FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT [YEAR B] 20 DECEMBER 2020

ST MARY’S

MULBERRY ST

St. Mary's, The Hidden Gem, was founded in 1794 in the centre of what was then the poorest quarter of Manchester. It is now thought to be the oldest post Reformation Catholic church founded as a church in any major centre of population in England.

The Relief Act allowing Catholic churches to be built again as churches was passed in 1791. The building of St. Mary's was begun in 1792. The church's vital connection with the most ancient Christian traditions of Manchester, and its uninterrupted service to the city since its foundation, make it one of the most beloved institutions in the Greater Manchester conurbation, and far beyond.

A place of prayer at the heart of our city Serving the people of Manchester since 1794

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AT ST MARY’S and for your SUPPORT of our parish

Thank you for your generosity; Please remember to Gift Aid any donations to St Mary’s to help us in our Mission

A place of prayer at the heart of our city Serving the people of Manchester since 1794

THE WORD THIS SUNDAY Sunday Readings of the Mass ▶ 2 Samuel 7:1-5.8-12.14.16 ▶ Romans 16:25-27 ▶ Luke 1:26-38 Advent opens with a great cry, and a great promise: “Oh that you would tear the heavens open and come down!” is the cry of a people who need God. “...The master is coming” is the promise, not to breed fear, but to answer our cry. Advent begins, not with thoughts of the past, with the coming of the Lord we celebrate at Christmas, but with the future, and the promise that He is coming back.

We are encouraged to treat every day as the day the Lord will come; we do not do this out of fear for a Master who beats his servants, but out of love of a Master who always treats us with love and mercy. Nevertheless we must always be watchful, because we can grow sleepy and complacent, saying that we can leave this prayer or that confession or the other change in the way we live to tomorrow. Even as we look forward to the tomorrow of the Lord’s coming, we must remember that it might be today ! THE WORD THIS WEEK Weekday readings of the Mass

In the last week before Christmas the events that immediately prepared for the Lord’s birth are presented from Mathew and Luke. The texts in the first reading, chosen in view of the gospel reading, are from different Old Testament books and include important Messianic prophecies. From 29 December on, there is a continuous reading of the whole of 1 John. The Gospels relate manifestations of the Lord: events of Jesus’ childhood from Luke (29-30 December); passages from John 1 (31 December-5 January); other manifestations from the four Gospels (7-12 January).

DIOCESAN CYCLE OF PRAYER

As our Advent journey reaches its mid-point we pray for the parish of St. Gabriel and the Angels and St. John the Baptist, Castleton and Rochdale, with Fr. Michael Johonnett, their parish priest, and the Franciscan Missionaries of St. Joseph. We pray also for their parish primary schools. May the call of John the Baptist inspire them to serve the Lord.

As Christmas approaches we pray for the parish of St. Joseph, Ramsbottom, for Fr. Frank Thorpe, their parish priest, and for their parish primary school. May St. Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, inspire them to imitate her faith.

THE SAINTS

Saint Stephen 26th December The first martyr to shed his blood for Christ, as witness to the newly revealed love of God: as the Second readings from the Office of Readings says: The love then, that Christ brought down from heaven to earth, lifted Stephen from earth to heaven.

The Holy Innocents 28th December This feast is a harsh reminder of the reality of the Incarnation: Christ came into the world precisely to take upon himself such suffering, to share in our human condition even to the point of death. In the midst of Christmas, this feast already points us towards Easter, and the mystery of death and resurrection.

Saint Thomas Becket 29th December Thomas was born in London in 1118; he became Chancellor of England and then in 1162 was chosen to be Archbishop of Canterbury. In that position he so strenuously defended the rights of the Church that he made an enemy of King Henry II, who exiled him to France. On his return the followers of the King murdered him in 1170.

