Father McMahon St. John’s & St. Teresa’s Tel: 0161 881 3558 High Lane Chorlton

Mass times: Saturday 6.00pm. Sunday 9.00am, and 12.00 St. John’s Weekdays: 10.00am St. John’s Baptisms & Marriages by arrangement. Confessions Sat 10.30am and 5.30pm St. John’s

Sunday 26th February 2017 Reflection: Nowadays the papers and the media are full of advice, indeed everyone we meet wants to advise us on physical health, it’s become a fulltime preoccupation. Lent in contrast, invites us to focus on our spiritual lives. It gives us a chance to look into ourselves. There we will see that we are no Angels. We can all do better, but we know we need God’s grace and support to do this. So Lent, which begins on Wednesday- Ash Wednesday provides us with a window of opportunity to look at ourselves, and see how we can become better follows of Christ, real Children of God.

Lent Is a kind of spiritual pruning time. There is much that is useless and perhaps harmful in our lives, which saps our energy, and diminishes our spiritual fruitfulness. Of what shall we prune ourselves this Lent, so that we may become more fruitful branches of Christ the true Vine?

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”

Please remember in your prayers: Sick: Denis O’Connor, Kath Kettlewell, Roena O’Mahoney, Bridie Henry, Mary Lally, Barry Regan, Christine Millar, Jim Flynn, Robert Delaney, Sandra Deckor, Joe Kelly, Mona Byrne, Martin Noone, Eva Sweeney, Eamonn Fahy, Noli McDonagh, Joe Moore,Mary Kearns, Tom Williams, Ita Conway, Chris Cuffe, Margaret & Tommy Casserley, Mick Connors, Betty Redmond, Eddie & Mazie Farrell, Anne Calvey, Grace Boyce, Mary Clarke, Michael Cunningham, Philip Peers, Rose Murray, Melitto Dufficey, Tommy Murray, Tony Howley, Robert Duffy, Mark Chebrika, Ann Meyer, Baby Hale-Seale, Maureen Dalingwater, Peter Dowling, Isaiah Carney, Tom Landers, Pauline Earley, Joseph Davidson, Tommie McKenna, John Regan, Ena Meehan, Lizie McKiernan, Helen Colling, Bridie Lane, Joyce Morgan, Louise Grace, Debbie Mahon, Hugo Boyce. Liam Rowney, Bill Lisgo, Terry O’Brien, Maureen Martin.

Lately Dead: Michael Keogh (Req. Thur 12.00pm), Sarah Williams (Req. Fri 12.00pm) Alison Hodkinson (Req. Sat 11.00am) Michael Murphy, Padraig Cullinane, Pat Gailey, Joseph Francis Purcell, Selina Nash. Geoff Parker, Mary Doherty, Jimmy Walsh, Seamus Farrell, Danilo Bistacchi, Michael Conneally (USA).

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.” Anniversaries about this time: Frank Muldoon & Declan (Grandson), Phylis & Kevin Leamy, Peter Drumm, Martin Tarpey, Winifred Shires, Mary & Elsie Neary, Ken Burke, Madge Gillespie, Patsy Hand, Jamie Burke, Jerry Flanagan, Billy Reilly, Kate & Charlie Conlon, Ted Connor, John Watson, John Gavin, Edwina Hughes, Kathleen Furey, Tony & Trudy Galvin, Elsie Kedian, Sean Wheelehan, Pat Byrne, Pat & Mary Moran, Paddy Geoghegan, Tom Lardner, George Lally, Hugh Cronnley, Peggy & Tommy McDermott, Patrick Folan, Alf Sherriffe, Gerard Griffith, Helen Lavelle, Lorraine Lee, Bill Regan, Anne & Austin Henry, Senan Hough, Kath King, Pat O’Brien,

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

Lenten Programme

Ash Wednesday Mass times: 6.55am, 10.00am and 7.00pm

During Lent there will be Mass at 6.55am and 10.00am Monday - Friday.

Holy Hour with Novena & Benediction Tuesday 7.00 - 8.00pm

The Stations of the Cross Thursday 7.00pm

Exposition after Saturday Morning Mass till 12.00pm

“Anyone who isn’t pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.”

Bingo: Tuesday 8.45pm – Great prizes

Needed: Musicians to support Choir and Orchestra – Performance Sunday 21th May

Friday 17th March: School Mass 9.15am followed by a celebration

St Patrick’s Night Social: Parish Centre – After 7.00pm Mass

“Enjoy what you can and endure what you must.”

Monthly Draw: Why not join, £4.00 per month – let me know. Next draw Tues 28th February

Photos: Have you any old memories that could be of interest? Let’s have them to be displayed

“Good work isn’t cheap, cheap work isn’t good.”

Weddings: If you have booked a Wedding for later in the year and haven’t yet filled in the Form 1, please get your Baptismal Certificate and come and see me as soon as possible

“There is no greater fraud than a promise unfulfilled.”