A warm welcome to all our visitors and to any new members of our who share with us today's Celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We are pleased that you have St Mary’s , Chorley come to join us in our community of faith. If you will be permanent members, please take the information leaflet available in the church porch and/or contact the Parish Office THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT – 23rd MARCH 2014

th SCRIPTURE REFLECTION GROUP: The next meeting is this Monday 24 March 2014 at 7.30 pm. Jesus came to the Samaritan town called ST ANNE’S GUILD: Bingo at 7.45 pm this Tuesday 25th March. Sychar near the land that Jacob gave to his

ST MARY’S FRIENDS OF UGANDA: The Spring Coffee Morning, including son Joseph. Jacob's well is there and Jesus, generous donations, raised a total amount of £497.25 – thanks to everyone for your tired by the journey, sat straight down by the support in coming along or helping in any way to make the morning such a success. well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus BAPTISMS: Would parents please contact Fr Marsden personally, after one of the said to her, “Give me a drink.” His disciples weekend Masses, complete the application form and then if necessary, they will be had gone into the town to buy food. The asked to attend the next two preparation evenings. Samaritan woman said to him, “What? You YEAR 4 CHILDREN AND PARENTS: The next catechesis session for First th are a Jew and you ask me, a Samaritan, for a drink?” - Jews, in fact, do not associate with Reconciliation - Confirmation - First Holy Communion is Sun.6 April immediately Samaritans. Jesus replied: “If you only knew what God is offering and who it is that is after 10.30 Mass, in the Parish Centre. saying to you: „Give me a drink‟, you would have been the one to ask, and he would have CHORLEY HOSPITAL: Please contact St Joseph‟s, Harper‟s Lane (262713) if any given you living water.”…….. member of your family is admitted into the hospital and needs the priest to visit. In “Whoever drinks this water will get thirsty again; but anyone who drinks the water emergency the ward staff will call in the duty priest chaplain via the switchboard. that I shall give will never be thirsty again: the water that I shall give will turn into a spring APF-MILL HILL: During March, the spring edition of „Mission today‟ magazine will be inside him, welling up to eternal life.” ……… delivered and promoters will be making arrangements to collect donations for the “I see you are a prophet, sir,” said the woman. “Our fathers worshipped on this work of the missions. mountain, while you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” Jesus

said: “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on CHORLEY & DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY presents “Music to lift the Spirits” (from 1910 to 1950) in Chorley Town hall on Saturday 12 April at 7.30 pm with the Starlight this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we Swing Orchestra and soloists. Tickets £10 from Malcolm‟s Music Land do know: for salvation comes from the Jews. But the hour will come - in fact it is here already - when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: that is the kind QUOTATIONS ON THE GOSPEL THEME: “Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His of worshipper the Father wants. God is spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. and truth.” If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah - that is, Christ - is coming; and when either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a he comes he will tell us everything.” “I who am speaking to you,” said Jesus, “I am he.” perpetual filling.”

“From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be MASSES, MASS INTENTIONS AND SERVICES instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water The Rosary is recited after weekday Mass on Tues, Thurs and Saturday which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.”

“Christians are like teabags, you don't know what they're really like until you put them Sun 23 Mar THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT (Mass bk.p.158) in hot water.” Sat 6.15 pm Mass – Thomas (A) and Imelda Roscoe Sun. 8.00 am Mass – Parishioners Fr Francis Marsden 01257 262537 10.30 am Mass – Fr Francis Marsden 60th birthday Parish Secretary – Mr Michael Cross 2.00 pm Msza Swięta w języku Polskim E-mail address: [email protected] 4.00 pm Exposition, Evening Prayer (4.30) and Benediction (4.45) Have a look at the new parish website: www.stmarys-chorley.org Mon 24 Mar Parish Centre: 270122 or 07825 954316 (Manager – Heather Roscoe) 8.40 am Morning Prayer

LiVERPOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESAN TRUSTEES INC. Registered Charity No. 232709 9.00 am Mass – Deceased members of the Walsh family

Tue 25 Mar THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD collection. Also new Offertory Envelopes have now arrived: if you Gift Aid your 9.30-11.45 am Morning Prayer and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament offerings please collect your named, numbered and addressed envelopes from the 12.00 noon Mass – Victor Howard (LD) Sacristy. Otherwise if you do not Gift Aid, just take any set from the Resource Area. More news about the stained glass window repairs when we have proper estimates. Wed 26 Mar

8.40 am Morning Prayer NEW OF LIVERPOOL: The appointment of Rt Rev Malcolm 9.00 am Mass – Teresa Rostron et al (Foundation Mass) McMahon OP, presently Bishop of Nottingham, as the new Archbishop was Thurs 27 Mar announced last Friday at a press conference at the Cathedral. 12.00 noon Mass – Rita Hanley Malcolm Patrick McMahon was born in London in June 1949, the second of

