THE PARISH OF OUR LADY AND ST PHILIP NERI

Immaculate Heart of Mary ▪ Lobley Hill St Mary ▪ St Philip Neri ▪ Dunston

Parish Priest Fr Peter Leighton 0191 460 4274 Retired Priest Fr Michael McKenna 0191 488 2274

Parish E-mail [email protected]

Parish Website www.theparish.org.uk The John Ingram Partnership He took pity on them because they were like Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself Diocesan Website www.rcdhn.org.uk to teach them at some length. Mark 6:34

The Parish Secretary, Julie Hindmarsh, is generally available Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 2pm in the Parish Office at St Mary’s Presbytery, Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Malvern Gardens, , NE11 9LL  0191 460 4274  [email protected]

Sunday 22 July 2018 Sixteenth Sunday of the Year Year B

MASS AND SERVICE TIMES Saturday 21 July Vigil Mass 5.30pm St Philip Neri People of the Parish Sunday 22 July 9.30am St Mary Christine & Malcolm Pears (Golden Wedding) Sixteenth Sunday of the Year 11.00am Immaculate Heart Staunton Family (ann.)

Weekday Readings: Ordinary Time Week 16, Year 2

Monday 23 July St Bridget of Sweden 9.15am Immaculate Heart Service of the Word and Holy Communion Tuesday 24 July The Martyrs of the Diocese 6.30pm Immaculate Heart Jimmy Wakenshaw (dec.) Wednesday 25 July St James, Apostle 10.00am St Philip Neri Kathleen and Gerard Cailey (dec.) 1.15pm St Mary Funeral Service - Ruth Susan Taylor RIP Thursday 26 July SS Joachim & Anne 9.30am St Mary Private Intention Friday 27 July 10.00am St Mary Frances Ramsay (dec.)

Saturday 28 July Vigil Mass 5.30pm St Philip Neri Bernadette Kelly (dec.) Sunday 29 July 9.30am St Mary Joseph & Cecilia Cobbing (ann.) Seventeenth Sunday of the Year 11.00am Immaculate Heart People of the Parish

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday at St Philip Neri 5.00pm - 5.20pm Tuesday at Immaculate Heart 6.10pm – 6.25pm Friday at St Mary 9.40am - 9.55am

Rosary and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Wednesday 9.30am at St Philip Neri Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Friday 9.30am at St Mary PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SICK: Marjorie Gray, James Roach, David Roach, Luke Roach, Christine Taylor, Terry Gardner, Pauline Mulholland, Sheila Rickerby, Susan Wall, Paul Leonard, Kathleen Bruce, Peter McLoughlin, Ray Deponio, Astrid Muse (Gower), Ann Camozzi, Lesley Gough, Susan Walker, Kai Thompson, Monica Meaney, Tammie Blair, Kathleen Buxton, Liz McKenna, Fr Jim Doherty, Bernard Lyons, Geoff Taylor, Ken Webster, Winnie Easton, Joanne Maclean, Pat Flynn, Barney Hayes, Brigid Rankin, Joe Oxley, Helen Coulson, Samuel O’Reilly, Fr Paul Hannon, Joseph Borthwick, Cecilia McCusker. If you or members of your family are going into hospital and would like to see the Catholic Chaplain, please ask a member of the ward staff to let the Catholic Chaplain know. For the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, you can contact the Chaplaincy Department Office directly tel. 0191 445 2072.

