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TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME [YEAR A] 30 AUGUST 2020 ST MARY’S MULBERRY ST A place of prayer at the heart of our city Serving the people of Manchester since 1794 THE WORD THIS SUNDAY THE SAINTS THIS WEEK This Week’s Sunday Readings of the Mass St Aidan and the Saints of Lindisfarne Born in Ireland, Aidan died at Bamburgh (Northumberland) in 651. ▶ Jeremiah 10:7-9 ▶ Romans 12:1-2 ▶ Matthew 16:21-27 A monk of Iona, he was sent to Northumbria when King Oswald A quick glance at last week's Gospel asked for help in converting his kingdom, and established his reveals the interesting development of monastery on the island of Lindisfarne. With him are remembered the story: last week, we heard Peter all those holy abbots and bishops, teachers and missionaries who proclaiming that Jesus was the made Lindisfarne a cradle of English Christianity. Messiah, and being given authority as St Edmund Arrowsmith a result. Born in 1585 at Haydock, Edmund was ordained at Douai and began his work in Lancashire Mission, This week, Peter gets it wrong: he is rebuked by the Lord because including Salmesbury and Walton-le-Dale; he was he does not understand who the Messiah is. The Messiah is the one amazingly zealous in his work, despite one arrest; who will give everything for his people - even his own life. To be a eventually arrested in 1628, he was imprisoned follower of Jesus demands an understanding and acceptance of this and martyred at Lancaster. fact, and a willingness to take up the cross as Jesus did. Our introduction to this is the prophet Jeremiah - also persecuted for St Gregory the Great doing and saying what was right. Have a look at the Twelfth Born in Rome in 540; he became a civil servant, and eventually was Sunday in Ordinary Time, where this twinning of Jeremiah and Prefect of the City. He entered the Abbey of Saint Andrew, and was prophecy of persecution also appears. ordained deacon in 578. On the death of Pope Pelagius II in 590 Gregory was elected Pope, showing marvellous pastoral care in THE WORD THIS WEEK preaching, writing, caring for the poor and working for the civil welfare of the City of Rome, then deserted and threatened. He is This week’s daily readings of the Mass called the Apostle of England because it was he who sent We continue to read through Paul’s 2nd Letter to the Christians at Augustine, the prior of Saint Andrew s to minister there, after Corinth. Paul justifies himself, by disparaging human philosophy - encountering English slaves in the Forum. that was not the message he brought them: he encourages them as people of the Spirit - and says that this should get rid of the St Cuthbert jealousies among them - all belongs to God, and we are Christ’s Born about 634, Cuthbert died on Farne (Northumberland) on 20 stewards. Paul mocks the imagined wisdom of the Corinthians, in order to “bring them to their senses”. March 687. By tradition a shepherd boy, he became monk and prior at Melrose. After the Synod of Whitby in 664, he became prior of The Gospel moves on to Saint Luke: we are taken right back to the Lindisfarne, and gradually won over the community to Roman beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, as he is rejected in Nazareth, customs. In 676 left the monastery to live in solitude on the island and so moves to Capernaum to begin his work. After working of Inner Farne. For the last two years of his life he served as bishop miracles, he calls Peter to follow him and begins to encounter opposition from the Pharisees. of Lindisfarne but returned to his island to die. He is remembered as the most popular of the Anglo-Saxon saints of Northern England. THE WEEK AHEAD AT ST MARY’S THE CHURCH IS OPEN EACH DAY FOR QUIET PRAYER Mon 31 August Tues 01 September Wed 02 September Thurs 03 September Fri 04 September Sat 05 September Sun 06 September St Aidan, Bishop, St Edmund Weekday St Gregory St Cuthbert Saturday Mass of TWENTY THIRD and Saints Arrowsmith the Great Bishop Our Blessed Lady SUNDAY IN of Lindisfarne Priest and Martyr Pope & Doctor ORDINARY TIME 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 1 Corinthians 2:10-16 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 1 Thess. 