Last week’s collection total £703 34p Thank you Sacrament of Marriage: 6 months’ notice must be given, please see Father to make arrangements, please speak to Clergy Marriage preparation course Book on line at marriage.stjosephsmanchester.co.uk:

BURNAGE FOOD BANK; opening times are: Tuesday 12.30pm-2.30pm St Nicholas Church Hall, , M19 1PL and Friday 3pm-5pm St Bernard's Church Hall, Burnage Lane, M19 1DR. www.burnagefoodbank.org.uk or tel: 07936698546.

SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO!!!! IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST MARGARET CLITHEROW: Monday 2nd August to Wednesday 4th August, also visiting Harrogate and Thirsk. 1 single room available (£189) half board. HOLY ISLAND PILGRIMAGE, Friday 8th October to Sunday 10th October, half board in the Holiday Inn Hotel, visiting Ripon and Durham. One twin room available £189 per person.Contact Ann Tipper on442 5259

CARITAS SALFORD has teamed up with TERN (The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network) and Ben & Jerry’s (the well-known ice cream manufacturer) to launch the Ice Academy for the first time in . This is a project to support refugees in developing business ideas and starting their own business in by connecting them to the experts, programmes and support they need to move forward. As a result, Caritas is searching for 15 volunteer ‘business buddies’ interested in social innovation and with some business/public sector experience or a professional services background. You will offer your expertise, guidance and advice as our entrepreneurs develop and test their business ideas. For more information and to express an interest, please contact Amir by email at [email protected] or call/text to 07477 926517.

LAUDATO SI: Global Healing, If you are able to join a Group here at St Bernard’s to see what we can do in our small way to save the Planet and float ideas, please put your name and contact details on the list at the back of the Church. We will be in touch

MID SUMMER SPECIAL DRAW: We recently announced that we raised £3370 from this event but since we have been given a further donation of £130 making the total raised to £3500.Thank you for your generosity.

MRI Hospital Chaplain + Christies number 0161 276 4247; 0161 291 2297 ST. BERNARD’S PARISH NEWSLETTER seventeenth Sunday of ordinary time Sunday 25th July 2021 Clergy: Mgr. Michael J Kujacz, Fr. John Coe, Fr. Kevin Gradwell. Address St. Bernard’s R C Church, Burnage Lane, Manchester M19 1DR Tel 0161 432 3628 Website http://stbernards-burnage.homeip.net Live stream [email protected] STAY WITH US ON OUR JOURNEY HOLY YEAR OF ST JOSEPH 17th Sunday You tube: “St Bernard’s Burnage” July: Month of the Precious Blood

For the next five weeks we take our leave of Saint Mark's Gospel (since it is not long enough to fill the year) and read Chapter Six of Saint John's Gospel. This is the famous “Eucharistic Discourse” and begins with the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. A line of the Psalm gives the meaning of today's readings: “The eyes of all creatures look to you (O God) and you give them their food in due time.” Our God is the God who provides for his people; the prosperity and fruitfulness of our earth and the mysterious cycles of nature ensures that all have what they need - and have some left over. The actions of Elisha and Jesus are in a sense prophetic: many would say that there is not enough food in this world to go round, just as the two sets of disciples complain that there is not enough for the hundred or the five thousand. But the prophetic action states that this is not true: God provides what is needed. This might prompt us to think about the unfair and unequal distribution of the fruits of the earth: the miracle is a sign of the Kingdom of God - what God wants the world to be like. Perhaps we should take the message of the miracle to heart this Sunday and think about the multitude that still sits in hunger in our world today.

Eco Thought of the Week: in today’s Gospel, Jesus took the apostles to a lonely place to rest for a while. Might we find time and space in these weeks to rest for a while and enjoy the beauty of God’s gift of creation?

Let us pray, during this week, for the people of the parish of Corpus Christi, Bolton, for Fr. Alfred Rebello, their parish priest, and for their three parish primary schools. May they be ever nourished on the Bread of Life, the Body of Christ.

Pope Francis Tweet: “During summer time, let us learn how to take a break, turn off the mobile phone to gaze into the eyes of others, cultivate silence, contemplate nature, regenerate ourselves in dialogue with God.”

THE HOLY FATHER’S INTENTIONS for July: We pray that, in social, economic and political situations of conflict, we may be courageous and passionate architects of dialogue and friendship.

Sunday 25th July: The inaugural World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly theme “I am with you always” Identifying with the more senior members of our society, he says “The whole Church is close to you – to us – and cares about you, loves you and does not want to leave you alone!” This week’s timetable 17th Sunday of 25th July Morning Mass 10am Mass Ordinary Time Evening Mass 6pm Mass Monday 26th July Ss Joachim & Anne 9-30am Mass

Tuesday 27th July Mass of the day 6pm Exposition 7pm Mass Wednesday 28th July Mass of the day 9-30am Mass Thursday 29th July St Martha 9-30am Mass Friday 30th July St Peter Chrysologus 9-30am Mass

Saturday 31st July St Ignatius of Loyola 11am Exposition & Confessions 12 Noon Mass 18th Sunday of 1st August Morning Mass 10am Mass Ordinary Time Evening Mass 6pm Mass Masses this week: Special Intentions, Steve Parks, Michael Kane, C. P. Johnson, Fr Frank Deeney Fr. Michael Intention, Darren O’Brien, 21st Intention, Joan Howell, Owen Tully.