Saint Bail and St Gregory Nazianzen 2nd January Close friends, and great figures of the Eastern Church in the fourth century. Basil was Bishop of Caesarea and active in promoting the monastic life, writing a rule which is still observed today. Gregory was Bishop of Constantinople, and because of his great learning is still known in the East as Gregory the Theologian ; he eventually retired from the episcopacy to return to his monastery in Nazianzus. Gregory summed up their lives: Our great concern, our great name, was to be Christians and be called Christians. HOLY MASS INTENTIONS

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be celebrated for the following intentions, received at St Mary’s this week:

Holy Souls; Hatsue Hirata (B); Fr Peter McKie (LD); Alice and Laurence; Annie Stretton & family RIP; James Kelly & family RIP; Ernetst Lund (LD); Mason family, relatives and friends (SI); Walker family, relatives and friends (SI); Josie Welch (SI); Mary Childs (SI); John Smith (SI); Michael and Kathleen Campbell; Rita McNally (LD); Quaide family; Father Pat Deegan (CM); Virentha and Akshara Mendi (SI); Judy Grino (B); Jimmy Lai (SI); Christopher Taylor (S); Fr David Featherstone (CM); Peter Lalley (LD); Bernadette Worthington (S); Franca Di Sano Longobardi (CM); Marioara Fuiorea (CM); Sean Connery; Baldo Cernigliaro (CM); Vito Marino (CM); Carmelo Minafo (CM); Roz Ewart (CM); Yesenia Meza Ruiz (CM); David and Magda (SI); Margaret Melia (SI); Margaret McNulty and family; Brenda Reilly RIP; Joan Fitzpatrick RIP; Tina Byrne RIP; Allen Byrne RIP; Rosaleen Byrne RIP; James Hawthorn (A); Gloria Stacey (A); Adeline Garvey (A); Margaret Vinter (BR); Adeline Garvey RIP (CM); Miriam Timperley RIP (CM); Norbert Timperley RIP (CM); Kenneth Slater RIP (CM); Judith & friend (CM); Magda and David (SI); Evelyn (SI); David (CM); Robert (CM); Deceased members of the Melia and Ellis families; Special intentions; In thanksgiving

Any Mass intentions received after Friday 18th December will be acknowledged in the newsletter after Christmas.

[LD=Lately dead, A=Anniversary, S=Sick, B=Birthday SI= Special Intention, BR=Birthday Remembrance, CM= Christmas Mass]

PARISH NEWS

OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONFESSIONS

There are lots of opportunities here at St Mary’s for going to confession before Christmas, with confessions morning and afternoon each day Monday to Thursday in the days leading up to Christmas. A visiting priest will also be here for confessions on Christmas Eve between 2.00pm - 3.30pm FLOWERS

During the season of Advent there are no flowers in church. Offerings are welcome for the Christmas Flowers in church: if you wish to remember a loved one, please place your donation in an envelope marked “Christmas Flowers”. CHRISTMAS CANDLES IN CHURCH

To help us decorate the church for Christmas this year, I thought we might light some red sanctuary candles with all our personal intentions written on them. The candles will burn from Christmas Eve for a week. The names of your loved ones or your special intention will be placed on the candle and these intentions will be remembered at each of the Masses during the Christmas Octave.

A suggested donation for each candle is £5. Place your offering in an envelope and mark it clearly CHRISTMAS CANDLE together with the name or intention that you wish to be added to the candle. THE CHRISTMAS CRIB

We have a crib scene here in St Mary’s each Advent and Christmas. Like many people, each year, we enjoy getting it out in Advent and arranging the figures. We have placed the crib in front of the altar this year, to leave more space for seating for parishioners at the side. Each year we are confronted with two questions: Do we put the baby Jesus out before Christmas? And, do we put the three wise men out before the Epiphany? Here in St Mary’s we have tended to place them gradually, placing the baby Jesus in the crib at the first Mass of Christmas and the wise men on the Feast of the Epiphany, but there is no right or wrong way of doing this, it just depends which tradition a church or family has. Setting up a nativity scene and making choices about just where to put the shepherds and the sheep and how and when to display the wise men can help us in our spiritual lives. It can allow us to enter more deeply into the mystery of the nativity – to put ourselves in the scene. It can be a very powerful meditation – one that many of the saints liked to do. St. Ignatius of Loyola encourages us to meditate on the nativity in this way: to imagine the road from Nazareth to Bethlehem; considering how long, how wide, whether it is level or through valleys or over hills; how the stable looks, how large, how small, how low, how high. And then to look at Jesus, and Mary, and Joseph and imagine ourselves there with them and to imagine what

