 560869
St. Joseph`s Coffee for Cafod during Lent raised
the fantastic total of £329-50. This amount will be
matched by the Government to £659-00 – so well
done and thank you to everyone involved!
Lenten Fast Day raised £2,357.45
CAFOD Coffee Morning Tuesday 12th May. Again
the proceeds will be match funded by the
government.
THANKS to all who came to the meeting at St
John Stone last Saturday. We will continue to
implement the pastoral plan for Southport. The
starting point is, as always, listening to God and
one another.
Art Group Thursdays 1.15pm – 3pm in the
meeting rooms. Phone Marie 550706.
Sunday Liturgy 3rd Preface for Easter, 3rd
Eucharistic Prayer
Little Church at St Joseph 9.30am.
Family Mass 11am Our Lady of Lourdes.
Thanks to the parents who bring their children to
Mass.
Collections:
Envelopes
£966.50
Loose plate
£332.76
Total;
£1,299.26
Priests training fund £ 624.40
Thanks to all who have accepted envelopes for
regular giving. All tax payers signing Gift Aid allow
us to claim 25% from the government on top of
what they put in the envelopes.
(You idiot. He said: “Cast the nets!”)
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
A Living Rosary for Peace
Sunday 10th May at 3.30pm in Our Lady of
Lourdes Church.
Calling on parishioners of every generation to join
in praying the Rosary in the month of May.
Hopefully we will have enough people interested
so that each Hail Mary, Our Father, Glory Be can
be led by a different person. We want pray for
peace in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and
Oceania. At the beginning of each decade we hear
about some of the issues we want God to help
resolving. We will think about how justice brings
true peace and how each of us can help create
and sustain it.
We will end this gathering with a buffet. If you can
bring a salad, cheese, strawberries or cream to
the shared table pleases let Fr Atli or Sheila Ball
know.
Please consider coming along and place your
names on the list in Church.
Praying with the Pope in May
CARE FOR THE SUFFERING
That, rejecting the culture of
indifference, we may care for
our neighbours who suffer,
especially the sick and the poor.
OPENNESS TO MISSION
That Mary's intercession may
help Christians in secularized
cultures be open to proclaiming Jesus.
KSC The Southport Council of The Knights of St
Columba and their friends have done a Sponsored
Walk
along
the
sea
wall.
They will be at all Masses this weekend to collect
your donation. Thank you for your generosity.
Grand Raffle in aid of St Joseph’s 150th
Anniversary Celebrations in 2017
1st Box of Virgin Wine 6 Red/6 White
2nd Bottle of Glenlivet Malt Whisky
3rd £25 Marks and Spencer Voucher
4th £20 Argos voucher
5th Supper Basket
6th Slow Cooker
7th Kitchen clock
8th Bottle of M & s Cava
9th £10 Morrison’s Gift Voucher
10th Box of Chocolates
Tickets will be on sale during the month of May.
Please be generous and help make this a happy
occasion for all.
200 Club April 2015
£100 No 164 Mrs S. L. Byrne
£50 No 99 Miss C. Ormsby
£25 No 96 Mrs B Hunter
£20 No 76 Mrs N Howard
Congratulations to the Winners!
Something to thing and pray about this week.
How are we to interpret the alternately
serendipitous and disappointing, unexpected and
unpredictable, courses of our lives? What is
happening when death or financial disaster force
us to reconsider what we want from life, when
teachers or mentors find and nurture talent we
didn’t know we had, when we succeed beyond our
wildest imaginings, when managers steer our
careers in fortuitous directions, when we aren’t
offered the job we wanted so badly, when friends
point out opportunities that we didn’t know existed,
or when we persist in pursuing a personal passion
against all odds of success, only to find that
success and fulfillment eventually come? Do such
cases merely vindicate human ingenuity,
resilience, fortitude, and imagination? Or is God,
too, at work in some ineffable way, as Hopkins
says, “play[ing] in ten thousand places / Lovely in
limbs, and lovely in eyes not his”? Well, why not
both?
- Excerpted from Heroic Living by Chris Lowney
Safeguarding Training is offered for our Pastoral
Area at St John Stone Parish Centre, Sandbrook
Way, Woodvale on Saturday 30th May from 10am
to 2pm.
This training is done under the heading of
“Protecting the young and the Vulnerable”, is
Module 2 of the Catholic Safeguarding Notional
Training program and is open to all parish
volunteers. The day covers: Identifying the
different forms of abuse, recognizing the potential
impact of abuse, understanding the role of the
volunteer in protecting the young and vulnerable;
Identifying the various parts of the safeguarding
structure in the Church; Describe your own role in
supporting victims of abuse.
To book a place please contact the Safeguarding
Department at the Archdiocese on 0151 522 1043.
Day for Readers at St John Stone Saturday 9th
May 10am to 4pm. Lead by Dr Marian Tolley. This
day is open to all readers in the Pastoral Area.
Lunch is provided. Please contact Fr Atli ASAP if
you would like to go.
Sacramental Preparation
We meet for the final session on
12th May. Again this year the First
Holy Communion celebrations take
place during the Mass of
Confirmation. The dates are the 7th
June at OLOL; 13th June at St
Joseph and 20th of June at OLOL.
Each Mass begins at 10am.
The Bishops of England and Wales have written
a letter regarding the forthcoming elections. These
are available at the back of church. Also note that
the Catholic Pictorial is now a free paper. If you
see a copy on display take it – its yours!