In your prayers please remember: Nora Connolly, Angela Forbes, Tony Rock, Stella Carragher, Margaret Walsh, Sal & Cam Lusco, Georgie Hegarty, Steven Moorhouse, Valerie Bridge, Joe Kelly, Mary Boylan, Bernie Kirstein, Christine Moores, Bernard Cartledge, Margaret Moran, Clare Hurd, Sr Philomena, Paddy Lyons, Briege McAssey, Christine Moores, Arianna, Margaret Bayhi, Duncan, Marie Baker, Nevaeh-Rose, Kevin Mitchell, Bernard Howell, Stephen Bostock, Fr Frank Jennings, Chris Loftus, Celia & Alf Meschi, Marie Stylianou, Oliver, Fr. Kevin Gradwell, MJK, Teresa Barrett, Breda Gallagher, Fr Frankie Mulgrew, Marcella McNevin, Eamonn Coyle, Henry McDaid, Bernard Howell, Margaret Hennigan, Philip Tobin, Elizabeth, Shelagh Tynan, Patricia Divine, Theresa Patrick, Clare Bainbridge, Mary O’Neill, Ged McCarrow, Fr Anthony, Ann McManus, Maurice O’Connell, Breda Duggan, Alan Gibson, Brenda & Bill O’Hara, Colm Harkin, Maureen Nash, Ellen Leach, Angela & Dennis Keyworth, Vincent Gibson, Padraig Kavanagh, Canon Frank Deeney, Piers Henderson, Patrick Griffin, Michael Griffin, Audrey O’Neil, Carol Archer, James Barrens, Michaela Rabbitt, Mary Callaghan, Antony & Christopher Mullen, Janet Ackley, Trevor Teale, Barry Keaveney, Katherine Mahon, Mary Wheatley, Tess Kenrick, James Barren, Ged MacCarron, Paul Cannon, Denis Joyce, Mobishir Rawthore, Nancy Maguire, Kath Welch, Ann & David, Mary O’Neill, Fr Leo Heakin, Sir Bobby Charlton, John Phillips, Karen & Billy Hennessy, Debbie Roberts, Dillon Ward, Brian Waugh, Michael Turner, Chris Forbes, Yas Poptani, Dorothy Harold, John Griffin, Margaret Hills, Sheila Walsh, Ann O’Connor, Anne Hutton, Sue Atherton, Lizzie Frost, Breda Orr, Orla McManus, Betty Ann Jones, Kathleen Curley, Anthony Mullen, Marion Moran, Ann & John MacCarron, Mary Winterbourne, Mary Mulvihill.

[email protected]: Please arrange your Baptisms by Contacting the Clergy when you are ready to arrange the Sacrament for your child: Back to normal numbers allowed.

Special St Joseph candles cost £1 are available during this Holy year of St Joseph CHURCH UPDATE: From Sunday 25th July we will be releasing a number of benches previously roped off for parishioners to use. There will be clearly marked benches near to the front of the church on each side for those parishioners who wish to sit socially distanced from others. It also allows any of our parishioners with mobility issues to also sit at the front. We ask for all our safety to continue to wear masks in church, use our track and trace system and stewards will also direct parishioners for Holy Communion. Please continue to enter church by the centre doors and leave down the side aisles. Thank you for your co-operation and support.

Our Lady’s Lamp for Pat Armstrong the Sacred Heart Lamp: Liam McMahon: Let Father know to be added to the new lists: suggested donation £5. Thank you

St Bridget of Sweden shares something about the Precious Blood:” Eternal blessing be yours, my Lord Jesus Christ, because in your last agony you held out to all sinners the hope of pardon, when in your mercy you promised the glory of paradise to the penitent thief. Eternal praise be to you, my Lord Jesus Christ, for the time you endured on the cross the greatest torments and sufferings for us sinners. The sharp pain of your wounds fiercely penetrated even to your blessed soul and cruelly pierced your most sacred heart till finally you sent forth your spirit in peace, bowed your head, and humbly commended yourself into the hands of God your Father, and your whole body remained cold in death. Blessed may you be, my Lord Jesus Christ. You redeemed our souls with your precious blood and most holy death, and in your mercy you led them from exile back to eternal life. Blessed may you be, my Lord Jesus Christ. For our salvation you allowed your side and heart to be pierced with a lance; and from that side water and your precious blood flowed out abundantly for our redemption.”

THE LEGION OF MARY: meeting this Tuesday July 27th after 7pm Mass in Church, with social distancing rules applying. New members are always welcome to join us. THE ST PIO PRAYER GROUP: will meet this Wednesday 28th July in Church after the 9- 30am Mass, all very welcome to come and share. DIVINE MERCY PRAYER GROUP, meeting this Wednesday 28th July at 1pm in Church, please come and join them, before they have a holiday break?

PRAYER FOR THE FIRST WORLD DAY FOR GRANDPARENTS AND THE ELDERLY: I thank You, Lord, for the comfort of Your presence: even in times of loneliness, You are my hope and my confidence, You have been my rock and my fortress since my youth! I thank You for having given me a family and for having blessed me with a long life. I thank You for moments of joy and difficulty, for the dreams that have already come true in my life and for those that are still ahead of me. I thank You for this time of renewed fruitfulness to which You call me. Increase, O Lord, my faith, make me a channel of your peace, teach me to embrace those who suffer more than me, to never stop dreaming and to tell of your wonders to new generations. Protect and guide Pope Francis and the Church, that the light of the Gospel might reach the ends of the earth. Send Your Spirit, O Lord, to renew the world, that the storm of the pandemic might be calmed, the poor consoled and wars ended. Sustain me in weakness and help me to live life to the full in each moment that You give me, in the certainty that you are with me every day, even until the end of the age. Amen.