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STECHFORD
THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY IN THE
JUBILEE YEAR OF MERCY
The Wise Men brought special gifts of great meaning to the Child Jesus.
In this New Year of Mercy
let us bring to others the gifts of our LOVE,
COMPASSION and PRAYERS
and THE SHARING OF OUR FAITH.
(Do your neighbours know you are a Christian? How do they know?)
Working together with: St Wilfrid’s, Castle Bromwich (Masses Sat 5.30 pm, Sun 9.00 am)
Holy Family, Small Heath (Masses Sat 4 pm, Sun 10.30 am & 5.15 pm) & Our Lady of the Rosary, Saltley (Masses Sun 9.30 am & 12 pm)
Fr. Paul Devaney and Fr. Michael Puljić (0121) 783 2792 E-mail: [email protected]
www.corpuschrististechford.co.uk Sr. Maureen and Sr. Maura RSM (0121) 784 2090 Mandy O’Borne - Children & Vulnerable Adults
Protection Officer 624 2258 / 07740 537 787
3rd January 2016 Solemnity of the Epiphany, Year C
SVP - Please Contact Carol 783 2617 or Bob 628 4416. Thank you for all items donated throughout the year. Needed: microwave, wool, CDs, DVDs, mobile phones, freezer, bumper seat, baby items e.g. baby buggy, baby bath, all items for a 3 month old baby girl, specs. No other items required at the moment. Please leave items needed under
the SVP table in the Parish Room.
AL ANON (Support/self-help group for relatives and friends of problem drinkers) - meets 8.00 p.m. on Fri in Parish Room - also at Church Hall, Sacred Heart & Holy Souls, Acocks Green, on Weds at 8.00 pm. Email: [email protected] or tel:
020 7403 0888.
NEXT MEETING OF THE LEGION OF MARY - Parish Room, Tue 6th Jan at 11.15
am. New members welcome.
THE LEISURE CLUB will re-open on 4th
January.
LOOKING FOR A VENUE TO HIRE? St Wilfrid’s, Castle Bromwich, has a Community Centre available to hire for weddings, funeral wakes, birthday and baptism parties, etc., with space outdoors for a bouncy castle. For pho tos and more deta i l s , see
www.stwilfridschurch.eu
Sisters Maura, Maureen and Teresa Paschal thank parishioners for their great kindness, Masses and prayers at Christmas. May God bless and protect you and your
families in this Jubilee Year of Mercy.
MERCY ASSOCIATES meet on Wed 13th
Jan (**weather permitting) at 7.30pm.
FIRST YOUTH PRAYER OF THE TERM - Fri
15th Jan at 6.15pm.
PARISH READERS - Please collect your personal copy of ‘My Day by Day’ from the newspaper table to help you reflect on the
Mass Readings.
PLEASE PICK UP YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS AND RED BOXES from the porch table before everything is tidied away. Thank
you!
THROUGHOUT THE JUBILEE YEAR OF MERCY the beautiful prayer HAIL, HOLY QUEEN, MOTHER OF MERCY will replace the Hail Mary at the end of the Bidding Prayers as from this weekend. Please use the words printed in this newsletter until we make copies for inside the new Parish Mass
Books.
APF - January collection now due. Please
bring in your red box by the end of the month.
PIETY STALL - There are still calendars left
for sale.
UNDERSTAND THE ENTIRE BIBLE! A 24-part study, featuring Jeff Cavins, begins on Wed 6th Jan, 7.30-9.30 at St Columban’s, Widney Manor Rd, Solihull, B93 9AB. Donation only. To register / for info contact Therese Bentley [email protected] 07872
323 229. www.biblestudyforcatholics.com
VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES WITH MARRIAGE CARE - See notice in porch, www.marriagecare.org.uk or contact
MASSES SENT AWAY - See notice board.
FILM NIGHT featuring “Irish Destiny” - Wed
6th Jan, 7.15 pm. See poster in porch.
Bonus Ball winners: See next week.
FINANCIAL NOTES Offertory Collection: £523.04
We ask your prayers for: Margaret Rose, Kathleen Cumiskey, Mrs Whelan, Mary Overton, Maurice (Mossie) Fitzgerald, Scott Benton, Karen Smith, Tom Martyn, Tim Bradley, Joe Whale, Michael Davitt, Karen Parke, Fergus & Ann Kelly, Rachel Canavan, Marion Bird, Mary Hughes, Jimmy McAssey, Keith Hands, Cath Laidlaw, Helen McMullan, Tony Austin, Annette Smith, Terence Franklin, Sheila Ward, Kathy Bergin, Tom Roper, Bernard McHale, Pat and George Pollock, Maureen Rooney, Steven and
Melissa O’Brien, Jaqueline Smyth, Michelle Flydd, all those in nursing homes in the parish and all who are sick, housebound and in special need of our prayers.
Please remember in your prayers: Betty Padbury, Johnnie McCarron who died in Ireland, all those who have died recently and those whose anniversaries are recorded in the Book of the Dead in Saint Joseph’s Chapel. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Catholic TV Network: EWTN, Sky Channel 589 or Radio 0147, on Sky’s Freesat service, can be tuned in to BBC Freesat. For more information, contact St. Clare Media (EWTN) Ltd. Tele: 0208 650 2542, or e-mail:
Messages from Fr Paul and Fr Michael
Fr Paul is away on his Christmas holiday from Tuesday 5th to Wednesday 20th January. Fr Michael will also be away during this time, from 6th - 9th January in Walsingham, and will be happy to take any petitions you have. As a result, there will be Eucharistic Services instead of Mass on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning, and no confessions on Saturday morning. Fr Michael will be back in time for the Saturday evening confessions & Mass.
NEXT WEEK
MASS READER BIDDING PRAYERS EXTRAORD. MINISTERS Sat: Team C Sun: Team 3
Sat 6.00 M Moyles A Kennedy J Williams/F Kearney /T Flanagan/A Adu Sun 10.30 D & N McCabe M Holland/T Miles B Edkins/J McCabe
/K Smith/B Ryan
Counting Team 6
Hail Holy Queen
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy; hail our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee to we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this, our exile, show unto us
the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
MASSES Sunday Readings: Epiphany of the Lord, Year C, pg 114.
Weekday Readings: Christmas season.
Saturday, 2nd January
6.00 pm Kate Lavin RIP
Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, 3rd January, Year C
10.30 am John & Lily Hall
Monday, 4th January
9.15am People of the Parish 12.30 pm Dereck Shorey RIP
Tuesday 5th January Optional Memorial of St Charles of St Andrew
12.30 pm Deceased of the Smith & Hincks families
Wednesday, 6th January
12.30 pm Eucharistic Service
Thursday, 7th January
NO SCHOOL MASS 12.30 pm Eucharistic Service
Friday, 8th January
NO SCHOOL MASS 12.30 pm John Joseph O’Neill
Saturday, 9th January
10.00 am Eucharistic Service 10.30 - Exposition of the Blessed 11.30 am Sacrament (no Benediction) 6.00 pm Jimmy Thewlis RIP (followed by Knanaya Catholic Prayer Group)
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, 10th January, Year C
10.30 am Tom Smith 3 pm Indian Mass
CONFESSIONS
This week: Saturday, 5.15-5.45 pm only.
Open confession available on request.
The parish is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham: Registered Charity No. 234216 Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales: www.catholic-ew.org.uk
BAPTISMS - 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at 12.00pm
Parents & Godparents wishing to arrange a baptism should attend the next baptism course at 6.00 pm on Mon 4th January in the Parish Room. Parents are encouraged to consider a saint’s name for their child along with any other name of their choice.
