1st to 8th of December 2019

Welcome! Please join us for refreshments and a chat after the 10.30am Mass. All the refreshments are donated by parishioners. In November we will for Aid to the Church in Need. Last Sunday £ 33.72 was raised. Many thanks! First Sunday of Advent Advent is a period beginning with the Sunday nearest to the feast of St. (30th November) and embracing four Sundays. The first Sunday may be as early as 27th November, and then Advent has twenty-eight days, or as late as 3rd December, giving the season only twenty-one days. With Advent the ecclesiastical year begins in the Western churches. During this time the faithful are admonished to: - Prepare themselves worthily to celebrate the anniversary of the Lord's coming into the world as the incarnate God of love, - thus to make their souls fitting abodes for the Redeemer coming in Holy Communion and through grace, and - thereby to make themselves ready for His final coming as judge, at death and at the end of the world. New Advent Encyclopedia www.newadvent.org

This Sunday 1st December: Second collection to cover the extra costs of the restoration of the heating system and also for the heating of the church and presbytery. Thank you for your generosity.

Next Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Patroness of the ICKSP Plenary available under usual conditions (confession, communion & prayer for the Sovereign Pontiff) Please see the back of the newsletter for the Novena to Our Lady.

The dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pius IX proclaimed in 1854 that: The most Blessed Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin. Lots of Christmas cards and lovely Approx. 20mins 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month after gifts for sale in the Piety shop… 10.30am Mass. Contact: [email protected] Please support it and the church!

th Tuesday 10 December, 6.30pm: The sewing group are selling Handmade “Sacred Heart in Liturgy – Part 2” Christmas decorations again this year. All proceeds will go to Ss Peter and Paul and St. Every Friday at 4.30pm in the narthex. Philomena. Available from the Piety Shop. The Legion of Mary serve God through The Virgin Mary incorporating corporal and spiritual works. If you would like to come and join us, please contact Rachel on 07770266679. We look forward to seeing you for our weekly meeting!

Friday 28th February – Sunday 1st March 2020 2020 Youth Conference. Wyboston Lakes Conference Centre, Wyboston, Bedfordshire MK44 3BY We are looking for new volunteers to help with teas and coffee after the 10.30 Mass on Sundays! Gregorian Chant It entails setting up before Mass, serving and clearing Every Monday 7 to 7.30pm (Canon Poucin will be up. teaching traditional gregorian chant method) Please think about giving a hand ! Sunday from 10am in the presbytery for the propers. Polyphony Choir Practices every Monday at 7.30pm in the presbytery. Ss. Peter & Paul and St. Philomena’s annual New members are most welcome – please have a chat Christmas lunch will be held on Monday 9th of with Clare or Christian after Mass. December at Hollins Hey Hotel. Contact Ronnie on 07821 054044 or Kyriale XVII, p. 79 Credo I, p. 84 [email protected]. Recessional: O come O come Emmanuel #384 Tickets for the Christmas Lunch draw will be on sale after both Masses! Mass books available £5 2020 Dome of Home Calendar available: £4.99 Mass cards, rosary beads, books, gifts, all at very reasonable prices. All profits go to the . Opening times: Fri 8.45-10am Sat 11-12 noon. Sun after both Masses. Foodbank: 87kgs this week Cash donations via shop please so that Ronnie can buy what the foodbank requires. If you need emergency food you need to get a voucher from the One Stop or Citizens Advice.

Collection: £465.78 Fatima Day th Boxes: £105.56 Saturday 7 of December Standing Orders: £230.00 Donations: £470.00 Shop: £297.15 Can children please come dressed as Nativity Total: £1,568.49 figures. Thank You! Weekly Schedule The Shrine is open all day for prayer – Masses & weekday Adoration in the day chapel

Sunday 1st Mon 2nd Tues 3rd Wed 4th Thu 5th Fri 6th Sat 7th Sunday 8th 8am Mass at 8am Mass at 8am Mass at Birkenhead 8.15am Mass at 8.15am Mass at 8.15am Mass at 8.15am Mass at 8.15am Mass at Birkenhead Birkenhead Carmel Birkenhead Birkenhead Birkenhead Birkenhead Birkenhead Carmel Carmel Carmel Carmel Carmel Carmel Carmel 6pm Adoration 8.30m Low

8.30am Low 10amAdoration 7pm to & Novena Mass Mass

9.45-10.15am 9am Rosary 9am Rosary 9am Rosary 9am Rosary 9.45-10.15am Confessions 9.15am Mass 9.30am Rosary Confessions (English) 9.45am Parish Priest for 9.30am Low 9.30am Low 9.30am Low 9.30am Low donor’s intention Confessions Mass Mass Mass Mass 10 am Mass 10.30am 10.30am followed by Sung Mass Sung Mass devotions to St. Philomena

