St Benedict’s Social Club Rowan Rd Batchley

Available for hire Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals and other occasions.

Telephone the Club on 01527 60345

BINGO Every Sunday 2.30pm & Monday 8pm

Hadzor Prayer Group Friday mornings 11am-12.30pm to reflect on the Gospel for the coming Sunday. Refreshments provided

St Mary’s Alvechurch Ecumenical Faith Group On the third Wednesday of every month at 10.30 am – all welcome

New LIFE Care Service in Redditch EVERY FRIDAY 10.30am-12pm

in the Parish Centre - telephone 07516 257409 Free National Helpline 0808 802 5433

In the porches there are some LIFE cards which we would ask you to take and place in your doctor’s surgery

Statue Visitation for the Consecrated Life

Parishioners are invited to receive the statue of Our Lady for one week and place her with flowers and candles in a prominent position in the home. Each day you are committed to praying the rosary to which parishioners can be invited to join in if you so wish. If you would like to participate in this, please see one of the clergy or contact the parish office.

ROTA SO FAR ......... Sunday 24th July 2016 Sarah Reynia Sunday 31st July 2016 Bridie O’Connell Sunday 7th August 2016 Bernard Cannon Sunday 14th August 2016 Anne Glennon Sunday 21st August 2016 Caroline Holland If your date is not convenient for you, please either swap with someone else or let the parish office know. Could you welcome the statue of Our Lady into your

home? - Yes? - please contact the parish office!

If you wish to contact the parish St Vincent de Paul group, please telephone

07531 818731 (the SVP phone) and leave

a message with your contact details so we can

return your call.

THE SHRINES OF OUR LADY & THE SACRED HEART To have the lamp burn for your intentions or loved ones, please contact the parish office, suggested donation £5.

Fellow Catholic Parishioners please come and join us

The Catenians - a Catholic men’s association

‘Strengthening family life through friendship and faith’ The Redditch Circle meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Abbey Hotel and welcomes new members. In August we are all invited to a garden party at Dunnington Lodge, fun for all the family. For further information please contact Andrew Farrell on 07767831548 or Brian Green on 01527 543111 or visit our website on www.redditchcatenians.co.uk

YOUR PARISH SVP GROUP NEEDS

HELP to make sandwiches for their next soup kitchen in

Birmingham City Centre. Can you spare 1 hour on Friday 12th August to work with other parishioners in the Parish Centre (from 1pm) to make up to 180 sandwiches? All ingredients are provided and your help would be very welcome. If you are able to help please contact the Parish Office or call Steve on 07956 474302.

TREE OF HOPE

The tree of hope is near the shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel for anyone who wishes to hang a leaf for their own particular petition or sorrow. Feel free to take a leaf any-

time and write a name or message on it to hang on the tree and spend sometime in prayer

GOING INTO HOSPITAL—IMPORTANT

Please let us know if you are going into hospital. It is ESSENTIAL that you ask for a Catholic Chaplain when in hospital. Chaplains are no longer given names of patients. Many health care providers (Hospitals, Nursing Homes) appor-tion resources for chaplaincies in line with how many requests are made, so you are actually doing the Church a favour by requesting the Catholic chaplain and the sacraments. The Catholic Chaplain for the Alexandra Hospital is Father David.

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Mount Carmel Seniors Group

Thursdays at 2.30pm St Benedict’s

4th August Afternoon Tea (NB 1.30pm start) 18th August Stratford River Trip & Fish & Chips £16 for non members, places available. Coach leaves St Benedict’s at 9.30am 25th August Community Safety Officer (talk from Redditch Council) 8th September Shared Table 15th September Day out at the Black Country Museum 25th September Two day trip to Blackpool Illuminations & the Lake District. Cost £85.00.

St Benedict’s Social Club Subscriptions If any members haven’t yet paid their subscriptions for this year, please could they do so as soon as possible. Thank you.

