God, our loving Father, we thank you for blessing our parish WELCOME WITAMY KAABO BEMVINDO − with all we need to respond to our vocation to be a missionary parish in our community. THE PARISH OF OUR LADY AND ST. JOSEPH, HEYWOOD, We thank you for all our parish members who, in response to your call, SUNDAY 23rd AUGUST 2020 , give of themselves so freely to enrich our parish life partner parish St. Martin’s, Ganye, Nigeria in ways of love and service. Pour out afresh the gifts of your Spirit upon each of us that we may be inspired to serve you in new and creative ways as missionary disciples, St Joseph’s Presbytery, Mary St, OL10 1EG bringing your Light to the world. Tel: 01706 369777 We ask your blessing as we journey together in hope through Christ Our Lord. AMEN Fr Paul Daly This Week’s Saints: Mon: St. Bartholomew, born at Cana in Galilee, known as Nathanael, [email protected] was led to Jesus by the apostle Philip, and preached the Gospel in India Fr. Bob Hayes where he was flayed alive. [email protected] Parish Office Mon—Fri 9am-1pm Tue: St. Louis, King Louis IX of France, famed for humility and love of the [email protected] Church, died in Carthage in 1270. St. Joseph Calasanz, born in Spain in 1557, worked as a priest in Rome educating poor children, founding a con- Livestreamed Masses on parish facebook gregation. He was tried by the Holy Office; the Pope reinstated the con- page. You don’t have to be a FB member; gregation after his death. google Our Lady and St. Joseph’s Parish, Heywood, Facebook, and click on the link. Wed: Bl. Dominic of the Mother of God, born in Italy 1792, became www.catholicheywood.com a Passionist, travelled to England in Twitter @CatholicHeywood 1841 and brought many into the Instagram catholicheywood Church by his preaching; he re- (FB) Our Lady and St. Joseph’s Parish Heywood ceived St. John Henry Newman into www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk the Church and Ven. Elizabeth At all public Masses capacity is 80. Baptisms, Prout, foundress of the Sisters of weddings, funerals the capacity is 30. the Cross and Passion (Srs. Anne and Annette). He col- Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time lapsed on Reading Station and died in the Station Hotel in 1849. He, Elizabeth Prout and Fr. Ig- Church opens 8.30am, MASS 9am natius Spencer, CP, related to Winston Churchill and Princess Diana), are buried in St. Helens. MASS 11am with First Communion of Mitchel and Michael Rukeme Church opens, 5.30pm, MASS 6pm Thu: St. Monica, born in North Africa in 333 , married a pagan and bore 3 children; one was Augustine. Thanks to MONDAY SAINT BARTHOLEMEW her patience and prayer, her husband was baptised. Church opens 6.15pm, MASS 6.30pm, church closes after Mass Monica prayed for Augustine, living a wild life; after his TUESDAY St. Louis, St. Joseph Calasanz baptism, as he returned with Monica to Ostia to sail to Af- Church opens 8.45am, MASS 9am, church closes after Mass rica she fell ill and died. Bl. Roger Cadwallador, born in Hereford, ordained priest in Spain, worked for 16 years WEDNESDAY Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God undercover until he was executed in Leominster in 1610. Church opens 8.45am, MASS 9am, church closes after Mass St. David Lewis was born in Abergavenney in 1616. Aged 16, visiting Paris, he became Catholic and went to THURSDAY St. Monica the English College in Rome where he was ordained. He Church opens 8.45am, MASS 9am, church closes after Mass worked secretly as a priest until martyred at Usk in 1679. Requiem Mass for Agnes Deboeck 12noon FRIDAY St. Augustine Abstinence from meat Fri: St. Augustine was born in 354; thanks to the pray- Church opens 8.45am, MASS 9am, church closes after Mass ers of his mother St Monica, he was baptised in 387 by St Livestreamed Mass (church closed) 6.30pm Ambrose; he was chosen as bishop of Hippo, in N. Africa. He died in 430, leaving many works; the most famous are his “confessions”. Bl. William Dean SATURDAY The Passion of St. John the Baptist and companions, a Yorkshireman and 7 others, executed in 1588 in London. 