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Metropolitan Cathedral & Basilica of St Chad St Chad’s Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6EU Tel: Cathedral House 0121 236 2251 or 0121 236 5535 Fax: 0121 230 6281 e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stchadscathedral.org.uk Canon Gerry Breen (Administrator & Dean) Tel: 0121 230 6209 e-mail: [email protected] & [email protected] & [email protected] Fr. Christopher Marshall & Fr. Gerry Lennon (Chaplain to the Children’s Hospital); Fr Ray Corbett (Universities) Fr Jeremy Howard (Chaplain to the French Speaking Community). Contact at Cathedral House as above Sister Thérèse O’Brien (Pastoral Assistant) 07985 149141 & Sister Florence Njoku - 0121 679 5376 Andrew De Valliere (Site Manager) Tel: 0121 230 6205 e-mail: [email protected] Trish Brookes (Dean’s P.A.) 0121 230 6211 e-mail: [email protected] Margaret Regan (Finance) 0121 230 6208 e-mail: [email protected] Karleen Lowes (School Visits Coordinator) 0121 230 6215 e-mail: [email protected] Catholic Student Societies:www.cathchaps.co.uk Director of Music: Professor David Saint Assistant Director of Music: Nigel Morris Tel 0121 230 6247 e-mail: [email protected] Junior Choir Outreach: [email protected] Mrs. Margaret Harrold (Parish Safeguarding Representative) Tel: 07798 837684 Lourdes Pilgrimage Office: 0121 230 6288 Sister Margaret Walsh (St. Chad’s Sanctuary Mon.-Fri. 10.30am-3.00pm) Tel: 0121 233 3127 Cathedral Bookshop (Society of St Paul) Lorenzo Torri (Manager) 0121 236 6336 St. Chad’s Catholic Primary School: Matthew Tehan ( Head teacher) 0121 464 6554 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time nd 2 September 2018 Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time Year B. Psalter Week 2. Weekday cycle 2 Entrance Antiphon Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all the day long. O Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call you. Responsorial Psalm The just will live in the presence of the Lord. Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life: you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia! Communion Antiphon: How great is the goodness, Lord, that you keep for those who fear you. ___________________________________ Newsletter available online – http://www.stchadscathedral.org.uk/newsletters Mass Times: 1st September – 9th September 2018 Cathedral Collections Last Week Main £445.15 Appeal Fund £117.12 Gift Aid: £74.40 Sat 1 Feria in Ordinary Time Thank you for your prayers and generosity. World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 10.00am Rosemary Corcoran RIP Next Sunday there will be a second collection for the 1.30pm The Marriage of Jennie Dale & Catholic Education Service. Ryan Green Cathedral Site Statistics: The Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 19th August – 25th August 2018 4.30pm (Vigil) People of the Parish Hours we were open 106 Sun 2 Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Liturgies & Meetings 116 Number of Visitors 1876 9.00am Geoghan Family Int. 11.00am Rita Riley IMPORTANT NOTICE Followed by Meet & Greet Safeguarding in the Archdiocese of Birmingham 12.30pm Baptism – Matidaishe Mwanza SCIE Review: Archbishop Bernard Longley has 3.00pm Pilgrimage Mass at Harvington commissioned a review of our current safeguarding/child Mon 3 Feast of St Gregory the Great protection practises in light of the national Catholic 12.15pm Philomena McDaid RIP Policies and Procedures. This review is to be welcomed as a means of ensuring that our systems to protect our Tue 4 Feria in Ordinary Time children and young people are as effective as possible. 12.15pm Mary & Joseph Doherty Sp. Int. This review is being conducted by an independent charity 12.30pm Mass in the Children’s Hospital called SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence). As part of the review, SCIE would like to speak with any Wed 5 Feria in Ordinary Time individuals who have had experience with safeguarding 12.15pm Fr A Taylor RIP issues within the Archdiocese, and have experience of working with our parish safeguarding representatives Thu 6 Feria in Ordinary Time and the safeguarding team at the Archdiocese. Anyone 12.15pm Tommy Flaherty RIP who is impacted by abuse issues can contact the 1.15pm Monthly Organ Recital safeguarding team on 0121-230 6240 (emergency out of Friday 7 Feria in Ordinary Time hours 07976 516629). If you are able to contribute to First Friday this important review and share your experiences with 9.15am St Chad’s School Mass SCIE then please contact Hugh Constant 12.15pm Brian Fitzpatrick 80th Birthday ([email protected] or 020 7766 7374 or 07872 602207). Sat 8 Feast of the Nativity of the A Warm Welcome to all our visitors. Our Choir are on Blessed Virgin Mary their summer break and n their absence we welcome 10.00am Kevin Cunnane various parish choirs from around the diocese to lead our 11am Mass. This weekend we are delighted to welcome Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time the choir from St Wulstan’s, Staffs. 