Responsorial Psalm:

All nations shall fall pros-trate before you, O Lord.

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

We saw this star as it rose and have come to do the

Lord homage.

Alleluia!

Money Matters Offertory Collection last weekend:

£593.77 of which £354.69 was Gift Aided.

Christmas Collection: £1775.11 (To the Parish Funds)

Gift Aid: If you are a Tax Payer, please consider filling out the Gift

Aid form which is in the church porch to receive a box of weekly

envelopes for your offertory donation or for a one-off

donation then please use the Green envelopes.

Please remember to write your name, address, sign and date the

green envelope. Thank you for supporting

our Parish. Let us pray for the Sick

Tricia Twizell, Angela Morris, Rosa Maria, Joan Lawrence, Gay McCornick, Moira Catherall, Lea Hill, Anne Turner, Mary Rowe, Rose Bryan, Jenny Mansley, Jennifer Rowley, Nancy Wilson, Joe Goggin, Joe & Luisa Desena, Peggy Edwards, Shelagh Fulham, Margaret Stubbs, Philomena Lamano, and Leo McManus.

We remember in our prayers Those whose anniversaries

(2nd Jan) Elizabeth O’Neill, Ann Blackwell, Isaac Rowlands, James Brunton, Margaret Mary Haw-kins, John Michael Durkin, Basil Fraser (3rd Jan) Michael Welsh, Elizabeth O’Neill, Martin Bran-nan, Martha Liddermore, Madallin Jones, Monica Farrelly, Joan Mary Evans, (4th Jan) Bernard Vernon, Michael Kasprzyk, Adamo Cappiello, Nora Craddock, Lucy Hatfield (5th Jan) Patrick Burke, Michael Nolan (6th Jan) Thomas Ren-ney, Catherine Jones, Mary Stocker, Pauline Carberry (7th Jan) Ellen Williams(8th Jan) Wil-liam Carney, John Fox, Alice Josephine McHugh, John James Carney, Bridget Cecilia Tyson

Music Practice on Tuesdays Reminder

Simon Hughes kindly gives us Music Practice every Tuesday from 6pm to

7pm. Everyone is Welcome

Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold

Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI, St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH

Email: piuscmi@gmail.com 01352 752087 Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121

Website: http://www.stdavidsmold.org.uk/

www.wrexhamdiocese.org.uk http://www.cmi.org.in

2nd January Saturday Mass 5.30pm

For People of the Parish

3rd January Sunday Mass 11am

Int. Sr. Helen & Sr. Eva (Alicia Mullen)

Monday : Monday after the Epiphany 4th Jan Mass 9.15am Anne Cullen RIP (Patty McArthur) Tuesday: Liturgy of the day

5th Jan Mass 9.15am Jim Dunlea RIP (Jane & Bob Kay) Wednesday: Liturgy of the day 6th Jan Mass 9.15am Pauline Carberry RIP (Peter Carberry) Thursday Liturgy of the day 7th Jan Mass 9.15am Kathleen Bate RIP (Jane Farrington) Friday Liturgy of the day 8th Jan Mass 9.15am Rosemary Prendargast RIP (Margaret & Mike Bunting)

LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week II

Eucharistic Adoration

with Rosary and Benediction

Every Friday following the

morning Mass at 9.15am

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)

Saturdays 10.30am to

11.30am & Before the Vigil

Mass (4.45-5.20pm)

Sundays before the Mass

(10.30-10.50am)

3rd January 2016 The Epiphany of the Lord Year C

10th January Sunday Mass 11am

Richard Kavanagh RIP

(Eileen Kavanagh)

9th January Saturday Mass 5.30pm

For People of the Parish

A ll that preparation for Christmas and

only ten days later it seems so far away. Gone are the Christmas adverts for food, drink and presents and we’re all rushing to buy that last leather sofa on offer (hurry, sale must end next Monday!) or drooling at the adverts for our luxury cruise around the world, or maybe just the camping holi-day…

But the Church recog-nises Christmas as a season, not just a bank holiday. And we have two echoes of the Christ-mas event that keep it alive in our hearts and minds: Epiphany (today) and the Presentation of the Lord (in about a month’s time).

T he word epiphany is a most uncom-

mon one. What it actually means is manifestation or showing. It recalls the day when the glory of God was made visible and accessi-ble through the birth of the

child Jesus. The wise men, coming from virtually the edges of the then-known world, represent the fact that the glory of God has been revealed to every cor-ner of the globe: from the Great River to earth’s bounds, as today’s psalm tells us.

E piphany is about universalism. No

one has a monopoly on God and Christ did not come for some sort of elite group but for every single human being of all time. The three wise men came to do homage to Jesus be-cause they felt he was spe-cial to them and to their people. Even people who have no evident outward religious expression often indicate that the simple

message of Christmas is one that still appeals to the human heart. In fact, St Leo the Great was fond of say-ing that there can be no strangers at Christmas be-cause God has graced us all, saints and sinners, with the gift of his own Son.

B ut like every litur-gy, Epiphany

does not leave us simply looking at the past. It coaxes us to change and renewal in our daily life of faith and to make a differ-ence to the future. If we celebrate Epiphany

as the making visible of God’s gift of true humanity in the person of his Son, then we are also agreeing to be “epiphanies” our-selves, to be thankful peo-ple who never cease prais-ing God for his many gifts and who show God’s graceful presence in our world by the way we our-selves live. Christmas may have come and gone, but Epiphany reminds us that it’s not over yet. We’ve a lot of showing to do.

NOT OVER YET

FAITH IN FOCUS:

Christian Unity Week 17th-24th January

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 17th to 24th Jan, with Cytun - we start the Week with a Taize Service in St David's Hall on Sunday 17th Jan at 7 45 pm, with refresh-ments afterwards.

All are very welcome. Any donations of cakes etc are also very welcome.

There are services and events throughout the week, please see the notice board at the back of church.

Wishing you a Happy New Year Mena and Sue

WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY 2016

Sunday 17 January Taizé Service at 7.45 p.m.

in St. David’s Roman Catholic Church Hall

Tuesday 19 January at 7.30 p.m. Agapé Service at the Salvation Army

Wrexham Street, Mold

Wednesday 20 January at 11.00 a.m. Service of Holy Communion at

St. Mary’s Parish Church

Thursday 21 January at 9.30 a.m. Bilingual prayer meeting at

Bethesda Chapel

Friday 22 January 12 Noon Frugal lunch at Bethel/Pendref Chapel

Sunday 24 January at 3.00 p.m. in Tyddyn Street Church, Tyddyn Street

Address by Mr. David Blainey

Prego A reminder of our first Ignatian Out-reach 'Prego' meeting of the new Church year (designated by Pope Francis to be the year of Mercy) this Thursday 7th January. We meet in the convent on the first and third Thursday of each month, from 7pm. All are welcome and feel free to bring a friend. Please phone Ged on 01745 563467 if you have any ques-tions.

Annual Cafod Race Members of 'Team St David's' represented the parish in the 31st Annual CAFOD Run that took place on Sunday, 28 December. If you would like to sponsor/donate, team members will be collecting after 5.30pm mass on Saturday and 11am mass on Sun-day. Thanks in advance. John Goggin

2016 Golden Jubilee Year

of our Church

EPIPHANY The idyllic scene of the wise men com-ing from the ends of the earth to wor-ship the child is a sign of the universal nature of Epiphany’s revelation from God. But it is also a fact that the Lord Jesus loves to reveal himself to those who dare to take the bleak side of the hill with him. Epiphany, tranquil though it may be, points the way to Calvary. (Elizabeth Fuller)