August 24th
Responsorial Psalm: Your love, O Lord, is eternal. Discard not the work of your hands.
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia! Alleluia! God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself.
| Sunday Masses 9.00am John Reddan (Anniv.) 11.00am Thomas Ward (Anniv.) 6.00pm People of the Parish | Next Sunday (Twenty-second Sunday of the Year, A) 9.00am People of the Parish 11.00am Mary Canning (Anniv.) 6.00pm Frank O’Malley (Anniv.) |
Masses This Week
Bank Holiday Monday 10.00am Angela Poole-Chivers RIP No Evening Mass today
Tuesday 9.15am Marie Divine RIP 7.00pm Ints of the Craig family
Wednesday 9.00am Jim McDermott RIP No Evening Mass today
Thursday 9.00am Rosie O’Connor RIP No Evening Mass today
Friday 9.00am Mary Jones RIP No Evening Mass today
Saturday 9.00am Ken Pickett RIP Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 10.30am No Confessions today.
RIP – Tom Clinton, David Gormal, Ian Crawley, Sheila Laszczyk, Margaret Synnott, Deacon John Leach, Ann Brown, and the deceased of air crashes in the past week.
Anniversaries: We pray for all those parishioners, family and friends whose anniversaries occur in the coming week.
Sick List – Please pray for Fr Louis Purcell, Fr Anthony Frainey, Fr John Bentley, Charles MacKinnon, Kevin Bills, Kitty Ryan,
Hannah McBride, Penny Valentine, Leo Keenan, Joan Simmons, Molly O’Connor, Sinead Heffernan, , Ruby Wilson, Jack Holloway, Baby Matt Lynch, William Grant, Hughie McNaboe, Mary Doran, Anne Thomson, Madeleine Philips, Esme Pain, Tony Armstrong,
Philomena O’Connor, Angela Moses, Warren Luyt, Jonjo Rooney, Alice Hopkins, Teresa Johnson, Bill Middleton, Tina Larque,
Sr. Angela Black SND, Paul Bainbridge, Mary Reilly, Kitty Budkiewicz, Sr Sheila Phillips, Helen Freeman, PJ Barrett, Teresa Warr,
Matthew Plant, Luke Blacklaw, Sheila Jenkins, Cath Gallacher, Barbara Mattock, Sean Sullivan, Roger Moulding, Gertrude Kelly, Elizabeth Garry, Laura Smallwood, Teresa Mellon, Arthur Thornhill, Annie Murphy, Veronica Grimshaw, Joan Gardner,
Teresa Johnson, Norman Arnold, Anne Gallimore, Barbara Rees, Anthony Quinn, Mary Higginson and housebound parishioners.
Year of St Paul – Romans 11:33-36 is today’s Second Reading, reminding us of the depths of the Mystery of God.
Tea and coffee – After the 9am and 11am Masses, in the Margaret Roper Room today. All parishioners and visitors welcome.
Last Sunday’s Collection: £1117-65. Thank you for your generosity.
St Osburg’s Church Restoration – The Mother Church of our city is due to be restored, beginning this autumn. It will be a major project. £500 has been sent from donations for tea and coffee after the 11am Mass here since the initiative began. If anybody has previous connections with St Osburg’s (family weddings / past parishioners etc.,) and you would like to make a donation to the restoration work, it can be given in here and forwarded, or sent directly to St Osburg’s. The project will require city-wide assistance.
Parish Registers – As the parish registers are kept as up to date as possible, please fill in a Parish Census form at the back of church today (and post it through the presbytery door)s if: you are new to the parish, or you have never filled one of these forms in, or any of your details previously given have changed in the past year or so. All parishioners (not just newcomers) are invited to do so.
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Harvington Hall – Next Sunday (31st August) – details on notice boards today. We shall not be arranging transport this year, but anybody is welcome to make their own way to Harvington. Mass at 3pm. For more details about the hall, and directions, please see www.harvingtonhall..com. Please note: tours of the hall must be booked before the day.