4.30pm (Vigil) Special Intention Sun 9 Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Our Restoration Fund: with personal sponsorship, “Education Day” including our ‘In Memoria’ scheme, your generosity has 9.00am People of the Parish enabled us to keep up a rolling program of restoration for 11.00am Kathleen Makin RIP many of our cathedral artefacts. The St Chad’s Association is funding the re-gilding of the Lady Chapel The Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions) are and Sanctuary Rood Screens. A full list of what has been available after the 12.15pm Mass during the week, restored will be produce shortly, along with a ‘wish list’ Monday to Friday, and following the 4.30pm Vigil Mass of things yet to do. How indebted we are! Thank you for on Saturday afternoon. There is also an opportunity for the care and affection you show for our cathedral. Confession after the 10.00am Mass on Saturday during Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Please check Wills & Bequests Our Cathedral has benefitted greatly newsletter for changes. in the past from the thoughtfulness of parishioners who have remembered the Cathedral in their Wills. Some have Messe en Français for the West Midlands French funded particular projects in Memoriam of loved ones. speaking community. Every first Sunday of the month at God bless you for your kindness. This will help towards 1.30pm. The next Mass will be on Sunday 7th October. renovating particular items. Holy Mass will be offered for the intention of all of our Benefactors. CCTV IN OPERATION FOR YOUR SAFETY & SECURITY Cathedral Car Park Please note: for reasons of security, all access to the Cathedral Site and Car Park PLEASE DO NOT leave any personal property will be secured once the Cathedral is closed and unattended. Thank you. Meetings have finished. Any un-authorised vehicles will be locked in until the car park opens again. Cars are parked at owner’s risk. Gift Aid can be taken out at any time of the year. Thank Our Prayer Lists you to everyone registered as it is a valuable source of Those who are ill: Ken Halford and Margaret Katz. additional income to the Cathedral at no extra cost to the Lately Dead: Eileen McHugh, Alice Roberts, Anna parishioners. Anyone currently registered who changes Secomandi, Enid Roche, Michael Dare, Anthonia Uwah, their address please would you ensure that you amend Julie Chapman & Mary Baines. your address with us so we can continue to claim Gift Aid Mary Baines RIP Many of you will have known Mary on your behalf. Please contact Margaret Regan at through her life work and dedication to Catholic Cathedral House 0121 230 6208 or margaret.regan@rc- Education as a Head Teacher, and more recently as Chair birmingham.org for details on Gift Aid and other and Governor to a number of our inner-city schools. finance matters. Mary’s Requiem Mass will be at Erdington Abbey on th Faith Instruction for your Children Please leave names Thursday 6 September at 1.00pm. Her coffin will be and contact details for Sr. Therese or Canon Gerry. received at 4.30pm the day before. Please remember Mary and her children Frances and David in your prayers. Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for September: For those whose anniversaries occur about this time: Universal: Young People in Africa. That young Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. Mgr. James people in Africa may have access to education and Dunlop Crichton and Thomas Fallon. Frs.: Bernard Salt, work in their own countries. Thomas O’Doherty, James J Holland, Anthony Taylor and Arthur McCrystal. Deacon: Francis Andrews and Parish Prayer Lists David McCarroll. Also: Eve McCarthy, Margaret Brown, One of great charisms and activities of the Church is the Theresa Padian, Hughie Keating, Mary Breen, Donna apostolate of prayer. It is open to all, whether we are Kirton, Edward Gillespie, Joe Dineen, John O’Brien and clergy, religious or lay people. There is no group who Frances Hill. may be called ‘professional pray ers’. The late Pope St Eternal Rest grant unto them O, Lord, and let John Paul II said his strength came from the prayers of perpetual light shine upon them. Amen. the sick and the housebound. This is true for the whole Church. We do not need the ability to run around to be Shadwell Street Development you will have noticed people of prayer. The sick and the housebound are some that Berkeley Homes have begun work on the former of the great contemplatives of our time. FGF factory site at the rear of the cathedral. Towards the All of us experience the benefit of prayer: our prayers for end of the year, Shadwell Street will become a One- others, but, more so, the strength we receive from the Way system, with traffic flow from the Princip Street people who pray for us.