Readers at Weekend Masses
Would you like to read at weekend Masses? All ages from teenagers upwards welcome. No experience needed - just an enthusiasm to communicate scripture clearly to parishioners through the Mass. A short training session will be provided. If interested, please pass your name onto the Parish Office -
01702 478078 or office@lourdesLeigh.org.
St Vincent de Paul Society in our Parish
We were pleased to hold our Christmas Social last November and our Strawberry Tea in June this year. Both functions were well attended and guests enjoyed a selection of sandwiches and cakes as well as seasonal treats! We will be planning our next Christmas Social soon and if you are not already on our guest list but would like to be included, or know of someone who might be interested, please contact our President, Pat O’Connell on 01702 712123. This is our Annual Appeal weekend and we thank you in advance for your continued financial support.
Counters & Folders
Counters: Linda Wall & Sheila West.
Newsletter Folders: Denise Bloomer & Josephine Vickers.
Catholic Women’s League
The first meeting of the CWL after the summer break will be on Monday,
12th September at 2pm in the Newman Room. Please feel welcome to join us.
Please pray for the Repose of the Soul of
Peter James Scott who died on 27th August. His body will be received into the Church on Tuesday 20th September at 4.15pm and his Requiem Mass will be held on Wednesday 21st September at 9am, followed by committal at Sutton Cemetery.
Pray for the Dead
Please pray for our dead on their anniversaries:
Fr Charles Johnson, Fr Conrad Smith, Fr Theophilus Borer, Fr Louis Heston,
Abp George Andrew Beck, Canon James Hemming, Deacon Arthur Woods,
Fr John Bergin, Fr Anthony Mayston, Joseph Manton, william Allen, Jim Hayes, Peter Green, elsie Ivett, anne Brooks, Mary Manton, William Wheaton, Kathleen Matthews, Eliza Moore, Mary Wright, Wilfred Sawyer, Kathleen McGowan, Anne McCarthy, Veronica Maguire, Patricia Lawrence, Kathleen Horning, Bill Jarrett, Ann Dodd, Marie Browne, Jack Abbott, Dario Peretti, Philomena Conley, Bernard Wiltshire, Eileen McCarthy, Percival De’ath, Bridget Finnegan, Sylvia Jones, Dot Tooley, Anne Gibson, Frances Spriggs, Joseph Hayes, Queenie Kay, Christopher Hickey, Stella Smith, Bernard Ratcliff and Hing San Lan.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Twenty-third Sunday of the Year
Dear friends in Christ
This Sunday Pope Francis will proclaim Blessed Mother Teresa a Saint. By giving the Church this particular woman as a Saint, the Pope is reminding us of a central truth of the Christian life and one that we hear in the Gospel of the Mass this Sunday: that to follow Christ authentically means a total renunciation of self. A Saint is someone who gets to Heaven; this was the only ambition that Mother Teresa had. To become a Saint was something she prayed for, and she shows us, as do all the Saints, that this is a possibility for us too. From today we can be sure of a new friend who lives with God above. We look at her model of poverty and humility and at the same time ask her prayers for us still here on earth, pilgrims to the Father’s House.
This Monday evening I will give the first of Three Talks on the Faith for Non-Catholics. Please invite or bring along a non-Catholic friend or relative who might like to discover more about the Faith; it could be that start of a pilgrimage of faith which will bring them into the fold of the Catholic Church.
Many of our Schools and Colleges being their new academic year at this time; we wish especially our local Catholic Schools a happy and fruitful year ahead as together as Parishes and the wider Deanery and Diocese we all advance in the knowledge and love of the One True God. God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Twenty-third Sunday of the Year
Dear friends in Christ
This Sunday Pope Francis will proclaim Blessed Mother Teresa a Saint. By giving the Church this particular woman as a Saint, the Pope is reminding us of a central truth of the Christian life and one that we hear in the Gospel of the Mass this Sunday: that to follow Christ authentically means a total renunciation of self. A Saint is someone who gets to Heaven; this was the only ambition that Mother Teresa had. To become a Saint was something she prayed for, and she shows us, as do all the Saints, that this is a possibility for us too. From today we can be sure of a new friend who lives with God above. We look at her model of poverty and humility and at the same time ask her prayers for us still here on earth, pilgrims to the Father’s House.
This Monday evening I will give the first of Three Talks on the Faith for Non-Catholics. Please invite or bring along a non-Catholic friend or relative who might like to discover more about the Faith; it could be that start of a pilgrimage of faith which will bring them into the fold of the Catholic Church.