12 noon: Family Day 6pm Rosary, 5.30pm Vespers 5.30 Vespers 5.30pm Novena and 6pm Adoration 6pm Adoration 6pm Adoration 6.45pmNovena 6pm Adoration Vespers Benediction & Novena & Novena & Novena & Benediction & Novena Rosary 7pm Low and Mass Benediction

Mass Intentions Date Ordo Canon Montjean Canon Poucin Gregorian Masses 8.15: Novena for Father Bob DeGrandis S.S.J Sunday 1st 1st Sunday of Advent - Violet for George Lee 9.30: Angela Gamberdella Gregorian Masses 8.15: Novena for Father Bob DeGrandis S.S.J Monday 2nd St. Bibiana - Red for George Lee 9.30: Louis & Anne Sanzey Gregorian Masses 8.15: Novena for Father Bob DeGrandis S.S.J Tuesday 3rd St. - White for George Lee 9.30: Anna Ashcroft Wednesday Gregorian Masses St. Peter Crysologus - White Novena for Father Bob DeGrandis S.S.J 4th for George Lee Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest - White Gregorian Masses Thursday 5th Mgr Wach 1st Thursday of the Month for George Lee Sacred Heart of Jesus - White Gregorian Masses Friday 6th Sam and Jess 1st Friday of the Month for George Lee Immaculate Heart of Mary --White Gregorian Masses Saturday 7th Madelaine Doan thi Hong 1st Saturday of the Month for George Lee Feast of the Immaculate Conception 8.30: Tony and Marianne Cusack Sunday 8th Claire Poucin de Wouilt White 10.30: Helen Nielsen

Rosary group: Thursday 5th in front of the Blessed Sacrament at 10.30am. All welcome!

Please pray for the sick and elderly members of our congregation: Anne, Vera, Chris, Kathleen, Andrew, Madeleine, Sarah, John, Geraldine, Arline & Jim. Red Wednesday for ACN last Wednesday: Adoration & candlelight Mass

30th November – 8th December Novena in preparation to the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Every day at the end of the daily Adoration: - Decade of the Rosary - Prayer of the Novena (see below) - Tota Pulchra es - Benediction Novena Prayer O Most Holy Virgin who wast pleasing to God and didst become His Mother. Immaculate in your body, in your soul, in your faith and in your love, we beseech thee to look graciously upon the wretched who implore thy powerful protection. The wicked serpent, against whom the primal curse was hurled, continues nonetheless to wage war and to lay snares for the unhappy children of Eve. Ah, do thou, our blessed Mother, our Queen and Advocate, who from the first instant of thy conception didst crush the head of our enemy, receive the prayers that we unite single-heartedly to thine and conjure thee to offer at the throne of God, that we may never fall into the snares that are laid for us, in such wise that we may all come to the haven of salvation; and in the midst of so many dangers may holy Church and the fellowship of Christians everywhere sing once more the hymn of deliverance, victory and peace. Amen. Tota pulchra es, O Maria, tota pulchra es. Thou art all fair, O Mary, thou art all fair, Et macula non est in te And no stain is in thee. Quam speciosa quam suavis How lovely, how sweet in its delights, In deliciis conceptio illibata. Thy Conception unstained. Refrain: Refrain: Veni veni de Libano (x 2), Come from Mount Lebanon, (x 2); Veni, veni coronaberis. Come, thou shalt be crowned.

2. Tu progréderis ut auróra, valde rútilans. 2. Thou goest forth like the rose-tinted dawn; Affers gáudia salútis. Thou bringest the joys of salvation; Per te ortus est Christus Deus, sol justitiae. Through thee Christ is risen, our God, the sun of justice. O fúlgida porta lucis. O gleaming portal of light. 3. Sicut lilium inter spinas: inter filias 3. Like a lily among thorns, Sic tu, Virgo benedicta. So art thou blest among the daughters, O Virgin. Tuum refúlget vestiméntum ut nix cándidum. Thy shining raiment white as snow, Sicut sol facies tua. Thy face like the sun. Ref. 4. In terra nostra vox audita, vox dulcissima, 4. A voice is heard in our land, a voice most sweet, Vox túrturis, vox colúmbae The voice of the dove and the turtledove: Assume pennas, o colúmba formosissima! Take wing, O dove most fair! Surge, própera et veni. Arise, hasten, and come.