PARISH OF
BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
MORECAMBE
St Mary’s, Matthias Street, Morecambe, LA4 5JR. Tel. 410501
Parish Priest
Deacons
Website
Canon D Cooper, VG
Rev. J McCann (tel 421795), Rev. J Murphy (tel 859254)
and Rev. T Fagan (retired)
www.bjhnparish.org.uk
SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2015
THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD
MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
St Patrick’s
Good Shepherd
St Mary’s
St Mary’s
St Patrick’s
Good Shepherd
St Mary’s
St Patrick’s
Good Shepherd
St Patrick’s
Good Shepherd
St Mary’s
6.00pm
8.30am
10.30am
4.00pm
10.00am
10.15am
12.10pm
10.00am
10.00am
6.00pm
8.30am
10.30am
Paddy Maloney
Ed Brocken
Joyce Taylor (nee Thompson)
Wyn Murphy
Fr Fred Turner
Requiem: John Joseph Kelly
Mary Higgins
John Manton
Christine Moore
For the parishioners
Sarah and Ashley Bell
Conor Rowan and Aunt
PLEASE PRAY FOR
Sick
Sarah Melville, Diana Hoey, Frances Nash, Sean O’Connor,
Marie Robinson, Anne Iyengar, Barbara Howes, Eric Ainsworth,
Sue Smith, Rev Debbie Peatman, John McDonald, Bill Simpson,
Mary Wilcock and the sick and housebound in the parish and
those in local hospitals and nursing homes.
PLEASE PRAY FOR
Anniversaries Fr F Turner, Fr B Woods, Deacon G Middlebrough, Helen Roffe,
Julie Gleave, Frances Geraldine Nickson, Winifred Murphy,
Peggy Boyle, Eileen Dixon, Lilian Green, Celia Burrows,
Joseph McGlynn, Helen Robinson, Eileen MacDonald,
Mary Laws, Tom McReady, Jim Morrissey, Doris Wareing,
Doreen Libby, Joe Devlin, Malcolm Hawe, John Tyrrell and all
those whose anniversaries occur between 17th and 23rd May.
SACRAMENT OF CONFESSION
Saturday
Good Shepherd
St Mary’s
St Patrick’s
10.30am to 11.00am
11.30am to 12 noon
5.15pm to 5.40pm
FEASTS THIS WEEK
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
St John I (optional)
St Dunstan (optional)
St Bernadine of Siena (optional)
St Christopher of Magallenes (optional)
St Rita of Cascia (optional)
LAST WEEK
Attendance
469
Collection
£1,399.77
LATELY DEAD
We pray for the repose of the souls of:
John (Sean) Joseph Kelly of Stud Park Farm who died
on 9th May aged 76. Requiem Mass at The Good
Shepherd on Wednesday at 10.15am followed by
committal at Lancaster & Morecambe Crematorium.
Catherine Josephine Willetts of Hillcroft Nursing
Home who died on 3rd of May, aged 87. Requiem Mass
at St Patrick’s on Wednesday 27th May at 1.30pm followed by
interment in Hale Carr Cemetery.
Parishioners have asked prayers for relatives and friends lately dead:
Ruth Bennion and Pat Day
SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION
The Bishop will celebrate this at the Cathedral for our deanery on Pentecost
Sunday, 24th May at 6.30pm. Candidates are asked again to attend the
preparation on Tuesday at 7.00pm. Rehearsal on Friday 22nd
Preparation for 1st Holy Communion continues today (Sunday)
LEGION OF MARY Meetings on Monday afternoons at 2.00pm in
St Patrick’s Church Hall. All are welcome.
Bingo
Cuppa and Chat
200 Club
Monday night in St Patrick’s hall. Doors open at 7pm.
Monday 18th May, 10 am until 12 noon in St Patrick’s
hall. All welcome.
Week ending 10/05/15
1st prize Teresa Moore; 2nd prize Veronica Smith;
3rd prize Kath Mercer
OUR LADY’S CATHOLIC COLLEGE - A MUSICAL
EVENING FOR MISSIO
Come and enjoy a great evening of music and
entertainment. All proceeds will be going to Missio, in
particularly their appeal for Nepal.
Wednesday 20th May, 7pm, in Our Lady’s school hall.
Tickets cost £5 for adults, and £3 for concessions –
admission includes a glass of wine/soft drink and a slice
of cake. Tickets can be purchased from Mrs Anna Pendlebury at Our Lady’s
Catholic College, or can be bought on the night.
RETREAT
A retreat in daily life and for busy people is going to take
place in Morecambe from Sunday 14th June - Friday
19th. The cost is only £25 because it is subsidised by the
Jesuits. It will be led by Stephen Hoyland who works for
the Jesuits and lives in Lancaster. The retreat will be
based at Morecambe Parish Church. If you want to know
more you can contact him at [email protected]. We
are hoping that some Catholics will take part this year so
that it becomes a truly ecumenical celebration of something we have in common:
a desire to grow closer to God through prayer and spiritual direction.
World Communications Day is celebrated today, Ascension Sunday. The theme
is Communicating the Family: A Privileged Place of Encounter with the Gift of
Love. On this day we are encouraged to pray for communications professionals,
especially those who work in the media. There will be a retiring collection that
provides the funding for the Catholic Communications Network
Money is still coming in for the Nepal appeal – a total
will be given next weekend.
PENTECOST NOVENA FOR VOCATIONS
This will be taking place in our Deanery and St Patrick’s turn for this
will be on Saturday 23rd May 4.30pm to 5.30pm. For other churches in our
Deanery, please see poster on noticeboard.
“Let us remind ourselves that we have all been given a specific vocation.
God has created each one of us for some specific purpose. One such vocation,
which is crucial for the flourishing of the Church, is the priesthood. There are
many ways to promote vocations awareness in our daily lives, the best among
them is prayer. As you will be aware, on Friday we started the Novena for
Vocations, during this Novena we are praying for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit
on our diocesan ‘year for priestly vocations.’ We are also praying for the
intercession of St. John Vianney to the Lord of the harvest. We encourage you to
attend one of the planned Holy Hours in our Deanery. Please continue to pray for
vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and the religious life.”
Vocations Team
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After weekday Masses, prayers to the Holy Spirit will be said until
Pentecost.
Mass on Monday is at 4pm as there is an interview for St Patrick’s
school from 9.00am.
There will be the Chapter Mass at the Cathedral on Tuesday at
12.15pm
LECTIO DIVINA
on Thursdays, 7.30pm in the presbytery.
A bequest of £1,250 has been received from the late Albert Eccles for the
benefit of the parish. Please remember him in your prayers.
SACRED SILENCE
“Before the celebration of Mass, it is a praiseworthy practice for silence to be
observed in church so that all may dispose themselves to carry out the sacred
celebration in a devout and fitting manner.” – Roman Missal
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Sunday 24th May
Saturday 29th to
Monday 31st May
Friday 19th June
Friday 19th to
Sunday 21st June
Pentecost Songs of Praise (Torrisholme and Bare
Churches together) Happy Mount Park, 2.30pm
Cross Bay Walk from Hyning to Boarbank for people
18 to 35. Details [email protected]
Mass with ‘anointing of the sick’, St Patrick’s, 11.00am
Brave of Heart: A Weekend Journey for Men
Cor et Lumen Christi, St Cuthbert's The Old Convent,
Wigton CA7 9HU www.coretlumenchristi.org
[email protected] 016973 45623
The Parish in the Lancaster Diocese. Registered Charity No. 234331