Many of our Schools and Colleges being their new academic year at this time; we wish especially our local Catholic Schools a happy and fruitful year ahead as together as Parishes and the wider Deanery and Diocese we all advance in the knowledge and love of the One True God. God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 3rd St Gregory the Great, P, D
10.00am Mass Harry Hammond, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
Sunday 4th - Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Clare Houlihan, RIP (SVP)
9.30am Mass Frank Edgeley, RIP (SN)
11.30am Mass Helen Hiscock, RIP
4.00pm Mass Arthur & Anna Wiktorska - 6th Wedding Anniversary
Extraordinary Form (AW)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 5th Feria
9.00am Mass Iolanda Peretti, RIP (SVP)
Tuesday 6th Feria
9.00am Mass Frank & Ann Ryan, RIP (Anniv) (JL)
Wednesday 7th Feria
9.30am Mass Eugene Siani, RIP (RB)
(Our Lady of Lourdes School attending)
Thursday 8th The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9.00am Mass Bill Pearson, RIP (SP)
Friday 9th St Peter Claver, Pr
12Noon Mass Intentions of Ben & Nadja Dray (CH)
Saturday 10th Our Lady on Saturday
10.00am Mass Denis Hippard, RIP (SH)
5.30pm Vigil Mass Intentions of Pat Short (CH)
Sunday 11th - Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Tommy Clancy, RIP (VC)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass David Kerr, RIP (W&PD)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 3rd St Gregory the Great, P, D
10.00am Mass Harry Hammond, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
Sunday 4th - Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Clare Houlihan, RIP (SVP)
9.30am Mass Frank Edgeley, RIP (SN)
11.30am Mass Helen Hiscock, RIP
4.00pm Mass Arthur & Anna Wiktorska - 6th Wedding Anniversary
Extraordinary Form (AW)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 5th Feria
9.00am Mass Iolanda Peretti, RIP (SVP)
Tuesday 6th Feria
9.00am Mass Frank & Ann Ryan, RIP (Anniv) (JL)
Wednesday 7th Feria
9.30am Mass Eugene Siani, RIP (RB)
(Our Lady of Lourdes School attending)
Thursday 8th The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9.00am Mass Bill Pearson, RIP (SP)
Friday 9th St Peter Claver, Pr
12Noon Mass Intentions of Ben & Nadja Dray (CH)
Saturday 10th Our Lady on Saturday
10.00am Mass Denis Hippard, RIP (SH)
5.30pm Vigil Mass Intentions of Pat Short (CH)
Sunday 11th - Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Tommy Clancy, RIP (VC)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass David Kerr, RIP (W&PD)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Catholic Singles
Catholic Singles is an organisation which helps single adult Catholics of all ages meet, either one to one or through social events. Please tel. 0161 941 3498, visit the website www.catholicsingles.org.uk or email info@catholicsingles.org.uk
Catholic Singles
Catholic Singles is an organisation which helps single adult Catholics of all ages meet, either one to one or through social events. Please tel. 0161 941 3498, visit the website www.catholicsingles.org.uk or email info@catholicsingles.org.uk
St Scholastica’s Retreat Open Day - Saturday, 17th September
The Retreat offers sheltered housing to practising Catholics aged 60 or over in
36 self-contained flats at £401 pcm – more information on the poster and from The Warden: Rev Seán Duffy – Princes Risborough (01844) 344437. Email: info@stscholasticas.co.uk www.stscholasticas.co.uk
St Scholastica’s Retreat Open Day - Saturday, 17th September
The Retreat offers sheltered housing to practising Catholics aged 60 or over in
36 self-contained flats at £401 pcm – more information on the poster and from The Warden: Rev Seán Duffy – Princes Risborough (01844) 344437. Email: info@stscholasticas.co.uk www.stscholasticas.co.uk
Sea of Voices Choir resumes
Choir members (and prospective new members) are reminded that our Community Choir resumes rehearsals on Wednesdays from 7th September in the Gilbert Room (doors open from 7.30pm for 8pm start). Please note that the choir night scheduled for 21st September is postponed due to use by the KSC meeting that evening but recommences the following week as usual (28th September). All enquiries to Darrell on 07825686249.
Sea of Voices Choir resumes
Choir members (and prospective new members) are reminded that our Community Choir resumes rehearsals on Wednesdays from 7th September in the Gilbert Room (doors open from 7.30pm for 8pm start). Please note that the choir night scheduled for 21st September is postponed due to use by the KSC meeting that evening but recommences the following week as usual (28th September). All enquiries to Darrell on 07825686249.
Baptism Preparation Evenings
The next Baptism Preparation Evenings will take place on Tuesday 6th September and Tuesday 13th September, 2016. Both sessions will begin at 8pm in the Parish Centre. If you wish to attend would you please give your name and telephone number to the Parish secretary.
Baptism Preparation Evenings
The next Baptism Preparation Evenings will take place on Tuesday 6th September and Tuesday 13th September, 2016. Both sessions will begin at 8pm in the Parish Centre. If you wish to attend would you please give your name and telephone number to the Parish secretary.