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7th SUNDAY ‘OF THE YEAR’ 23 FEBRUARY 2020

HOLY MASS THIS WEEK SUNDAY First Mass of Sunday is 7pm Saturday. Sunday morning 9.00 & 11.00 am MONDAY 9.15 am TUESDAY 12 noon

WEDNESDAY ASH WEDNESDAY Day of fasting and Abstinence Masses 12 noon and 7.00 pm with blessing and distribution of ashes at both

THURSDAY 12 noon Lent Weekday FRIDAY 8.00 am Lent Weekday SATURDAY 11.00 am Lent Weekday (Novena 10.40)

CONFESSIONS this week SATURDAY 11.30 am-12.30 pm 6.00-6.45 pm

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Saturday 11.30 am-12.30 pm

DEANERY CIRCLE OF PRAYER Our Lady’s, Langley, & St John Fisher, Boarshaw

Collection last Sunday £1052.30 NEWSLETTER

Parish church for every day during at St Patrick’s, Rochdale. Lent. The Pope, as Bishop Bishop John Arnold will be Friday Lenten Masses of Rome, would offer Mass the main celebrant at in the various churches Rochdale. All three Masses From this coming week attended by clergy and will start at 7.00 pm. Friday Mass will be at 8.00 faithful. The custom was am. For those able to come revived in this diocese some Please make a note of these this would be a very 50 years ago. dates and do try to come. worthwhile Lenten exercise. We will have three Lenten Fairtrade Lenten Station Masses Station Masses in our Our next Traidcraft stall will deanery this Lent. The first, be next Sunday, 1 March, in Lenten Stations are a very on Thursday 5 March, will the Parish Hall after both old custom in the Church. be here at Our Lady of 9am and 11am Masses. This They celebrate the unity of Grace. The second, on 19 falls bang in the middle of this the Church in a spirit of March, will be in Bury or year's Fairtrade Fortnight (24 prayer and penance. In Middleton. The third, on Feb to 8 March), so look out Rome, a different church is Thursday 26 March will be designated as the Station for special events and promotions in your why not pop into St Mary’s, Vacancies supermarket. But best of all, the Hidden Gem? Each please support the cause of weekday during Lent there Volition Community justice in world trade by will be Adoration of the Volunteer Coordinator buying Fairtrade goods from Blessed Sacrament and Location: Salford and our monthly stall, this month Confessions (11.30am), Cathedrals, its and every month. Holy Mass (12.30pm) and precincts, Manchester Stations of the Cross Cathedral Visitor Centre, Sacramental Programme (1.00pm). Manchester Central Library

and the Cenotaph. Today brings the 3rd stage During Lent there will be an Salary: Between £30,000 & of the Programme preparing extra Mass on Wednesday £35,000. 37 hours per week, our Year 3 children for their evenings at 5.15pm and on including some evening and first Holy Communion. The Friday mornings at 8.00am. weekend work. See: theme is ‘Reconciliation’. The church is open for quiet http://www.volitioncommunit Parents and children meet in prayer from 8.00am till y.org/job-vacancy- the parish hall at 9.50 am. 6.00pm each day, and each community-volunteer- Refreshments after the 9 Wednesday evening in Lent coordinator/ o’clock Mass today will be in at 6.00pm there will be a in the Cottage. series of Lenten Meditations, Prison Chaplain Vacancy

“Serene Silence”, on the Permanent, part time, Budapest 2020 20 hours a week including Seven Sorrows of Mary. 16 parishioners and friends Further details are on the Sunday, at HMP Forest have now booked to attend diocesan website. Bank, Pendlebury. the International Eucharistic Salary: £16,296.80 Congress in Budapest 13-20 A message from the For full role description and September this year. Bishops of & person specification, see: Wales https://www.sodexojobs.co.u k/jobs/job/Roman-Catholic- Deanery/Diocese Chaplain/5259 ‘All EU, EEA and Swiss What are you doing citizens living in the UK are in Lent? required by the government Dowry of Mary to apply through its Lent is about more than Settlement Scheme to giving something up; it is The promised booklets didn’t continue living, working and about really doing come. Never mind, we don’t accessing services here. The something. The Catechism of need books (though they deadline for applications is the makes can often help). A decade or 30 June 2021. Details and this clear: two of the rosary – or even links to the application 1438 ‘The seasons and days more - each day this Lent process can be found at: of penance in the course of would make a good target. gov.uk/eusettledstatus the liturgical year (Lent, and As would a visit to Mary’s Son in the Blessed each Friday in memory of the ‘Please bring this to the death of the Lord) are intense Sacrament. attention of friends, family moments of the Church’s members and fellow Last week, during his weekly penitential practice. These parishioners who may audience, Pope Francis times are particularly need to apply. blessed a painting of Our appropriate for spiritual Information on assistance for Lady of Walsingham. The exercises, penitential those who may have difficulty painting, by Amanda de liturgies, pilgrimages as applying is available at: Pulford, will return to signs of penance, voluntary gov.uk/help-eu-settlement- Walsingham for the self-denial such as fasting scheme rededication of England as and almsgiving, and fraternal Mary’s Dowry on 29 March sharing (charitable and ‘The Catholic Church in 2020 and after the missionary works).’ England and Wales stands in rededication, the Dowry

solidarity with all European Painting will begin a journey Lent at the Hidden Gem citizens who have made their to every Catholic parish in homes here. They are a If you are visiting England, including here in valued part of our parishes, our diocese. schools and communities.’ during the Season of Lent,