LEGION OF MARY

A group of 8 people will be coming to our Parish to work with the Legion of Mary members for a week commencing Saturday 27th August to Saturday 3rd September. If any parishioners can provide accommodation for them (bed & breakfast) the Legion of Mary would be very grateful. They will, of course, pay for their stay. If you are able to help, please contact the Parish Office or members of the Legion of Mary.

Weekday Evening Masses will cease during the month of August and resume at the beginning of September when schools return after the Summer Holidays.

Messy Church

Messy Church is on at Mount Carmel Church, in the garden or marquee if raining, on MONDAY 8TH AUGUST, 2pm-4pm. This is a FREE activity for children of all ages, with craft activities from bubble painting to food activities. The theme this time will be ‘Green Church’. No need to book, just turn up on the day!

Altar Servers’ Trip to Westminster

Cathedral Saturday 17th September St Stephen’s Guild Mass for all altar servers at 2.30pm in West-minster Cathedral - if any Servers would like to go, please let one of the priests know or the Parish Office and we can then arrange transport to Westminster. When we know numbers we will be able to calculate the cost.

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, REDDITCH

Beoley Road West, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 8LT (01527) 63096

Email: office@mtcarmel.co.uk Website: www.ourladyofmountcarmel.co.uk

The Parish is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham: Registered Charity No. 234216

Parish Clergy: Fr Anthony Rohan, Fr David Doran & Fr Cornelius Safe

Permanent Deacons: Revs Des Chilton & Peter Griffiths

NEWSLETTER 1719 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 31ST JULY 2016

Parish Mass Book Page 53 Ecclesiastes 1:2;2:21-23 Psalm 94 Colossians 3:1-5.9-11 Gospel Luke 12:13-21

www.ourladyofmountcarmel.co.uk PARISH WEBSITE UPDATE: Twitter—Please follow us! @frdaviddoran Journey in Faith, Baptism Enquiries, Wedding Enquiries etc, Vacancies can now be made via the Parish Website.

JE SUIS PRÊTRE

After the sponsored walk at the weekend for AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED (i.e. for Christians persecuted for loving Jesus). Fr Cornelius remarked that it is “Christians of sub-stance” that are targeted by those who side with evil. The result is that evil targets priests. This is because priests, through the Sacrament of Holy Orders, are configured to Christ to stand in Christ’s place. History is the evidence of this - Jesus is murdered, the apostles are murdered, the Diocletian persecutions, the Recusant Era in our own country, the French Revolution, the Communist Revolutions. When the 4 Missionary of Charity Sis-ters were slain in their convent their priest chaplain, Fr Tom Uzhannalil was kidnapped and threatened with being crucified on Good Friday. He is still captive. After Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit in Rouen, France this week by Daesh (ISIS), Arch-bishop of Rouen Domineque Lebrun said that “The Catholic Church has no weapons but prayer and the brotherhood of men and women”. The Parish Aid to the Church in Need Society gives thanks for the people of the Parish who donated, spon-sored and took part in the sponsored walk for our suffering brothers and sisters around the world. Saint Paul has a beau-tiful phrase for those Christians who are together in fellowship: “open wide your hearts” (2: Cor 6:11). After the Charlie Hebdo attacks we saw the solidarity displayed against such violence with the phrase “Je suis Charlie”. We should be saying that violence towards Christians, physical or verbal or economic or social, is also intolerable: “Je suis prête, je suis chrétien, je suis catholique” - “I am a priest, I am a Christian, I am Catholic”.

The Parish Aid to the Church in Need Society meets once a month for prayers (next meeting Wednesday 17th August, 6pm in the Parish Church). To find out more please see the Parish Website.

