WELCOME TO MASS AT ST MARY’S NEWHOUSE

Mass Times and Intentions

Please remember in prayer our sick or housebound parishioners, and all who have died recently or whose anniversary of death is about this time.

Reconciliation (Confession): Wednesdays, after 7.00pm Mass.  Or ring 862831 for a better day or time.

THANK YOU for last week’s collection: £199.65.  Tsunami: £16.85  Attendance: 58   (We continue the Mass count for one more weekend.)

TODAY we will pray for Prisoners & their dependants, at the start of Prisoners week.

A donation box for PACT is in the church porch. It is not a mandatory collection, it’s just for those who feel keen to help this spiritual care of prisoners and their families.

This year, with your support, Pact has:

• Facilitated over 230,000 prison visits, enabling more than 34,000 children to visit family members in prison

• Supported 8,000 people who contacted Pact for information and advice.
• Provided over 6,000 prisoners with personal support.

Visit: www.prisonadvice.org.uk

NEW SAINTS TODAY, Sunday 14^th. Pope Francis will declare as saints seven people, including a woman who is the first saint from Bolivia. They also include Pope Paul VI, and Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who was shot in 1980 as he ended his homily. He was an outspoken champion of the poor and oppressed. 

MASS TIMES, please.  Thank you for the views already received. Part of the process is to consider how neighbouring parishes might come into the picture. The bishop will expect us to consult them – as we intend to do. We will probably not be able to do that until sometime in November. Comments still welcome on paper or by e-mail to   simon.hawksworth@hotmail.co.uk

YOUTH CLUB for both parishes, has now started. The next meeting will be Friday 27^th Oct. and every 2 weeks, 6.30pm to 8pm, in parish centre at Our Lady and St. Edward’s. This is for years 7-9 at High School.

METANOIA PROJECT (Ruth & Joe White).

1. ”ONE BODY” -in Preston, many faces of Catholicism: Jesuits, Syro-Malabar, Latin Mass, Neo-Catechumenate, Carmelites, Benedictines, etc. Talks at St. Wilfrid’s, Thursdays, 7.30pm. Doors open 7pm.

2. ”TREASURE” a retreat for young people (High School age upwards) in mid-term, 22-23 Oct. Please ask for a booking form.

More info: See posters and leaflets in porch.

The FAITH ENQUIRY GROUP has started, Sundays, at 7.30pm in OLSE presbytery.

Please invite non-baptised adults, and people baptised in other Churches. If you’re a Catholic, but missed Confirmation or Holy Communion, this would help you.

We JOURNEY TOGETHER IN FAITH.

Still Time - just! A Bill to remove all legal controls from abortion, at any stage. Urgent: the vote is on 23 Oct. Please take a card home and post it a.s.a.p. Thank you.  An email or letter to your MP is even better (or as well).

K.S.C. (Knights of St. Columba) BINGO & RAFFLE, Wednesday, 17^th Oct, 7.30pm in St Gregory’s Social Centre, to help Sick and Helpers go to Lourdes. Raffle tickets here in porch, £1 per book. ( See poster)  Money to priest, please.

‘VINE HOUSE’ ANNUAL COFFEE MORNING

At Our Lady & St. Edward’s Parish Centre, on Wed, 24^th October, 10-12 Noon. Admission £2.00. Usual stalls & Raffle (see poster).

Cor et Lumen Christi Event: “Walking in the Spirit”, 24^th-25^th Nov, at St Walburge’s Hall, Preston PR2 2QJ, including Open Healing Service, on Sat, 24^th Nov from 6pm.  (See poster & leaflets in porch)

WORLD MISSION NEXT SUNDAY  21^ST OCTOBER

Next Sunday we’ll be invited to  contribute to a special collection for MISSIO – to help support over 1,000 dioceses overseas who are too young or too poor to support themselves. This is the main Mission appeal of the year.

Please take a MISSIO envelope home this weekend. Next weekend the collection will follow immediately after the usual parish collection. As you so generously helped people’s bodily needs through Harvest Fast, please be missionaries to their souls.

BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

Would anyone wishing to have deceased members of their families listed in the Book of Remembrance during November, please take one of the envelopes from the back of church and return it as soon as possible.