they are doing and what are they saying. How are they feeling? Joyous, exhausted, or scared? During this Christmas season, we can put ourselves into the nativity scene and we can ask ourselves some important questions. The wise men followed the star, they didn’t know exactly where they were going, but they took a risk. Are we willing to take a risk for God? Maybe the risk it to discern a vocation to the priesthood; or to have another child; or consider getting involved more in the life of the parish. The wise men also brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. What gifts do we bring? Are there other gifts we need to develop? Are there gifts that we need to give to others? Maybe as of late we have been slow to share the gift of faith with our families, our co-workers and friends. Or maybe we have been selfish with our time and need to spend some quality time with a spouse, a child, a grandparent. During this holy season we have a wonderful opportunity to place ourselves into the nativity scene right there with Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and the three kings. And if we consider what they might be doing, saying, and feeling God might reveal a special insight for each of us as we, too, kneel, before the infant Jesus in the manger. QUIETER FEW DAYS AT ST MARY’S AFTER CHRISTMAS

Please note that, in the week after Christmas, there will be no confessions on Monday to Friday and, to give the volunteers an easier week, the church will close in the early afternoon. All will resume again as normal on Saturday 2nd January, according to the schedule on the back page of the newsletter. CARITAS ADVENT APPEAL

Caritas Salford’s Advent Appeal - the #MiracleOfKindness, is their first almost entirely non-paper appeal and is the first appeal to their supporters in parishes during this time of Covid-19. Caritas’ charitable work requires them to raise £2,055 per day in or-der to provide their existing ser-vices. The pandemic and the associated economic hardship has meant that they are already see-ing people who have never need-ed them before. The fear is that there will be many more families and individuals facing significant hardship with a need for Caritas services in the New Year. If you can, please make a donation this Advent and Christmas. Call Ra-chel Taylor 0161 817 2285 or visit their website.

CHRISTMAS MASSES At St Mary’s there will be seven Christmas Masses between Christmas Eve and the Sunday, and this year, given the restrictions on how many people we can have in church at any time, we have introduced a simple booking system for the Masses on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This will enable us to make best use of the maximum number of places allowed in church to keep everyone safe, and will allow people to plan for their attendance.

Please note that, just for this year, there won’t be a Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and that all the Masses throughout these four days are Christmas Masses. Thursday 24th December CHRISTMAS EVE 4.00pm, 6.00pm, & 8.00pm Friday 25th December CHRISTMAS DAY 11.00am Saturday 26th December ST STEPHEN’S DAY 12 noon, [N.B. No Evening Mass] Sunday 27th December THE HOLY FAMILY 10.00am and 12 noon

To reserve a place for yourself, your family or your Christmas bubble

at any of the Masses of Christmas Eve or Christmas Day,

please telephone David Raymond on 07856 939166

between 6pm and 8pm from Sunday to Friday this week.

At the time of printing this newsletter, places are available at all the Masses.

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225th ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE OPENING OF ST MARY’S CHURCH, MULBERRY STREET

SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MANCHESTER SINCE 1794

outside St Mary’s, Mulberry Street, Manchester; the Hidden Gem1 © Michael Berry

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O nce freestanding, if unbelled, unsteepled2, in slum and slovenliness3,

destitution stalking, pain hereabouts prevailed on the edge of things then, this street – strangely Mulberry (was ever such here?), after Irwell shack, Roman Entry’s room, Rook Street’s chapel – far-flung six hundred4: (a stone’s throw from Eburacum-Mamucium-Deva via5, trodden by early Christians, leaving sator arepo … …)6 noble relief post-1791 Relief – first move to meet whom from all else till then neglect.

Later, glimpsed merely, in

dingy solitude amid overborne

industrial temples, – Mammon’s smug vaults – vulgar, gross encroachments

their bold cheek-by-jowledness. Now, more generously eye-caught,

secularity’s tolerant revealing of twenty-first’s century’s

politer genuflection, aptly deferential to eighteenth’s venerability.

Northern slate, red brick mellowing, maintain seemly reticence.

Our Lady, from campanile niche, greets gatherers; below, tympanum’s Agnus Dei, angel-borne.

