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Readers in the area. If you are new in the parish, please introduce yourself to the Parish Priest. without number for the ` st St Ignatius of Loyola, Memorial 5:45pm Tony Brougham (RIP) Sat 31 Jul J Tan Sat 31 development and Sun 1st Aug R Stedall Jn 6:24-35 th Sun 1 18th Sunday in OT Week 2 10:30am Cecilia, Bruno & Alice (RIP) Sat 7 Aug C Plaza liberation of humanity. th Sun 8 Aug J George Mon 2 Mt 14:13-21 - No Mass

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Archbishop will be principal celebrant and homilist at the Mass, on Transfiguration of the Feast 6:00pm Elsa’s Intention Saturday 25 September 2021 at 12noon, at the parish of Ss Mary & John, Fri 6 Lord, Mt 17:1-9 our brothers and sisters. Wolverhampton. After Mass, there will be refreshments in parish centre. Sat 7 Jn 6:41-51 5:45pm John & Andrea Butler (RIP) This Mass, to which servers from across the country are invited, is in addition to our Sun 8 19th Sunday in OT Week 3 10:30am People of the Parish annual diocesan Mass, which takes place each spring at the Cathedral. On 24 January 2002

We are grateful for Fr Paweł Bielak, the Pauline Fathers and the parish community for Please pray for: Our sick and housebound : RobinPope Butler, John Shiela Paul Bunn, Firdela II Aclan, hosting us. To reserve places, please book FREE tickets on Eventbrite. Margaret Roberts, Ann Malanaphy, Jesse Adams, Dave Hilditch, Eliadora Mamaril, Audrey

The Safeguarding Team:. For those who have any safeguarding concerns. Please Weller, Virginia Arcebedo, Moses Soro, Estherwelcomed Kojo, Mama Ch ingmore, Shiela Birch,than Sr Mary speak with your area Safeguarding Representative to guide you on the proper Henry O.P., and Vincent Bradley. 200 leaders of the procedure. Alternatively, you can contact the safeguarding office on 0121 230 6240 or Those whose anniversaries occur during this time: Simon Bailey. email the office at [email protected] world's religions to Confessions: is still done by booking only. Please contact the church or email to book Useful websites: www.disciplesnow.com – For young people; www.cafod.org.uk – for confession. Assisi to pray together Support to the poor;www.pregnancymatters.or.uk – pregnancy matters; Church cleaning volunteers: at the moment, there are only two volunteer ladies who www.amm.org/chss.htm - Catholic Home Study Service; www.pray-as-you-go.org – for peace and to do their are currently cleaning the church in an alternate week. If you have a spare time and reflection for the whole week;- for those who are 20; www.catholicsingles.org.uk. would like to volunteer to clean our Parish twice a month on your chosen day, please or www.CatholicMates.com – for single Catholics. part to fend off "the dark approach the parish priest after the Mass. Your help is much appreciated. clouds of terrorism,

Welcome Céad míle fáilte Mabuhay Vitajte hatred (and) armed conflict.” It was a S1ahst Reading: Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15 – I will rain down bread for you from the heavens. Is all privacy suppressed, then, in our religion? No, but the chasm between the private 2nd Reading: Ephesians 4:17, 20-24 – Put on the new self that has been in god’s way. and the public is bridged. Eating is at once a private and social affair. If we break a Gospel: John 6:24-35 – He who comes to me will never be hungry, he who believes in biscuit and you eat one half while I eat the other, my half becomes me and yours me will never thirst. becomes you; biology is very individual in that sense. Yet eating is one of the most social of all activities; when people want to celebrate together and have joy in one Gospel Commentary : Fr. Donagh O'Shea OP another's company, they think first of having a meal together. It is a When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they wonderful bridging of the chasm between individual and community, between themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they private and public, between selfish and unselfish desire. Neither is neglected or found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come suppressed. This contains a profound wisdom about human living, and about the life here?" Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not of grace. My desire for God is not the enemy of my desire for my dinner, it is in because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for continuity with it. The discontinuity is with greed, not with the natural appetite. In the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son this sense the Eucharist is also a bridge between nature and grace.

of Man will give you, for it is on him that God the Father has set his seal." At the Eucharist we are not always fully present: sometimes, however new our

Then they said to him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" Jesus Liturgy may be, we are half asleep; but that is not the worst kind of absence. The answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has worst kind is when our hearts remain shut; then we are making community sent." So they said to him, "What sign are you going to give us then, so that we impossible, we are emptying the Eucharist of its meaning; and we are not allowing it may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? Our ancestors ate the to be a bridge between ourselves and our neighbour. The Lord is present on the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to altar so that he may be present in us; “this is my body” so that you can be my body, eat.'" my bodily members, my completion. Jesus is the head of the Body, we the members, said St Paul. The Eucharist is not only what happens on the altar, but what happens Then Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the in the entire church (and what happens in our lives for the rest of the week). Listen bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. not only to the readings and prayers, ‘listen’ also to the people around you: be aware For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the of them, be grateful that they are there, don’t see them as strangers even if you don't world." They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." Jesus said to them, "I am know their names. The one who said “I am the bread of life” wants us to share that the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes bread - his life, his care, his love - with others, "so that we who are fed by God may in me will never be thirsty. live in his way" (St Cyprian). Notices In those days everyone looked dead in church. In the Tridentine Mass there is no interaction between people, no common responses, no sign of peace. People used Root and Branch Inclusive Synod, 5-12 September 2021 (Zoom/Live): Inspired by to sink into their private thoughts or devotions as soon as the Mass began; many Pope Francis’s synodal vision, lay Catholics from across the UK invite your said the rosary, and the less devout looked around them (but not behind them: that congregation to an opportunity to embrace renewal in the . was taboo). Only the bell brought them together; and for a few Tickets for Zoom and live are available at www.rootandbranchsynod.org. Affordable moments there was total silence. Then at the sixth bell there was always an tickets are available from £10. For more details contact Penelope Middelboe on +44 outburst of coughing (that was the only common response). Few received 7831 328940 or email www.rootandbranchsynod.org. Communion. We have forgotten how privatised the Tridentine Mass was. [email protected]

The reform of the Liturgy in the 1960s was an attempt to correct this eccentric Society of Saint Gregory - annual Summer School of liturgy and music: The Society development. There was nothing privatised about Jesus’ way of life or his way of of Saint Gregory presents its annual Summer School of liturgy and music. worship. He spoke frequently of heaven as a banquet; he sat at table with all kinds It will be held from 4-6 August via Zoom. Bishop Peter Brignall, the initiator of ‘The of people; he miraculously fed the crowds. Sharing food is a frequent theme in the God Who Speaks’, will introduce the two days of prayer, contemplation, discussion gospels, a favourite in Luke's (see, for example, 5:29-32, and chapter 14). and debate – and there will be liturgies with music. For more details or booking email [email protected].