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 THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER on-call priest from St Clare’s Parish or elsewhere. th th ST ANNE’S GUILD: next bingo is on 7 May at 19.45 in the Parish Centre. 5 May 2019

BAPTISMS: In order to arrange a baptism, please see Fr Marsden Jesus showed himself again to the or Deacon Norman after one of the weekend Masses. disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this: CELEBRATE THE CHILD: Mass Simon Peter, Thomas called the with His Grace, our Archbishop on Twin, Nathanael from Cana in th 30 June at St Peter and Paul’s Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and Catholic College, Widnes. WA8 two more of his disciples were 7DW. More information on the together. Simon Peter said, ‘I’m poster. going fishing.’ They replied, ‘We’ll THANK YOU to all who supported come with you.’ They went out and the Back in Time music night at got into the boat but caught our parish centre. The event nothing that night. raised £1367 for the Rosemere It was light by now and there Cancer Foundation in Preston. stood Jesus on the shore, though

the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus called out, ‘Have you caught anything, rd th PARISH OFFICE will be closed from 3 May at 17.00 until 9 May 13.00. Therefore, friends?’ And when they answered, ‘No’, he said, ‘Throw the net out to starboard and you’ll not open – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning this coming week. find something.’ So they dropped the net, and there were so many fish that they could not EXAM TIME is here again. Please pray for all the people sitting exams and their haul it in. The Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord.’ At these words ‘It is the teachers and families. Lord’, Simon Peter, who had practically nothing on, wrapped his cloak round him and jumped into the water. The other disciples came on in the boat, towing the net and the fish; CHORLEY STREET PASTORS are inviting people to their ‘Thank you Party’ on they were only about a hundred yards from land. Tuesday 7th May 19.30 – 21.00 at Living Waters on Bolton Street. More information is As soon as they came ashore they saw that there was some bread there, and a charcoal fire available on the poster. with fish cooking on it. Jesus said, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught.’ Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net to the shore, full of big fish, one hundred and fifty- THE HOLY FATHER’S INTENTION FOR MAY three of them; and in spite of there being so many the net was not broken. Jesus said to them,

That the Church in Africa, through the commitment of its members, may be the seed of ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples was bold enough to ask, ‘Who are you?’; unity among her peoples and a sign of hope for this continent. they knew quite well it was the Lord. Jesus then stepped forward, took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish. This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after rising from the dead. Parish Priest: Francis Marsden Deacon Norman Arrowsmith Sun 5th THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER (p.265)

Tel: 01257 262537 18.15 Mass – Lawrence and Violet Moore (F) E-mail address: [email protected] 08.00 Mass – James and Kathleen Gorman (F) Parish website: www.stmarys-chorley.org 10.30 Mass – Eileen Snape (sick) Crowning of Our Lady by the children Parish Office hours: Tues. Thurs, Fri. 09.30-11.55 and 2- 5. Wed. 10-1 and 2-4. 11.45 Catechesis for First Holy Communions Year 4 [Outside of these times by appointment only] and families

Parish Centre: 270122 or 07377 341969 (Manager – Heather Roscoe) th Mon 6 St Eadbert

LIVERPOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESAN TRUSTEES INC. Registered Charity No. 232709 08.40 Morning Prayer 09.00 Ann Johnson (F) Please remember people who are less fortunate than yourself and please give

th generously. UHT milk, cereals, tins of meat and fish, veg, toothpaste and toiletries. Tues 7 St John of Beverley

09.30 – 11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition MAY IS THE MONTH OF MARY: 12.00 Mass – Patrick McCrory (LD)

Wed 8th We are rapidly moving through the first half of the year. May is the beautiful month 08.40 Morning Prayer dedicated to Our Blessed Lady. Can we please offer our daily rosaries for world peace 09.00 Mass – Władysław and Anita Bielecki and the sick and suffering? I would be grateful if the rosary can be said after Masses each day.St Bernadette in Lourdes, asked the beautiful Lady holding a rosary – ‘Who th Thurs 9 are you Madame?’ The Lady replied; ‘I am the 12.00 Mass – Pauline Fairhurst (F) ’. Fri 10th We pray the holy rosary because it reminds us of the life 09.30 – 11.45 Morning Prayer and Exposition of Our Blessed Lord, His Holy Mother and The Lord’s 11.30 Chaplet of Divine Mercy Sorrowful Passion. Mon and Saturday – The Joyful 12.00 Mass – John and Bridie Ginty (F) Mysteries. Tues and Fri – The Sorrowful Mysteries. Sun

