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7Th JUNE 2020, Partner Parish St − 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 7th JUNE 2020, partner parish St. Martin’s, Ganye, Nigeria give of themselves so freely to enrich our parish life St Joseph’s Presbytery, Mary St, OL10 1EG Tel: 01706 369777 in ways of love and service. Fr Paul Daly [email protected] Pour out afresh the gifts of your Spirit upon each of us that we may be inspired Fr Bob Hayes [email protected] to serve you in new and creative ways as missionary disciples, bringing your Light to the world. Parish Office Monday 9am-1pm We ask your blessing as we journey together in hope through Christ Our Lord. AMEN Please try to come to the parish office during office hours or email [email protected] This Week’s Saints: Mon: Bl. William Fitzherbert, Archbishop of York and peacemak- er. Bl. William Day, monk at the London Charterhouse, martyred under Henry VIII. Some Masses are live on Our Lady and St. Joseph’s Parish, Hey- wood, facebook page. Tue: St. Ephrem, born in Nisibis (present day Turkey) in 306, Watch without being a FB member; google Our Lady and St. Jo- and ordained deacon, was famous as a writer of homilies, po- seph’s Parish, Heywood, Facebook, and click on the link. ems and hymns for the liturgy; he was called “The Harp of the Holy Spirit”. He died in 373. St Columba or Colm Cille, www.catholicheywood.com Twitter @CatholicHeywood was born in Donegal c.521 and died at Iona in 597. Before Instagram catholicheywood leaving Ireland he founded monasteries at Derry, Durrow and (Facebook) Our Lady and St. Joseph’s Parish Heywood possibly Kells. His main foundation was Iona, from where he www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk converted much of Western Scotland, and his followers took the Gospel to Northern England. He was a poet and scribe as THE MOST HOLY TRINITY Church not open well as spiritual guide. Bl. Robert Salt, martyr of the London Mass at 9am (not livestreamed) Mass in Polish, livestreamed 4pm Charterhouse MONDAY Church not open Holy Hour 8am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed (no livestreamed Mass this evening) Thu: St. Barnabas, born in Cyprus, a companion of St. Paul in his journeys before returning to Cyprus to preach the Gos- TUESDAY St. Ephrem, St. Columba Church not open pel. His name means ‘son of encouragement.’ Holy Hour 8am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed Livestreamed Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 6pm, followed by Mass 6.30pm Fri: St. Eskil, English monk and bishop in Norway, was stoned Churches Together in Heywood meeting, via Zoom, 7.30pm to death in 1080 for disrupting a pagan ritual. WEDNESDAY Church not open A Poem for Trinity by Malcolm Guite Holy Hour 8am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed Sat: St. Anthony of Padua, born Lisbon Livestreamed Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 6pm, followed by Mass 6.30pm In the Beginning, not in time or space, 1195, inspired by the Franciscan martys in Learning more about our Faith, livestreamed on Facebook 7.15-7.45pm Morocco joined the order; though he hoped But in the quick before both space and time, to preach in Africa, he ended up in Italy, be- THURSDAY SAINT BARNABAS Church not open In Life, in Love, in co-inherent Grace, coming a great preacher and theologian. Holy Hour 8am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed He died in Padua in 1231, aged 36. Livestreamed Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 6pm, followed by Mass 6.30pm In three in one and one in three, in rhyme, FRIDAY Abstinence from meat Church not open In music, in the whole creation story, Holy Hour 8.am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed In His own image, His imagination, Livestreamed Exposition of the Bl Sacrament 6pm, followed by Mass 6.30pm The Triune Poet makes us for His glory, SATURDAY St. ANTHONY OF PADUA Church not open And makes us each the other’s inspiration. Mass at 9am (not livestreamed) He calls us out of darkness, chaos, chance, Livestreamed Exposition of the Bl Sacrament 10am-12noon and 3pm-Benediction at 5.30pm To improvise a music of our own, First Mass of Sunday 6.30pm livestreamed To sing the chord that calls us to the dance, SUNDAY THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRISTI Three notes resounding from a single tone, (Corpus Christi) Church not open To sing the End in whom we all begin; Mass at 9am (not livestreamed) Livestreamed Mass at 11am & Exposition of the Our God beyond, beside us and within. Bl Sacrament 3pm- Benediction at 5.30pm If you wonder if Catechism of the Catholic Church from previous page God is calling The children of our holy mother the Church rightly hope for the grace of final persever- you into His ance and the recompense of God their Father for the good works accomplished with his Catholic Church, grace in communion with Jesus. Keeping the same rule of life, believers share the "blessed or are open to hope" of those whom the divine mercy gathers into the "holy city, the new Jerusalem, com- the possibility, ing down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." contact Fr. Paul. The grace of the Spirit confers on us the righteous- We can start to ness of God. Uniting us by faith and Baptism to the Pas- explore this to- sion and Resurrection of Christ, the Spirit makes us shar- gether even in ers in his life. these days of Lockdown with an Alpha Course online. This course is primarily aimed Like conversion, justification has two aspects. Moved at people who are ‘wondering’ or ‘searching’ for faith, maybe in a heightened way in these by grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, and strange times. If you know anyone, invite them along and come with them. We hope to so accepts forgiveness and righteousness from on high. start on Wednesday 24th June, 7.15pm-8.30am. If you would like to take part email Justification includes remission of sins, sanctification, Fr. Paul [email protected] to register. and renewal of the inner person. Justification has been merited for us by the Passion Next Sunday 14th June is the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). We of Christ. It is granted us through Baptism. It conforms are looking at holding Quarant’ Ore livestreamed. Volunteers will be asked to sign up for us to the righteousness of God, who justifies us. It has an hour’s adoration. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed in church but, if churches for its goal the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift of eternal life. It is the most excellent haven’t reopened, you will be praying from your home. work of God's mercy. Grace is the help God gives us to respond to our vocation of becoming his adopted Churches Together in Heywood will meet on Tuesday evening at 7.30pm by zoom. sons. It introduces us into the intimacy of the Trinitarian life. The divine initiative in the work of grace precedes, prepares, and elicits the free re- Together with time, talent, treasure Many thanks for your generosity last Sunday sponse of man. Grace responds to the deepest yearnings of human freedom, calls freedom £256 (GiftAid) & £126.62(Loose), £105 (Buildings Fund) as well as £40 in Standing Or- to cooperate with it, and perfects freedom. ders. Please post your offerings through the Presbytery Door (Hind Hill St). Please take Sanctifying grace is the gratuitous gift of his life that God makes to us; it is infused by out a Standing Order or ask how to do it; email the parish office. the Holy Spirit into the soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. Sanctifying grace makes us "pleasing to God." Charisms, special graces of the Holy Alternatively you can donate via the Diocese of Salford website. Click on the site Spirit, are oriented to sanctifying grace and are intended for the common good of the www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk and in the top right corner you will see a button Church. God also acts through many actual graces, to be distinguished from habitual grace marked DONATE. Click on that, scroll down to where you are asked to enter the which is permanent in us. parish name and go from there. It takes a matter of seconds and will help us out We can have merit in God's sight only because of God's free plan to associate man with tremendously. the work of his grace. Merit is to be ascribed in the first place to the grace of God, and sec- ondly to man's collaboration. Man's merit is due to God. In difficult times it is charities that take a severe hit as people are unable to donate as The grace of the Holy Spirit can confer true merit on us, by virtue of our adoptive filia- generously as they usually do. Remember that our parish is part of a charity and relies on tion, and in accordance with God's the generosity of people like yourselves. gratuitous justice. Charity is the principal source of merit in us be- The Pope’s prayer for June: That all who suffer may find fore God.
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