___________The Parishes of__________

St. Mary of the Angels, Batley

& St. Patrick’s, Birstall

26TH JULY 2020 - 17TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR A)

DAY DATE TIME CHURCH FEAST INTENTION

Saturday 25 July 04.30pm St Mary’s 17th Sunday O T Francis Hind (RIP)

06.00pm St Patrick’s 17th Sunday O T Gerard Harnisch

Sunday 26 July 09.00am St Patrick’s 17th Sunday O T Stella Mawson

10.30am St Mary’s 17th Sunday O T Mark Grace (RIP)

11.30am St Mary’s Baptism of Charlotte Grace Watkins

Monday 27 July 09.30am St Patrick’s Weekday O T Michael McManus (Rem)

07.00pm St Mary’s Weekday O T Hugh Hegarty (B’day Rem)

Tuesday 28 July 09.30am St Mary’s Weekday O T Private Intention (EH)

Wednesday 29 July

Thursday 30 July 09.30am St Patrick’s Weekday O T Donald Mawson

12.00noon St Mary’s Weekday O T Peter Swallow (Rem)

Friday 31 July 09.30am St Mary’s St Ignatius of Loyola Edward Lynch (A)

Saturday 1 Aug 10.00am St Patrick’s St Alphonsus Liguori Eddie Whitelaw (Rem)

2nd August 2020 - 18TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR A)

Saturday 1 Aug 04.30pm St Mary’s 18th Sunday O T T B C

06.00pm St Patrick’s 18th Sunday O T T B C

Sunday 2 Aug 09.00am St Patrick’s 18th Sunday O T T B C

10.30 St Mary’s 18th Sunday O T T B C

11.30am St Mary’s Baptism of the Phoebe & Felix Fabianski

St Mary’s, please pray for……

Those who are poorly

Maria Ashton, Kathleen Pawson (nee Rush), Fr Bernard Funnell, Patricia Scrutton, Lindsey Redgewick,

Frank O’Neill, Ruth McMullen, Ann Leach, Elaine Richardson, Catherine & Jimmy McVeigh, Andy Swindells,

Sheila Haigh, Michael Haigh, Cindy Carter, Leonie Briggs, Fr David Bulmer, Tolan Kilgallon, Geoff Holland &

baby Sophia Taylor and all the sick members of our parish and their family and friends.

Those who have died

Shirley Findlay, Bradley Gledhill, Francis Hinds, Gerard Harnisch, Hilda Logush & Mark Grace.

Anniversaries / Remembrance

Hugh Hegarty, Stella Mawson, Donald Mawson & Edward Lynch

Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord.

Let perpetual light shine upon them.

May they rest in peace

ST MARY’S PARISH MATTERS FORTHCOMING FUNERALS

Shirley Findlay (RIP) - Funeral Service - Tuesday 11th August - 12noon - St Mary’s

BRADLEY GLEDHILL (RIP) - Please keep in your prayers the family of Bradley Gledhill who died

tragically here in Batley a few weeks ago. Please remember Bradley in your prayers and also his

mum Kelly, sister Bryony and all the family at this sad time. The funeral will be arranged in due

course.

CELEBRATING THE SACRAMENTS – I have now received the latest guidelines from Bishop Marcus

about the celebration of the various Sacraments. To see a copy of the latest guidelines please see

the parish websites or click here.

WEBSITE - ‘REFECTIONS ON THE WORD’ - We are launching a new page on our parish websites

called ‘Reflections on the Word’ where people take a photos fro scenes in their daily lives,

wherever they may be and relate it to a piece of Scripture. This is a lovely way to share thoughts

and ideas and offer each other a word of encouragement during these strange times.

If you would like to take part in this lovely idea please send your pictures to;

eamonn.hegarty@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

with your chosen piece of Scripture and we will make them available on the websites. I look

forward to seeing your pictures and your insights from Scripture. Thank you to Anne Hill for

sharing this lovely idea with us.

PARISH OFFERTORY – I have been asked by a number of parishioners how they might be able to

continue contributing financially to their parish during these days when access to the church is no

longer possible. If people wish to continue giving to the church at this time, there are two ways

possible.

Giving by Text – We now have the facility to take offerings using text messaging. To use this

service and to contribute £5 to the Parish Offertory, please text;

CHURCH BATLEY to 70500

Please note that it is a feature of the text-giving facility that allows for no more and no less than £5

to be given to the Offertory via each text. If your regular weekly parish giving is either more or less

than this amount, please feel free either to send more than one text – or maybe use this facility

just once a month.

Standing Order Mandate – More and more people are paying their offertory collection by

Standing Order, rather than using cash each week. If you would like to start using this facility

please download the standing order form from the parish website or contact Annette Crowther

and she will arrange to post one to you. If you have any questions about setting up a standing

order with the parish, do not hesitate to contact Annette Crowther the Parish Administrator. The

following contact details are for both St Mary’s and St Patrick’s.

Annette Crowther:

Email here

Mobile: 07738901165

Pay by Card – following advice from the Diocese we now have a facility available to the parish,

whereby people can make donations to the parish via their bank cards. This facility is available on

the parish website and is very quick and easy to use.

Thank you for supporting the work of the Church: your generosity is much needed and particularly

appreciated at this time. If you have any questions about your offertory giving, please do not

hesitate to contact Annette Crowther and she will be happy to help.

ONLINE PRAYER INTENTIONS – We now have a new facility on our website for our personal prayer

intentions. You are very welcome submit your prayer requests and we as a parish will also

remember these prayer intentions in our own prayers. It is good as a parish that we not only pray

with each other, we also pray for each other too. If you wish to use the ‘Online Prayer Intentions

facility, please click here.

WEBSITE PARISH MEMORY LANE PAGE – If you have any old photos / stories / articles of the

parish of yester-year we would love you to share them on our new ‘Parish Memory Lane’ page.

This can be of anything you wish from our parish past.

Any pictures which you are happy to share or stories of parish life, we would love to see them here

too. Photographs can be sent as hard copies and we can scan them if required.

YOUR THOUGHTS FOR THE WEBSITE - If you have any thoughts of what you would like to see on

our websites, please do not hesitate to contact me – if we can do it, we will certainly try. It is a

Parish Website and so new ideas from the parish are always welcome. Many thanks to Michelle

and Patrick Anderson for their continued support here.