Metropolitan Cathedral & Basilica of St Chad St Chad’s Queensway, , 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

2nd 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.

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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: 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 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 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. running up to Old . Berkeley’s will create a ‘pit It is a natural response that we are moved to pray for stop’ lane for the delivery of materials during the people and situations in our community and further afield in the world. As priests, we are continually asked to pray construction period of three years, which will result in for individuals and whatever they may be dealing with in the loss of the public parking bays on Shadwell Street. their lives. It is also one of the great characteristics of the We will keep you updated on progress. that we pray for those who have died. Our Parish Prayer Lists bear testimony to the wealth of St Chad’s Cathedral - Heritage Open Days prayers both requested and offered. We pray for people Once again we are inviting people to come along for a in any kind of need, especially the sick and the dying. We guided tour of the Cathedral. See parts of the Cathedral pray for those who have died, and remember their which are rarely open to the public. anniversaries. However, changes in Data Protection and Safeguarding BOOKING ESSENTIAL means that we have to ensure that we have the permission Thursday 13th September: 10am - 12 noon of the individual or their families before we publish their name in print or verbally pray for them in public. Friday 14th September: 10am - 12 noon Often when we hear of someone who may be ill or dying Tours will begin at 10am. we naturally request prayers for them or ask for Masses Sunday 16th September: 1.30pm - 3.30pm to be offered. This is to be applauded, but the new This tour will begin at 1.30pm guidelines ask that we seek permission before names are Maximum 40 people per tour. Booking Information made public. Also, it is important to remember that there are some people who wish their situation to remain To book please contact Karla Lowes: 01212306215 private; and sometimes we hear about people second- Email: [email protected] hand and we may not be able to ask for permission. Therefore, we have greatly reduced our Prayer Lists, but St Chad’s Junior Choir has grown out of our Choral we ask that if you would like names to be included please Outreach Programme. The Choir are still on summer check that those concerned are happy for us to publish holiday. Rehearsals resume on 27th September with their names. We welcome any additions in writing please. practice on Thursday evenings during term time from 5.00pm-6.30pm. For more information please contact David and Alexander Wynne at choraloutreach@rc- birmingham.org

Kerala floods: an SVP appeal. As you’ve probably Pilgrimage of the Sick to the Diocesan Shrine of Our seen in the media, terrible floods have been taking place Lady of Lourdes at Hednesford There will be a in Kerala in southern India. Hundreds of people have Pilgrimage led by Bishop for all those been killed and many more are missing; countless who are sick, their families and carers, Chaplains and homes have been washed away, and the monsoon season Chaplaincy Volunteers and Healthcare Workers and is set to continue until early September. Kerala is the Volunteers. To take place at 3 pm on Sunday most Christian state in India – it has more churches than 16th September at the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of any other region. The leading Catholic volunteering Lourdes in Hednesford. Directions: Hednesford is charity, the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP), is very near Cannock, a couple of miles off Junction 11 of the active there and they are doing great work helping the M6 and Junction T7 of the Toll Road. Follow signs to victims of the flood in local communities. However, Hednesford and Rugeley A460. Train Service from New they desperately need funds. Please contribute to the Street, Birmingham to Hednesford. The Church and SVP’s Kerala appeal. To donate visit www.svp.org.uk, Shrine is on Uxbridge Street on the A460, WS12 1DB. telephone 020 7703 3030 or send cheques made out to For further information contact: Fr Jeremy Howard, SVP (write ‘Kerala appeal’ on the back) to SVP, 01543 422576 or email [email protected] Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JB. And please remember our sisters and brothers St Thomas More’s Church, Sheldon, B26 3HU - Family Prayer Campaign: Saturday 6th October 2018 in Kerala in your prayers. at 2.00pm. There will be Holy Mass, Rosary Procession and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Chief Adoremus – National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and th th Celebrant Rt. Rev Philip Pargeter. All welcome. Congress - Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 September 2018 Over 10,000 people will gather in Liverpool for a St Vincent De Paul’s Catholic Church, Nechells – 50th most wonderful and historic event, The National Anniversary. Sunday 30th September 2018. There will Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Congress (Adoremus). There be a Thanksgiving Mass at 12 noon, followed by a buffet are still places available for Saturday 8th September. lunch in the Parish Grounds. All welcome to renew old Tickets are £40. For more details/bookings please friendships as well as those wishing to make new friends. contact Fr Craig Szmidt. Email: [email protected] All University Students: New & Old - If you are a Catholic student at university and would like to meet with Telephone: 01214224865 other students for prayer, socials and support. Please Or Visit: www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/adoremus email Fr. Ray Corbett, Chaplain to ([email protected]) University students are invited Annual Pilgrimage to Harvington Hall to register their emails with Fr Ray Corbett, who is the (Shrine of the English Martyrs) chaplain to Aston University. It is the hope that activities can be arranged in the near future. Please email Fr Ray Sunday 2nd September 2018. at: [email protected] Mass at 3pm. Confession 1.45pm – 2.30pm Fr Ray is also available after the weekend Masses. Celebrant Bishop Robert Byrne University & College Students: we know how Preacher V. Rev David Oakley. All Welcome important it is for students who come to study in Birmingham to feel at home, especially if you have come Birmingham’s Annual Inter-Faith Peace Service from abroad. Please help yourself to the Student Wednesday 12th September 2018, 12.30pm – 1.15pm Information at the back of the cathedral. There are great at St. Thomas’ Peace Garden, Bath Row, Catholic Chaplaincy Teams in our universities to Birmingham, B15 1LZ For the 8th successive year the introduce you to other Catholic students, and to Birmingham Faith Leaders Group is marking its encourage you in the practise of your faith. anniversary with a short service for peace. The event will Help with cleaning the cathedral: We are seeking also be a preparation for the U.N. International Day of people who would be happy to join a team of volunteers Peace which is held each year across the world on 21st to help with the cathedral on an occasional basis at a time September. to be agreed? Should you be interested or require further This is a free event and all are welcome. information please contact Canon Gerry or Margaret Further Information can be obtained from Regan. Many thanks. Thank you to those who have [email protected] responded so far.

