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St Francis of [Archdiocese of Fr John Sharp www.sfachurch.co.uk 01564 782498 Fifth Sunday of Easter PARISH LITURGY – MASS TIMES and INTENTIONS
Saturday Sunday 9.30 am Well-being of Kathleen Caffery Monday [SS Philip
and James, apostles]
9.00 am Jean-Marc Tuesday [English
Martyrs]
9.00 am Intentions
of Mother Marie Therese Wednesday
[Feria in Eastertide] 9.00 am Nora McStraw Thursday [Feria in Eastertide] 9.00 am Well-being of Tom Sullivan Friday [Feria in Eastertide] 9.00 am Elsie and Frankie O’Sullivan 7.00 pm Holy Hour of Atonement and Reparation Saturday [Feria in Eatsetide] 9.00 am Patricia
Dolan Confessions: Saturday,
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please pray for the sick in our parish and those who have died: Agnes Elizabeth Loftus; Monica Clayton; Ambrose McStraw; Gilbert Leo Evans’ David Gibson; Sr mary Agnes; George Kettle; Patricia Dolan (anniversaries). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Week’s Collection: £349.12. Second Collection: £127.80. Thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Following the invitation of the Bishops of England and Wales to make every Friday of May 2010 a Day of Prayer of Atonement and Reparation for the scandal of child abuse in the Catholic Church, there will be a Holy Hour this (and every) Friday between 7 and 8 o’clock. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed on the altar and there will be an opportunity for silent prayer before the Eucharistic Presence of Jesus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May is traditionally a
month of devotion to Our Lady. At the
end of every Mass during the month we shall recite the following prayer,
which dates from the third century and is the oldest-known prayer to the
Blessed Virgin:- We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God. Despise not our prayers in our necessities,
but deliver us from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No matter in which direction we turn for satisfaction (other than towards you, Lord) it will lead to pain – not at once, but eventually. The object of our devotion may be good and pure and beautiful … but it is nothing apart from you. Every object of beauty has its spring and its fall. It begins its life in the spring, grows to perfection of form and beauty, and then grows old and withers away. The more speedily it advances to perfection, the more speedily it comes to an end. The impermanence is part of your divine plan, to show us that even the loveliest and best things in creation are not complete in themselves. They are part of the whole creation, away they make room for other creatures which are to follow. So, Lord, deliver me from exaggerated love of any of your creatures, for by their nature they come and go, moving irreversibly to their end, yet tearing our affections apart with desires that can never be fulfilled. Man’s spirit longs to commit itself to what it loves, but it cannot commit itself to your creatures, because, instead of remaining, they fly away. But no one loses you, Lord. You do not change. You have no fall, no winter, no beginning, no ending. You are the only friend who never goes away. |
