Seventh Sunday of Easter 16 MAY 2021 7TH SUNDAY of EASTER ENTRANCE ANTIPHON No More Than I Belong to the World
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1 St. Gabriel’s 140 Lawton Road, Alsager Parish Priest: Fr. Tony Grace Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 2DE PerManent Deacon: Rev. Eddie Miller Tel: 01270 877736 16th May 2021 7th Sunday of Easter www.stgabrielsalsager.org.uk St. Gabriel’s School & Playgroup, Tel: 875770 St. Thomas More Catholic High School. www.st- thomasmore.cheshire.sch.uk th 7 Sunday of Easter. The readings for this final Sunday of Eastertide remind us again of all the graces we have received through Jesus’s death and resurrection, and the joy which comes from knowing just how much we are loved by God. In the First Reading, we hear of the election of Matthias, who takes the place of Judas, ‘the one who chose to be lost’. He joins the Apostles as one who gives witness to the wonder of the Lord’s Resurrection. The short Psalm extract reflects the enormity of God’s love, and the boundless depths of his forgiveness – a theme expanded further in the Second Reading. Here, John’s letter reminds us that it is because God loved us first with such infinite love, that we must love one another. Through Jesus’s sacrifice, we are saved and can live as one with God, with Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. In the Gospel, we hear Jesus himself as he intercedes for the disciples and for us – asking his Father for everything he knows we need as he sends us out into the world. During the coming week, let’s pray for the grace to recognise the gifts we have been given, and for a greater awareness of how we can use them in showing our love for others. www.pathwaystogod.org Mass Times. Saturday Vigil 15 May 6.30 pm Mass in St. Gabriel’s Church th 7 Sunday Easter 16 May 1 1.30 am Outside Mass in St. Gabriel’s School Playground, Well Lane, Alsager. Monday 17 May 7.30 pm Mass St.Gabriel’s Church. Friday 21 May 10.00 am, Mass St.Gabriel’s Church. Saturday 22 May 6.30 pm Mass in St. Gabriel’s Church Sunday 23 May 11.30 am Outside Mass in St. Gabriel’s School Playground, Well Lane, Alsager. Prayer to Our Lady of Fatima https://aleteia.org/2021/05/06/prayer-to-our-lady-of-fatima- for-healing-and-strength/ World Communications Day 2021 is celebrated on Sunday, 16 May. The theme for 2021, chosen by Pope Francis, echoes the words of the Apostle Philip, recognising that authentic communication leads to “encountering people as and where they are”. https://catholicnews.us6.list- manage.com/track/click?u=8bfb372c271fbad8a971552fb&id=6b215f7f53&e=d5cb67f88d 2 Please pray for the eternal rest of the recently deceased, Joyce Higginson RIP, Horst Meister RIP, Baby Gracie-Mae Green RIP, Derek Grime RIP, Valerie Parry RIP, Catherine O’Neill RIP & those whose anniversaries occur around this time: Karen Bastiman, James Turnock, John Bagshaw, Marjorie Turnock, Frank Bostock, Susan Large, Florence Costigan, William Knapper, Debbie Boote. PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK: EsPecially for Kay Charlesworth, Andy Lockett, Claire Woods, Dorothy Eccles, Kathleen Briggs, Trefor CamPbell, Alma Plummer, Ann Stones, George Lawton, Annie Shallow, Elsie Turnock, Margaret Pearson, Peter Pulford, Betty Bostwick, Joan PhilliPs, Ben Thomas, Francis Dockery, Anne Connolly, Edith Greatbach, Sean Fitzpatrick, Ashton Hume, Patricia CaPP, John Laing, Hilary Tantram, Kevin Fox & all in our hosPitals & nursing homes. MASS TIMES WEEK COMMENCING 16 MAY 2021 Saturday 15 May 6.00 pm Adoration & Confession Our Lady of Fatima Mass 6.30 pm John Bagshaw (Anniv), Mercia Statham RIP, Joyce St.Gabriel’s Higginson RIP, John Whitfield RIP, Derek Grime RIP, 7th Sunday of Easter Church Debbie Boote (Anniv), Margaret Pearson (sick), Andy 16 May 11.30am Lockett, John Laing. St.Gabriel’s Karen Bastiman (5th Anniv), William Knapper (Anniv) Day of Special Prayer School Terry Orford (Anniv), James Turnock (B’day Anniv), for World Playground, Well Marjorie Turnock (Anniv), Debbie Boote (Anniv), Ann Communications Lane (Mass) Connolly (sick), Intentions of Joan Philips & Kaye Charlesworth. Please bring your own Garden Chairs for Outside Mass in School Playground. Monday 17 May 7.00 pm Adoration & Confession. St.Gabriel’s Owen O’Toole (Anniv), Thanksgiving Intention for Teresa Church Wickham, Kate Briggs (sick), 7.30 pm Sean Fitzpatrick (sick), Frances Dorrian (sick), Intentions of Emma, Hilary Tantram, John Laing. Tuesday 18 May Mass, St. Anne’s, The Holy Souls St.John I Nantwich 10.00 am Wed 19 May No Service St. Milburgha Thursday 20 May Mass in St For all the Deacons,Religious, Priests, Bishops and Pope St.Bernadine of Anne’s Church, Siena 10.00 am Friday 21 May 9.30 am Adoration & Confession The Dedication