RECENTLY DECEASED Please remember in your prayers THE JOHN INGRAM PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Ruth Susan Taylor who died recently and whose Funeral PLAN - a final invitation! This is an exciting opportunity Service will be on Wednesday 25 July at St Mary’s church for all parishioners to become personally involved in at 1.15pm, followed by burial at Garden House developing our Partnership for the future. Cemetery. May she rest in peace. Amen. This final ‘one-off’ session will be held on Saturday 28 July at St Joseph’s Hall, High West Street, Gateshead CHILDREN’S LITURGY AT ST MARY’S - WE’RE NE8 1LX, 9.30am - 12.30pm. RECRUITING AGAIN! Thanks to our happy band of It will begin with refreshments from 9.30 - 10am then volunteers we are able to offer children’s liturgy every the meeting will commence at 10am and will be led by Sunday during term time. We’d really welcome a few Tony Sacco (parishioner from Our Lady and St Philip more people to strengthen the team with their energy Neri). The whole purpose of this meeting is to focus on and enthusiasm. No previous experience necessary – all aspects of Communications, with a view to training and DBS checks are provided! Please think understanding what will be necessary to ensure the about it. For further information please speak with Jo partnership grows, thrives and stays relevant in Proctor or any member of the group. supporting our communities. Each of the previous workshops have stressed that the success of the whole COOL BOX For our recent Celebration evening, the Partnership Development Plan will heavily depend upon parish bought a large cool box which proved absolutely effective and usable communications for all invaluable. The box has a 165 litres capacity - in context parishioners. What will we be exploring during this ‘one this means, for example, it can hold 240 drinks cans plus off session’? it maintains its temperature for up to 7 days (more Goal: We strive to be vibrant, welcoming and faith- details are available at the back of each church). If you filled communities through personal relationships and would like to borrow this box (a small donation to the the use of modern technology. Parish would be greatly appreciated!) for a family Objective 1: Provide timely, brief and relevant outing/function, please contact Julie Hindmarsh in the communication at weekend liturgies. Parish Office tel. 0191 460 4272 email Objective 2: Foster good communication to our [email protected] - Julie is contactable Tuesday - communities outside of weekend liturgies utilising Friday 10am - 2pm. traditional as well as electronic media. Objective 3: Use technology to spread the Gospel A HOLIDAY BIBLE CLUB is being hosted by Gateshead message. Presbyterian Church within Lobley Hill Primary School, Please remember Parishioners are the Partnership - it’s Rothbury Gardens, NE11 0AT from 23 July to 25 July, up to you to develop its future, without parishioners’ 8.30am to noon for primary school children ages 5 to 11 gifts and personal skills our Partnership will struggle to years. It is free of charge and includes bible stories, crafts thrive. It is very important that as many people as and games. For further information tel. 0191 460 7127. possible are involved and it would be wonderful if someone from each church could attend.

THE 46th ANNUAL BLESSED JOHN INGRAM WALK takes Any further information required please contact Katie place this Sunday 22 July, starting in Newcastle and Wilkinson (Chair of Partnership Development Group) concluding near the place of his martyrdom on mobile 07837 386 760 or email [email protected] Gateshead High Street. The Walk begins near the site of the prison, where Blessed John Ingram was held, at St PARTNERSHIP NEWS FOR ALL PARISHIONERS Please Andrew’s Anglican Church, Newgate Street, remember - Parishioners are the Partnership and your Newcastle. Please gather here for 2.30pm for a short opinion counts, hence the importance of keeping you prayer service at 2.45pm. The walk will proceed down informed. The June/July edition of the bi- through the Big Market and across the Swing Bridge, monthly Partnership Matters news update is now walking up to Gateshead High Street, and assembling at available on the front page of the diocesan website the site of St Edmund’s Chapel (now called Holy Trinity) www.rcdhn.org.uk - it includes activities and ideas located at the bottom of Jackson Street. This is the exact shared from across the Partnerships. location where our Priest Martyr was executed. There we will have an Ecumenical Service, followed by YOUTH MINISTRY TOOLKIT An exciting new online refreshments. If you would like to take part without resource is now available on doing the Walk, please assemble at St Edmund’s at www.hnyouthtoolkit.org.uk 3.30pm. As Blessed John Ingram is our Partnership patron, please come along to commemorate his sacrifice for the Catholic Faith on 26 July 1594 at the age of 29 years.

NEWMAN ASSOCIATION The next talk entitled Dietrich SVP VACANY The St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) is Bonhoeffer: A Very Catholic Protestant Martyr by Terry seeking to recruit an 1833 Research and Project Wright will be held on Wednesday 25 July at 7.30pm at Development Officer to review, re-model, project plan St Mary’s Church Hall, Farringdon Road, Cullercoats, and potentially produce resources for our programme NE30 3EY. All are welcome. for 18-30 year olds in preparation for a service re-launch in September 2019. £27k pa pro rata; 3 days a week; one CATHOLIC NATIONAL SHRINE OF OUR LADY, year contract. Home-based with national travel. Closing WALSINGHAM ‘’s Nazareth’ Marriage and date: 10.00am on Wednesday 25 July 2018. Interviews: Family Life Pilgrimage Week from 11 August to 17 Thursday 26 July 2018. Start date: Wednesday 29 August 2018. For further information on this week of August 2018. For more details & an application pack, fun, friendship, prayer, worship and renewal of marriage please visit the vacancies section of the SVP website: vows please visit www.walsingham.org.uk tel. 01328 www.svp.org.uk 801 007 or email. [email protected] ITEMS FOR THE NEWSLETTER Please type or write the ADOREMUS, LIVERPOOL - The Eucharistic Congress and item with as much detail as possible (i.e. description of Pilgrimage The Bishops of England and Wales will be the event or notice, dates, times, venue, contact person, hosting the National Eucharistic Congress and links to further information) and then either email to Pilgrimage in Liverpool from 7 September - 9 September [email protected] or post through the presbytery 2018. Eucharistic Congresses are gatherings of clergy, letterbox at Immaculate Heart by 10am on Thursday 26 religious and laity which promote an awareness of the July at the latest. central place of the Eucharist in the life and mission of the Church. Participants will engage in a series of sessions focusing on different dimensions of the Eucharist and the daily celebration and adoration of the Partnership Prayer Blessed Sacrament. For further information please visit website http://catholicnews.org.uk/adoremus2018 Risen Christ, from your abundant grace, DAY OF REFLECTION FOR MEN over the age of 40 and pour out afresh your Holy Spirit upon our Diocese. considering a possible vocation to the Priesthood. The As we build on the deep foundations of faith theme for the day is The Significance of our Story and will laid by the countless saints of these Northern lands, be held on Saturday 20 October from 10am to 4pm at St by Aidan and Cuthbert, Hilda and Bede, Hilda’s Resource Centre, 391 West Road, Newcastle, may our Partnerships continue the mission NE15 7NL, led by Fr David Smith, Vocations Promoter. of building your Kingdom on the earth: Lunch and refreshments will be provided. For further to give living witness to your love, information or to confirm your attendance, including and to your compassion and hope for our world. any special dietary requirements, please contact Fr We pray in trustful confidence David Smith: that your power working in us email [email protected] can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. tel. 0191 262 3882. Through the same Christ our Lord, Amen.