This symbol is the Arabic letter “nun”, the first letter of the word Nazarene. It is painted on Christian properties so that terrorists can identify them. Some Christians wear this

symbol in solidarity with their brothers and sisters: “I am a Christian”

REDDITCH CARMELITE SPIRITUALITY GROUP …. … would like to express its gratitude to Father

David Doran for including the first ever Recep-tions into the third Order of Carmel, Secular, during the celebration of Mass on our Patronal Feast Day. Thanks to our PP, Fr Tony, Deacon Peter, Altar Servers, Choir and Florist who helped to make it so special. Congratulations to the New Novices Christine Watson, Monique Hunt and Jane Yeomans! See notice board and website for meetings of the group. NEXT MEETING 17TH SEPTEMBER—ALL WELCOME.

JOURNEY IN FAITH at MOUNT CARMEL

THURSDAY EVENINGS This year’s Journey in Faith takes place on Thursday evenings begin-ning with Mass at 7pm and then

continuing with a talk at 7.30pm in the Parish Centre. It is a course intended for ALL interested in their Catholic Faith, to learn more and discuss, and is also the programme for those who wish to join the Catholic Church. Weekly topics of discussion include the Bible, the Eucharist, who Jesus is, the meaning of life, God’s plan for us, prayer etc. FIRST MEETING Thursday 8th Sept. All Welcome

Mass Times & Intentions

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C

Week beginning Sunday 31st July 2016

Saturday Mount Carmel 5.00 pm Paddy Slattery (Wedd A) Hadzor 5.00 pm Sheila Leahy

Sunday Mount Carmel 8.15 am Lady Jeanne Hunt 9.45 am Mass in Polish 11.15 am Chris Srebniak 6.00 pm People of the Parish Alvechurch 9.45 am Ints of Eddie McGinnity & Family Feckenham 10.15 am Thanksgiving (Cannon)

Monday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Des Durr Conor Lyons

Tuesday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Ints of Fr David John Lynch

Wednesday

Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Alice Edwards Ints of Tony Wyatt (sick) 5.00 pm Mass in Polish

Thursday

Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Eva Colman Chrissie Burke

Friday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Fr Bede Moore 5.00 pm Mass in Polish

Saturday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am All souls in Purgatory esp. dec’d members of FOSS The following fulfils Sunday Obligation Mount Carmel 5.00 pm Mary Evans Hadzor 5.00 pm Michael Burgess

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C

Week beginning Sunday 7th August 2016 Mount Carmel 8.15 am Joseph Rooney & Patricia 9.45 am Mass in Polish 11.15 am Bob Campbell 6.00 pm People of the Parish Alvechurch 9.45 am Ints of Cynthia Watt & Simon Bucketton on the occasion of their marriage Feckenham 10.15 am Sister Declan (a)

Parish Diary ….

Sunday Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Psalter Week 2

Monday 5pm Legion of Mary 7.30pm Narcotics Anonymous in Parish Centre

Wednesday 7.30pm Baptism Meeting in Parish Centre (Jean Hardcastle)

Saturday African Missions Appeal Teas & Coffee after 5pm evening Mass Teas & Coffee in the Newman Room after 5pm Mass at Hadzor

Sunday Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Psalter Week 3 African Missions Appeal

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GRAND RAFFLE WINNERS

unclaimed prizes

7th Prize Spanish Red Ticket No 02625 Janet Farris 759831 13th Prize Red Wine Ticket No 02043 M Simons

Other Winners

Treasure Map Prize (Minions) Millie Flynn Class 2EB MCS ‘Test your Dexterity’ Adults—1st Curtis, 2nd Zoe (Chocolates & Tea Set 07709667273) ‘What’s my Name’ ‘Ella’ won by Olivia Machado 07790667273

SPUC (Society for the Protection of Unborn

Children) 50TH ANNIV PRO-LIFE CONFERENCE

23-25 September, Hayes Conference Centre Swanwick,

Derbyshire

For more information and a booking form please visit WWW.SPUC.ORG.UK/GET-INVOLVED/EVENTS/NATIONAL-CONFERENCE-2016 or contact Conference Organiser Katherine Hampton 020 7091 7091 or email katherinehampton@spuc.org.uk

Confessions at Mount Carmel

During Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by Benediction Saturdays 10-10.50am