11am Confessions & Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament till Benediction at 12noon Church opens at 5.30pm, First Mass of Sunday 6pm (livestreamed) Sat: The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, St. Sebb, King of East Saxons til 693, when TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME he became a monk. He founded Westminster Abbey. Bl Richard Herst, farmer and dad, falsely Church opens 8.30am, MASS 9am accused of killing one of the men pursuing him; he was executed at Lancaster in 1618. Bl Ed- MASS 11am with First Communion of Mischa Parkinson mund Rice, born 1762 in Ireland, was a successful businessman. Following an accident which Baptism of Paisley Fox 1pm killed his wife and left his daughter disabled, he began to teach the poor. He died in Waterford Baptism of Thomas Jack Johnson and Paige Louise Pomfret 3pm in 1844. Church opens, 5.30pm, MASS 6pm The God Who Speaks About Creation This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II. We are reading his words during his Visit to Great Britain in 1982. This week we read his ad- Our Diocesan Department for Formation, of which Fr. Paul is dress to religious women and men (ie those in religious life, nuns, sisters, monks, friars etc) . Head, is delighted to welcome Sr. Margaret Atkins, CRSA, to present a Talk on The God who speaks through creation on On the eve of Pentecost you are her to renew your religious vows. With the th Wednesday 26 August at 7pm. This talk will be delivered via Pope, the Successor of Peter, you will proclaim before the whole Church that Zoom as part of the series The God who speaks which was to be you believe in your consecration; that it is your call to follow Christ which in- hosted at the Hidden Gem but postponed due to the pandemic. spires your joy and your peace. “Rejoice in the Lord always”. We hope this will lead to a resumption of some of the other planned evenings. You worthily continue a tradition that goes back to the dawn of English Chris- tian history. Augustine and his companions were Benedictine monks. The Sister Margaret Atkins is a Canoness of St Augustine in the com- great monasteries of Anglo-Saxon and mediaeval times were not just the munity at Boarbank Hall, Cumbria. She is a lecturer and author staging posts for evangelization; they were also centres of learning and seed- in Theology with special interest, amongst other things, in the beds of culture and civilization. Places such as Canterbury, Jarrow, Glaston- ethics of the environment. bury and St Albans are indicative of the role monasticism played in English history. Men like Bede of Jarrow, Boniface of Devon who became Apostle of the Germans, and Dunstan of Glanstonbury If you wish to hear Sr. Margaret please email [email protected] and mark it who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 960; women such as Hilda of Whitby, Walburga and Li- ‘God who speaks’ in the subject line. You will receive a link for the zoom meeting on the morn- oba, and many others - these are famous names in English history. Nor can we forget Anselm, or th ing of 26 August. Please, for security reasons, do not pass this link on to anyone else but ask Nicholas Breakspear, born at Abbots Langley, who became Pope Adrian IV in 1154. them to contact us. In Norman times this army of Christ reached new splendour with the foundation of monaster- ies of Cistercians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites and Augustinians. The Pope’s prayer intention for August 2020, for all those Later, religious life suffered greatly. English religious communities were scattered and destroyed, who live and work on the sea, among them sailors, fisher- or fled to foreign lands. It is impossible here to name all the men and women religious of this pe- men and families. riod who followed our Lord to the point of giving their lives in defence of their faith. To that un- happy age belonged also an extraordinary Yorkshire woman, Mary Ward, who became a pioneer We pray for the people of the parish of St. Winifred, Heaton Mer- of the active unenclosed congregations for women. sey, Mgr Michael Quinlan their parish priest, their primary school The last century saw an amazing rebirth of religious life. Hundreds of religious houses, & Stella Maris school & the Sisters of Charity of St. Paul. schools, orphanages, hospitals and other social services were established. Missionary congregations spread the For all who live on Huntley Way, Lanark Cl and Fr Ryan Drive. faith in distant lands. In our own time the Second Vatican Council has ad- For all with Coronavirus, and all the sick dressed to you a call for appropriate renewal of religious life through a return to the original charism of each insti- For Agnes Deboeck, Rita Heselwood and all who have died re- tute and through a healthy adaptation to meet the cently and Betty Redding, Joseph Kierans, Bob Howarth, Vera changed conditions of the times. Navesey, John Morrison and all remembered at this time. We see what the Church, and society, expects from you today. The people of our time look to you and repeat what the Greek-speaking visitors to Jerusalem said to Philip: “We wish to see Jesus”.