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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 24th MAY 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 Pour out afresh the gifts of your Spirit upon each of us that we may be inspired [email protected] to serve you in new and creative ways as missionary disciples, Fr Bob Hayes bringing your Light to the world. [email protected] We ask your blessing as we journey together in hope through Christ Our Lord. AMEN

This Week’s Saints: Mon: St Bede the Venerable was born in 673, Parish Office Monday 9am-1pm Please try to come to the parish office during and educated by the Benedictines; he joined the monastery in Jarrow, and office hours or email began a life of learning. producing many writings: he worked on the inter- [email protected] pretation of the Scriptures and the History of the Church in Britain. He died in 735. St. Aldhelm, born in 639, became of Malmesbury and Bish- Some Masses are live on Our Lady and St. op of Sherburne. He is revered as a musician Joseph’s Parish, Heywood, facebook page. and song-writer. He died in 709. Watch without being a FB member; Tue: St. Philip Neri, known for prayerfulness google Our Lady and St. Joseph’s Parish, and fun, born in Florence in 1515, arrived in Heywood, Facebook, and click on the link. , and after a mystical experience in the catacombs, gath- ered friends to care for the sick, which became the Oratory. He www.catholicheywood.com died in 1595. Twitter @CatholicHeywood Instagram catholicheywood (Facebook) Our Lady and St. Joseph’s Parish Heywood Wed: St. was sent in 597 by www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk Gregory to evangelise Britain. Despite turning back, he converted king Ethelbert, founding SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY Church not open the see of Canterbury. He died in 605. Bll Edmund Duke, born in Mass at 9am (not livestreamed) Kent in 1563, studied at the English Colleges in Rheims and Rome. Rosary, Novena to the Holy Spirit, Benediction, livestreamed on Facebook 4pm With Yorkshiremen Richard Hill, John Hogg and Richard Holiday they landed on the Northern coast of England but, travelling together, MONDAY St. Bede the Venerable Church not open they were soon arrested. They were executed at Dryburne in 1590. Holy Hour 8am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed (no livestreamed Mass this evening) TUESDAY St. Philip Neri Church not open Thu: Bl. , born Italy, educated Holy Hour 8am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed France, became a monk, then Archbishop of Rosary 6.10pm and Novena to the Holy Spirit, followed by livestreamed Mass 6.30pm Canterbury in 1070, dying in 1089. Bl. Mar- garet Pole, Countess of , born in WEDNESDAY SAINT AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY Church not open 1487, was governess of the young Princess Holy Hour 8am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed Mary and a cousin of the King. Upon the Rosary 6.10pm and Novena to the Holy Spirit, , followed by livestreamed Mass 6.30pm King’s marriage to Anne Boleyn she spent 2 Learning more about our Faith, livestreamed on Facebook 7-7.45pm years in the Tower. Henry VIII was unable to get at her son, Car- THURSDAY Church not open dinal Pole who was in Rome so he had her executed in- Holy Hour 8am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed stead. The nervous axeman kept missing and she weas chased No livestreamed Mass this evening around the scaffold till he made the final blow. She was 67. Bll. Thomas Ford, born in Devon, in 1576 was arrested and thrice FRIDAY St. Paul VI Abstinence from meat Church not open tortured; executed in 1582, with John Shert, Cheshire and Robert Johnson, Shropshire. Holy Hour 8.am-Mass 9am, not livestreamed Rosary and Novena to the Holy Spirit, 6.10pm, followed by livestreamed Mass 6.30pm Fri: Bl. Richard Thirkeld, born in Durham, ordained at Rheims, was arrested while visit- SATURDAY Church not open ing a prisoner in York Gaol. Having admitted his priesthood, he was executed in 1583. Mass at 9am (not livestreamed)

PENTECOST VIGIL MASS 6.30pm livestreamed on Facebook Sat: St. Luke Kirby, born in Northern England, ordained Rome in 1579, was arrested landing at Dover and martyred in 1582 with Bl. Thomas Cottam from Lancashire, Bl. Wil- PENTECOST SUNDAY (Whit Sunday) liam Filby and Bl. Lawrence Johnson. Bl. William Scott, an Essex lawyer, became a Mass at 9am (not livestreamed) Benedictine monk. He was arrested on his way to London by boat in 1612 and martyred Mass at11am, livestreamed on Facebook with Bl. Richard Newport . ROSARY HOUR, as requested by Pope Francis, 1pm-2pm, livestreamed on Facebook

