CHORLEY HOSPITAL: Please contact St 's Chorley (262713) if any member of your family is admitted into Chorley Hospital and needs a visit. In an emergency ask St Mary’s Chorley the staff to bleep the on-call priest. For the chaplaincy service at Royal Preston Hospital please ring 01772 522435, or in emergency please ask the staff to contact the on-call priest from St Clare’s Parish or elsewhere. FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

th ST ANNE’S GUILD: next bingo is on 12 February at 19.45 in the Parish Centre. th 10 February 2019 ADVANCE NOTICE: Ash Wednesday: 6th March, Chrism Mass at Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool: Wednesday 17th April. Triduum: Holy Thursday 18th April. Jesus was standing one day by Good Friday 19th April. Easter Saturday: 20th April. Easter Sunday 21st April. Divine the Lake of Gennesaret, with the Mercy Sunday 28th April. There will be a coach travelling to the Chrism Mass, as crowd pressing round him usual. Details will be announced at the beginning of April. listening to the word of God, Please note: This year there will be only ONE Reconciliation Service for the when he caught sight of two Deanery. Please pass the word around. Details will follow. boats close to the bank. The

fishermen had gone out of them O Dear Jesus, and were washing their nets. He I humbly implore You to grant Your special graces to our family. got into one of the boats – it was May our home be the shrine of peace, purity, love, labour and faith. Simon’s – and asked him to put I beg You, dear Jesus, to protect and bless all of us, absent and present, living out a little from the shore. Then and dead. he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. O Mary, loving Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, pray to Jesus for our family, for all When he had finished the families of the world, to guard the cradle of the new born, for the schools of the speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put young and their vocations. out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ ‘Master,’ Simon replied, ‘we worked hard all night long and caught

nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done this they netted Blessed Joseph, holy guardian of Jesus and Mary, assist us by your prayers in all such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear, so they signalled to their the necessities of life. Ask of Jesus that special grace which He granted to you, to companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled the two watch over our home, at the pillow of the sick and the dying, boats to sinking point. so that with Mary and with you, heaven may find our family unbroken When Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, ‘Leave me, Lord; I am a in the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Amen sinful man.’ For he and all his companions were completely overcome by the catch they had made; so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners. But Jesus THE HOLY FATHER’S PRAYER INTENTION FOR FEBRUARY: said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on it is men you will catch.’ Then, bringing their Human Trafficking boats back to land, they left everything and followed him For a generous welcome of the victims of human trafficking, of enforced prostitution, and of violence. Sun 10th FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (p.135) Sat: 18.15 Mass – Sp. Int. Parish Priest: Fr Francis Marsden 08.00 Mass – Parishioners Deacon Norman Arrowsmith 10.30 Mass – Andrew Waddington RIP

Tel: 01257 262537 Mon 11th Our Lady of Lourdes E-mail address: [email protected] (World Day of Prayer for the Sick & those who care for them) Parish website: www.stmarys-chorley.org 09.30 Morning Prayer

10.00 Funeral Service – Linda Ryan Parish Office hours: Tues. Thurs, Fri. 09.30-11.55 and 2- 5. Wed. 10-1 and 2-4. [Outside of these times by appointment only] Tues 12th Blessed John Nutter and George Haydock (priests, martyrs 1584)

Parish Centre: 270122 or 07377341969 (Manager – Heather Roscoe) 09.30 – 11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition 12.00 Mass – George and Mary (A) Ormerod RIP LIVERPOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESAN TRUSTEES INC. Registered Charity No. 232709 Wed 13th

08.40 Morning Prayer REPAIR WORKS IN THE NARTHEX: The second phase has started and hopefully 09.00 Liturgy of the Word and Holy Communion will finish this week. We have found some very big holes in the walls and in the Thurs 14th SS Cyril and Methodius, Co-Patrons of Europe arches, which have been there for a long time. Thankfully, they have been sorted out 12.00 Mass – John Bernard Doyle (A) now. Please do not use the doors and areas that are blocked off. Health and Safety

th common sense will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Fri 15

09.30 –11.50 Morning Prayer and Exposition CHORLEY FOODBANK is appealing again for tinned food, pasta, toiletries, UHT milk, 11.30 Chaplet of Divine Mercy tinned fish and biscuits. Thank you for all your donations, they are very much 12.00 Mass – Marie Cannon RIP appreciated, and it is making a real difference to many families. I am sad to tell you

Sat 16th No confessions today. No 12.00 Mass that recently the parish office has seen more mothers and children asking for help due

th to the problems with Universal Credit. Thank you for all your donations. Sun 17 SIXTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (p.139) Sat: 18.15 Mass – Pomeroy, Clarke and Tingy Families ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE: The Annual Mass for marriage and family 08.00 Mass – Parishioners life, will be held next Sunday 17th February at 11.00 in the Metropolitan Cathedral in 10.30 Mass – Marie Doyle and Family RIP Liverpool. The Mass will include the renewal of marriage vows and a special blessing 14.00 Msza Swiẹta po polsku for those celebrating significant anniversaries. Everybody welcome.

Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Emily Atkins, Emma Beatty, Dcn DIVORCED/SEPARATED SUPPORT from the Archdiocesan Marriage and Family Life Balmer, Pauline Bennett, Margaret Bower, Brigid Cain, Christine Caunce, Department. The course is for any person who is going through, or has gone through, Carter, Colin Clarke, Michael Collins, Hughie Daly, Barbara Darbyshire, Daniel a relationship breakdown. Topics will cover: Facing the effects of what’s happened; Donegan, Joan Doran, Sr Paschal, Yvonne Finlayson, Desmond Gorman, John Communication and Conflict Resolution; Letting Go; Managing other relationships; Green, Anne Higginson, Martin Henry, John Johnson, Joan Jones, Lynda Keeley, Legal matters; and Being single and moving forward. Doreen Lang, Julie Lowe, Sheila Masterson, Debbie MacFarlane, Kevin McCarrick, For further details contact: Maureen 07967753371 or Jacqui 077938258 Marie McClelland, Frances McHale, Kathleen Mitchell, Veronica Mobbs, Catherine BAPTISMS: In order to arrange a baptism, please see Fr Marsden or Deacon Norman O’Donoghue, Anthony O’Malia, Nora O’Neill, Margaret Rice, Canon Bert Shaw, Doris after one of the weekend Masses. Shaw, Dominic Simpson, Mgr. Jan Szponar, Maureen Taylor, Paul Tiffin, Terry Tingey,

Bridget Trimm, Muriel Wilson, Frank Waring, Agnes Young and parishioners in The FEASTS & OF THE WEEK Adelphi, The Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall. Our Lady of Lourdes: Between 11 February and 16 July 1858, the Blessed RECENTLY DECEASED: Jayne Lerondeau (neé) Duxbury who died on 11th January showed herself 18 times to St (aged 14) in the grotto beside the in Montpellier, South of France. A Memorial Service will be held here on Saturday 23rd River Gave in Lourdes. On 25 March, she identified herself to the little shepherdess February at 15.00. Emiliano Sala (28) and David Ibbotson’s (59) Guernsey Plane by the words, spoken in Basque dialect: "I am the ." crash. Eternal rest grant onto them, O Lord…. Pius IX had defined this dogma in 1854. Bernadette had missed much schooling

ANNIVERSARIES: Mary Ormerod, John Bernard Doyle. through illness, and was still preparing for her First Communion. When she repeated the Lady’s words: “I am the Immaculate Conception” to the Parish Priest, Abbé READERS: 09/10. 18.15: Kinga Grzeczynska. 08.00: Anthony Calderbank. 10.30: Péyramale, it amazed him and convinced him of the genuineness of the apparitions. Marion Herbert. 16/17. 18.15: Stan Wilson. 08.00: Greta Fazakerley. 10.30: Rosemary Blessed John Nutter, priest and martyr (1584): Born in Burnley, Lancashire and Grime. New rota for readers is available in the sacristy. Thank you. studied in Rheims, ordained in 1581. He was arrested as his ship foundered at OFFERTORY COLLECTIONS: The collection was £1068 of which £689 was Gift Dunwich and martyred at Tyburn 12 Feb 1584. Aided. The Restoration Fund raised £309. This weekend is the monthly Heating Fund. Blessed George Haydock, priest and martyr (1584): Born Cottam Hall, ordained Thank you for your great generosity. . Returned to England 1581. 15 months imprisoned in Tower of London, then SICK LIST: Do you still want your name on the sick list? Please let the parish office “free custody.” Hanged, drawn & quartered Tyburn 12 Feb 1584. know if you want to stay on the sick list, by the middle of February. We must follow the Saints Cyril and Methodius: Bishops, Confessors. These two brothers from new Data Regulations [2018] and ask this question. If you or a family member do not Thessaloniki became monks and preached the Gospel to the Slavs in central Europe. contact us, then your name will be taken off. Thank you. They invented the Glagolitic alphabet (later developed into the Cyrillic) in order to

SYNOD 2020: Approximately 1500 people gathered in our Cathedral last Sunday and present the Liturgy and the Scriptures in the vernacular. They were consecrated joined His Grace our Archbishop for the Opening of the Synod process. The next few Bishops by Pope Adrian II. Cyril died in Rome AD 870 where he is buried in San months will be very important for Liverpool Archdiocese. Please pray to the Holy Spirit Stefano Rotondo. Methodius returned to preach throughout the Slav lands and died to guide the Synod and the representatives from our parishes and deanery. It is a very AD 886. He is buried at Velehrad in Moravia. Declared co-patrons of Europe by Pope important task. John Paul II. .