| This Sunday 9.00am Jim Molloy (Anniv.) 11.00am Mary Bellamy RIP 5.55pm Reception into church of Elizabeth Garry RIP 6.00pm Breda Gleeson (Anniv.) | Next Sunday, Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) 9.00am Marge Stubbs (Anniv.) 11.00am Robert A Smith RIP 6.00pm People of the Parish |
Masses This Week (includes First Friday Mass at 6.45am)
Morning / Evening Prayer of the Church will be said 20 minutes before any weekday Mass or Eucharistic Service.
Monday 11.30am Funeral Mass for Elizabeth Garry
Tuesday 9.10am Mary Shepherd (Anniv)
Wednesday (Ss Peter & Paul) No Morning Mass. 2.00pm Ints of Pope Benedict 7.30pm Stephen Scales & Timothy Healy (Anniv.)
Thursday 6.00pm For Ints of our School and Parish families
Friday 6.45am In Thanksgiving (Baker) 9.00am Michael & Margaret Colby 7.00pm Ints of M Paez & P Flowers (Marriage)
Saturday 9.00am Jean Davenport RIP Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 10.30am. No Confessions.
RIP – Joan Pears, Kitty Ward, Jennifer Allister, Roy Morris, Kathleen Hoare, Melody Coulson, Michael Maguire, Mary Bellamy, Elizabeth Garry
Anniversaries: Elizabeth Ashurst, Ursula Hammond, Stephen Aspbury, Margaret Skinner, Sally Donoghue, Jim Molloy, Paddy McGoldrick, William Ferguson, Josiah Fox, Mabel Gould, Breda Gleeson, James Duffy, Peter Carney, Catherine Ilsley, Palmira Bellezza, James Pinches, Elizabeth Ashurst, Kazimierz Galatowicz, Harold Davies, Bernard Glynn, Percy Bellezza, Brenda Day, Ella Shields, Edward Wallman-Durrant, Margaret Colby, James Walsh, Denis O'Sullivan, Daniel McCarthy, Geraldine Haverty, Joan Hope, Sheila Bateman, Paddy Daly, James Rees, Patrick Connolly, Reg Hone, John Higgins, John Harris
Sick List – Please pray for Jane Dewsnap, Paul Bainbridge, Doris Lees, Larry Kelly, Anne Graham, Bridget McConnell, Maura Stone,
Tommy Wainwright, Catherine Shorney, Charmaine Cross, Michael Wilson, Helen Freeman, Dolores Heffernan, Lucy Sargent, Martine Sim,
Joseph Cooney, Alicia Clifford, Louis O’Brien, Baby Leah Brown, Nicola Tressler, Margaret Cash, Lorna Jesperson, Cath Meacham, Karl Seitz,
Connie Harban, Deacon Tony Colby, Jack Garry, Maureen Costello, Jacqueline Bailey, Ruth Waters, Mike Stanley, Krystyna Czaplejewicz,
Mary Smith, Lydia Bailey, Pat Miles, Jack Simmons, Brenda Stokes, Eugene Keogan, David Warr, Dawn Rawlings, Kathryn McSheridan,
Gerard Carr, Joe Cluny, Teresa Mellon, Maria Harrison, Maurice Parsons, Jim Jones, Anne Barrett, Margaret Bowes, Jacqueline Godridge,
Debbie O’Toole.
Last Sunday’s Collection Main £1125-69. Thank you. Second Collection today for Peter’s Pence (work of the Holy See)
Readings for next Sunday (14th Sunday, Year A): Zechariah 9:9-10; Psalm 144; Romans 8:9. 11-13; Matthew 11:25-30
Feasts of the Week: Tuesday St Irenaeus; Wednesday Ss Peter & Paul, Apostles (Holyday of Obligation);
Friday Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Saturday Immaculate Heart of Mary
Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi – The Annual Coventry Procession in honour of the Blessed Sacrament takes place in the City Centre, beginning at St Osburg’s Church hall at 3pm. This is for the whole Catholic community of Coventry. All welcome.
Today, we welcome back to the 11am Mass, the First Holy Communion candidates for this year. There is a special invitation for these children to be part of the afternoon procession in the city centre, dressed in their First Holy Communion attire.
Catholic Today -The new edition of the Diocesan Newspaper is out today. Priced 50p. Features Lourdes, and our football team!
Tuesday Society – 2pm to 4pm, Margaret Roper Room. All welcome. This week: A Missionary Journey in Africa (M.O’Reilly)
Extend group – Please note – no meeting this week, but resumes as normal the following Thursday (7th July) at 9.45am.
RCIA (Journey in Faith) – In preparation for the implementation of the new translation of the Missal, our Thursday evening sessions now turn their attention to the celebration of Mass, and getting ready for change. 7.45pm, MRR. All welcome this week.