We, ascending the Lord’s mountain by modest steps, Mainz portal7,

slight porch, for entry north or south by

narrow doors: to holy place,

wherein cardinal-to-be8

declared on every side you saw a hidden gem

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 St Mary’s, Mulberry Street, Manchester is the oldest purpose-built urban Catholic church in England still in use. 2 The 1791 Roman Catholic Relief Act permitted the building of Catholic churches but prohibited their having bells or steeples. 3 Mulberry Street was then in an area of poverty, perhaps not quite as abject as Angel Meadow, but notorious. 4 Sites of earlier RC places of worship: Roman Entry, off High Street, Rook Street of Market Street; there are thought to have been 600 catholics in an area

which included places as far flung as Glossop, for instance. 5 Deansgate (or a parallel built-over via slightly to the west) was part of the Roman road from York to Chester. The fort, on a promontory, between the

confluence of the Irwell and the Medlock is believed to have been slightly north west of the road. But the road could not have been west of the present Lower Deansgate, because of the river.

6 Palindromic and anagrammatic word square, believed to have been a Christian cryptogram, a 2nd Century example of which was found in Manchester, in 1978, during the excavation of a Roman rubbish pit near the site of the present Beetham Tower. The stratigraphic location (of a potsherd, possibly part of an amphora, with the inscription, in the vicus of the Roman fort) gives a precise date of AD 182. “Arepo” is a hapax legomenon. 7 The entrance was brought from a redundant church in Mainz early in the last quarter of the 19th Century: within an ornate romanesque arch two angels hold a medallion of the Paschal Lamb, below which is a pediment, with the words (in Latin) Let us go up the Lord’s mountain and in his holy place adore (him). (From the same church came a 14th Century baptismal font still to be seen inside St Mary’s.)

8 Herbert Vaughan, second Bishop of Salford, 1872-1892, third Archbishop of Westminster, 1892-1903 (Cardinal 1893), said, No matter on what side of the church you look, you behold a hidden gem. “Hidden Gem” became the soubriquet for the church – by a process of synecdoche stemming from episcopal animadversion!

S anctuary herein from frantic city’s busy companies of men2:

From under gallery’s low brow eye leads to sanctuary’s red lamp

by fine marble altars, old and new, tomb and table, fronting rich reredos3,

its adoring squadrons: Caen stone angels in close formation, over modest saintly host

all encompassing our welcoming Lord of love: Brythonic Patrick, Roman Austin, Englisc Hild,

company with Joseph, Mary, Peter, Stephen, John5. Marching Magnificat, underscores clerestory light,

assuming eyes nearer lantern’s Loreto litany6. Echoed by tabernacle’s sacred pelican,

Piéta shows forth Lamb’s blood, Stations’ rash fierce blaze of colour7,

twelve’s horror-ridden path strikes from lithostrotos

towards Golgotha, Via Dolorosa

pain compelling all to thirteenth, Piéta’s pair:

beyond finds fourteenth’s – a heightened resurrection-hint:

comforting counters Piéta’s grief. Fourteenth Century font fronts young Madonna’s Lady Chapel: where white stone confection

delivers deftness, delicacy: Christ-child, robe –

her presentation, her parents, his nativity, her infant; blue light heralds

Our Lady, of Manchester,

by Vs’ ordinances8 – Henry’s, Martin’s, king, pope –

illumined by inner light, resplendent pane:

225th ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE OPENING OF ST MARY’S CHURCH, MULBERRY STREET

SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MANCHESTER SINCE 1794

inside St Mary’s, Mulberry Street, Manchester; the Hidden Gem1 © Michael Berry

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Herbert Vaughan, second Bishop of Salford, 1872 to 1892, third Archbishop of Westminster, 1892-1903 (Cardinal 1893), said, No matter on what side of the

church you look, you behold a hidden gem. “Hidden Gem” became the soubriquet for the church – by a process of synecdoche stemming from episcopal animadversion!

