NEWS AND EVENTS ST JOSEPH’S ST WILFRID’S YOUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR… REGULAR MEETINGS AND GROUPS AT ST WILFRID’S SERVED BY THE FATHERS AND BROTHERS OF THE YORK ORATORY-IN-FORMATION Neville Barnett, Louise Croce, Anthony Healey, Maureen Wright, • Evangelium/RCIA for those interested in finding out more about Bishop Terence Patrick, Rosalie Aquino, Jack Watt, Christopher Brown, the Catholic Faith or becoming Catholics. Mondays at 7:30pm in Isabel Morris, Pamela Farr, Indira Das, Andrew McHale, Dawn Watts, the Upper Room. SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2018 FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR (SEXAGESIMA)

Betty Keech, Anne Atkins, Rosanna Connolly, Valerie Cleary, • Life Ascending a group for older people, meets in the Upper LITURGICAL CALENDAR REGULAR MASS & SERVICE TIMES AT ST WILFRID’S Christopher McQuade, Chris Smith, Frances Cole, Moira Wileman, Room at 12.45pm the last Wednesday each month. Diane Lyons, Joe Hudson, Wendy Binns, Sharon Gray, Rachel • Legion of Mary is a worldwide group fostering spiritual formation Sunday Readings: Year B McHale, Ann Bamford, Ken Whitehead, Elaine Brighton, Imelda in the spirit of Our Lady and offering practical and spiritual help Weekday Readings: Year 2 SUNDAY MASS TIMES Dunne, Gerry Hurst, Maureen Pearson, Marilyn Johnson, Connie van to others. At the moment this group is not meeting but we hope to Saturday Vigil, 6.30pm; 8.30am, 10.30am and 12 noon (Sung Latin EF) Donck, Bridget & Noel Crompton, and Veronica Chadwick who are Divine Office Week 1 revive it early in 2018. sick, those who died recently, especially Liz Boyes, and all with • Newman’s Group (Young Adults) (17-30) for prayer, growth in WEEKDAY MASS TIMES anniversaries this week. faith, and social activities. Second and fourth Tuesday each Monday 5 February St Agatha Monday to Saturday, 12.10pm SHROVE TUESDAY – 13 FEBRUARY month at 7:30pm in the Upper Room. • Mums & Toddlers for children under school age to allow them to Tuesday 6 February 11am - 2.30pm in the Upper Room at St Wilfrid's: Activities for families to prepare for Lent. This event is aimed at families with get to a weekday Mass and have social and playtime after. Please St Paul Miki and Companions CONFESSIONS children aged 8-12. There are limited places so to find out more and contact [email protected] for more information. Wednesday 7 February Monday to Friday 11:30am to 12 noon, Saturday from 10:45am - 12:00 noon • SVP for helping those in our city with various difficulties book a place please contact Sue Whitaker 07973 321555 or Feria [email protected]. especially loneliness or material deprivation. Please call 07933 OTHER SERVICES, PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONS 599270. We are here to help. Thursday 8 February Vespers: Sunday at 6pm followed by Benediction at about 6:30pm ASH WEDNESDAY – 14 FEBRUARY • St Wilfrid’s Bellringers ring for the main Sunday services and on Feria or St Jerome Emiliani, or St Josephine Rosary: Tuesday to Friday after the 12:10 Mass Masses will be at the usual times in St Joseph’s and St Wilfrid’s on Ash special occasions. Practice is on Thursday evenings. Contact Friday 9 February Wednesday and there will be two additional Masses at St Wilfrid’s one Jacqueline Ward. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Monday - Saturday from Feria at 8am and another Sung Mass at 6pm in the Extraordinary Form. All • Women’s Oratory for prayer, scriptural meditation & recreation in 11:30am to 12:00 noon Masses will have the blessing and imposition of ashes. Ash Wednesday Saturday 10 February St Philip’s tradition. Third Friday of the Month at 7:30pm starting Blessing with St Philip’s Relic: Monday after 12.10pm Mass is a Day of Fasting and Abstinence (even if it is St Valentine’s Day!) in the rectory and moving to church. St Scholastica • York Aquinas Reading Group to discover & discuss the teaching Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena: Wednesday after the Rosary SCRIPTURE EVENING of St Thomas. Upper Room, 7:30pm, the third Friday each month. Devotions to Our Lady of York (Our Lady of Mercy): There will be an evening reflecting on Scripture on Tuesday, 20 THE ORATORIAN COMMUNITY Saturday after 12:10pm Mass February at 7.30pm in the Upper Room at St Wilfrid’s. The evening is REGULAR MEETINGS AND GROUPS AT ST JOSEPH’S PETERGATE HOUSE, principally aimed at Readers in our , but other parishioners may • Ladies’ Group please contact Hilary Topham 11, HIGH PETERGATE, attend if they wish. Please let Br Adam know if you plan on coming. • Parish Hall please contact Fr Richard or Justin Lancaster REGULAR MASS & SERVICE TIMES AT ST JOSEPH’S YORK, YO1 7EN CATHOLICISM AND THE ARTS SEMINAR • SVP as above, please see Margaret Dobson or Fr Richard

