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pray for the sick in our parish and those who have died: Henry Chinn; Fr John Joseph Dale (former parish priest) (anniversaries).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Mr
David Jenkins, from Aid to the
Church in Need, who will be making an appeal on behalf of the charity at
both the Sunday Masses. Articles of
devotion may be purchased from him after Mass.
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Week’s Collection: £396.90. 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.
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shall have the collection for the Papal Visit in a fortnight’s time;
envelopes will be available next weekend.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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.
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It is done.
Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth.
Not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt,
riving the mountain tops:
does the Master break down doors to enter his own home?
Without earthquake, or thunderclap:
the flame has lit up the whole world from within.
All things individually and collectively
are penetrated and flooded by it,
from the inmost core of the tiniest atom
to the mighty sweep of the most universal laws of being:
so naturally has it flooded every element, every energy,
every connecting link in the unity of our cosmos,
that one might suppose the cosmos to have burst spontaneously into
flame.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