2 Andrew Marvell, The Garden stanza 2, line 4. 3 There is a monumental Victorian “tomb” altar backing onto the ornate reredos, and in front of it a slighter and simpler post-Vatican II “table” altar. 4 Over fifty angels adorn reredos and altar! 5 Statues of these saints appear on the reredos, all smaller than the central figure of the Sacred Heart. 6 Below the clerestory windows words of the Magnificat appear in bold Roman letters. In the lantern glass are titles of Our Lady from the Litany of Loreto. 7 Shakespeare, Richard II, 2 i 37; Norman Adams’s 1990s Stations of the Cross contrast starkly (and successfully) with the ornate Victorian style of the

liturgical east end of the church. 8 In 1422, King Henry V granted a charter for the parish church (of Saints Mary, George and Denys) in Manchester to become collegiate: authorisation by the

Bishop, then of Lichfield, William Heyworth, for the College, to be called The Guild or Company of the Blessed Virgin of Manchester, was confirmed, in 1426, by Pope Martin V.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AT ST MARY’S and for your SUPPORT of our parish

Thank you for your generosity; Please remember to Gift Aid any donations to St Mary’s to help us in our Mission

St Mary’s Presbytery, 17 Mulberry Street, MANCHESTER, M2 6LN

Telephone: 0161 834 3547 Parish website: hiddengem.me.uk

Parish Priest: Monsignor Canon Anthony Kay anthony.kay@dioceseofsalford.org.uk

St Mary’s parish is a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford dioceseofsalford.org.uk

Salford Roman Catholic Diocesan Trustees Registered Charity RCHiddenGem

CONTACT DETAILS

COVID SAFE CHURCH

SANCTUARY CANDLE INTENTIONS THIS WEEK - burning from Saturday morning onwards THE PIETÀ ALTAR TABERNACLE - OUR LADY TABERNACLE - ST JOSEPH OUR LADY’S STATUE

For all the parishioners of St Mary’s at this time

Mary O’Rourke Quaide family Quaide family

Nelly McAtamney

If you would like to have a candle lit for a particular intention, for a loved one or for a special intention, Put the name of the intention on an envelope Indicate which Sanctuary Candle you wish to have lit Pass the envelope to the Parish Priest or place it through the presbytery letter box.

A donation of £5 is suggested to cover the cost of the candle. The candle will be lit on Saturday morning, as soon as possible, in the order that they are received, and will burn throughout the following week, with the names appearing in the parish newsletter week, so we know the intention that the candle is burning for.

Please play your part in keeping St Mary’s safe for everyone by: Wearing a FACE COVERING AT ALL TIMES in the church

Observing SOCIAL DISTANCING AT ALL TIMES unless you are from the same household

VERSE TO MARK THE CLOSING OF THE 225th ANNIVERSARY YEAR

This year, we have marked in a very quiet way, the 225th Anniversary of the opening of St Mary’s church on Mulberry Street. If you remember we marked it in a particular way by sharing, in the parish newsletters over the summer months, some of the history of this great parish.

At that time, Michael Berry, one of our parishioners, put pen to paper and crafted some wonderful verse, which, with his kind permission, I have included in this Christmas Newsletter. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have.

YEAR OF SAINT JOSEPH

Pope Francis has announced a Year of St Joseph in honour of the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as patron of the Universal Church. The year began on 8 December 2020, and concludes on 8 December 2021.

The Pope has established this year so that every member of the faithful, following St Joseph’s example, may strengthen their life of faith daily in the complete fulfilment of God’s will.

In a new Apostolic Letter, entitled Patris corde, ‘With a Father’s Heart’, the Pope writes: “Each of us can discover Saint Joseph - the man who goes unnoticed, a daily, discreet and hidden presence - an intercessor, a support and guide in times of trouble.”

The letter is available to read in full on the Vatican website.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

I would like to express my thanks for the generosity to those of our parishioners who have continued to contribute financially to St Mary’s during this time. We all know what a difficult time it is for many people, and we are grateful to those who have been able to continue to support us during this time. If you would normally have attended St Mary’s each week, and have been unable to do so since March and, if you are in a position to do so, please consider making a one-off donation to the parish to support St Mary’s at this time.

Thank you for your generosity.

MANY THANKS

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all parishioners of St Mary’s, your families and friends, a Happy, Peaceful, and Holy Christmas.

We will remember at the Christmas Masses all who are sick and in particular need at this time, our loved ones who have died, and all those we especially miss at Christmas time.

Thank you for all your prayers and support of our parish community during this unprecedented year. Particular thanks, on behalf of all of us, goes to all the volunteers of the parish who have kept St Mary’s open as much as possible during this time. I wish you all every blessing for 2021. May Our Blessed Lord, born for us in Bethlehem, fill your heart with love; fill your mind with kindness, and fill your soul with peace.