Fri 28 Mar three brothers, and educated at St Dominic's Primary School. He moved to St 9.30-11.45 am Morning Prayer and Exposition of the Aloysius College, Highgate before he studied Mechanical Engineering at the Blessed Sacrament University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). After 11.30 am Chaplet of Divine Mercy graduating he did graduate training for membership of Institution of Mechanical 12.00 noon Mass – Maureen Hughes Engineers with Daimler Motor Company in Coventry and then London Transport, for 7.30 pm Stations of the Cross (preceded by Evening Prayer 7.15 pm) whom he was a Contracts Engineer (responsible for the purchase of new vehicles). In 1976 Malcolm McMahon joined the Dominican Order, beginning his Novitiate Sat 29 Mar and Philosophical Studies at Blackfriars, Oxford before being professed in December 11.00-11.45 am Confessions 1977. He began his studies in Theology at Heythrop College in 1979 and was 12.00 noon Mass – Special Intention Daphne Smith & family th ordained priest by Cardinal on 26 June 1982. Fr Malcolm continued his Sun 30 Mar FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT (Mass bk.p.164) studies at Heythrop and Blackfriars after ordination and was appointed Chaplain to Sat 6.15 pm Mass – Parishioners the Students at Leicester Polytechnic (now DeMontfort Univesity) in 1984-5. In 1985 Sun. 8.00 am Mass – Emilia Rowlands (LD) Fr Malcolm was a curate in London until his appointment as Parish Priest of St 10.30 am Mass – Rosie, Leo, Janet & Michael Bolton Dominic's, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1989. Later that year Fr Malcolm was appointed 4.00 pm Exposition, Evening Prayer (4.30) and Benediction (4.45) parish priest of St Dominic's, Haverstock Hill, London. In 1992 the members of the

Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Canon Kevin Mullen, Peggy English Province of Dominicans elected Fr Malcolm as their Provincial, and re- Hughes, Emily Atkins, Gerard Baker, Pauline Bennett, Brigid Cain, Michael Collins, elected him in 1996. Early in 2000, Fr Malcolm was appointed Prior of Blackfriars in Melville Coombes, Joan Doran, Hugh and Yvonne Finlayson, Rosalba Fong, Martin Oxford at the end of his second term as Prior Provincial. Henry, Simon Holcroft, Paul Howarth, Thora Huddy, Annie Johnson, Joan Jones, On 7 November 2000, Fr Malcolm McMahon OP was appointed ninth Bishop of Mary Jones, Rita Kane, Ronald King, Doreen Lang, Julie Lowe, Debbie MacFarlane, Nottingham and was ordained Bishop by Bishop McGuinness in the Cathedral Church Mary McDaid, Frances McHale, Irene McKeown, Veronica Mobbs, Alex Morris, of St Barnabas on 8 December 2000. William Morris, Margaret Morton, Christine Nelson, Alison Prior, Frances Prior, Bishop McMahon is Chair of the Bishops' Conference Department of Education Kathleen Rae, Kathleen Reynolds, Margaret Rice, Frank Snape, Molly Taylor, Paul and Formation and is National President of , the International Catholic Tiffin, Christine Williams, Agnes Young and parishioners in the nursing homes of The Movement for Peace. He is also Chair of the Catholic Education Service for England Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall etc. and Wales (CESEW) and Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Catholic Trust for

England and Wales. He will be installed as Archbishop on Thursday 1st May 2014,

ANNIVERSARIES: Thomas Roscoe. the Feast of St Joseph the Worker.

READERS: 22/23 Mar 6.15 pm Roland Anderton, 8.00 am Volunteer please, 10.30 MASS OF CHRISM 2014 is on Wed. 16th April at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. am Rosemary Grime 29/30 Mar 6.15 pm Kinga Grzeczynska, 8.00 am Volunteer A 55-seater coach has been booked and pick up time is 5.15 pm approx on West please, 10.30 am Simon Eccles. Street car park. We leave the Cathedral at 9.30 pm approx. Please add your name

MARRIAGE BANNS: Ian Robert Singleton and Sarah Louise Taylor are to be married to the list in the porch if you wish to go. Cost is £7, which is the same as last year, at St Mary‟s on 11th April 2014. and this should be placed in the envelope provided with your name and tel. no and handed in to the Parish Office as soon as possible. RECENTLY DECEASED: Victor Howard aged 63, son of Eileen, who died in Heysham last week. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord ……….. CHURCHES TOGETHER IN CHORLEY: Join us for a weekly Soup Lunch throughout th PARISH COLLECTION last week amounted to £919 (of which £412 was Gift Aided) Lent for a time of Reflection, Worship and Devotion, continuing this Wednesday 26 We also received a donation of £200 towards the church heating fund from the St March from 12 noon until 1.00 pm at St Laurence‟s. More details on the notice board. Anne‟s Bingo. Many thanks. This weekend there will be the CAFOD Family Fast Day