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St Peter’s Catholic Church London Road, Gloucester GL1 3EX
Tel: 01452 523603 [email protected] Parish website: www.stpetersgloucester.org.uk
Diocesan website: www.cliftondiocese.com
Clifton Diocese (a company limited by guarantee) registered in England and Wales under number 10462076 Registered Charity No. 1170168. Registered Office: St. Ambrose, North Road, Leigh Woods, Bristol, BS8 3PW
Parish Priest: Monsignor Liam Slattery VG [email protected]
Assistant Priest: Canon Alan Finley (on sick leave) [email protected] Permanent Deacons: Rev Colm Robinson [email protected] Rev Tim Meadows [email protected] Rev David Hebbes [email protected]
Parish Secretary: Mrs Thérèse English [email protected] Parish Office: Tues, Wed, Fri -9.30am-2.30pm Thurs-12.00pm-5.00pm
Parish Safeguarding Representatives: John Bond & Deacon Colm Robinson
Schools
St Peter’s Catholic Primary School: Tel: 01452 524792. Web: www.st-peters-pri.gloucs.sch.uk St Peter’s Catholic High School & Sixth Form Centre Tel: 01452 520594. Web: www.st-petershigh.gloucs.sch.uk
25th March 2018 – Palm Sunday (Year B) Sunday 25th March
6.00pm (Sat) Vigil Mass Paddy McCormack RIP 9.00am Mass Ronald Cowdery RIP 10.30am Mass People of the Parish 12.30pm Polish Language Mass 5.30pm Mass Eugene McGoldrick RIP
Diocesan Prayer Link Keynsham- St Dunstan
Monday 26th March 9.30am Mass Ints of Elizabeth Knight Monday of Holy Week Tuesday 27th March 6.00pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
7.00pm Mass Beth Kerr RIP 7.30pm Confessions
Tuesday of Holy Week
Wednesday 28th March 6.00pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 7.00pm Mass Thanksgiving- Mullasseril Pappachan
Wednesday of Holy Week
Thursday 29th March 7.30pm Mass of The Lord’s Supper Holy (Maundy) Thursday
Friday 30th March 10.30am Stations of the Cross for Children 12.00pm-1.00pm Confessions 3.00pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
Good Friday
Saturday 31st March 8.00pm Easter Vigil People of the Parish Holy Saturday
Mass Text: Sunday 25th March- Palm Sunday Responsorial Psalm: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Gospel Acclamation: Christ was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all names. Preface: The Passion of the Lord Eucharistic Prayer: II
Next Weekend: Sunday 1st April - Easter Sunday Acts 10:34. 37-43 Colossians 3:1-4 John 20:1-9
Last Week: Offertory - £1055.958 Mass Count –574
This Week: Holy Week. Daily Prayer of the Church: Week 2.
Confessions: After the evening mass on Tuesday there will be a number of priests from the Deanery available to hear confessions. There is also an opportunity for confession on Good Friday, 12.00pm-1.00pm. Please note that in accordance with Church practice there are no confessions on Holy Saturday, March 31st.
Easter Collection: The Offertory collection at Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday Masses is your offering to Fr Liam
Reception of the Holy Oils: The Holy Oils to be received at the 7.00pm mass on Wednesday are those blessed by Bishop Declan at the Chrism Mass and which will be used in the celebration of the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Anointing of the Sick in our parish throughout the coming year.