I look forward in the coming year to continue to share the Life of Faith in our Community at this beautiful shrine church of St Mary’s, the Hidden Gem.

A HAPPY, HOLY AND PEACE-FILLED CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES

AND EVERY BLESSING FOR THE COMING YEAR

Fr Anthony

Bank Details (for Standing Orders or BACS) TSDT St Mary Manchester

Account number 00915025 Sort Code 20 55 34 Cheques Payable to: St Mary’s, Manchester

THE WEEK AHEAD AT ST MARY’S

Mon 21 December Tues 22 December Wed 23 December Thurs 24 December Fri 25 December Sat 26 December Sun 27 December

Advent II Weekday O Oriens

Advent II Weekday O Rex

Advent II Weekday O Emmanuel

Advent II Weekday

THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD

ST STEPHEN The First Martyr

THE HOLY FAMILY

Song of Songs 2:8-15 Luke 1:39-45

1 Samuel 1:24-28 Luke 1:46-56

Malachi 3:1-4.23-44 Luke 1:57-66

Genesis 49:2.8-10 Matthew 1:1-17

Jeremiah 23:5-8 Matthew 1:18-24

Judges 13:2-7.24-25 Luke 1:5-25

Eccl. 3:2-6. 12-14 Colossians 3:12-21 Luke 2:22-40

10.00am Church opens 10.30am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 10.30am - 12noon Confessions 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS After Mass Confessions 3.30pm Church closes

10.00am Church opens 10.30am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 10.30am - 12noon Confessions 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS After Mass Confessions 3.30pm Church closes

10.00am Church opens 10.30am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 10.30am - 12noon Confessions 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS After Mass Confessions 1.30pm Church cleaning 4.00pm - 5.00pm Confessions 5.15pm HOLY MASS

6.00pm Church closes

10.00am Church opens 10.30am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 10.30am - 12noon Confessions 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS 2.00pm - 3.30pm Confessions 4.00pm CHRISTMAS MASS

6.00pm CHRISTMAS MASS

8.00pm CHRISTMAS MASS Church closes after Mass

10.00am Church opens 11.00am CHRISTMAS MASS 12.30pm Church closes

10.00am Church opens 12 noon CHRISTMAS MASS 1.30pm Church closes THERE IS NO SUNDAY VIGIL MASS THIS EVENING

09.00am Church opens 10.00am CHRISTMAS MASS 12 noon CHRISTMAS MASS 1.30pm Church closes

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AT ST MARY’S and for your SUPPORT of our parish

Thank you for your generosity; Please remember to Gift Aid any donations to St Mary’s to help us in our Mission

CHRISTMAS WEEK AT ST MARY’S

Mon 28 December Tues 29 December Wed 30 December Thurs 31 December Fri 01 January Sat 02 January Sun 03 January

THE HOLY INNOCENTS Martyrs

SAINT THOMAS BECKET Bishop and Martyr

Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas

Seventh Day within the Octave of Christmas

HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD

St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen

SECOND SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS

1 John1:5-2:2 Matthew 2:13-18

Colossians 1:24-29; Luke 22:24-30

1 John 2:12-17 Luke 2:36-40

1 John 2:12-21 John 1:1-18

Numbers 6:22-27 Galatians 4:4-7 Luke 2:16-21

1 John 2:22-28 John 1:19-28

Eccl 24:1-12:8-12 Ephesians 1:3-6.15-18 John 1:1-18

10.00am Church opens 11.00am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS 1.30pm Church closes

10.00am Church opens 11.00am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS 1.30pm Church closes

10.00am Church opens 11.00am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS 1.30pm Church closes

10.00am Church opens 11.00am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS 1.30pm Church closes

10.00am Church opens 11.00am - 12.25pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 12.10pm Holy Rosary 12.30pm HOLY MASS 1.30pm Church closes

09.00am Church opens 10.00am - 11.45am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 10.00am - 11.15am Confessions 11.30pm Holy Rosary 11.45am Benediction 12noon HOLY MASS 5.15pm VIGIL MASS

6.00pm Church closes

09.00am Church opens 10.00am HOLY MASS 12 noon HOLY MASS 1.30pm Church closes