Liturgy of the Word Sixteenth Sunday of the Year Year B

First Reading Jeremiah 23:1-6 Second Reading Ephesians 2:13-18

‘Doom for the shepherds who allow the flock of my pasture In Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far apart from us have to be destroyed and scattered – it is the Lord who speaks! been brought very close, by the blood of Christ. For he is This, therefore, is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says the peace between us, and has made the two into one and about the shepherds in charge of my people: You have let broken down the barrier which used to keep them apart, my flock be scattered and go wandering and have not actually destroying in his own person the hostility caused taken care of them. Right, I will take care of you for your by the rules and decrees of the Law. This was to create one misdeeds – it is the Lord who speaks! But the remnant of single New Man in himself out of the two of them and by my flock I myself will gather from all the countries where I restoring peace through the cross, to unite them both in a have dispersed them, and will bring them back to their single Body and reconcile them with God. In his own pastures: they shall be fruitful and increase in numbers. I person he killed the hostility. Later he came to bring the will raise up shepherds to look after them and pasture good news of peace, peace to you who were far away and them; no fear, no terror for them any more; not one shall peace to those who were near at hand. Through him, both be lost – it is the Lord who speaks! of us have in the one Spirit our way to come to the Father. ‘See, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I will raise a virtuous Branch for David, who will reign The word of the Lord. as true king and be wise, practising honesty and integrity Thanks be to God. in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel dwell in confidence. And this is the name he will be called: The Gospel Acclamation John 10:27

Lord-our-integrity.’ Alleluia, alleluia!

The word of the Lord. The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice, says the Thanks be to God. Lord, I know them and they follow me. Alleluia! Responsorial Psalm Psalm 22. R/ v.2

Response: The Lord is my shepherd; Gospel Mark 6:30-34 there is nothing I shall want. The Lord be with you. 1. The Lord is my shepherd; And with your spirit. there is nothing I shall want. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark. Fresh and green are the pastures Glory to you, O Lord.

where he gives me repose. The apostles rejoined Jesus and told him all they had done Near restful waters he leads me, and taught. Then he said to them, ‘You must come away to to revive my drooping spirit. some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while’; for there were so many coming and going that the apostles had 2. He guides me along the right path; no time even to eat. So they went off in a boat to a lonely he is true to his name. place where they could be by themselves. But people saw If I should walk in the valley of darkness them going, and many could guess where; and from every no evil would I fear. town they all hurried to the place on foot and reached it You are there with your crook and your staff; before them. So as he stepped ashore he saw a large with these you give me comfort. crowd; and he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach 3. You have prepared a banquet for me them at some length. in the sight of my foes. My head you have anointed with oil; The Gospel of the Lord. my cup is overflowing. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

4. Surely goodness and kindness shall follow me Scripture Readings from The Jerusalem Bible © 1966 by Darton, Longman & all the days of my life. Todd Ltd and Doubleday and Company Ltd. Used with permission. In the Lord’s own house shall I dwell Responsorial Psalm from The Psalms: A New Translation © 1963 The Grail (England) published by HarperCollins. Used with permission, CALAMUS for ever and ever. Licence no. 2371.

The Parish of Our Lady and St Philip Neri In the John Ingram Partnership ▪ Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Company registered in England No. 7732977 Registered Charity No. 1143450