th rd St Teresa’s Church – Parish Mission: 15 – 23

September 2018, Wellington Road, Perry Barr,

Birmingham, B20 2QQ. This will be led by the Sion

Catholic Community for Evangelism. For Further information please call 01213564402 or email:

[email protected]

Pilgrimage to Poland: In the Footsteps of St Pope John Paul II and visiting the Divine Mercy Chapel, Auschwitz Birkenau and many other places. Fri 14th – Fri 21st September 2018. Spiritual Director Fr Krzysztof Kita. Pick-up from St Michael’s, Moor Street, Birmingham. Flying from Birmingham. Coach transfers included. 8 days / 7 nights in 4 Star hotel. Dinner, bed and breakfast included. Local Guide. All entrance fees included. Cost: £775.00 per person Sharing or £950.00 Single Room (includes £175.00 Single Room Supplement). Deposit £175.00. Instalment plans available. For further information, please contact Andrew Oldnall Tel: 0121 440 8623 Email: [email protected]

Second Saturday Catholic Convention & Mass: Held every 2nd Saturday of the month from 8am – 4pm at Bethel Convention Centre. For details visit www.sehion.net

Pilgrimage to Fatima 10th October – 15th October 2018. Bookings are now being taken from Northern Star Travel Limited for the Pilgrimage. Cost are: £625 per person sharing and £745 in a single room. Cost Includes: Return flight Luton – Lisbon. Airport duty & Taxes. Return coach Birmingham – Luton Airport. 5 night’s dinner, bed and breakfast. Half day excursion to Aljustrel. Northern Star Travel Representative. For bookings Contact Brigid McKenna 01214294145

St. Joseph’s Home, Coleshill, offers residential care to older people and those living with dementia in a Catholic setting. Respite bedrooms are also available for those who could benefit from a short stay.If you or someone you know might benefit from the care offered at St. Joseph’s, please call 01675 434500 for an informal chat or to arrange a visit.

Pugin Society - Would you be interested in learning more about AWN Pugin, the eminent Victorian architect who designed this Cathedral and the interiors of the Houses of Parliament. The Pugin Society founded in 1995 offers a lively range of events, study tours, talks and publications. Details: www.thepuginsociety.co.uk