ST. BENEDICTS R C CHURCH OWEN STREET, ATHERSTONE,

WARWICKSHIRE, CV9 1DG Tel: 01827 713177,

Website: st-benedicts-atherstone.org Parish Priest: Mgr. Paul Watson

Finance Secretary: Jo Howe 01827 750214Newsletter: Brian Ingram 01827 704858

Dates for your DiaryInvitation from Archbishop Bernard Longley to young Catholics of the Archdiocese - The Archbishop would like to invite you to join him on pilgrimage to World Youth Day, Krakow, Poland in July 2015. Birmingham Catholic Youth Service will be organising this pilgrimage, which takes place between 19th July - 2nd August 2015. Age range - 16-35 years. For more information and to download your application form, see the website: www.go2wyd.co.uk .

Summer Retreat - July 24-26th at Hilton, Nr. Lichfield (Non-Residential) in a country setting. There are brochures in the porch and a Poster on the noticeboard.

Letter from Paul to the Benedictines (2nd series)

Greetings to you all! It seems entirely appropriate and strangely coincidental that I should be writing this first note to you on the eve of the Feast of St Beneidct! I wish you all a happy Feast Day. I feel that we are all under the power of his intercessory prayer.

Well, two weeks have almost gone by since I left Atherstone for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. I had the surgery on Monday 29th June (for 5 hours apparently). I then spent a couple of days in the Intensive Care Unit. They were keeping an eye on me because I had rather low blood pressure and diculty with breathing. I went back to the Ward then and spent a few days being filled with drugs to get the pain under some control.

On Sunday I was discharged and came back to St Joseph's Nursing Home in Harborne in the afternoon. I am now settling in to the routine of the Home - although today I had to go back to the Hospital for another chest X-Ray, because my breathing is still not right. I imagine that I should continue making progress now.

I can relax into the final days of Wimbledon and also face the delightful prospect of the season of Test Cricket and winning the Ashes! Perhaps many of you are getting ready for holidays. I do hope that they will be relaxing and refreshing.

You are in my thoughts and prayers,

God bless Fr Paul.

We extend a warm welcome to everyone worshipping here this weekend, refreshments are served in the Church Hall after 9.30am

Mass, please come and join us, ALL ARE WELCOME.

15th Sunday of the Year (B)Sat 11th July 4.00 pm Vigil of Sunday

Feast of Saint Benedict

Sun 12th July 9:30 am 15th Sunday For the Parish

Mon 13th July -

Tues 14th July 7.00 pm Prayer MtgMeet in Church, all welcome

Wed 15th July Saint Bonaventure

Thurs 16th JulyOur Lady of Mount

Carmel

Friday 17th July 10.00 amService of Holy Communion

Sat 18th July 4.00 pm Vigil Mass

Sun 19th July 9:30am 16th Sunday of the year Parishioners

AnniversariesWe pray for all our deceased relatives and friends especially those who's anniversaries fall at this time, Joan Airey, Mary Hardy, Mary Ann Jarvis, Florence Thompson, Pauline Catherine Hughes, Anthony Jarofz. May they Rest in Peace.

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Readers this week: Sat: M. Henney Sun: N. Osborne Readers next week: Sat: M. Bourne Sun: D. Dickens Offertory Procession this week: J & S Major Eucharistic Ministers D. Leaper D. Dickens Next Week T. Wright M. Reed Church Cleaning - ------------------- Altar Society - -------------------

Money MattersCollections last week: 1st - 288:65 153:10 - thank you!This week 27/28th - Second Collection for Peter's PenceJuly 11/12th - Second Collection for the Apostleship of the Seas (special envelopes will be available).

TOTE: 05/07/2015. Winning Nos 14 - 16. Rollover Snowball this week 20__________________________________________________________

PRAYER GROUP - The prayer will take the basic format of Evening Prayer of the Church with the opportunity to extend the various elements of the Prayer (Praise and adoration, listening to Scripture readings and Intercession for our various needs). To give you a sense of how long the meeting might last - last week we prayed together for about half an hour!

The Sick and their CarersPlease pray for Father Andrew, Pat & Maureen Burke, Bridie Symmons, Ada Russell, Winifred Jones, Charlotte Smith, Kath Ford, Ursula Cope, Patricia Carter, Christina Chetwynd, Olive Fortune, Victor John Zeslawski and Father Paul. Please remember our housebound parishioners in your prayers: Marion Burrows and Marie Aherne .

Called to be HolyWe all have some share in the priesthood of Christ by virtue of our common baptism. This invokes in us, a sense of belonging yes, belonging to the body of Christ. This is sometimes referred to as the priesthood of the faithful. St. Peter tells us that: through Baptism and the anointing of the Holy Spirit are reborn and consecrated as a spiritual temple and a holy priesthood. By living the Christian life, they offer up spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the prodigious deeds of Him who called them from darkness into his own wonderful light (1 Peter 2, 4-10). This is the sense in which we are invited to be Holy as our heavenly father is Holy (1 Peter 1: 15). The prophet Amos was sent by God to the land of Judah. In the same way, we are called and sent to our families, our communities, our friend, bringing alive once again the message of salvation. Like the apostles, the Lord is asking us to be his hands of compassion, the voice of mercy and forgiveness, healing and love. But then, we must be transformed ourselves before we can bring it to others. Today, we ask the Lord transform us into true copies of Himself in order to bring the good news to others. Amen. Fr. Raphael Imoni