If you wonder if God is calling Catechism of the you into His Catholic Church, or cont’d from previous page (CCC1978- are open to the possibility, con- 87) tact Fr. Paul. The Holy Spirit is the master of the interior We can start to explore this to- life. By giving birth to the "inner man," jus- gether even in these days of tification sanctifies his whole being: Just as Lockdown. you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now Pope Francis is encouraging Catholics yield your members to righteousness for to pray the Rosary in the their family sanctification. But now that you have been homes during the month of May, es- set free from sin and have become slaves of pecially when the Pandemic is mak- God, the return you get is sanctification and ing us aware of the value of our fam- its end, eternal life. ilies and making it possible to pray together during the lockdown at Our justification comes from the grace of home. He encourages simple rosaries God. Grace is favour, the free and unde- and joining online Rosary initiatives served help that God gives us to respond to to pray to Our Lady for deliverance his call to become children of God, adoptive from Covid-19 and he has composed sons, partakers of the divine nature and of two prayers for this intention. eternal life.

These prayers are available on the parish website and social media platforms and in the Grace is a participation in the life of God. It Marian insert in this newsletter. The Rosary is prayed online introduces us into the intimacy of Trinitarian life: by Baptism the Christian participates in the at 6.10pm most evenings in May, livestreamed. See the first grace of Christ, the Head of his Body. As an "adopted son" he can henceforth call God page of this newsletter for information. "Father," in union with the only Son. He receives the life of the Spirit who breathes charity into him and who forms the Church. Next Sunday we are invited to join the Pentecost National Rosary Rally in which the Rosary will be prayed continu- This vocation to eternal life is supernatural. It depends entirely on God's gratuitous initiative, ously from 9am till 9pm across Scotland, England and for he alone can reveal and give himself. It surpasses the power of human intellect and will, Wales. Our Diocese has been asked to pray a Rosary as that of every other creature. Hour from 1pm. Please join us either online or in spirit as we will pray all Twenty Mysteries of the Rosary on Whit The grace of Christ is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Sunday from 1pm. Please at least say one decade or one Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or deifying set of mysteries if you can. grace received in Baptism. It is in us the source of the work of sanctification: Therefore if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has Together with time, talent, come. All this is from God, treasure Many thanks for who through Christ recon- your generosity last Sunday £363.50 (GiftAid) & £150 ciled us to himself. (Loose) as well as £40 in Standing Orders. Please post your offerings through the Presbytery Door (Hind Hill St). Please Sanctifying grace is an ha- take out a Standing Order or ask how to do it; email the par- bitual gift, a stable and su- ish office. pernatural disposition that perfects the soul itself to Alternatively you can donate via the Diocese of Salford enable it to live with God, to website. Click on the site act by his love. Habitual www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk and in the top right cor- grace, the permanent dis- ner you will see a button marked DONATE. Click on position to live and act in that, scroll down to where you are asked to enter the keeping with God's call, is parish name and go from there. It takes a matter of distinguished from actual seconds and will help us out tremendously. graces which refer to God's interventions, whether at In difficult times it is charities that take a severe hit as people are unable to donate as gen- the beginning of conversion erously as they usually do. Remember that our parish is part of a charity and relies on the or in the course of the work generosity of people like yourselves. of sanctification.

CAFOD CORNER How is CAFOD responding The Pope’s prayer for May: We pray that , to coronavirus? faithful in their service to the Word and the poor, may be an invigorating symbol for the entire Church. We have launched an emergency appeal for

funds, because the impact of coronavirus in Let us pray for the people of the parish of St. Am- countries with poor health systems will be devas- brose, Chorlton, for Fr. John Hitchen and Fr. Michael tating. Deas, and for their parish primary school.

