NEWSLETTER FOR SUNDAY 06 JULY 2025
MASS INTENTIONS
Monday, 7th July: Feria
9:15am, St. Begh’s
Florence Ousby
10:00am, Quay Street
Jude Morgan
Tuesday, 8th July: Feria
NO MASS
Wednesday, 9th July: Feria
7:00pm, St. Begh’s
Thanksgiving to St. Joseph
Thursday, 10th July: Feria
10:30am, Quay Street
Clare Brannon
Friday, 11th July: St. Benedict
9:15am, St. Begh’s
Martin Family Intention
10:00am, Quay Street
Susan Ruddy
Saturday, 12th July: Votive Mass of the BVM
10:15am, Quay Street
John, Elisabeth & Gerard Cowley
Vigil Mass for Sunday
4:45pm, St. Begh’s
Hugh Turpin
James & Sheila Calvin
Stephen Dawson
Anne Nattrass
Arthur Hillon
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY 8:30am, Quay Street
John Oliver
10:00am, St. Begh’s
Jean Hughes
David Ousby
Ike Mason
Angela Mann
Bill Amor
SEVEN DAY LAMPS will be lit this week for the following intentions:
Sacred Heart: (1) Brian Woodend (2) Special Intention (JH)
Our Lady: (1) No Intention (2) No Intention (3) No Intention
St. Therese: Doreen Denwood
St. Joseph: In Thanksgiving
Our Lady of Sorrows: (1) No Intention (2) Margaret McCarten; Our Lady at Quay Street: (1) Clare Brannon (2) No Intention
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS: Patrick McNicholas, who has died recently, Patricia Thomas, Elizabeth Christian, Brian Brown, Doreen Butterworth, Mary Young, Nellie Brown, Patrick Rooney, Ameila Molloy, Joseph McLaughlin, Matthew Wilkinson, and all those whose anniversary occurs this week. May they all rest in God’s peace.
PARISH SAFEGUARDING REPRESENTATIVE: Maud Smith, the parish secretary; call on 01946 692342
WEEKLY COLLECTIONS: We received £1,134.60 last week in the baskets and through the letterbox.
COME AND SEE WEEKEND: at Holy Cross Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Pembrokeshire. Single Catholic women aged between 25 and 45 are invited to discern their vocation during a monastic experience weekend to be held on Friday, 8th to Monday 11th August 2025. Please address questions about the weekend or registration to comeandseehca@gmail.com
LATEST MEDJUGORJE MESSAGE, June 25, 2025: “Dear children, Also today I thank the Almighty that I am with you and that I can lead you towards the God of love and peace. The ideologies which destroy you and your spiritual life are transitory. I am calling you, little children: return to God, because with God you have a future and eternal life. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
SEA SUNDAY 2025: Next weekend we have the annual collection for Stella Maris, previously known as the Apostleship of the Sea. This will be taken as you leave after Mass. If you are able to Gift Aid then please take the envelope provided with you this weekend and return it with your donation next weekend. Please see the poster above the newsletters for further information on the collection. Thank you. “Seafarers and fishers play a vital role in all of our lives, but they often work in difficult, hazardous conditions. Sea Sunday is Sunday 13th July. It is when the Church prays for all those who live and work at sea. Your support will make a big difference to seafarers and fishers in need. You can donate in church, by visiting www.stellamaris.org.uk/donate, or by texting ‘SEA’ to 70460 to donate £5. This collection is vital to enable Stella Maris to continue its important work, so please give generously. Thank you.”
THANK YOU: to all involved in the brunch last Sunday. What a wonderful parish event it was. Brilliant.
LAUGHTER LINE: Why do potatoes make good detectives? Because they keep their eyes peeled.
Harvest Time: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus has a vision in this week’s Gospel: Satan falling like lightning from the sky, the enemy vanquished by the missionary preaching of His Church. Sent out by Jesus to begin gathering the nations into the harvest of divine judgment (see Isaiah 27:12–13; Joel 4:13), the seventy are a sign of the continuing mission of the Church. Carrying out the work of the seventy, the Church proclaims the coming of God’s kingdom. She offers His blessings of peace and mercy to every household on earth, “every town and place He intended to visit.” Our Lord’s tone is solemn today, for in the preaching of the Church “the kingdom of God is at hand,” the time of decision has come for every person. Those who do not receive His messengers will be doomed like Sodom. But those who believe will find peace and mercy, protection and nourishment in the bosom of the Church, the Mother Zion we celebrate in this week’s beautiful First Reading, the “Israel of God” Paul blesses in this week’s Epistle. The Church is a new family of faith (see Galatians 6:10) in which we receive a new name that will endure forever (see Isaiah 66:22), a name written in heaven. In this week’s Psalm, we sing of God’s “tremendous deeds among men” throughout salvation history. But of all the works of God, none has been greater than what He has wrought by the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Changing the sea into dry land was but an anticipation and preparation for our passing over, for what Paul calls the “new creation.” And as the Exodus generation was protected in a wilderness of serpents and scorpions (see Deuteronomy 8:15), He has given His Church power now over “the full force of the enemy.” Nothing will harm us as we make our way through the wilderness of this world, awaiting the Master of the harvest, awaiting the day when all on earth will shout joyfully to the Lord and sing praise to the glory of His name.
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