New Translation of the Mass – www.liturgyoffice.org.uk gives a comparison between what you say now and what you will say, from this September. On Thursday evenings, the RCIA sessions will be given over to a presentation of the new Mass: looking at the texts, saying them together, and preparing for the changes that are going to be asked of us as parish communities, from September.
Ordination to the Priesthood of Craig Szmidt – This Saturday (2nd July) at 12 noon, in Wolstanton, North Staffordshire. All parishioners are invited to share in the joy of this day, but you must sign up immediately. Transport (for those who sign up) will leave here at 9.45am on Saturday. It should get us there in good time, but you can never be too early, to get a good seat! After the event, the coach will leave Wolstanton at 4pm for the return journey, which will give people a chance to stay for refreshments. It might be worth bringing something by way of a snack to eat between our morning departure and whatever food might be offered.
St Thomas More School Summer Ball – Saturday 16th July at the Chesford Grange Hotel in Leamington. Our Special guest will be TV and Radio Presenter Gabby Logan (former pupil of St Thomas More School) and her husband, former Scotland International Rugby player, Kenny Logan. The A-listers will provide live music from the 60s through to the present day. There will be a silence auction, Games, and a Magician. All parishioners are invited to consider coming along, getting together with friends, and enjoying a special evening. Further details, including ticket price, are on posters at the church doors today.
Collection of Food & Personal Hygiene Items for Refugees – Tinned and long-life food items, or hygiene products. Also required if possible are: tea bags, jars of coffee, bags of sugar, and breakfast cereals. Please bring them to the box provided under the statue of St Thomas More, all the year round. Thank you for your response so far. Any amount you give is much appreciated.
Parish Shop – now stocking a range of books by Pope Benedict XVI, pictures and prayer cards marking the occasion of the Beatification of Pope John Paul II, and greeting cards for every occasion, and there is a simple and helpful booklet (priced £1-95) on the coming changes to the Missal and Sunday Mass. How are you preparing for this change?
Parish Fete – Sunday 10th July (12 noon to 4pm). There has been a huge ‘push’ from school parents to take a full and active part in the fete this year. Now parishioners are asked to do your bit: please sell raffle tickets, bring prizes and donations, especially bottles of wine for the bottle stall, good quality soft toys (that you would like to win), and most of all, come along on the day.
The setting up sessions for the fete will be on Saturday 9th at 4pm, and then on Sunday 10th at 7.30am.
Please note that this year’s fete will follow the 11am Mass which will be the Thanksgiving Mass for the School Year.
Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Hednesford – Sunday 3rd July. Mass at 4pm.
Diocesan Pilgrimage in Honuour of the English Martyrs at Harvington Hall, nr. Kidderminster – Sunday 4th September.
Congratulations to Michael Glover (seminarian here in our parish in the summer of 2007) ordained a deacon, at Oscott, yesterday
Corpus Christi Parish – Our partner parish has a new parish priest: Fr David Gnosill. We pray for him in his new apostolate.
Kairos WWT – This organisation in our city, supporting vulnerable women who need the companionship of volunteers who are ready to listen and non-judgemental, seeks your help. If you are willing to ‘Give something back’ and have skills or talents that you would like to offer to this worth project, please contact Nicola on 76 559550 or find out more at www.kairoswwt.org.
Lourdes Pilgrimage 2012 – Following the many blessings of this year’s Lourdes pilgrimage, the dates for next year’s pilgrimage are: 2nd – 8th June 2012. It might be more manageable to pay in instalments. For more details: Andy & Alison on 76 441436.
Coventry Philharmonic Concert - Haydn: "Nelson Mass" and "Te Deum". Handel: "Messiah" part 2. At the Methodist Central Hall at 7:30pm this Saturday, 2 July. Tickets £10 (or £9 if you buy one before the concert from Anthony Buckley (music group) after Sunday 6pm mass. Tenor Soloist: Matthew Sandy.
National Grandparents Pilgrimage to Walsingham – celebrating Ss Joachim and Anne, Grandparents of Jesus: Saturday 23rd July. A day of faith and fun for all the family. 12 noon Mass; Afternoon activities both faith-based and fun fair and bouncy castle. To find out more, go to www.
Missio (the new organisation name for the Red charity boxes in many homes) – 75th Anniversary Mass, Birmingham, 24th July, 3pm
Stamps – Please bring used stamps to the box under the statue of St Thomas More, where they can be recycled for charity.
Abba Tribute Charity Fundraiser Supporting Children with Cancer - Standard Triumph Club, Herald Avenue, Friday 1st July. Featuring Abba Revolution Band, Disco and Raffle. Tickets £10 each. Contact Tracy on 07950554625 or contact Standard Club.