The next meeting will be in the Upper Room on Wednesday, 21 01904 624767 SUNDAY MASS TIMES CONFIRMATION GROUP February, from 6pm to 7.30pm. ‘Conflicting Identities? Catholicism, [email protected] The next session is at 2pm on Saturday 17 February in the Upper Room. Saturday Vigil, 5pm; 9:30am. Confessions before Sunday Masses. Culture and Britishness in 19th and 20th Century Prose and Practice’ www.stwilfridsyork.org.uk Dr. Martin Potter (University of York): Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and COACH FOR THE RITE OF ELECTION WEEKDAY MASS TIMES David Jones: Three Twentieth-Century Writers on Catholic Identity There will be a coach from York for the Rite of Election at the Cathedral on Fr. Richard Duffield (St. Wilfrid’s, York Oratory): “What then does Dr. Sunday, 18 February. Depart from Union Terrace Coach Park at 1.30pm ORATORY CLERGY Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 9:15am Newman mean?” 20th-Century Writers’ Reactions to Newman (prompt). Return from Cathedral at 4.30pm to arrive at Union Terrace at Fr Richard Duffield Parish Priest YOUNG ORATORY approximately 5.30pm. Cost £10 per adult (accompanied children free). ST ’S SHRINE, THE SHAMBLES We are looking to start a new group for young people (13-17) to meet Payment can be made on the coach. For more information please contact Fr Nicholas Edmonds-Smith weekly after school. There will be a meeting on Wednesday, 7 Sue on 07973 321555 or [email protected] Fr Stephen Brown MASS TIME February at 7.30pm in St Wilfrid’s Rectory, to gauge interest and FRIDAY LENT LUNCHES Br Adam Fairbairn discuss possible times. Parents and teenagers both welcome. Saturday, 10am There is a list at the back of church for volunteers to sign up to do soup for Br Henry O’Connell

PARISH PILGRIMAGE the Friday Lent Lunches for Aid to the Church in Need. Br David Chadwick

After last year's successful York/Oxford pilgrimage to Fatima, we are PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONS planning another to Rome, Assisi and Loreto. The dates will be from SVP CONTACT Rosary before Mass; Litany and Petitions to the Martyrs of York after Mass St Wilfrid’s Society of St Vincent de Paul has got a new mobile telephone 17-24 September and the cost between £745 and £792 per person (depending on the numbers booking). Flights for the York pilgrims will helpline for people in need, especially for help with material deprivation. MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SATURDAY, 3 FEBRUARY be from Manchester. Further details are available on the website and The number is 07933 599270. forms will shortly be available at the back of both churches. COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK 5:00pm St Joseph’s Liam McInerny RIP Saturday 3 THANK YOU Plate Gift Aid Total Second 6:30pm St Wilfrid’s Donal Herlihy RIP The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children White Flower St Wilfrid’s 579.88 187.50 767.38 8:30am St Wilfrid’s Pauline Richardson Collection raised 448.05 at St Wilfrid’s and 174.55 at St Joseph’s. St Joseph’s 192.22 248.30 440.52 9:30am St Joseph’s - SPUC is very grateful for your continuing generosity. Thank you very much for your continued generosity. Sunday 4 10:30am St Wilfrid’s Gail Kilmartin

12:00pm St Wilfrid’s Marion Field 9:15am St Joseph’s - SPIRITUAL THEME THIS WEEK Monday 5 This Sunday’s Gospel presents to us Jesus who heals the sick: first Simon Peter’s mother-in-law who was in bed with a fever and Jesus, taking her by the hand, 12:10pm St Wilfrid’s Holy Souls healed her and helped her to her feet; then all the sick in Capernaum, tried in body, mind and spirit, and he “healed many… and cast out many demons”. The Tuesday 6 12:10pm St Wilfrid’s Sr Angela Reilly four Evangelists agree in testifying that this liberation from illness and infirmity of every kind was — together with preaching - Jesus’ main activity in his public 9:15am St Joseph’s - ministry. Wednesday 7 12:10pm St Wilfrid’s Rita Robertson Illness is in fact a sign of the action of Evil in the world and in people, whereas healing shows that the Kingdom of God, God himself, is at hand. Jesus Christ Thursday 8 12:10pm St Wilfrid’s Holy Souls came to defeat Evil at the root and instances of healing are an anticipation of his triumph, obtained with his death and Resurrection. 9:15am St Joseph’s - Friday 9 Jesus said one day: “those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick”. On that occasion he was referring to sinners, whom he came to 12:10pm St Wilfrid’s David Prangnell RIP call and to save. It is nonetheless true that illness is a typically human condition in which we feel strongly that we are not self-sufficient but need others. In this 10:00am Shambles Holy Souls regard we might say paradoxically that illness can be a salutary moment in which to experience the attention of others and to pay attention to others! Saturday 10 12:10pm St Wilfrid’s - However illness is also always a trial that can even become long and difficult. When healing does not happen and suffering is prolonged, we can be as it were overwhelmed, isolated, and then our life is depressed and dehumanized. How should we react to this attack of Evil? With the appropriate treatment, certainly - OTHER MASSES (HOLY DAYS, CONVENTS ETC.) medicine in these decades has taken giant strides and we are grateful for it - but the Word of God teaches us that there is a crucial basic attitude with which to face illness and it is that of faith in God, in his goodness. Jesus always repeats this to the people he heals: your faith has made you well. Tuesday 6 9.30am St Joseph’s Liz Boyes RIP

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