On the 1st Saturday of the month the Rosary will be said

after Devotions

(Syro Malabar Rite) Monthly Mass 6.15pm Rosary followed by Mass,

First Saturday of the month

Annual Pilgrimage to Harvington Hall

Shrine of the English Martyrs Sunday 4th Sept

Principal Celebrant Archbishop Bernard Longley Mass at 3pm, Confessions from 1.45pm-2.30pm. Free Parking, Teas, Picnic Area. Free timed tours of Harvington Hall are available and may be booked on the day at the table in the courtyard. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU BRING YOUR OWN CHAIRS. If you want to make it a ‘WALKING PILGRIMAGE’ to Harvington on this day, then the pilgrimage starts at BATTLEFIELD FARM at 10am B61 9AG (Ample Parking). It will take

about 3 hours. For more information visit http://tinyurl.com/h9n473k or

telephone 07789505406.

SAINTS & FEASTS FOR THE WEEK …

Monday Saint Alphonsus Mary de’Ligouri

(1696-1787) St Alphonsus was born in Naples, Italy. As a young man he was a lawyer, but later became a priest. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists). He was given the title Doctor of the Church for his writings on Moral Theology. A tireless apostle of the Eucharist and of our Blessed Mother, he worked with great zeal for the poor and the sick.

Tuesday Saints Eusebius of Vercelli or of

Saint Peter Julian Eymard

(+371) St eusebius was born in Sardinia and brought up in Rome. Around 340 he was named Bishop of Vercelli in Piedmont. He fought staunchly against the Arian heresy which denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. The Arians tortured and exiled him. (1811-1868) St Peter Julian eymard was born at La Mure, Isere, France, and joined the Marist Fathers. He dedicated his life to promoting Eucharis5tic devotion and founded both the Congre-gation of the Blessed Sacrament and the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament. Canonised in 1962 he is known as the ‘Apostle of the Eucharist’.

Thursday Saint John Mary Vianney

(1786-1859) He was born near Lyons, France, and ordained a priest in Grenoble. He was assigned to the parish of Ars-sur-Froman where he spent 42 years. He was outstanding for his steadfast care of souls, for his spirit of prayer and mortification, but above all, for his tireless dedication to the Sacrament of Penance. He spent most of his life in the confessional, drawing energy from his intimate and constant friendship with our Lord in the Eucharist. Pope Pius XI declared him Patron of the Univer-sal Clergy.

Friday Dedication of the Basilica of St

Mary

After the declaration of the dogma of the divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin in the Council of Ephesus (431), Pope Sixtus III dedicated this Basilica in Rome in honour of the Mother of God. It was later called ‘St Mary Major.’ It is considered the oldest church in the west dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Saturday Feast of the Transfiguration of

the Lord

Day of Pilgrimage - Sunday 21 August from 12 noon

at Aston Hall, Nr Stone.

Open Air Mass 3pm, Holy Door & Veneration of the Relic of Blessed Dominic Barberi, Confession available, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass.

Lamp at the Shrine of Our Lady of Mt Carmel

This week the lamp burns for JOHN LYNCH ( 4TH ANNIVER-SARY) ... Next week the lamp burns in loving memory of CAROLINE JONES

Lamp at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart

This week the lamp burns in loving memory of JOHN LYNCH (4TH ANNIVERSARY)……Next week the lamp burns in loving memory of CHRISTOPHER SREBNIAK

For the dead ...

Your prayers are asked for those who have died EDWARD ’TED’ O’NEILL Funeral Service Monday 1st August, 1.30pm at Robin Hood Cemetery, JOHN COUPE Funeral Mass 11am Monday 8th August. FR JACQUES HAMEL murdered in Rouen, France, SEAN WILLOHAN May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace

Please pray for the sick...