of the 10.00 am Florence Costigan (Anniv), Horst Meister RIP, Frank Cathedral Mass in St. Bostock (Anniv), Debbie Boote (Anniv), Ray Chidlow (3rd Gabriel’s Church Anniv), Intentions of the Dennis Family Saturday 22 May 6.00 pm Adoration & Confession St.Rita of Cascia Mass,St.Gabriel’s John Bagshaw (Anniv), Susan Large (Anniv), Patricia Fox Pentecost Sunday Church 6.30 pm (Anniv), Margaret Pearson (sick),Intentions of Sandra 23 May 11.30am Whitfield, Birthday Intention of Margaret O’Hare Day of Special Prayer St.Gabriel’s Karen Bastiman (5th Anniv), James Turnock (Anniv), for the Church School Marjorie Turnock (Anniv) & Patricia Capp (Sick) Playground, Well Please bring your own Garden Chairs for Outside Lane (Mass) Mass in School Playground. Please contact Fr. Tony at [email protected] for newsletter items Many thanks for your Standing Orders and Offertory envelopes, last weekend £526.31p Diocese of Shrewsbury, Registered Charity Number 234025 Parish Safeguarding Officers, Cathie & Tony Smith 01270 879961 3 St.Gabriel’s hosts an exhibition created by Blessed Carlo Acutis, born in London in 1991, died in Milan in 2006 aged 15, and beatified in Assisi last October. He had a big devotion to the Eucharist and to the Sacrament of Reconciliation; a 26-minute video is here. In the two years in which he was dying from leukaemia, he decided to assemble a collection of the world's Eucharistic Miracles, which he Put onto exhibition Panels for anyone to download, for free - you can see them all here. For more information, Please go to www.carloacutis.com These Eucharistic miracles are to strengthen our faith. Blessed Carlo Acutis, Pray for us, to increase our faith and our devotion to the Holy Eucharist. The miracles are at http://www.miracolieucaristici.org/ There is a youtube video concerning the miracles of the Blessed Sacrament documented by Blessed Carlo Acutis, a 15 year old who died of Leukemia in 2006. He was made Blessed by Pope Francis on the 11 October 2020 in Assisi. Pope Francis said that Carlo was in love with the Eucharist. He did not settle into comfortable inaction, but grasped the needs of his time because in the weakest he saw the face of Christ.” There is a film on YOUTUBE which I have attached that you may want to watch. This film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUOgYiw_OZ0 is 25-minute in length of the life of newly-Blessed Carlo Acuti. The second part (minutes 6:53 - 12:05) shows the in-pew exhibition we are hosting in St.Gabriel’s now. Thank you to all who have made contributions by standing order and by dropping envelopes into the Presbytery. Your generosity is very much appreciated whilst we are unable to hold weekly collections. If you are able, you can continue to make offertory contributions via bank transfer in lieu of collections. Please contact Sue Edge, Parish Planned Giving organiser, on 01270 876090 for Bank details. We have received some requests for offertory envelopes, so we continue to post them out. We are sending them to the parishioners who have had them in the past and for whom we hold an address. Online giving to the Parish. For those Parishioners who normally give in the collection at Mass and wish to help the Parish at this time, an online donation page to allow you to donate to the Parish has been added to the Parish website. Please be aware that a minimum donation of £5 is requested if giving in this way. You can also Gift Aid your donation to help the Parish further. If you want to Gift Aid your donation, please tick the box shown on the screen even if you have previously completed a Gift Aid Declaration form in favour of the Parish for regular giving made by Offertory Envelope or Standing Order. An Online giving page has now been created for the Parish using InvestMyCommunity.com The page can be found at: https://investmycommunity.com/not-logged- donator/page/stgabrielalsagerdioceseofshrewsbury2167 For more information, please contact Sue Edge, our St. Gabriel’s parish planned giving and gift aid coordinator on 01270 876090. Thank you for your support. Attention all Gift Aid Donors. The tax year 2020/21 will be coming to an end on 5th April and the Parish will then undertake the process of claiming back the Gift Aid refunds on donations made in the tax year. We are also sending the Boxes of offertory envelopes (2021/2022) for the next year out in the post and you should have received them now. It isn't important if the box number has changed from last year, as these 4 new numbers match the master list that is held. Anyone who wishes to contribute in this manner, please get in touch with Sue Edge (Our Planned Giving Parish Co- ordinator on 01270 876090) and she will arrange to have a Box of Offertory Envelopes or standing order form sent out to you.