Families without enough to eat and without ac- For all who live on Ayr Gr, Atholl Dr and Berwick Cl. cess to clean water, living with HIV or in

cramped refugee camps, will be very vulnerable For all with Coronavirus, and for John Finn, Peter King to coronavirus. and all the sick Our local experts are already in these

communities and ready to help those in need, For Ann Lomas, Irene O’Neil, Verinica Mather and all prevent the spread of the virus and protect lives. who have died recently together with Fr. Tom Brady, Through them, you are already helping to: Michael and Hilda Clancy, Emma Rodgers, Thomas Deliver food to where it is needed most. Richardson, Sidney Dodd, Baby H, Mary Marsden, Improve hygiene, handwashing and sanita- John Stillie, Annie Rooney, Mark Rooney, Thomas tion at the community and household level. Rooney and all remembered at this time. Produce radio messages, posters, leaflets in local languages on risks and prevention. Train community volunteers to carry out awareness campaigns. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1991-2003)

Justification is at the same time the acceptance of God's righteousness through faith in Je- £6 could buy a hygiene pack for a family. £33 can give a religious leader information about coronavirus, which they can share with sus Christ. Righteousness (or "justice") here means the rectitude of divine love. With justi- fication, faith, hope, and charity are poured into our hearts, and obedience to the divine their community. £260 can write, edit and broadcast a 30-second radio advert sharing news about corona- will is granted us. virus with isolated communities.

Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the Pope Francis to young people (Christus vivit 183-90) cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instru- ment of atonement for the sins of all men. Justification is conferred in Baptism, the sacra- Dear young friends, do not let them exploit your youth to promote a shallow life that con- ment of faith. It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who makes us inwardly just by fuses beauty with appearances. Realize beauty in the labourer who returns home grimy the power of his mercy. Its purpose is the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift of eter- and unkempt, but with the joy of earning food for his family. There is extraordinary beauty nal life: But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although in the fellowship of a family at table, generously sharing what food it has. There is beauty the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Je- in the wife, slightly dishevelled and no longer young, who continues to care for her sick sus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: since all have sinned and fall husband despite her own failing health. Long after the springtime of their courtship has short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption passed, there is beauty in the fidelity of those couples who still love one another in the au- which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be re- tumn of life, those elderly people who still hold hands as they walk. There is also a beauty, ceived by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance unrelated to appearances or fashionable dress, in all those men and women who pursue he had passed over former sins; it was to prove at the present time that he himself is their personal vocation with love, in selfless service of community or nation, in the hard righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus. work of building a happy family, in the selfless and demanding effort to advance social har- mony. To find, to disclose and to highlight this beauty, which is like that of Christ on the Justification establishes cooperation between God's grace and man's freedom. On man's cross, is to lay the foundations of genuine social solidarity and the culture of encounter. part it is expressed by the assent of faith to the Word of God, which invites him to conver- sion, and in the cooperation of charity with the prompting of the Holy Spirit who precedes Along with the stratagems of a false cult of youth and appearance, we are also witnessing and preserves his assent: When God touches man's heart through the illumination of the attempts to promote a spirituality without God, an affectivity without community or con- Holy Spirit, man himself is not inactive while receiving that inspiration, since he could re- cern for those who suffer, a fear of the poor, viewed as dangerous, and a variety of claims ject it; and yet, without God's grace, he cannot by his own free will move himself toward to offer a future paradise that nonetheless seems increasingly distant. I do not want to of- justice in God's sight. fer you any such thing, and with great love I urge you not to let yourselves be taken in by this ideology. It will not make you any younger, but enslave you instead. I propose anoth- Justification is the most excellent work of God's love made manifest in Christ Jesus and er way, one born of freedom, enthusiasm, creativity and new horizons, while at the same granted by the Holy Spirit. It is the opinion of St. Augustine that "the justification of the time cultivating the roots that nourish and sustain us. wicked is a greater work than the creation of heaven and earth," because "heaven and earth will pass away but the salvation and justification of the elect . . . will not pass away." In some countries globalization brings cultural colonization that sever young people from He holds also that the justification of sinners surpasses the creation of the angels in jus- their cultural and religious roots. The Church must commit to accompany young people, so tice, in that it bears witness to a greater mercy. that in the process they do not lose sight of the most precious features of their identity”. This week marked 100 years since the birth of Karol Wojtyła, Pope St. John Paul II. A Poem for Easter with Coronavirus by Malcolm Guite Pope Francis on the Amazon & Care for our We thought it might be good to revisit his speeches during And where is Jesus, this strange Easter day? Earth (Querida Amazona his Pastoral Visit to Great Britain in 1982. Not lost in our locked churches, anymore 53-5) Than he was sealed in that dark sepulchre. Praised be Jesus Christ! The locks are loosed; the stone is rolled away, Frequently we let our con- And he is up and risen, long before, sciences be deadened, I appreciate very much the cordial welcome expressed by Alive, at large, and making his strong way since “distractions con- His Grace the Duke of Norfolk in the name of Her Majesty Into the world he gave his life to save, stantly dull our realization the Queen. And with gratitude to God for the opportunity of No need to seek him in his empty grave. of just how limited and fi- being among you in the days ahead, I extend to all the peo- nite our world really is”. ple of Britain my greetings of friendship and peace. He might have been a wafer in the hands From a superficial stand- Of priests this day, or music from the lips point, we might well think You know that I have come on this pilgrimage of faith in order to make Of red-robed choristers, instead he slips that “things do not look a pastoral visit to the Catholic Church here. Preparations for the jour- Away from church, shakes off our linen bands that serious, and the planet ney began a long time ago, and I have been looking forward with joyful To don his apron with a nurse: he grips could continue as it is for anticipation to the opportunity of celebrating the Eucharist and the oth- And lifts a stretcher, soothes with gentle hands some time. Such evasive- er sacraments with the Catholic faithful of the local Churches. I am also The frail flesh of the dying, gives them hope, ness serves as a license to grateful for the ecumenical encounters which will take place during this Breathes with the breathless, lends them strength to cope. carrying on with our pre- journey of faith. The promotion of Christian unity is of great im- sent lifestyles and models portance, for it corresponds to the will of our Lord and Saviour Jesus On Thursday we applauded, for he came of production and con- Christ. The sign of unity among all Christians is likewise the way and And served us in a thousand names and faces sumption. This is the way instrument of effective evangelization. It is, therefore, my fervent Mopping our sickroom floors and catching traces human beings contrive to prayer that the Lord will bless our efforts to fulfil his will: Ut omnes un- Of that corona which was death to him: feed their self-destructive um sint - “that they may all be one”. Good Friday happened in a thousand places vices: trying not to see Where Jesus held the helpless, died with them them, trying not to My visit is taking place at a time That they might share his Easter in their need, acknowledge them, delay- of tension and anxiety, a time when the attention of Now they are risen with him, risen indeed. ing the important decisions the world has been focused on the delicate situation and pretending that noth- of the conflict in the South Atlantic . During the past ing will happen”. weeks, there have been attempts at settling the dis- pute through diplomatic negotiations, but despite the Each distinct species has a value in itself, yet “each sincere efforts of many, the situation has developed year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant into one of armed confrontation. It has claimed nu- and animal species which we will never know, merous lives and has even threatened to expand to which our children will never see, because they still more dreadful proportions. This tragic situation have been lost forever. The great majority become has been one of most serious concern to me, and I extinct for reasons related to human activity. Be- have repeatedly asked Catholics throughout the world cause of us, thousands of species will no longer and all people of good will to join me in praying for a give glory to God by their very existence, nor con- just and peaceful settlement. I have also appealed to vey their message to us. We have no such right”. the authorities of the nations involved, to the Secretary General of the United Nations and to other influential statesmen. In each case I have sought to encourage a solution which would From the original peoples, we can learn to contem- avoid violence and bloodshed. As I stand here today, I renew my heartfelt appeal and I pray plate the Am- that such a settlement of the dispute will soon be reached. azon region and not simp- At this moment of history, we stand in urgent need of reconciliation : reconciliation between ly analyze it, nations and between peoples of different races and cultures; reconciliation of man within and thus ap- himself and with nature; reconciliation among people of different social conditions and be- preciate this precious mystery that transcends us. We liefs, reconciliation among Christians. In a world scarred by hatred and injustice and divided can love it, not simply use it, with the result that love by violence and oppression, the Church desires to be a spokesman for the vital task of fos- can awaken a deep and sincere interest. Even more, tering harmony and unity and forging new bonds of understanding and brotherhood. we can feel intimately a part of it and not only defend it; then the Amazon region will once more become And so I begin my pastoral visit to Britain with the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: “Peace be like a mother to us. For “we do not look at the world with you”. May the God of peace and reconciliation be with you all. May he bless your fami- from without but from within, conscious of the bonds lies and homes with his deep and abiding peace. with which the Father has linked us to all beings”.