Deacon Des Chilton, Kathleen Kavanagh, Thomas Adams, Alison Cole, Johannah White, Selina Kilker, Carmel Fiolka, Anna Byrne, Fred & Pauline Clarke, Mark Collins, Mary Grady, Delia Bree, Matthew Smith, Paul Hart, Anne McVicker, Ruby Urka, Jane-Christina Thomson, Bob & Caroline Holland, Mick Halloran, Sr Catherine Devaney, Allan Barber, Chris Figgett, Peggy Woods, Joseph Curtagar, Cynthia Williams, Gina (SVP), Teresa Grantham, Edwin McGlynn, Dave Pugh, Francis Latchford, Simon Taylor, Lilian Lee, Lottie Hatcher, Fiona Short, John Gannon, John Gill, Phyllis O’Brien, Mary Hillier, Margaret Hughes, Lily Robinson, Kitty Fanning, Thomas Henry Burnside, Bridget Heatley, Winifreda Olga Hall, Kathleen Donovan, Brian & Devan Dixon, James Vaughan, Jill Bennett, Kerry Boyd, Andrew Berry, Pat Conner, Aidan & Ita Hayes, Margaret Beddows, Helen Hardwick, Kate Shenton, Martin & Margaret Daly, Clifford & Christopher Browne, Michael Smith, Michael Burke, Andrea Ferguson, Loretta Burns, Charlie Walker, Maureen Reavey, Lynda Rose, Ann Lowe, baby Ellis Morbey, Emma Martin, Jim Gallagher, James Cull, Daisy Mae Williams (aged 3), Pat O’Boyle, Sas Burford, Jackie Gallagher, G Smith, Megan Collier, Cee Sheriden (Hadzor), Thelma Edwin, Martin Twomey, Gregory & Linda Daniel, Maura Lee, Sheila Nicholson, Gordon Taylor, John Laugharne, Dick Bell, Tony Gillespie, Chris Whyte, Margaret Clarke, Paul Kearns, Joyce Tremeer, Philip Broom, Alan Purvis, Brigit Broom, Oscar Rees, Monty Breslin, Judy Mitten, Nellie Gilbert, Sean Harkin, Anthony Obinna, Margaret Leonard, Ann Barratt, Kobie Boggis, Nora O’Connor, Lucia Galleo, Jacquie Barker-Dean, Norah Hughes, Mary Hickey, Duncan MacInniss, James Hopper, Bill Cosgriff, Kath Harkin, Ken Harler, Rt Rev Christopher Jones, Bishop Emeritus of Elfin, Rita Wilson, Pat Gordon, Jane Elliott, Theresa Price, Marion Furey, Bill Hopkins, Peter Daniel, Rita Wilson, Martin Brand, Pat Davis, Margaret Maddison, Sr Patricia Cooney, Brother Michael, Grazina, Margaret Wheeler

Congratulations to ……

We welcome into God’s family JACK JOSEPH DEAR baptised last weekend at Mount Carmel

Congratulations to ……

DAVID GRUBHAM & AMANDA ELLICOTT married in Mount Carmel last Saturday

WEEKLY STATISTICS

Weekend 23/24 July 2016 1st Collection £ 660.98 2nd Collection £396.57 Attendance (No Polish count) These figures do not include Standing Orders

Baptism To arrange for the baptism of your child/children you will need to contact the parish office on 01527 63096 or visit the parish website to find out when the next available Baptism Meeting is for you to attend. At this meeting you will be given the Baptism Form to take away with you for completion. Once completed please bring it with you to the parish office on either a Monday or Friday morning between 10am—11am when one of the priests will be able to see you and book the date for baptism. Baptisms normally take place on a Sunday at 12.45pm in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. There is an administrative fee of £30 for Baptism which should be paid at the time of arranging the date.

Third Order Carmelites Year of Mercy Event

Saturday 10th September ‘Rich in Mercy, Joy in Forgiveness’ at St Catherine’s Catholic

Church, Bristol Road, B5 7BE, 1pm start finishing with 5.30pm Mass. Teas/Coffee provided