School Bus to Bishop Ullathorne – Please note that the No. 44 bus to Bishop Ullathorne will have a changed route from 1st September. Parents and students are asked to contact Travel de Courcey for any clarification of this change: Tel. 76 302656.
Tuesday Society – A group within the parish for those who, by their own admission, have ‘wintered into wisdom’. Meets each week during school term times, from 2pm to 4pm in the Margaret Roper Room. The new season will begin again on the changed date of 2nd September. New members and visitors are always welcome, for fun and friendship, and a programme of speakers & events.
Safeguarding – You may have noticed the change of designation at the top of the weekly newsletter from ‘Child Protection Representatives’ to ‘Safeguarding Representatives’. This signals a new phase in the Church’s duty of care towards children and vulnerable adults. More will be said about this in due course, but please feel free to ask Beryl or Malcolm about their role.
Coventry Websites: Coventry Deanery (information about Mass and Confession times around the city, and a place to advertise and report events of interest to the Catholic community): www.coventry-catholicdeanery.
South Coventry Christian Churches (Styvechale, Cheylesmore and Finham): www.southcovchurches.net.
Alzheimer’s Society – A 60s Disco Night will be held at the Standard Triumph Social Club, Tile Hill Lane this Friday (29th). Tickets cost £5-00. Please contact June McDermott on 76 417970. All monies raised will be spent on events and trips for younger people with dementia.
Annual Diocesan Mass for Altar Servers of the Diocese – will be celebrated by Bishop Philip Pargeter at St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, on Saturday 20th September at 12 noon. All parish servers and their families are invited to attend this Mass.
World Youth Day presentation to families and parishioners – Next Sunday (31st August) at 7.30pm in the Margaret Roper Room. Mindful of the number of people who contributed and encouraged our young adults so much in their preparation for the trip to Melbourne and Sydney, all parishioners are very welcome to hear some of the experiences of the trip.
World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, July 2008. Some testimonies from two of the pilgrims
Katherine Pears (who has been an altar server in our parish for 8 years) writes…
My name is Katherine and I was privileged to be one of the ten lucky parishioners to attend WYD. It was an amazing experience that will stay with me forever.
Our time in Melbourne was memorable for the religious events: Mass in an Australian Football Stadium, and non religious events: RAMSAY STREET! The hospitality and generosity of our host parish, Saint Paul's in Bentley, Melbourne was immense and they will forever be in our thoughts and prayers.
Sydney had an incredible atmosphere, everywhere we went WYD groups were chanting and singing in languages from all across the world. Witnessing hundreds of thousands of young Catholics unite in prayer truly brought home how powerful the Catholic faith really is.
Seeing the Pope cruise round in his pope-mobile was also slightly exciting!
At the vigil and the final mass I started to feel nostalgic, as I realised this mass symbolised the end of WYD, but I also felt content as I had been spiritually moved and made life long friendships.
I am looking forward to sharing the full experience of our trip with you, the parishioners who so generously helped send us on our pilgrimage.
Pope Benedict spoke about his thoughts on World Youth Day, after his return to Rome…
I returned last Monday from Sydney, Australia. I still have this extraordinary experience in my eyes and heart, during which I experienced the youthful face of the Church: it was like a multicoloured mosaic, formed by young men and women from all parts of the world, all gathered together in the one faith in Jesus Christ: "young pilgrims of the world", as the people called them. In fact, these meetings form the stages of a great pilgrimage across the planet. They show that faith in Christ makes all of us children of the one Father who is in Heaven, and builders of the civilization of love.
A characteristic of the [World Youth Day in Sydney] was the awareness of the centrality of the Holy Spirit: "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses" (Acts 1: 8). On 16, 17 and 18 July, the numerous Bishops present exercised their ministry in Sydney's churches, offering catecheses in the various languages: these catecheses are moments of reflection and recollection, indispensable so that the event does not remain merely an external expression but leaves a deep mark on consciences. I extend my special thanks to all of those who, in every part of the world, prayed for this event, assuring its success.
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