The Liturgy of the Easter Triduum in St Peter’s The Sacred Triduum marks the three holiest days of the Church’s year. It begins with the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper and continues, through Good Friday’s Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion and Death and Holy Saturday’s Great Vigil of Easter, and continues until Vespers of the Resurrection. Holy Thursday: The Mass of the Lord’s Supper recalls the Last Supper, when the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, loving those who were his own in the world until the very end, offered his Body and Blood under the species of bread and wine to God, and under these symbols, gave them to the Apostles that they might consume them and commanded them and their successors in the priesthood to offer them. The Mass of the Lord’s Supper is at 7.30pm with Watching at the Altar of Repose until Compline (Night Prayer) at 10.45pm. Good Friday: On this day, when Christ our Paschal Lamb was sacrificed, the Church contemplates and adores the Cross of her Lord and Spouse, commemorating her own coming forth from the side of Christ as he slept on the cross, and interceding for the salvation of the world. The Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion is at 3.00pm. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer at 9.30am. Stations of the Cross for children at 10.30am. Children who would like to read are asked to be in church by 10.10am. At 7.00pm there will be a celebration of Compline, Procession, Veneration and Placement of the Holy Shroud following the Byzantine tradition. This will be led by Deacon Tim and Fr Lubomyr from the Good Shepherd Ukrainian Church in Gloucester. Holy Saturday: The Easter Vigil, the ‘mother of all vigils’ is the greatest and most noble of all solemnities. On this holy night the Church keeps watch, celebrating the resurrection of Christ in the sacraments of Christian initiation. The Easter Vigil begins at 8.00pm. During the Easter Vigil, Leanne Purnell, Patricia Barker and Les Branchett will be baptised. They, along with Brian Ross, will complete their Christian Initiation through receiving the Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer at 9.30am. During the 7.00pm Mass on Tuesday April 3rd, Martyn Skues will complete his Christian Initiation through receiving the Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist.
SVP: No meeting on Tuesday March 27th due to the parish penitential. The next meeting, a District Meeting, hosted by St Peter’s, is on Tuesday April 3rd after evening mass in the Coffee Bar.
We pray for those who are ill - Andrea Brushneen, Mary Wood, Jessie Hall, Cheryl Loy, Rita Lenagan, Sharon Williams, Michaele Hercules, Ann Vaughan, John Wood, Leonard Slatter, Sue Hartnett, Jane Conway, Marie Cunningham, Tom Kennedy, Phil Gammond, Mandi Stokes, Florence Stephens, Theo Montague, Sammy Santorelli, Lal Slattery, Margaret Coleman, Vera Watson, Patricia Walsh, Janice Hunt, Cecilia Edwards, Veronica Burke, Janet Diaco, Eileen Dewsnip, Sarah Anderson, Fred Leader, Fay Gordon, Kitty Smith. Brendan McGowan, Elizabeth Knight.
RIP: Your prayers are asked for those who died recently: Patrick Mahon. His funeral service in St Peter’s Church on Thursday March 29th (Holy Thursday) at 10.00am followed by private committal at Gloucester Crematorium. Alex Nunes: Funeral mass on Tuesday April 3rd at 11.00am followed by burial at Coney Hill Cemetery. Dom Damian Sturdy, Prinknash Abbey. Fr Damian’s funeral mass takes place in Nazareth House, Cheltenham at 10.00am on Wednesday April 4th. Raymond Latimer. His funeral service takes place at Gloucester Crematorium on Thursday April 5th at 2.00pm. Irene Gamble: Funeral mass on Friday April 6th at 10.30am followed by burial at Coney Hill Cemetery. Vera Gammell (neé Crowley), formerly of this parish, who died in Ipswich on Friday 16th March. We extend our sympathy and the support of our prayers to all their families
Chrism Mass: A reminder for everyone booked on the coach that the pick up time on Wednesday is 8.45am.
Good Friday - Day of Fast and Abstinence: On this day we unite with the whole Church throughout the world in prayer and fasting. There will be a retiring collection after Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 3.00pm for Holy Places and Christians in the Holy Land.
Weekly Envelopes: New gift aid your weekly envelopes (blue) are available for collection in the corridor leading to the sacristy. Non gift aid envelopes (yellow) are available at the back of church.
Polish Food Blessing (Święconka): Will take place in Church on Holy Saturday from 10.30am – 11.45am.
Rosary on the Coast: For Faith, Life and Peace in the British Isles Sunday 29 April 2018 at 3.00pm. For more info https://www.rosaryonthecoast.co.uk/ As Gloucester is the highest tidal point on the Severn we will be participating in this event by praying the Rosary on the Old Over Bridge, just off the A40 Ross Road. More details will be available in next week’s newsletter.