Sat 11th Bds John Rochester & James Walworth, Carthusian (1537) and Wed – The Glorious Mysteries. Thurs – The 11.00 -11.45 Confessions Luminous Mysteries. If you want some perfect peace, 12.00 Mass – Margaret Gunn (LD) come to either Tuesday or Friday’s Exposition of the

th Blessed Sacrament and say the rosary in the Lord’s true Sun 12 FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - p.268 presence. The Immaculate Heart of Mary is always very World Day of Prayer for Vocations close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The rosary is a 18.15 Mass – Holy Souls in Purgatory powerful weapon against evil and temptation, 08.00 Mass – Doherty (LD) wrongdoing and anxiety and fears. 10.30 Mass – Patrick McCrory (LD) 14.00 Msza Swiẹta po polsku HOW DO WE ACCOMPANY PEOPLE TODAY? Reaching out to parents, children, Please pray for the sick and the housebound: Emily Atkins, Dcn Balmer, enquirers and others on their journey of faith. A day’s workshop for clergy and people, Brigid Cain, Michael Carter, Michael Collins, Hughie Daly, Donegan, Yvonne Friday 10 May at St Joseph’s Wrightington WN6 9PA beginning at 10.00 and ending Finlayson, Desmond Gorman, Danny Harrison, Anne Higginson, Lynda Keeley, at 16.00. Tea/coffee and lunch will be provided. Suggested donation £10 per person. Doreen Lang, Hilda Łopaczynski, Debbie MacFarlane, Kevin McCarrick, Marie Booking is essential. Please call 0151 522 1040 or e-mail [email protected] Bill McClelland, Kathleen Mitchell, Fr Malcolm Prince, Canon Bert Shaw, Doris Shaw, Huebsch will lead the workshop. Dominic Simpson, Eileen Snape, Mgr. Jan Szponar, Terry Tingey, Bridget Trimm, Muriel Wilson, Frank Waring, Agnes Young and parishioners in The Adelphi, The RIGHT TO LIFE UK SPONSORED WALK IN CLITHEROE Gables, Westwood, Gillibrand Hall. This annual event will take place on Bank Holiday (Monday May 6th) at 13.00, but

please come earlier (12.30) to hear speeches and pre-walk instructions. OFFERTORY COLLECTIONS: The collection was £790 of which £349 was Gift Aided. We are very grateful to the generosity and dedication of Lord David Alton of Liverpool The Restoration Fund collection takes place this weekend. Thank you for your who is taking part once again. The walk, in the beautiful Ribble Valley, is a happy, continuous generosity. Next weekend we collect for the Priests Training Fund. joyful and enjoyable occasion and it is guided by Parish Priest, Mgr. John Corcoran

RECENTLY DECEASED: Canon John Gaine, whose funeral took place at St and his team of helpers. It is an eight - mile circular walk, and will start and finish, as in Teresa’s Birkdale last Wednesday. Fr Joe Cunningham. Requiem Mass on 16th May, previous years, at St. Michael and St. John’s parish church in Our Lady of the Valley 12.00 noon at St Edmund of Canterbury, Waterloo. Jim Snape (72) of Market Street. Parish, Clitheroe. Refreshments will be available during and after the event. Died 27th April at Royal Preston Hospital. If you are able to attend, please contact Moira Billinge for further information at [email protected] or 0754 511 8743. If you can’t attend, please consider ANNIVERSARIES: Bishop Kevin O’Connor, Fr Michael Lee, Fr Peter Sibert, Robert sponsoring the walk by making a donation through our website at: Harrison, Dcn Ron Strickland. https://righttolife.org.uk/donate/

READERS: 06/07 May: 18.15: Angela Simm. 08.00: Greta Fazakerley. 10.30: Hilary Carter. TWO CATHEDRALS MESSIAH - Sat 11 May at 19.30 in the Metropolitan Cathedral of 11/12 May: 18.15: John Brown. 08.00: Margaret McDaid. 10.30: Margaret Rossall Liverpool. Over 100 musicians will take place in Handel’s choral masterpiece.

CHORLEY FOODBANK: There is a reported increase in the number of families who Liverpool Mozart Orchestra and choirs of both cathedrals. Tickets £10/£15 from are relying on the generosity and good will of people to donate food to the Foodbank. www.ticketsource.co.uk/metcathedral or from the Cathedral Gift Shop 0151 707 3525.