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Phone/Fax: 0161 773 2324 OUR LADY OF GRACE Parish web page: www.ourladyofgrace.co.uk PRESTWICH Parish Email: [email protected] ‘Stay with us, Lord, on our journey’ Diocesan web page: www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk 23rd SUNDAY ‘OF THE YEAR’ 6 September 2020 HOLY MASS THIS WEEK SUNDAY First Mass of Sunday is 7pm Saturday. Sunday morning 9.00 & 11.00 am MONDAY 12 noon TUESDAY 12 noon The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary WEDNESDAY 12 noon (St Peter Claver) THURSDAY 12 noon St Ambrose Barlow, priest and martyr: diocesan feast FRIDAY 12 noon SATURDAY 12 noon The Most Holy Name of Mary The church is open Monday to Friday from 11.45 am to 4.00 pm, and on Saturdays from 11.45 am to 3.00 pm, opening again at 6.40 pm for the first Mass of SUnday at 7.00 pm Saturday evening. My dear Parishioners CommUnion next Tuesday ThUrsday next pUts the focUs and Friends, calls her birthday ‘the hope of on St Ambrose Barlow. This the entire world and the dawn holy man was born at Barlow Wasn’t it good this week to of salvation’. Hall, Chorlton-cum-Hardy. see our children walking The Hall still stands and is down the street in school As Pope St Paul VI put it, very much in use as the club uniform? It gave a sense of ‘The Blessed Virgin’s role as house of C-c-H Golf ClUb. order, of normality. A lot of Mother leads the People of The fields where Ambrose thoUght has gone into the re- God to tUrn with filial and his brothers and sisters opening of schools. The confidence to her who is ever used to play, sloping down to children are sure to benefit. ready to listen with a the river Mersey, are now mother’s affection and played on by golfers. efficacious assistance’. St Ambrose served as a This week’s feasts On SatUrday we venerate the priest in south and west Holy Name of Mary. The Lancashire for nearly thirty We celebrate two feasts of Catholic Encyclopedia years before he was finally Our Lady this week and also explains that ‘we venerate captUred and condemned to the feast day of oUr local the name of Mary becaUse it death for his priesthood. He martyr, St Ambrose Barlow. belongs to her who is the was hanged, drawn and Mother of God, the holiest of quartered at Lancaster on 10 On TUesday we will creatures, the Queen of September 1641. He is one remember Our Lady’s heaven and earth, the of the Forty Martyrs birthday. We all love to mark Mother of Mercy....The feast canonised in 1970. the birthday of oUr earthly commemorates all the mothers. Our Catholic Devotion to him has always instinct prompts Us to mark privileges given to Mary by God and all the graces we been strong in this area. For the birthday of oUr heavenly have received through her example, the diocesan mother also. After all, she is intercession and mediation.’ almanac records how on 10 Mother of the ChUrch and our September 1893 a ‘long Mother. The prayer after procession of over 3,000 people wended its way agricultural land turned to their relief and joy is throUgh the green lanes’ from desert… overwhelming. St John’s chUrch in Chorlton to Barlow Hall, where It is clear that every one of us A similar wonderfUl relief is Benediction was given. has a role to play, through experienced by people who Pilgrims that day came from simple adjustments to our daily have been, or imagine they various parts of Manchester lives, to a change in our routines have been, on the receiving and Salford, Bolton, Oldham, and priorities. end of some outrageous and as far away as Liverpool. behaviour by another person. Today we turn to prayer. They store Up resentment We must ask for the knowledge, against that person until, the insight and understanding of perhaps years later, they can The attendance at Funeral the dangers we face. And we be brought to forgive the Masses is at this time limited must ask for the Grace to make offender. to thirty people. Most of these progress in uniting the will be family members or determination of politicians, God loves Us and is always close friends. We will industry and science in caring for ready to forgive Us when we celebrate Funeral Masses our brothers and sisters and our act against his laws, which here at Our Lady of Grace in common home. are given to us for our own the mornings before the benefit. We don’t always Let us pray together, in this church is open to all. The realise this and sometimes Season of Care of Creation, that Mass for David Fitzroy will we feel that we have God will show us the way and be on Tuesday next. The committed an unforgivable give us the strength and names of those attending sin. Despite this, when we determination to achieve all that have been noted. pray the Our Father we are He is asking of us in caring for asking that all our offences our common home. should be forgiven. And we Caring for Our Planet: know that God will forgive all Thought for SeptemBer, offences, great and small. Season of Creation As we start another school year, not really sure about But we have to remember the The ‘Season of Creation’ is what the fUtUre will bring, we parable about the man an annual celebration uniting do well to pray: ‘Stay with us, whose enormoUs debt was Christians in prayer and Lord, on our journey’. cancelled after which he action for the protection of refused to cancel a tiny debt our common home. The Fr Allen owed to him. Surely no one season runs from woUld behave in sUch an September 1 to October 4, Fr Dearman’s reflections unreasonable way! Yet we the Feast of St. Francis of on the Lord’s Prayer. have had a huge debt of sin Assisi. Part Nine: Forgive our cancelled by God and if we debts as we forgive others. continue to bear a grudge Bishop John Arnold has against a fellow human being sent us a message for this There are two parts to this we are being even more Season. Here is part of what reqUest, both tremendoUsly unreasonable than the man he says: important. in the story. My dear brothers and sisters, Some people go throUgh life So we ask for forgiveness, There is no doubt that we are for years carrying the weight which we don’t deserve, and becoming much more aware of of guilt, perhaps arising from we ask for the grace to the damage that we have done, a minor incident which has forgive others. And we and are continuing to inflict, on led to misUnderstandings resolve to look for the Earth, our common home, and a deep mistrust of opportunities to help other and the damage that is affecting others, including family people who may be carrying the people most, in many of the members or fellow workers. the bUrden, either of gUilt or poorest countries of the world, When someone eventUally of “begrudgery”, to use a who have done least to cause it. helps them to a realisation word made Up by Fr Silvester They are enduring the worst that they don’t need to go on O’Flynn which seems to events of seasonal change in that way and that they can express that state of mind where crops are ruined and be reconciled and forgiven, perfectly! .