Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 23rd October 2016 St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Bilton, Harrogate Sunday 23rd October 2016 6:30pm Saturday (Vigil) Intention: Nancy Dewar Reader: Alicia Player 8:00am Sunday Mass Intention: People of the Parish Reader: Teresa Carmody 11:00am Sunday Mass Intention: Bridget Cushmahan Readers: Jamie Winn & Anne Roberts Monday 24th October 2016 Feast: Intention: Readers at Mass - next week No Mass Saturday (Vigil): Imelda Morritt Sunday 8.00am : Léonard Hulme Sunday 11:00am: Janet Morrow & Greg Warren Tuesday 25th October 2016 Devotion Feast: Intention: Special Intention: Daly Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament before each Mass. 9:30am Rosary recited after each Mass. Mass Confessions 5.30pm – 6.00pm Saturday evening or by appointment. Wednesday 26th October 2016 Feast: Marriage and Baptism Intention: By appointment and after preparation. Marriages require No Mass a minimum of 6 month notice. Please remember in your prayers: Thursday 27th October 2016 Those who are sick: Jean Harston, John McGuane, (HMP/YOI Wetherby Young Offenders) Denise Power, Linda Beasley, Peggy Powell, Monique Chaplaincy Senech, Charles Tindall, Colin Smith, James Mularkey, Brendan Kane, Lilia Moreland, Georgina McCaul, Canon Peter Maguire & Father Bernard Funnell, Baby Elspeth Morris. Friday 28th October 2016 Those who have died: Feast: Ss Simon & Jude, apostles Intention: Papi Nouet 9:30am Mass Parish Priest: Rev. Father Neil Byrne 281 Skipton Road | Harrogate HG1 3HD | Tel: (01423) 504124 | E-mail: [email protected] Parish Website: www.stjosephsharrogate.org.uk | Diocese of Leeds: Registered Charity No.249404 This Weekend, World Mission Sunday: Next Sunday, Bishop David Konstant (RIP) There are special prayer the Holy Father invites all Catholics to contribute to a cards sent by Bishop Marcus for all parishioners They special collection for Missio, his official charity for can be collected from the back of church. A record of overseas mission. World Mission Sunday is a special day his funeral is on the Diocesan website: that unites Catholics all over the world in prayer, http://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/news/2155 celebration and care for the mission of the Church. By supporting World Mission Sunday you are directly THE BRIERY is holding a Retreat day on Saturday, helping missionaries in Rwanda and around the world to 29th October from 10.30-3.30pm entitled "The God I help heal the broken-hearted. You will be able to Gift Don’t Believe In" led by Father Dennis Cassidy. The Aid all donations by using envelopes provided by Missio. price is £25 per person including morning coffee and Thank you. biscuits, lunch and afternoon tea with cake. For more information or to book please contact the November Dead List 2016: Remembering Our Administrators, The Briery, 38 Victoria Ave, Ilkley, LS29 Loved Ones Who Have Died - November is 9BW, tel: 01943 607287, email: [email protected]. traditionally associated with prayer for the Holy Souls, particularly members of our families, friends and Former Pupils and Staff of St Joseph’s Catholic benefactors. Masses will be offered in November and College: are warmly invited to the College on Saturday, throughout the year for those whose names are on the 19 November 2016. Mass will be celebrated at 11.00am, Dead List. Envelopes are now available for this purpose followed by Lunch (£12.00) and the chance to look at the back of church. Please place a list with the names round and catch up. To reply, please email of your deceased relatives and friends, and all for whom [email protected] or tele-phone: 01274 941941. you wish to pray in the envelope with your offering and To book lunch, please send £12.00, with a stamped donation, writing your own name on the front as addressed envelope, to: St Bede’s & St Joseph’s Catholic indicated and return in the box provided at the back of College, Cunliffe Rd, Bradford, BD8 7AP. For catering Church. purposes, the last date to order lunch is 10 November. First Holy Communion 2017 - Advance Notice: The Halloween is the vigil or eve of All Saints' Day, a application forms will be available in a few weeks’ time, Christian feast to honour all the saints who have passed only from Father Neil for those wishing to apply for the from this life and are in Heaven. The feast and thus the preparation and celebration of the First Sacraments (year vigil were instituted in the early eighth century. Since 3) in 2017. They will not be available from School. As then of course the vigil has been hi-jacked by gangs of required by the Church those applying should already be small children dressing up in scary costumes and trick celebrating Holy Mass each week. Those who do not and treating. Halloween as such is no longer a Christian attend Mass here simply need a letter of attendance from celebration, so why has it found a way into our church the Parish Priest of the Church they attend each Sunday. newsletter? When your doorbell rings on Halloween and you reach for the candy bowl to hand out treats to the Old Bede’s Boys: St. Bede’s Old Boys Association will fairies, pirates, and superheroes outside, you can send hold its 87th Annual Dinner 2016. On Friday, 25 your trick-or-treaters away with more than just sweets in November 2016 at The Bradford Club, Piece Hall Yard, their bags. When you hand out Fair Trade Certified Bradford. Tickets for the dinner (£35-00) can be chocolate, your Halloween offering represents a obtained from John Simpson on guaranteed fair income for workers who spend their days [email protected], 01274-676259 or in the cocoa fields. You take a stand for fairness across 07989842452, or the supply chain, and your choice of candy can help [email protected]. educate your trick-or-treaters—and their families— about Fair Trade. New Friendship Group – hosted by Catholic Care After another successful coffee afternoon, we have Refugee Crisis There is to be an extra second collection decided to launch a Friendship Group, meeting weekly in across the weekend of 5/6 November 2016 to support the hall at St Joseph’s. The group will meet on Tuesdays the Diocesan response to the continuing refugee crisis from 1.45pm-3pm. £2 for an afternoon of fun and and severe hardship being suffered by those fleeing war friendship with refreshments. Hope to see you there. and poverty. Please give as generously as you can. If you Rachel Beedle, Development Worker, Catholic Care. would like to become more involved an information (07739 975021) evening will be held at Hinsley Hall, 62 Headingley Lane, Leeds, LS6 2BX on Wednesday 30November 2016 7- 30pm –8-30pm. Mass Requests - Please contact Father Neil if you would like to request a Mass to honour someone special Aid to the Church in Need (ACN): Collection taken to you, for example: anniversary of death, birthday, and last weekend raised: £500.90. Please see the poster on sickness. the notice board with a breakdown of your giving. Thank you! Last Week’s Collection: Loose: £285.79 – Envelopes: £304.50 – Total: £590.29 – S/O £1489.33 200 Club Winners: 1st Prize: (130) F Naughton – 2nd Prize: (34) M Ketteringham - 3rd Prize: (117) R Trollope .