NEWSLETTER FOR SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2025
Monday, 15th September: Our Lady of Sorrows
NO MASS
Tuesday, 16th September: Pope St. Cornelius & St. Cyprian
NO MASS
Wednesday, 17th September: Feria
NO MASS
Thursday, 18th September: Feria
NO MASS
Friday, 19th September: Feria
NO MASS
Saturday, 20th September: St. Andrew Kim Taegon & Companion Martyrs
NO MASS
Vigil Mass for Sunday
4:45pm, St. Begh’s
Grace & Phillip Byrne
Richard Cross
Harry, Mary, Catherine & Martin Fisher
Mary Worsley
Alf Nixon
TWENTY FIFTH SUNDAY
8:30am, Quay Street
Jacqueline McAdams
10:00am, St. Begh’s
Jean Hughes
Special Intention (PS)
Patrick McCumisky
Lesley Sanczuk
James Curwen
SEVEN DAY LAMPS will be lit this week for the following intentions:
Sacred Heart: (1) Rosina & Danny Herbert (2) Martin Fisher
Our Lady: (1) Harry, Mary, Catherine & Martin Fisher (2) Margaret McCarten & Lesley Sanczuk (3) Brian Woodend
St. Therese: John & Angela Mann
St. Joseph: John Leslie Intention
Our Lady of Sorrows: (1) Ronnie & Martin Hardie (2) Teresa Hornsby
Our Lady at Quay Street: (1) Catherine, James & Gerard Atkinson (2) Sally & Billy Smitham
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS: Margaret Place, Margaret Powe, Kurt Bohrer, Margaret Nicholls, Nanette Delaney, Jean Coulthard, 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 £715.76 last week in the baskets and through the letterbox.
HOLIDAY: Our priests are on holiday next week. Normal service resumes with the vigil Mass of Sunday.
200 CLUB WINNERS: congratulations to Michelle Reid (1st) and Pat Iverson (2nd)
MILL HILL/APF: Time to empty the red boxes. New boxholders from the appeal in August, please keep your box until the December collection. (Michael Doyle hon sec & treasurer)
DATES FOR YOUR AUTUMNAL DIARY: Parish Workday Saturday, 4th October. Autumn Fayre at Quay Street on Saturday 29 November. Christmas Carol Service, Quay Street, Sunday 21 December.
PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND: 20-27 April 2026. This pilgrimage, being led by Fr Philip Conner in Workington, will start in Jordan and include visiting the newly-opened baptism site of Our Lord and crossing the river Jordan, ascending Mt Nebo where Moses looked over the Promised Land, and exploring the ancient Nabatean civilization and World Heritage Site at Petra, before visiting Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee and Jerusalem, and the cities of the Decapolis. One of the consequences of the war in Gaza is that pilgrimages have dried up and the Christian Palestinian community, in particular, is bereft of what used to be a major source of its livelihood. This pilgrimage will be a pilgrimage of peace, and besides visiting the holy sites associated with Our Lord, the pilgrimage will provide an opportunity to be in solidarity with those who are suffering and support the Christian people of the Holy Land. The price is £1795, booking forms directly from www.jcjourneys.com/jhc-holyland
LAUGHTER LINE: Monday sees the beginning of Diarrhoea Awareness Week. Runs till Saturday.
The Promised Land: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: Today’s feast embodies a great mystery. Like the people of Israel in the first reading, we are called to a long journey to the Promised Land of heaven. Like them, we can lose patience and fall into sin, sin that can literally kill us (Numbers 21:4-5). Like them, our only hope for salvation is to cling to God’s merciful provision. Pope Benedict XVI summed it up beautifully in a 2008 homily given in Lourdes: “The Gospel for this feast reminds us of the meaning of this great mystery: God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that men might be saved (Jn 3:16). The Son of God became vulnerable, assuming the condition of a slave, obedient even to death, death on a cross (cf. Phil 2:8). By his Cross we are saved. The instrument of torture which, on Good Friday, manifested God’s judgment on the world, has become a source of life, pardon, mercy, a sign of reconciliation and peace. “In order to be healed from sin, gaze upon Christ crucified!” said Saint Augustine.” By raising our eyes towards the Crucified one, we adore him who came to take upon himself the sin of the world and to give us eternal life. And the Church invites us proudly to lift up this glorious Cross so that the world can see the full extent of the love of the Crucified one for all, for us men. She invites us to give thanks to God because from a tree which brought death, life has burst out anew. On this wood Jesus reveals to us his sovereign majesty, he reveals to us that he is exalted in glory. Yes, “Come, let us adore him!” In our midst is he who loved us even to giving his life for us, he who invites every human being to draw near to him with trust.
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