2:2-8 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 1 Corinthians 4:6-15 Ezekiel 33:7-9 Luke 4:16-30 Luke 4:31-37 Luke 4:38-44 Matthew 16:13-19 Luke 5:33-39 Luke 6:1-5 Romans 13:8-10 Matthew 18:15-20 10.00am 10.00am 10.00am 10.00am 10.00am 09.30am 09.00am Church opens Church opens Church opens Church opens Church opens Church opens Church opens 10.30am - 12.25pm 10.30am - 12.25pm 10.30am - 12.25pm 10.30am - 12.25pm 10.30am - 12.25pm 10.00am - 11.45am 10.00am Adoration of the Adoration of the Adoration of the Adoration of the Adoration of the Adoration of the Holy Mass Blessed Sacrament Blessed Sacrament Blessed Sacrament Blessed Sacrament Blessed Sacrament Blessed Sacrament 12 noon 12.10pm 12.10pm 12.10pm 12.10pm 12.10pm 11.30am Holy Mass Holy Rosary Holy Rosary Holy Rosary Holy Rosary Holy Rosary Holy Rosary 12.30pm 12.30pm 12.30pm 12.30pm 12.30pm 11.45am Holy Mass Holy Mass Holy Mass Holy Mass Holy Mass Benediction 2.00pm 12 noon Holy Mass Church closes 4.00pm 4.00pm 4.00pm 4.00pm Church closes Church closes Church closes Church closes 5.15pm 5.15pm Vigil Mass Holy Mass of Sunday 6.00pm 6.00pm Church closes Church closes THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AT ST MARY’S and for your SUPPORT of our parish Thank you for your generosity; Please remember to Gift Aid any donations to St Mary’s to help us in our Mission 225th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF ST MARY’S CHURCH, MULBERRY STREET _______________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth found her way to a convent in Northampton, where she 15th August, 2020, marked the Two Hundred and became a novice. However, her training was cut short when she Twenty Fifth anniversary of the opening of first contracted tuberculosis. She was deemed unsuitable for religious St Mary’s church, Mulberry Street, the present building life and sent back to her parents to recover. The Prouts welcomed being the second church on this site her back, her mother hoping that her flirtation with Catholicism had _______________________________________________________________________ now passed. Tuesday marks Eventually her health returned, though not her allegiance to the the Bi-centenary Church of England. No sooner was she well than she began of the birth practicing Catholicism again, eliciting the same response from her on 2nd September, 1820, of parents as before; Elizabeth was once again thrown out of the family home. ELIZABETH PROUT COTTONOPOLIS CALLS Mother Mary Joseph of Jesus CP About 1848 a new St Chad’s church was opened at Cheetham Hill, Manchester, to replace its predecessor in Rook Street and to provide for the large numbers of wealthier Catholics who were moving away A SAINT from the dust, grime and insanitary conditions of central IN MANCHESTER Manchester. CITY CENTRE? Elizabeth Prouts’s saviour came in the form of Father Gaudentius Rossi, a companion of Father Dominic, who offered her a teaching _______________________________________________________________________ job at St Chad’s in Cheetham Hill. Elizabeth happily accepted. Nothing she had experienced in her life could have prepared her for On 9 April 1875, a Passionist priest, Father Alphonsus O’Neill, Manchester. Arriving in 1850, she found herself in an increasingly presided over a very special ceremony in the convent of the Sisters sprawling metropolis, its expansion driven by the cotton trade, of the Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 31 Byrom Street, often at the expense of the workers. Manchester. In preparation, a new chapel had been built at the rear of the convent. It had been officially opened on the previous 21 ST CHAD’S SCHOOL, ANCOATS November with a High Mass in the presence of a large number of St Chad’s existing school was an old, dilapidated warehouse in clergy and benefactors. George Leigh Street in the industrial area of Ancoats and so the next step was to build a new school beside the new church and Pointed Gothic in style, it was built of grey stock brick with stone presbytery in Stocks Street. To be able to do that the parish priest, dressings. The interior walls were lined with rich pine skirtings and Father Robert Croskell, required a teacher who would be able to the flooring of the aisles was inlaid with mosaic tiles. The roof, pass a Government Inspection in the existing building and thus win formed of pointed principals springing from stone corbles, showed a Government Grant for desks, apparatus, books and maps and a six bays each holding a rich, silvery plate of stained glass, bearing building grant for a new school at Cheetham Hill. Until Elizabeth the Passionist Sign or Badge, emblems of Christ’s Passion and the Prout arrived to re-open that school about September 1849 St Scriptural text, Christ was made obedient unto death, even to death Chad’s no longer had a school, as the previous teacher had left. The of the Cross. whole educational future of St Chad’s parish thus depended on Four days later, on 25 November 1874, the parishioners of St Elizabeth Prout. Mary’s, Mulberry Street, had crowded into the new chapel for Benediction and a sermon give by Father Alphonsus O’Neill.